Martha Farah
Psychologist, Award Winner
1955 –
Who is Martha Farah?
Martha Farah is a cognitive neuroscience researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked on an unusually wide range of topics; the citation for her lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science states that “Her studies on the topics of mental imagery, face recognition, semantic memory, reading, attention, and executive functioning have become classics in the field.” Farah has undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy and Philosophy from MIT, and a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society.
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- Born
- Aug 30, 1955
New York City - Also known as
- Martha J. Farah
- Martha Julia Farah
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Harvard University
Experimental psychology
(1981 - 1983) - Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Materials Science
(1973 - 1977) - Metallurgy
- Philosophy
- PhD, Harvard University
- Lived in
- Philadelphia
(1992 - )
- Philadelphia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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