Martha Farah, Date of Birth

Martha Farah

American cognitive neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 30-Aug-1955

Profession: psychologist, neuroscientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Martha Julia Farah (born 30 August 1955) 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.