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Biography
Marlene R. Cohen is a neuroscientist at the University of Pittsburgh and an Associate Director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a joint venture between the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Her team investigates how visual information is encoded in groups of neurons and used to guide behavior. She is recognized for pioneering use of multielectrode array recording to determine that the improved behavioral performance associated with redirecting spatial attention has a neural correlate in the brain that is reflected by reduced correlated activity between neurons. Cohen has also demonstrated that this same mechanism happens during learning. She has received several awards for her work, including the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2018
Selected awards
- Klingenstein Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences (2012).
- Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology, grand prize winner (2012).
- McKnight Scholar Award (2015).
- Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences (2018).
