Dr. Martha Farah is currently Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has been teaching since 1992. Farah has undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy and Philosophy from MIT, and a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University. She is the recipient of a 2008-2009 William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science, recognizing her significant intellectual contributions to the field.Professor Farah has devoted most of her career to understanding the mechanisms of vision, memory, and executive function in the human brain. In her classic book Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision, Farah identified key questions about high-level vision that set the agenda for that field over the next twenty years. She is also the co-editor of Patient-Based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience. In recent years she has shifted her research focus to a new set of issues, including the effects of socioeconomic adversity on children’s brain development and emerging social and ethical issues in neuroscience (“neuroethics”). Performance Infinite Echoes Key Note The Varieties of Transcendent Love Key Note Persons and their Brains Key Note Neuroscience, Reverence and Moral Sense Key Note Common Morality: Deciding What to Do Key Note The Neurobiology of Virtue: Evolution, Cognition and Human Flourishing Key Note Advances in Neuroscience Key Note From Prodigy to Virtuoso: Mozart and Ostad Elahi Key Note The More We Understand, The Less We Understand Key Note Universal Morality, Inclusivity, and the Brain Key Note The Neuroscience of Fair Play Key Note The Impact of Brain Function on the Concept of Criminality Speaker Martha J. Farah DetailsFriday, September 11, 2009 EventsPrivate: Toward a Common Morality Performance Infinite Echoes Key Note The Varieties of Transcendent Love Key Note Persons and their Brains Key Note Neuroscience, Reverence and Moral Sense Key Note Common Morality: Deciding What to Do Key Note The Neurobiology of Virtue: Evolution, Cognition and Human Flourishing Key Note Advances in Neuroscience Key Note From Prodigy to Virtuoso: Mozart and Ostad Elahi Key Note The More We Understand, The Less We Understand Key Note Universal Morality, Inclusivity, and the Brain Key Note The Neuroscience of Fair Play Key Note The Impact of Brain Function on the Concept of Criminality MorePREVIOUS EVENTFrom Prodigy to Virtuoso: Mozart and Ostad ElahiNEXT EVENTUniversal Morality, Inclusivity, and the Brain