Martha Farah

So, uh, in 1992, uh, functional MRI was invented, this technique for actually imaging the human brain.

Um, and, uh, one of the faculty members at Carnegie Mellon in psychology at the time, Martha Farah, um, was, um, interested in this new field of cognitive neuroscience.

Um, so I ended up doing a postdoc with her, learning to do functional MRI, and, uh, it's, a- and that's what I've been doing ever since.

So now I, I'm trying to use imaging techniques to look at the brain in operation and get a handle on what the parts are and how they work and what are the computational mechanisms that actually give rise to, uh, human thought.