Martha Farah
Center for Neuroscience & Society
3710 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6241
Behavioral Neuroscience; Cognitive Neuroscience; Developmental Psychology
Specific Research Areas
Cognitive, social and developmental neuroscience, especially (a) the effects of socioeconomic status on brain development, and (b) the ethical, legal and societal implications of neuroscience (aka neuroethics)
Professor Martha Farah will not be considering new graduate students for admission for Fall 2025.
PSYC 547 Foundations of Social, Cognitive and Affective Science
PSYC 747 Contemporary Research Issues in Social, Cognitive and Affective Science
PSYC 600 Proseminar: Biology of Social Processes
LAW 557 Neuroscience, Ethics and Law
Farah, M.J. (2015). Cognitive enhancement: Can science and policy catch up with practice? Science, 350, 379-380.
Farah, M. J. (2017). The Neuroscience of Socioeconomic Status: Correlates, Causes, and Consequences. Neuron, 96(1), 56-71.
Farah, M. J. (2018). Socioeconomic status and the brain: prospects for neuroscience-informed policy. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, July, 428-438.
Last, B. S., Lawson, G. M., Breiner, K., Steinberg, L., & Farah, M. J. (2018). Childhood socioeconomic status and executive function in childhood and beyond. PloS one, 13(8), e0202964.
Lawson, G.M., Camins, J.S., Wisse, L., Wu, J., Duda, J.T., Cook, P.A., Gee, J.C.& Farah, M.J. (2017). Childhood socioeconomic status and childhood maltreatment: distinct associations with brain structure, PLOS One, 12(4): e0175690.
Mancuso, L., Ilieva, I.P., Hamilton, R.H. & Farah, M.J. (2016). Does transcranial direct current stimulation improve healthy working memory?: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28(8), 1063-1089.
Poldrack, R.A. & Farah, M.J. (2015). Progress and challenges in probing the human brain. Nature, 526, 371-379.