PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University has selected Michael J. Tarr to head its Department of Psychology, a pioneer and world leader in cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and social, developmental and health psychologies. Effective Jan. 1, 2014, Tarr, currently the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and co-director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), succeeds Michael Scheier, who has served as department head since 2003.
