The Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology
Annual Conference 2004
October 10-11, 2004
Department of Psychology
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Program
Sunday, October 10
8:30 - 8:45 - Coffee and refreshments (late registration)
8:45 - 9:00 - Opening greetings
9:00 - 9:45 - Keynote address
Deconstructing Stroop: A Tectonic Explanation of His Results –
Danny Algom, Tel-Aviv University
10:00 - 11:20 - Symposium
Applied Cognition – Vered Erev, Technion (chair)
11:30 - 12:45 - Papers - Reasoning and Decision Making (#1-5)
12:45 - 13:25 - Buffet lunch and posters (#1-24)
13:25 - 14:45 - Symposium
Consciousness in the Brain - A Viable Enterprise? Leon Deouell, The Hebrew University (chair)
14:55 - 16:25 - Papers - Reasoning and Decision Making (cont.) (#6-11)
16:25 - 16:40 - Coffee and refreshments
16:40 - 18:55 - Papers - Concept Perception and Mental Representation (#12-20)
18:55 - 19:30 - Business meeting
Monday, October 11
8:30 - 8:50 - Coffee and refreshments (late registration)
8:50 - 9:35 - Keynote address
On the Psychology and Economics of Big and Small Decisions –
Ido Erev, Technion
9:45 - 11:05 - Symposium
Right Brain and Creativity – Miriam Faust, Bar-Ilan University (chair)
11:15 - 12:45 - Papers - Reading & Language Processing (#21-26)
12:45 - 13:25 - Buffet lunch and posters (#25-46)
13:25 - 14:45 - Symposium
Perceptual Organization and Attention - Ruth Kimchi, University of Haifa
(chair)
14:50 - 16:35 - Papers – Attention (#27-33)
16:35 - 16:50 - Coffee and refreshments
16:50 - 19:05 - Papers – Sensory & Memory Processes (#34-42)
Sunday, October 10
Symposium: Applied Cognition
Vered Erev, Technion (chair)
10:00 – 11:20
The adventure of CogniFit - Shlomo Breznitz, University of Haifa
Personalized attentional training program: Effective direct intervention for children with ADHD – Lilach
Shalev, The Open University, Yehoshua Tsal, Tel-Aviv University, & Carmel Mevorach, University of
Birmingham, UK
Utilizing the results of studies on visual attention search to improve the perceptibility of cluttered tactical
displays - Joel Norman, University of Haifa
Cognitive principles in the analysis of performance difficulties in the hospital work environment – Danny
Gopher, Technion
Reasoning & Decision Making (#1-5)
11:30 - 12:45
11:30 - 11:45
The effect of attractive but unavailable alternatives on the value of near and distant future
menus – Leah Borovoi & Nira Liberman, Tel-Aviv University (1)
11:45 - 12:00
Imagery and affect in risk assessment - Tammy Rubel & Maya Bar-Hillel, The Hebrew
University (2)
12:00 - 12:15
Perceived diversity heuristic: The effect of pseudo-diversity on pool judgments under
uncertainty - Shahar Ayal & Dan Zakay, Tel-Aviv University (3)
12:15 - 12:30
Do people think about absolute or relative differences? Some experimental evidence - Ofer
Azar, Ben-Gurion University (4)
12:30 - 12:45
Do we perchance see the difference? Perceptual biases in randomness judgments - Dror Lev
& David Leiser, Ben-Gurion University (5)
Symposium:
Consciousness in the Brain - A Viable Enterprise?
Leon Deouell, The Hebrew University (chair)
13:25 – 14:45
Consciousness - psychological view - Benny Shannon, The Hebrew University
Spatial de-coherence: A new correlate of human visual awareness – Rafael Malach, The Weizmann Institute
Ongoing activity and state of mind - Amos Arieli, The Weizmann Institute
Prerequisites for conscious awareness - Merav Ahissar, The Hebrew University
Reasoning & Decision Making (#6-11)
14:55 – 16:25
14:55 – 15:10
Do rational people care more about the future? The moderating effects of rationality on
temporal discounting - Vered Rafaely & Joachim Meyer, Ben-Gurion University (6)
15:10 – 15:25
Does trying lead to buying?: The effects of sampling on choice behavior –
Eyal Ert, Ornit Raz, & Ido Erev, Technion (7)
15:25 – 15:40
Temporal changes in decisions involving conflicts between values - Tal Eyal & Nira
Liberman, Tel-Aviv University (8)
15:40 – 15:55
Workload distribution in the modern ‘Glass Cockpit’ - Allon Kahana, Danny Gopher, Arthur
Grunwald, Peretz Lavie, & Cristina Iani, Technion (9)
15:55 – 16:10
Analysis of a drug administration process from a cognitive point of view – Yael
Einav,Technion, Efrat Kedmi, Technion, Zvi Shtraucher, Technion, & Yael Appelbaum, Israel
Ministry of Health (10).
16:10 – 16:25
Conditionals, semantic illusions, and hypothetical thinking - Shira Elqayam, Simon Handley,
Jonathan Evans, University of Plymouth (11)
Concept Perception & Mental Representation (#12-20)
16:40 – 18:55
16:40 – 16:55
Colors affect numerical processing in synesthesia - Avishai Henik & Roi Cohen-Kadosh, BenGurion University (12)
16:55 – 17:10
A comparative analysis of time reproduction: Retrospective vs. prospective, and
remote vs. immediate - Joseph Glicksohn, Rotem Leshem, & Rotem Aharoni, Bar-Ilan
University (13)
17:10 – 17:25
How do we understand fractions? - Joseph Tzelgov & Arava Kallai, Ben-Gurion
University (14)
17:25 – 17:40
Parity and magnitude in numerical perception: An alternative account of the SNARC effect
- Daniel Fitousi & Daniel Algom, Tel-Aviv University (15)
17:40 – 17:55
Modularity of Theory of Mind deficit in schizophrenia - Udi Bonshtein & David leiser, BenGurion University (16)
17:55 – 18:10
Human foraging behavior in the lab - Yaakov Kareev & Ro'i Zultan, The Hebrew
Universtiy (17)
18:10 – 18:25
Extending extremity theory to integrative complexity as a predictor of decision extremity in
a personnel selection context - Talya Miron-Shatz, The Hebrew University (18)
18:25 – 18:40
On the mental representation of negative numbers: Do they have psychological reality?
Samuel Shaki & William M. Petrusic, Carleton University (19)
18:40 – 18:55
On the neural basis of subjective significance – Einat Ofek & Hillel Pratt, Technion (20)
Posters
Reading & Language Processes
Modularity within the language domain: A view from developmental impairments - Rama Novogrodsky &
Na’ama Friedmann, Tel Aviv University (1)
What happens to morphology when the phonological loop is deficient? A case study - Gitit Kavé, Tel Aviv
University, Hagit Bar Zeev, Sheba Medical Center, & Anita Lev, Tel Aviv University, Sheba Medical Center (2)
Cognitive aspects of cultural canons: The influence of canonic and anonymous poet name labels on the
evaluations of canonic and artificial poems - Ruth Nofech, Maya Bar-Hillel, & Amia Lieblich, The Hebrew
University (3)
The perception of time and frequency, rather than time alone, as related to reading ability - Leah Fostick, Elisheva BenArtzi, & Harvey Babkoff, Bar Ilan University (4)
Morphological processing during on-line reading as revealed by the Missing-letter effect in Hebrew – Michal
Raveh, Maya menahemi, & Smadar Patael , Bar-Ilan University (5)
Dichotic temporal order judgment (TOJ) differs between sub-groups of dyslexia - Leah Fostick, Orna Seri,
Itzhak Weiss, Elisheva Ben-Artzi, & Harvey Babkoff, Bar Ilan Universty (6)
Cross-modal integration in native and foreign languages - Sharon Shafir-Zmigrod, Katy Borodkin, & Elisheva
Ben-Artzi, Bar Ilan Universty (7)
Human Factors & Decision Making
Does the position of items within menus affect their popularity among diners? - Eran Dayan & Maya BarHillel, The Hebrew University (8)
The effect of regulatory focus on discounting over uncertainty of positive and negative outcomes - Vered
Galon & Nira Liberman, Tel Aviv University (9)
When guessing a numerical multiple-choice question, don't guess the largest or smallest number. Is this good
advice? - Nurit Inbar, National Institute for Testing and Evaluation & Maya Bar-Hillel, The Hebrew University
(10)
Is the axis "close-far" a fundamental cognitive concept in human thought? - Yoav Bar-Anan & Nira Liberman,
Tel Aviv University (11)
Planning in a non-verbal task - Naomi Geva, Nachshon Meiran, Yifat Faran, & Avishai Henik, Ben-Gurion
University (12)
Human Factors and safety assessment of the neonatal unit of Hadassah Mount Scopus - Yael Auerbach,
Technion, Efrat Kedmi, Technion, Daniel Gopher, Technion, Ilan Arad, Hadassah University Hospital, Dorit
1 University Hospital (13)
Ben-Noun, Hadassah
Gentle rule enforcement of safety regulations - Dotan Rodensky & Ido Erev, Technion
(14)
The effect of experience on decisions from description - Ido Lev-ran & Ido Erev, Technion (15)
On humans, rats and the certainty effect - Taly Ish-Shalom, Ido Erev, & Arnon Lotem, Technion (16)
Pitfalls and risk factors in the operating room: the contribution of envelope activities - Yael Einav, Ilan
Palatin, Daniel Gopher, & Yoel Donchin, Technion (17)
Using easy interfaces to support transfer to difficult ones - Guy Shan & Daniel Gopher, Technion (18)
Cognitive determinants of a web site design - Vered Erev-Yehene, Daniel Gopher, Avishag Peleg, Yael Auerbach,
Ido Lev-Ran, Guy Shani, Oded Klimer, Rinat Berger, Adi Curiel, & Ilan Palatin, Technion (19)
Adaptive user interface: The effects of adaptation strategy on user performance - Yael Auerbach, Technion, &
Avi Parush, Carleton University (20)
The impact of risk perception and level of trust on buying decision in E-commerce - Avishag Peleg, Technion,
& Avi Parush, Carleton University (21)
Cognitive and safety implications of control and monitoring tasks- Kedmi Efrat, Rogachov Marina, Parush Avi,
Erev-Yehene Vered, Straucher Zvi, Technion (22)
Risk attitude in small timesaving decisions - Nira Munichorm, Technion, Ido Erev, Technion, & Arnon Lotem,
Tel-Aviv University (23)
Friendly - A human-computer interface evaluation tool - Libby Voltsis , Ben-Gurion Universit & Intel
Corporation, Shirley Keren , Ben-Gurion University, Eyal Levy , Intel Corporation, Shlomo Abas, Intel
Corporation, & Masha Maltz, Ben-Gurion University (24)
Monday, October 11
Symposium
Right Brain and Creativity –
Miriam Faust, Bar-Ilan University (chair)
9:45 - 11:05
The effects of convergent vs. divergent priming on lexical processing by the two cerebral hemispheres –
Miriam Faust, Bar-Ilan University
Processing conventional vs. novel metaphors by the two cerebral hemispheres: Application of Principle
Component Analysis to fMRI data - Nira Mashal, Bar-Ilan University
Is this sentence right? or is it left? ERP correlates of hemispheric sentence processing –
Abraham Goldstein, Miriam Faust, & Einat Katz-Ranel, Bar-Ilan University
Right hemisphere involvement and language structure - Zohar Eviatar, University of Haifa
Reading & Language Processing (#21-26)
11:15 - 12:45
11:15 – 11:30
Morphological awareness, morphological priming and reading: A dissociation between
explicit and implicit morphological knowledge - Michal Raveh & Reut Yamin, Bar-Ilan
University (21)
11:30 – 11:45
The interplay between syntax and pragmatics in children’s word learning - Gil Diesendruck
Bar-Ilan University, D. Geoff Hall, University of British Columbia, & Susan Graham, University
of Calgary (22)
11:45 – 12:00
Naming difficulties in children with Specific Language Impairment: The effects of
phonological priming - Miriam Faust, Bar-Ilan University & Hagit Kleiman, Tel-Aviv
University (23)
12:00 – 12:15
A functional approach to suppression: the case of negative metaphors –
Rachel Giora, Tel-Aviv University, Ofer Fein, The Academic College of Tel Aviv Yaffo ,& Keren
Aschkenazi, Tel-Aviv University (24)
12:15 – 12:30
Poet or poem – is to know the name of a poet change the experience of reading a poem? Alon maharshak & Maya Bar-Hillel, The Hebrew University (25)
12:30– 12:45
Learning mode and performance mode in artificial grammar learning – Yael Poznanski &
Joseph Tzelgov, Ben-Gurion University (26)
Symposium
Perceptual Organization and Attention
Ruth Kimchi, University of Haifa (chair)
13:25 – 14:45
What visual input does selective attention select? - Judith Avrahami, The Hebrew University
Modulation of object-based attention by spatial focusing: The mediating role of perceptual organization –
Morris Goldsmith, Menachem Yeari, & Chana Fyodorov, University of Haifa
Grouping does not require attention - Dominique Lamy, Hannah Segal, & Lital Ruderman, Tel-Aviv University
Perceptual grouping and attention: Not all groupings are equal - Ruth Kimchi & Irene Razpurker-Apfeld,
University of Haifa
Attention (#27-33)
14:50 – 16:35
14:50– 15:05
Differential effects of the transient and sustained components of spatial attention – Yaffa
Yeshurun, University of Haifa (27)
15:05 – 15:20
The development of sustained attention, selective attention and executive attention - Lilach
Shalev, The Open University, Carmel Mevorach, The University of Birmingham, & Yehoshua
Tsal, Tel-Aviv University (28)
15:20 – 15:35
The Emotional Stroop Effect: Is it emotional or is it Stroop? - Boaz M. Ben-David, Leora
Levy, & Daniel Algom, Tel-Aviv University (29)
15:35 – 15:50
A hierarchy of attentional systems during dual task performance: Evidence from the PRP
paradigm - Hagit Magen & Asher Cohen, The Hebrew University (30)
15:50 – 16:05
The role of task in generating an opposite Stroop effect - Liat Goldfarb & Avishai Henik, BenGurion University (31)
16:05 – 16:20
Is the response selection bottleneck dependent upon task-switching? Roy Luria & Nachshon Meiran, Ben-Gurion University (32)
16:20 – 16:35
Features and dimensions are inherently inseparable - Tal Makovski & Yehoshua Tsal, TelAviv University (33)
Sensory & Memory Processes (#34-42)
16:50 – 19:05
16:50 – 17:05
Semantic priming and the spacing effect must resolve an identity crisis Yonatan Goshen-Gottstein & Amit G. Steinberg, Tel-Aviv University (34)
17:05 – 17:20
On the relationship between arousal measures of the sympathetic nervous system and
mental effort - Yael Einav, Daniel Gopher, & Arthur Grunwald, Technion (35)
17:20 – 17:35
The pattern of cognitive performance deficit after mild to moderate sleep loss - Gil
Zukerman, Abraham Goldstein, & Harvey Babkoff, Bar-Ilan University (36)
17:35 – 17:50
The effect of aging on Event Related Potentials (ERP) to tonal and verbal stimuli in a
phonological and semantic task – Miriam Geal-Dor, Avi Susswein, & Harvey Babkoff, BarIlan University (37)
17:50 – 18:05
The multidimensional Space Model for face recognition: Theoretical basis and empirical
validation - Or Catz, Israel Nachson, & Harvey Babkoff, Bar-Ilan University (38)
18:05 – 18:20
The medial temporal lobe is not required for visual working memory - Daniel A. Levy &
Larry R. Squire, University of California, San Diego (39)
18:20 – 18:35
The reciprocal influence of prime and target in masked priming – Y. Faran, D. Ben-Shalom,
& Avishai Henik, Ben-Gurion University (40)
18:35 – 18:50
Collaborative remembering of emotional Events: The Case of Rabin's Assassination - Anat
Yaron-Antar & Israel Nachson, Bar-Ilan University (41)
18:50 – 19:05
Association between late-life insomnia and cognitive functioning among the elderly – I.
Haimov, E. Hanuka, T. Spira, O. Shefer, N. Breznitz, & S. Breznitz, Emek Yezreel Academic
College and University of Haifa (42)
Posters
Sensory Processes, Attention & Memory
Effects of search mode and inter-trial priming on singleton search - Dominique Lamy, Tel-Aviv University,
Tomer Carmel, Tel-Aviv University, Howard E. Egeth, Johns Hopkins University, & Andrew B. Leber, Yale
University (25)
A Signal detection theory analysis of the emotional Stroop task - Noa Calderon, Boaz Ben-David, & Danny
Algom, Tel-Aviv University (26)
The semantic relation in picture-word stroop-like effect - Avivit Elcharizi & Lilach Shalev-Mevorach ,
The Open University of Israel (27)
Cross-modal congruence relationships: Supraliminal and subliminal processes - Tsachi Ein-Dor, Mali
Tennenbaum, Amir Zilber, and Elisheva Ben-Artzi, Bar-Ilan University (28)
The unity of the senses: Evidence from sensory modulation dysfunction - Sharon Shafir-Zmigrod & Elisheva
Ben-Artzi, Bar Ilan University (29)
The horses of the mind: looking for ERP support for the "Horse-Race Model" in the Stop-Signal task Uri Alyagon & Andrea Berger, Ben-Gurion University (30)
Transfer in artificial grammar learning: Does it really exist? - Yael Poznanski, Ran Eisenberg & Joseph
Tzelgov, Ben-Gurion University (31)
Effects of stereotype and suggestion on memory - Mally Shechory, Israel Nachson & Joseph Glicksohn, Bar-Ilan
University (32)
Emotions and cognitive functioning - Rivka Blau & Pnina S. Klein, Bar Ilan University (33)
Selective attention to emotional aspects of faces in social anxiety and in depression: The use of classical
Stroop tasks with emotional stimuli - Danny Raveh & Eva Gilboa-Schechtman, Bar-Ilan University (34)
Number comparison in patients with bilateral lesions of the intraparietal cortex - Yafit Bloch-David, BenGurion University , Avishai Henik, Ben-Gurion University,& Robert Rafal, University of Wales (35)
Reducing uuman errors in a radiotherapy chart - Yael Auerbach, Technion , Roni Sela, Technion , Zvi
Straucher, Technion, Marina Rogachov, Technion , Oded Klimer, Technion, Shimon Pollack, Rambam Medical
Center, Abraham Kuten, Rambam Medical Center, Raquel Bar-Deroma, Rambam Medical Center,& Riki Carmi,
Rambam Medical Center (36)
Mental models as a tool for measuring complex teamwork processes - Rakefet Lahat, Technion , Daniel
Gopher, Technion , David Sinreich , Technion, Moshe Michaelson, Rambam Medical Center, & Gila Hyams,
Rambam Medical Center (37)
The effects of emotional stimuli on orienting of attention - Hadas Okon-Singer, Ora Kofman, Sheera Lerman, &
Avishai Henik, Ben-Gurion University (38)
Controlling of working memory objects - Yoav Kessler & Nachshon Meiran, Ben-Gurion University (39)
The role of equivalence constraints in category learning - Rubi Hammer, Tomer Hertz, Orit Hershler, Shaul
Hochstein, & Daphna Weinshall, The Hebrew University (40)
Microgenesis and ontogenesis of perceptual organization of line configurations - Bat-Sheva Hadad & Ruth
Kimchi, University of Haifa (41)
Strategic control over mode of attentional selection: Space based versus object based - Menachem Yeari &
Morris Goldsmith, University of Haifa (42)
Error Related Negativity (ERN) for perceived erroneous information – ERP evidence for a continuous
monitoring process of cognitive evaluation - Gabriel Tzur & Andrea Berger, Ben-Gurion University (43)
Individual Differences
Automatic activation of internal magnitudes: A study of developmental dyscalculia - Orly Rubinsten &
Avishai Henik, Ben-Gurion University (44)
Cognitive styles and visual data analysis - Peter Bak and Joachim Meyer, Ben-Gurion University (45)
Cognitive impulsivity and executive functioning - Rotem Leshem, Bar-Ilan University (46)