THE THIRD CONFERENCE ON COGNITION RESEARCH (AKKO, 2016)
The 3rd Conference on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society
for Cognitive Psychology – Akko (2016)
Program overview
Tuesday, February 16th
13:30-14:30 Welcome, registration and light lunch (provided by hostel)
14:30-14:55 Opening address
15:00-16:40 Talk session 1 (3 parallel sessions in rooms A, B and C)
Room A: Symposium: Cognition and Emotion Regulation
15:00-15:20
15:20-15:40
15:40-16:00
A Dynamic Process Perspective on
Attentional Bias Modification: Attentional
Feedback Awareness & Control Training
(A-FACT)
Why do we feel better when we regulate
our emotions? Signal-Detection Theorybased analysis of feeling generation under
emotion regulation
Bernstein
Amit
Karmon-Presser
Anat
Mor
Nilly
Changing Ruminative Habits using
Inhibition Bias Training
Gal
Implicit and Explicit Processes in
Emotion Regulation Choice: Basic
Mechanisms and Broad Implications
16:00-16:20
Sheppes
16:20-16:40
Tamir
Maya
When There’s A Will, There’s A Way:
Diambiguating the Effects of Goals and
Means in Cognitive Reappraisal
Room B: Language I
15:00-15:20
Prior
Anat
15:20-15:40
Agmon
Galit
15:40-16:00
Khateb
Asaid
Modulation of Language Switching Costs
by Cue Timing: Implications for Models
of Bilingual Language Control
Is "few" a small number? Comparing
negative polarity in quantifiers and in
adjectives
Picture naming in spoken and literary
Arabic: an fMRI Study in Arabic-Hebrew
bilinguals
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16:00-16:20
Weil
Rebecca
Negation vs. Falsification: When “not
true” is different from “false”
16:20-16:40
Friedmann
Naama
The orthographic-visual analysis stage is
sensitive to vowel-consonant distinction
Room C: Working Memory and Executive Functions
15:00-15:20
Guterman
Yossi
Executive control of masked priming effects
in task-switching
15:20-15:40
Rac-Lubashevsky
Rachel
The reference-back task: Separating gating
from WM updating
15:40-16:00
Dudarev
Veronica
Switching all around: incidental activation of
executive functions in joint actions
16:00-16:20
Pereg
Maayan
Evidence for global-context driven updating
of task-set representations in procedural
working memory: The informed fadeout
effect.
16:20-16:40
Ganor
Tal
Interaction of conflict and load in modulation
of emotional interference
16:40 -17:15 Coffee break
17:15-18:15 Keynote lecture 1 (Prof. Klaus Oberauer): TBA.
18:15-20:00 Poster Session 1 (and coffee break)
Attention & Consciousness:
Davidovitch
Keren
Evolution of social attentional cues: Evidence
from the Archerfish.
Snir
Guy
Temporal attention selects compound
representations in a strategic manner:
Evidence from the attentional blink
Hochmitz
Ilanit
The effects of spatial attention on temporal
integration
Keidar
Roi
Affects of Attentional Capture on Subsequent
Event: A Dissociation Between Capture and
Engagement
Zivony
Alon
The role of salience in attentional capture and
attentional engagement
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Effects of fMRI environment on Go/No-go
performance in participants with and without
ADHD
Emotional Abnormalities in ADHD:
Interference Effects of Visual Emotional
Distractors in Adults with ADHD
Ankaoua
Maya
Lichtenstein-Vidne
Limor
Shalev
Nir
Assessing the temporal dynamics of attention
in stroke survivors and aging population
Raber
Hamutal
ADHD-associated risk taking: is it risk seeking
or suboptimal decision-making?
Pisoni
Lorenzo
Dynamic probing of the integration window
Working Memory & Executive Control:
Entel-Kataev
Olga
When Working Memory Meets Control in the
Stroop Effect
Bar-Hen Schweiger
Moran
Mental Manipulation During Maze Solving
Cohen
Haggar
The Effect of Encoding on Rapid Forgetting
Kolodny
Tamar
A unique Go/No-go task reveals specific
inhibition-related activation in the right IPS
Shichel
Ido
Components of Stroop task and their control
Kardosh
Rasha
Dogmatic Ideologies and Action Control:
Flag priming modulates the Simon effect
Roth
Noam
The Effect of Transcranial Direct Current
Stimulation on Error Related Negativity
Responses in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Learning, Memory, Metacognition & Decision Making:
Saar-Ashkenazy
Rotem
Breakdown of Inter-hemispheric Connectivity
is Associated with Symptomatology and
Memory Performance in Posttraumatic
Patients
Sheaffer
Rona
The Effect of the Ease-of-Retrieval Heuristic
on Memory-Based Judgments
Lugasi
Elinoam
Changing Stimuli Dimensions Affect Item
But Not Associative Recognition In Older
Adults
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Hypericum perforatum as a nootropic drug: A
review and meta-analysis of preclinical
studies
Measuring individual differences in statistical
learning: Novel perspectives and novel
methodologies
Ben-Eliezer
Daniel
Siegelman
Noam
Jacoby
Noa
The influence of three-electrodes tDCS on
shifting and risk taking behaviors
Holtzman
Yael
Self regulation of unhealthy eating patterns in
children- a longitudinal study
Shahar-Yames
Daphna
Distinct contributions of type and token
frequency to Hebrew morphological
knowledge of language minority children
Hajajra
Walaa
Cross-language influences in visual word
recognition for Arabic-Hebrew bilinguals
Ben Zion
Dafna
Effects of sleep and phonological abilities on
learning morphological inflections in an
artificial language.
Zur
Naama
Orthographic and Phonological Effects
Without Words
Salner
Neta
Stroop beyond semantics: Evidence from
surface dyslexia
Binur
Nahal
Musical Training and Dyslexia
Balaban
Noga
Learning about presuppositions from
individuals with brain damage
Dadon
Gal
Attenuation of Control in the Numerical and
Physical Stroop Tasks
Behor
Tomer
MathMusic – a new tool for teaching graphs
and geometry to visually impaired pupils
using sensory substitution
Itamar
Shai
Same same but different: Discrete and
Symbolic magnitude processing
Oscar-Strom
Yafit
The ordinal SNARC effect: An attempt to
replicate
Language:
Numerical Cognition:
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Dotan
Dror
How do we turn a multi-digit number into a
single quantity?
Perception & Emotion:
Groisman
Michael
Subcortical judgments of agency
Krill
Dana
Rapid forgetting of faces
Hershman
Ronen
CHAP: an open source software for
processing and analyzing pupillometry data
Rabinovitch
Eshed
Neural entrainment to the beat: the “missing
pulse” phenomenon
Tal
Noam
Alleviating the saccadic spike potential
through design parameters
Shapira
Shani
Exploring Audiohaptic Interactions in Blind
SSD Users
Buchs
Galit
Binding and integration in rehabilitative
sensory substitution: increasing resolution by
Zooming-in with the EyeMusic
Sekely
Liora
Subcortical involvement in the perception of
illusory objects.
Wiener
Avigail
Abnormally-Enhanced Emotional Reactions
among Individuals at High Risk of
Developing Hypertension
Givon
Ella
Feeling generation – a drift-diffusion
modelling approach
Tamar
Item and Associative Memory Performance
for Emotionally Neutral Content in
Individuals with Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD)
Simenowitz
20:00 Dinner
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Wednesday, February 17th
09:00-10:40 Talk session 2 (3 parallel sessions in rooms A, B and C)
Room A: Perception I
09:00-09:20
Babkoff
Harvey
A Psychophysical Profile of Age-Related
Deficit in Auditory Temporal Processing
09:20-09:40
Gilaie-Dotan
Sharon
Visual motion serves but is not under the
purview of the dorsal pathway
09:40-10:00
Soloveichick
Rita
The Involvement of Subcortical Structures
in Global-Local Processing
10:00-10:20
Yashar
Amit
Crowding errors are binding errors
10:20-10:40
Brandman
Talia
Contextual facilitation of the neural
representation of objects in real-world
scenes
Room B: Consciousness
Spatial, Temporal and Semantic
Integration windows in conscious and
unconscious processing
Temporal and spatial perceptual
distortions are governed by a shared
mechanism
09:00-09:20
Biderman
Dan
09:20-09:40
Katzin
Naama
09:40-10:00
Goldstein
Alon
Yes/No questions can be answered without
reaching consciousness
10:00-10:20
Levi Aharoni
Hadar
Cortical Representation of Subjective
Surprise - an EEG Study
10:20-10:40
Lamy
Dominique
Dissociating conscious perception and
perception for action: the role of past
sensory evidence
Room C: Cognitive and Metacognitive Aspects of Judgment, Choice, and Problem
Solving
09:00-09:20
Gavish
Nirit
Training for Exploration Disposition in
Theory of Mind
09:20-09:40
Shoval
Roy
The ‘wanting’ of choosing: A role for
experienced choice
09:40-10:00
Sela
Moran
Knee-Jerk Opinionatedness: Evidence for
Involuntary Opinion-Confirmation
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10:00-10:20
Shahar
Nitzan
10:20-10:40
Ackerman
Rakefet
Decision Mechanisims Underlying
Increased Reaction-Time Variability in
ADHD
Under What Conditions Knowing Much
May Mislead You? Accessibility
Utilization for Judgments Throughout
Problem Solving and Memorizing
10:40-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:40 Talk session 3 (3 parallel sessions in rooms A, B and C)
Room A: Symposium: Prior Knowledge Influences on Learning and Memory
11:00-11:20
Gronau
Nurit
11:20-11:40
Levy
Daniel
Vision at a Glance: schematic knowledge
enhances memory for both ‘gist’ and
visual detail information following a brief
glimpse
Semantic unitization at encoding boosts
indirect expression of associative memory
11:40-12:00
Reggev
Niv
Distinct post-encoding neural patterns in
the hippocampus and cortical regions for
schema-consistent and inconsistent
information
12:00-12:20
Maril
Anat
Prior knowledge influences on learning
over multiple repetitions
12:20-12:40
Goshen-Gottstein
Yonatan
Fluency manipulations and their effect on
prior and novel representations
11:00-11:20
Makovski
Tal
What is the context of contextual cueing?
11:20-11:40
Vaskevich
Anna
The role of contextual cuing in general
learning
11:40-12:00
Ashby
Nathaniel
The effect of reward frequency, reward
magnitude, and average reward on visual
attention
12:00-12:20
Tkacz-Domb
Shira
Temporal crowding and the effects of
spatial attention
12:20-12:40
Tsal
Yehoshua
Allocating Attention Outside the Focus of
Attention
Room B: Attention
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Room C: Emotion
I know how it makes me feel: dissociating
Dissociating affective and semantic
valence.
The Neural Mechanisms that Underlie the
Consoling Effects of Human Touch - A
dual fMRI study
11:00-11:20
Kron
Assaf
11:20-11:40
Korisky
Adi
11:40-12:00
Moyal
Natali
Processing Type of Emotional Stimuli and
Its Influence on Cognitive Control
12:00-12:20
Itkes
Oksana
The representation of (ambi)valence
12:20-12:40
Aviezer
Hillel
Pleasure or pain? On the failure to utilize
diagnostic information in the perception of
extreme facial expressions
12:40-15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:20 Talk session 4 (3 parallel sessions in rooms A, B and C):
Room A: Learning and Memory
15:00-15:20
Mandelbaum
Anat
Age-related decline in spatial long-term
memory
15:20-15:40
Goldberg-Nakar
Odelia
Neural correlates of strategic shift in
motor sequence learning: A MEG study
15:40-16:00
Nafcha
Orit
Habits - outcome gets you started, control
keeps you going
16:00-16:20
Peters-Founshtein
Gregory
A novel method for evaluating orientation
in Alzheimer's disease
Room B: Language II
15:00-15:20
Ben-David
Boaz
Prosody and Semantics are Separate but
not Separable Channels in the Perception
of Emotional Speech: Test of Rating of
Emotions in Speech (T-RES)
15:20-15:40
Lakretz
Yair
Metric learning for phonemes
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15:40-16:00
Yeari
Meni
16:00-16:20
Maidenbaum
Shachar
The role of working memory in inference
generation during reading comprehension:
Retention, (re)activation, or suppression of
verbal information?
Neural Correlates and Cross-modal
Plasticity for Learning to Read Entire
Words without Visual Experience
Room C: Judgment and Decision Making
15:00-15:20
Avrahami
Judith
Thoughts about inequality and competition
15:20-15:40
Teodorescu
Kinneret
repeated search in variable environments
and the role of post-decision search
15:40-16:00
Teodorescu
Andrei
Absolutely relative or relatively absolute:
violations of value invariance in human
decision making
16:00-16:20
Kareev
Yaakov
A choice-based explanation of the choiceoverload phenomenon
16:20 -17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Keynote lecture 2 (Prof. Charles Folk): TBA
18:00-20:00 Poster session 2 (and coffee break)
Attention & Consciousness:
Rashal
Einat
Blur depth cue alleviates attentional demands
in perceptual grouping
Lambez
Bar
Processing Bottlenecks for Selective and
Divided Attention
Farhi
Moran
The relation between attention and math
achievement in children
Nafcha
Orit
The influence of Reward from Control on
inhibition of return
Izoutcheev
Anna
Top down modulation of redundancy effects
Moran
Rani
Is visual search serial, parallel or seriallel?
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Dankner
Yarden
Comparing fixational eye movements in
adults with and without ADHD in sustained
attention and temporal expectation
Einziger
Tzlil
Low levels of Effortful control in toddlerhood
predicts ADHD symptoms in adolescence
Dor-Ziderman
Yair
MEG Neural Correlates of the HypnoticallyInduced Out-of-Body Experience
Gelbard-Sagiv
Hagar
The role of noradrenaline in visual awareness:
a pharmacological fMRI study
Working Memory & Executive Control:
Lavro
Dmitri
Error-Related Brain-Behaviour Correlations
in the “Congruency One-Back Task”
Allon
Ayala
Identity and Spatial Cues Can Improve
Filtering Ability in Visual Working Memory
Azulai
Orly
Interference Control in Adolescents with
ADHD - A Different Point of View
Kohavi
Itamar
Self Regulation and Lying Tendency
Nitzan
Reaction-Time Toolbox: A Free-to Install
Standalone Desktop Application Allowing
Ex-Gaussian Fitting and Treatment of
Behavioral Data
Shahar
Learning, Memory, Metacognition & Decision Making:
Ravreby
Inbal
Are categories of answers remembered
differently? Memory and confidence level of
definitive vs. uncertain answers
Bogaerts
Louisa
Splitting the variance of individual
differences in visual statistical learning
Bullshtein
Yulia
Comparing the effects of covert and overt
initial retrieval on memory over time
Shapira
Anat Adi
Marciano-Romm
Deborah
Regulating eyewitness memory accuracy over
time with the report option and the plurality
option
Could have been better, could have been
worse: Electrophysiological manifestations of
the comparison between received and
alternative outcomes
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Glickman
Moshe
Towards a process based theory of risky
choice in decisions by description
Furstenberg
Ariel
Age-Related Decision Processes
Nitzan
Describing Multi-Alternative Decisions Using
the Max-Minus Next Model: Theoretical
Framework and Free-to Install Fitting
Software
Keshev
Maayan
Active dependency formation in islands:
Evidence from Hebrew sentence processing
Ness
Tal
Lexical Inhibition Due to Failed predictions
Mor
Billy
Frequency effects in first and second
language: An individual differences approach
Kruchkovsky
Miri
Individual Differences in Learning Foreign
Language Words
Havron
Naomi
The effect of multi word frequency on online
language processing in children and adults
Shalom
Gur
Schiff
Rachel
Szterman
Ronit
Critical period for first language acquisition:
evidence from hearing impairment
Brice
Henry
Computing neuronal overlap as a measure of
L2 learning
Yachini
Maya
Developmental Dysgraphias
Dotan
Dror
Number-Specific Dyslexia
Khentov-Kraus
Lilach
The distribution of developmental dyslexias
in Hebrew
Shahar
Language:
Text reading in SySLI: reading aloud and
comprehension of texts with and without
syntactic movement
Implicit, Explicit and Meta-linguistic
Auditory Morphological Knowledge among
Typical Readers and Readers with Dyslexia
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Numerical Cognition:
Feldman
Anat
Following the Finger: An Innovative Task for
Studying Mental Representations of the
Number Line
Bar
Hofit
What is larger 1/5 or 0? Investigating fraction
processing across age
Kallai
Arava
Differences in neural structures underlying
processing of parts and wholes
Heimler
Benedetta
The core-system of geometrical intuitions
develops without visual experience
Cohen
Zahira
The long term effect of training on tactile
enumeration
Perception & Emotion:
Buchs
Galit
Successful Use of the EyeMusic, Visual-toAuditory Sensory Substitution Device, by
Blind Adults in Noisy Environments
Regev
Tamar
Late Mismatch negativity for pitch chroma
discrimination
Heimler
Benedetta
New insights on the origins of task-specific
sensory-independent organization in the
visual and auditory brain and their clinical
implications
Abeles
Dekel
Visual evoked potentials and the poststimulus microsaccadic inhibition
Backner
Yael
Visual Cortical reorganization following optic
neuritis: a resting state functional MRI study
Shames
Haya
The effect of grey matter disease on
neighboring white matter integrity.
Taase
Shalva
Children's Self-Regulation and their coping
with war
Mark
Ilya
The unemphatic hand illusion: reduced pain
empathy after the rubber hand illusion
20:00 Dinner
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Thursday, February 18th
09:00-10:00 Business meeting
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-12:00 Talk session 5 (3 parallel sessions in rooms A, B and C)
Room A: Perception II
10:20-10:40
Simhi
Noa
The role of motion in whole person
recognition
10:40-11:00
Fradkin
Isaac
The adaptive weighting of sensorimotor
prediction errors in the ascription of
agency over action
11:00-11:20
Pirkner
Yossef
Crowding as a diagnostic test for
"objecthood"
11:20-11:40
Shrem
Talia
Crossmodal effects on location specific
repetition suppression of EEG responses to
sounds
11:40-12:00
Hansel-Lesmy
Myriam
The role of expectation on action
perception
10:20-10:40
Salti
Moti
A method for equating saliency of
numerosity and continuous magnitudes in
non-symbolic stimuli
10:40-11:00
Ohayon
Rut
Zero is not 'nothing'
11:00-11:20
Leibovich
Tali
11:20-11:40
Thompson
Jacqueline
11:40-12:00
Gliksman
Yarden
Room B: Numerical Cognition
Beyond comparison: physical size affects
non-symbolic but not symbolic number
line estimation
See that number? Visuospatial abilities
may contribute to learning symbolic
numerical magnitudes
Automaticity of Conceptual Magnitude in
Dyscalculia and Dyslexia
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Room C: Language & Dyslexia
10:20-10:40
Kimel
Eva
Dyslexics' benefit from morphological
familiarity is task dependent
10:40-11:00
Haddad Hanna
Manar
Types of developmental dyslexia in Arabic
11:00-11:20
G?ven
Sel?uk
Types of Dyslexia in Turkish
11:20-11:40
Heth
Inbahl
Improved reading measures in adults with
dyslexia following transcranial direct
current stimulation treatment
11:40-12:00
Fostick
Leah
Auditory Temporal Judgment Profile:
Dyslexic Readers and Aging adults
12:00-13:00 Light lunch (provided by hostel)
13:00-14:40 Talk session 6 (3 parallel sessions in rooms A, B and C)
Room A: Symposium: Networks in Cognitive Science
Nitzan
Mor
Introduction to network science
Abend
Omri
Semantic Nets: A Distributional Approach
13:40-14:00
Danziger
Michael
Recent advances in the study of multilayer
networks for understanding cognition
14:00-14:20
Peer
Michael
Brain networks in resting-state fMRI: the
case of memory and amnesia
13:00-13:20
13:20-13:40
Room B: Attention, Working Memory & Cognitive Control
13:00-13:20
Friedman
Jason
Elucidating the differences between the
tactile and visual Simon effect using arm
movements
13:20-13:40
StrommerDavidovich
Nofar
The evolutionary nature of object-based
attention
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13:40-14:00
Karsh
Noam
Motivation from control: Control based
response selection
14:00-14:20
Balaban
Halely
Neural and behavioral evidence for an
online resetting process in visual working
memory
14:20-14:40
Katzir
Maayan
Relevant Rule Activation as a Means to
Resolve Conflicts During Task Switching
Room C: Perception of Faces and Facial Expressions
13:00-13:20
Anaki
David
In the face of death: Behavioral and
electrophysiological responses to facial
expressions by combat and non-combat
veterans.
13:20-13:40
Bernstein
Michal
Two Neural Pathways of Face Processing:
A Revised Model
13:40-14:00
Hadar
Daniel
Interrelating Model between Action Units
and Affect Descriptives: Pleasure, Arousal
and Dominance
14:00-14:20
Tron
Talia
Automated Analysis of Facial Expressions
in Schizophrenia
14:20-14:40
Schwartz
Linoy
The Roles of Perceptual and Conceptual
Judgments on Face Recognition