Dr. Samuel Shaki September, 2015 CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS • Personal Details Name: Samuel Shaki Date of birth: 02.05.1967, Israel Address at work: Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ariel University, Ariel 44837 Phone number: 057-8514339 • Education Ph.D.- 1998-2002 Tel-Aviv University, Department of psychology Advisor: Prof. Daniel Algom Thesis: “Selective attention in classification and in comparison: the role of task” M.A. - 1996 - 1997 Bar-Ilan University, Department of psychology Advisor: Prof. Daniel Algom B.A. - 1992 - 1995 Thesis: “Comparative judgments of multidimensional stimuli.” Bar-Ilan University, Department of psychology • Employment History 2011- Current Senior Lecturer, Ariel University. 2004-2010 Lecturer, Ariel University. 2001-2004 Post Doctoral fellowship, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 1997-2001 Lecturer, the Open University of Israel. 1997-2000 Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University. 1992-1998 Senior instructor, “Kidum” Preparatory school for the Psychometry testing. • Professional activities (a) Editor or member of editorial board of scientific or professional journal 2012–Current Associate Editor, "Experimental Psychology". 2014 Guest Editor, "Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology". Special Issue on "Spatial Biases in Mental Arithmetic". 2011 Guest (lead) Editor, "Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology". Special Issue on "Cultural effects on the mental number line". (b) Membership in professional/scientific societies 2004 – Current Association for Psychological Science (APS). 2002 – 2014 The International Society for Psychophysics (ISP). (c) Conference/Workshop organizing 2013 Paris, France (with Prof. Stanislas Dehaene, Martin Fischer, Marco Zorzi) An International workshop on "Interactions between space, time and number: 20 years of Research" 2011 Raanana, Israel (with Prof. Danny Algom, Dan Zakai, Eran Chayut) The 27th (2011) annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. 2009 York, UK (with Prof. Martin Fischer, Silke Gobel) An International workshop on "Cultural effects on the Mental Number Line". • Professional activities (a) Courses taught Cognition- undergraduate, Ariel University Perception - undergraduate, Ariel University Research methods - undergraduate, Ariel University Statistics - undergraduate, Ariel University Introduction to Psychology - undergraduate, Ariel University (b) Research students 2014 Shirin Ganaim M.A. University of Haifa 2011 Alex Cruise M.A. Bar-Ilan University (With Prof. Michal Lavidor) Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships 2014 – Center for Open Science, Reproducibility Project: Psychology. Replication of Ganor-Stern, D. (2008) ($1280). 2013-2015 ongoing research 2013-2015, on " Direction counts: cultural influences on number processing and counting in children". Funded by the British Academy (SG121544),to Göbel, S. (PI) & Shaki S. (€7698) 2013 - Funding for workshop on "Interactions between space, time and number: 20 years of Research, College de France, Paris, France, by Dehaene, S., Fischer, MH, Shaki, S. & Zorzi, M. (€3800) 2009 - Funding for workshop on "Cultural effects on the mental number line" (July 2009), York, UK, by Experimental Psychology Society (£3,500) and European Society for Cognitive Psychology (€2,000) 2007-2010 research on different aspects of Psychophysics supported by NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada grant) to Prof. Tony Marley (PI) ($8000). 2001-2004, - Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, (three years: $32,000, Annually) – Post Doctoral Fellowship. • Scientific Publications Refereed articles (Overall citation (Google Scholar) = 831; h-index factor: 13) 1. Shaki, S., & Algom, D. (2002). The locus and nature of semantic congruity in symbolic comparison: Evidence from the Stroop effect. Memory & Cognition, 30(1), 317. (IF=2.02), Citations number =15. 2. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2005). On the mental representation of negative numbers: context dependent SNARC effect with comparative judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12(5), 931-937. (IF=2.98), Citations number =102. 3. Shaki, S., Leth-Steensen, C. & Petrusic, W.M. (2006). Effects of instruction presentation mode in comparative judgments. Memory & Cognition, 34 (1), 196-206. (IF=2.02), Citations number =10. 4. Petrusic, W. M., Shaki, S., & Leth-Steensen, C. (2008). Remembered instructions with symbolic and perceptual comparisons. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 70 (2), 179-189. (IF=2.152), Citations number =5. 5. Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2008). Reading space into numbers – A cross-linguistic comparison of the SNARC effect. Cognition, 108(2), 590-599. (IF=3.634), Citations number =134. 6. Fitousi, D., Shaki, S. & Algom, D. (2009). The role of parity, physical size, and magnitude in numerical cognition: the SNARC effect revisited. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 71(1), 143-155. (IF=2.152), Citations number =52. 7. Fischer, M. H., Shaki, S. & Cruise, A (2009). It takes just one word to quash the SNARC. Experimental Psychology, 56 (5), 361-366. (IF=1.95), Citations number =47. 8. Shaki, S., Fischer, M. H., & Petrusic, W. M. (2009). Reading habits for both words and numbers contribute to the SNARC effect. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 16 (2): 328-331. (IF=2.98), Citations number =151. 9. Ben Nathan, M., Shaki, S., Salti, M. & Algom, D. (2009). Numbers and Space: Associations and Dissociations. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 16(3): 578-582. (IF=2.98), Citations number =44. 10. Fischer, M.H., Mills, R.A., & Shaki, S. (2010). How to cook a SNARC: Number placement in text rapidly changes spatial-numerical associations, Brain & Cognition, 72(3), 333-336. (IF=2.683), Citations number =61. Publications since last promotion 11. Shaki, S., & Gevers, W. (2011). Cultural characteristics dissociate magnitude and ordinal information processing, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(4), 639-650. (IF=1.746), Citations number =15. 12. Göbel, S. M., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M.H. (2011). The cultural number line: A review of cultural and linguistic influences on the development of number processing, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(4), 543-565. (IF=1.746), Citations number =56. 13. Göbel, S. M., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M.H. (2011). Cultural effects on the mental number line, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42(4), 541-542. (IF=1.746), Citations number =2. 14. Fischer, M., & Shaki, S. (2011). Predilection or Preconception? A reply to Treccani and Umilta. Brain & Cognition, 75(3), 316-318. (IF=2.683), Citations number =4. 15. Shaki, S., Leth-Steensen, C., & Petrusic, W.M (2012). SNARC effects with numerical and non-numerical symbolic comparative judgments: instructional and cultural dependencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(2), 515-530. (IF=3.105), Citations number =11. 16. Shaki, S., Fischer, M.H., & Göbel, S. (2012). Direction counts: A comparative study of spatially directional counting biases in cultures with different reading directions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112(2), 275-281. (IF=2.635), Citations number =25. 17. Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2012). Multiple spatial mappings in numerical cognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(3), 804809. (IF=3.105), Citations number =30. 18. Shaki, S. (2013). What's in a kiss? spatial experience shapes directional bias during kissing. Journal of Nonverbal behavior, 37(1), 43-50. (IF=1.639), Citations number =4. 19. Shaki, S. & Fischer, M. H. (2013). Your Neighbors Define Your Value: A Study of Spatial Bias in Number Comparison. Acta Psychologica, 142(3), 308-313. (IF=2.367), Citations number =3. 20. Shaki, S. & Fischer, M. H. (2014). Random Walks on the Mental Number Line. Experimental Brain Research, 232(1), 43-49. (IF=2.16), Citations number =11. 21. Vallesi, A., Weisblattb, Y., Semenzaa, C. & Shaki, S. (2014). Cultural modulations of space-time compatibility effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21(3), 666-669. (IF=2.98), Citations number =5. 22. Pinhas, M., Shaki, S. & Fischer, M.H.. (2014). Heed the signs: Operation signs have spatial associations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(8), 1527-1540. (IF=1.73), Citations number =8. 23. McCrink, K., Shaki, S. & Berkowitz, T. (2014). Culturally driven biases in preschoolers’ spatial search strategies for ordinal and non-ordinal dimensions. Cognitive Development, 30(1), 1-14. (IF=1.623), Citations number =4. 24. Fischer, M.H., & Shaki, S. (2014). Spatial biases in mental arithmetic. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(8), 1457-1460. (IF=1.73), Citations number =2. 25. Fischer, M.H., & Shaki, S. (2014). Spatial associations in numerical cognition— From single digits to arithmetic. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(8), 1461-1483. (IF=1.73), Citations number =18. 26. Leth-Steensen, C., Petrusic, W.M., & Shaki, S. (2014). Enhancing semantic congruity effects with category contingent comparative judgments. Frontiers in psychology.5, 1-7. (IF=2.843). 27. Shaki, S., & Fischer, M.H. (2014). Removing spatial responses reveals spatial concepts – even in a culture with mixed reading habits. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:966. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00966. (IF=2.91), Citations number =2. 28. Pinhas, M., Fischer, M.H., & Shaki, S. (2015). Addition goes where the big numbers are: Evidence for a reversed operational momentum effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, DOI 10.3758/s13423-014-0786-z (IF=2.98), Citations number =1. 29. Moeller, K., Shaki, S., Göbel, SM, & Nuerk, HC. (2015). Language Influences Number Processing – a Quadrilingual Study. Cognition, 136, 150-155, (IF=3.634). 30. Fischer, M.H., & Shaki, S. (2015). Measuring spatial-numerical associations: evidence for a purely conceptual link. Psychological Research, DOI 10.1007/s00426015-0646-0. (IF=2.462). Citations number =1. 31. Fischer, M.H., & Shaki, S. (2015). Two Steps To Space For Numbers. Frontiers in psychology, 6:612. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00612. (IF=2.843). 32. Shaki, S., Sery, N., & Fischer, M.H. (2015). 1 + 2 Is More Than 2 + 1: Violations of Commutativity and Identity Axioms in Mental Arithmetic. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27(4): 471-477. (IF=1.198). Citations number =1. 33. Shaki, S., & Fischer, M.H. (2015). Newborn chicks need no number tricks. Commentary: Number-space mapping in the new born chick resembles humans’ mental number line. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9:451. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00451. (IF=2.91). 34. Open Science Collaboration (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251). DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716 (IF=31). 35. Göbel, S.M., Maier, C.A., & Shaki, S. (2015). Which numbers do you have in mind? Number generation is influenced by reading direction. Cognitive processing, 241-244. doi: 10.1007/s10339-015-0715-8. (IF=1.57). 36. Winter et al. "Mental number space in three dimensions" has been accepted for publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 37. Authored books (a) Book editorship 1.Algom, D., Zakai, D., Chajut, E., Shaki, S., Mama, Y., and Shakuf, V. (Eds.) (2011). Fechner Day 2011. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Raanana, Israel: The International Society for Psychophysics. (b) Book chapter/Conference proceedings 1. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W.M. (2003). Instruction interference and the semantic congruity effect. In B. Berglund & E. Borg. (Eds.) Fechner Day 2003. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, 293-298. Larnaca Bay, Cyprus: The International Society for Psychophysics. 2. Petrusic, W. M., Shaki, S. & Marley, A. A. J. (2004). Memory psychophysics for auditory frequency. In A. M., Oliveira, M. P., Teixeira, G. F., Borges, & M. J., Ferro (Eds.) Fechner Day 2004. Proceedings of the Twentieth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,495-500. Coimbra, Portugal: The International Society for Psychophysics. 3. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2004). Context contingent SNARC effects with comparative judgments of positive and negative numbers. . In A. M., Oliveira, M. P., Teixeira, G. F., Borges, & M. J., Ferro (Eds.) Fechner Day 2004. Proceedings of the Twentieth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, 272-279. Coimbra, Portugal: The International Society for Psychophysics. 4. Petrusic, W. M., Shaki, S. & C. Leth-Steensen. (2005). Remembered instructions with Symbolic and Perceptual comparisons. . In J. S. Monahan, S. M. Sheffer, & J.T. Townsend, (Eds.). Fechner Day 2005. Proceedings of the Twenty-first annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,273-278. Mt. Pleasant, MI: The International Society for Psychophysics. 5. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2005). Extending the SNARC Effect: Spatial components in the mental representations of numbers, symbols, and percepts. In J. S. Monahan, S. M. Sheffer, & J.T. Townsend, (Eds.). Fechner Day 2005. Proceedings of the Twenty-first annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,315-320. Mt. Pleasant, MI: The International Society for Psychophysics. 6. Shaki, S., Algom, D. & Petrusic, W. M. (2006). Automatic activation of numerical magnitude? Evidence from joint derivation of SNARC and Size Congruity Effects. In Kornbrot, D. E., Msetfi, R. M. & MacRae, A. W. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2006. Proceedings of the Twenty-second annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics,275280. St. Albans, UK: The International Society for Psychophysics. 7. Shaki, S., Petrusic, W. M. & Leth-Steensen, C. (2006). Category contingent comparative judgments. In Kornbrot, D. E., Msetfi, R. M. & MacRae, A. W. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2006. Proceedings of the Twenty-second annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, 281-286. St. Albans, UK: The International Society for Psychophysics. 8. Petrusic, W.M. & Shaki, S. (2007). Language and instruction dependent SNARC effects in comparative judgements. In S. Mori, T. Miyaoka, & W. Wong. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2007. Proceedings of the Twenty Third Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. Pp. 165-170. Tokyo, Japan. The International Society for Psychophysics. 9. Shaki, S., Fischer, H. M. & Petrusic, W. M. (2008). Reading habits for both words and numbers contribute to the SNARC effect. In Schneider, B. A., Ben-David, B.M. Parker, S., & Wong, W. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2008. Proceedings of the Twenty-four annual meeting of The International Society for Psychophysics, 327-332. Toronto, Canada: The International Society for Psychophysics. 10. Petrusic, W. M., Shaki, S., & Leth-Steensen, C. (2009). Spatial components in the mental representation of numeric and symbolic magnitudes: Extending the SNARC effect. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1547-1550). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. 11. Shaki, S., & Leth-Steensen, C. (2009). Instruction-dependent SNARC for comparisons of linearly ordered symbolic stimuli. In Elliott, M.A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C., & Schmidt, H. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the Twenty-five annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, 107-112. Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics. 12. Zotov, V., Shaki, S. & Marley, A. A. J. (2010). Absolute production as a – possible – method to externalize the properties of context dependent internal presentations. In Bastianelli, A. Vidotto, G. (Eds.). Fechner Day 2010. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth annual meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, 203-208. Padua, Italy: The International Society for Psychophysics. 13. Shaki, S. (2011). Representation of two-digit numbers: the role of task characteristics. In Algom, D., Zakai, D., Chajut, E., Shaki, S., Mama, Y., and Shakuf, V. (Eds.) Fechner Day 2011. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, 379-385. Raanana, Israel: The International Society for Psychophysics. 14. Shaki S., & Fischer, MH. (2012). Your neighbors define your value: spatial bias in number comparison. In Leth-Steensen, C. & Petrusic, W, (Eds.) Fechner Day 2012. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, 321-326. Ottawa, Canada: The International Society for Psychophysics. 15. Vallesi, A., Weisblattb, Y., Semenzaa, C. & Shaki, S. (2013). Cultural modulations of space-time compatibility effects. Jiˇr´ı Wackermann, Marc Wittmann, Wolfgang Skrandies (Eds.) Fechner Day 2013 – Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics. 92. International Society for Psychophysics, Freiburg, Germany, 2013. Lectures and Presentations at Meetings: 1. Algom, D. & Shaki, S. (1997). Semantic congruity and Stroop effects in comparative judgment. The forth annual conference of The Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Tel-Aviv, Israel. 2. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2002). Stroop based instructional effects and the semantic congruity effects in comparative judgments. Twelfth annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Vancouver, BC, Canada . 3. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2002). Stroop interference and semantic congruity effects. 43rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, Missouri. 4. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2003). Discrimination of Frequency of instruction occurrence and the semantic congruity effect. Thirteenth annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Hamilton, ON, Canada . 5. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2003). Instructional interference effects in symbolic comparisons. 44th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 6. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2004). Comparisons with positive and negative numbers: context dependent SNRC effects. Fourteenth annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, St. John's, NF, Canada . 7. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2004). On the mental representation of negative numbers: Do they have psychological reality?. The annual conference of The Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Ramat-Gan, Israel. 8. Petrusic, W. M., Shaki, S. & Marley, A. A. J. (2004). Long term memory for auditory frenquency. Fourteenth annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, St. John's, NF, Canada . 9. Petrusic, W. M., Shaki, S. & C. Leth-Steensen. (2005). Symbolic And Perceptual Comparisons With Remembered Instructions. 46th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, On, Canada. 10. Shaki, S. & Petrusic, W. M. (2005). Extending the SNARC Effect: Spatial components in the mental representations of numbers, symbols, and percepts. 46th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, On, Canada. 11. Shaki, S. (2006). Is spatial representation unique to numbers? Comparing the SNARC effect with numbers, symbols and percepts. Numerical Cognition Workshop, Achva Academic campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. 12. Ben-Natan, M., Shaki, S. & Algom, D. (2007). The SNARC Effect: Dissociating Semantic and Response Factors. Workshop on Number, Space & Action. University Hospital- Klinikum, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. 13. Fischer, M. H., Shaki, S., & Petrusic, W. M. (2007). Reading Habits For Both Words And Numbers Contribute To The SNARC Effect. Poster presented at the NUMBRA Summer School on "Numeracy and Brain Development: Progress and Prospects". Santorini/Greece, 15-22 September. 14. Petrusic, W. M. & Shaki, S. (2007). Language and instruction dependent SNARC effects in comparative judgments. Seventeenth annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Victoria, BC, Canada. 15. Petrusic, W. M. & Shaki, S. (2007). Extending the SNARC effect: Spatial components in the mental representations of numbers and remembered size with English and Hebrew language readers. The Annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Joint with the Psychonomic Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 16. Shaki, S., & Fischer, M. H. (2007). Reading space into numbers: A cross-linguistic comparison of the SNARC effect. The Annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Joint with the Psychonomic Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 17. Shaki, S., Petrusic, W. M. & Leth-Steensen, C. (2007). Category contingent comparative judgments. The Annual meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Joint with the Psychonomic Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 18. Shaki, S., Algom, D. & Petrusic, W. M. (2007). Does the SNARC effect imply the automatic activation of numerical magnitude? Evidence from concurrent size effects. The 25th workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy. 19. Shaki, S. & Gevers, W. (2008). The processing of alpha-numerical information in bilingual Hebrew-English participants. The 26th workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy. 20. Shaki, S. (2009). evidence for multiple directional habits in numerical cognition.. Numerical Cognition Workshop, Achva Academic campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 21. Petrusic, W. M., Shaki, S. & C. Leth-Steensen. (2009). Spatial components in the mental representation of numeric and symbolic magnitudes: Extending the SNARC effect. Poster presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 22. Shaki, S. & Fischer, MH. (2009). The SNARC needs harmony – evidence for multiple directional habits in numerical cognition. The 27th workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy. 23. Shaki, S. (2009). The SNARC needs harmony – evidence for multiple direction habits in numerical cognition. Workshop on “ Cultural Effects on the Mental NumberLine”, York, UK. 24. Shaki, S., Gobel, S., & Fischer, M. (2010). Multiple reading habits influence counting direction in Israeli children. The 28th workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy. 25. Leth-Steensen, C., Shaki, S., & Petrusic, W.M. (2010). Instruction-dependent SNARC for comparison of linear ordered symbolic stimuli. The 28th workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy. 26. Shaki, S. (2011). Representation of two-digit numbers: The role of task characteristics. The 29th workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy. 27. Shih, A., Berkowitz, T., McCrink, K. & Shaki, S. (2011). Spatial Biases for Learning Ordinal Stimuli in American and Israeli Preschoolers. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada. 28. Fischer, M. H. & Shaki S. (2011). Embodied numerical cognition. RoundTable at the 12th European congress of Psychology. Istanbul, Turkey. 29. Shaki, S. & Fischer, M. H. (2012). Your Neighbors Define Your Value: A Study of Spatial Bias in Number Comparison. The 30th workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology Bressanone, Italy. 30. Göbel, S., Fischer, M., & Shaki, S. (2012). Experience counts: A cross-cultural study of counting biases in children. The 54th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Mannheim, Germany. 31. Vaisertreiger, A., Shaki, S., & Ivanova, V. (2012). Comparison of emotional ratings of the International Affective Picture System across Israeli and Russian subjects. The fifth international conference on cognitive science (2012, Kaliningrad). Vol. 1 p. 178179. 32. Shaki, S. (2012). What's in a kiss? spatial experience shapes directional bias during kissing. 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC), Rome, Italy. 33. Shaki, S. (2012). What's in a kiss? spatial experience shapes directional bias during kissing.Colloquium on Embodied Cognition, Potsdam, Germany. 34. Shaki, S. & Fischer, M. H. (2013). Random walks on the number line. The 31st workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology Bressanone, Italy. 35. Shaki, S. & Fischer, MH (2013). Cultural and conceptual aspects of SNARC. Workshop on "Interactions between space, time and number: 20 years of Research, College de France, Paris, France. 36. Shaki, S. & Fischer, MH (2013). We walk and talk the SNARC: Random Number Generation during spatial activity reveals the dynamics of number-space mappings. The 13th European Congress of Psychology (ECP), Stockholm, Sweden. 37. Pesenti, M., Rusconi, E. & Shaki, S. (2013). Embodiment of Numerical Cognition. Workshop on "From Numbers To Knowledge – 20 Years of Spatial-Numerical Associations", Potsdam, Germany. 38. Göbel, S.M., Fischer, M. H & Shaki, S. (2014). Experience counts: Transmitting Culture Through Space. The 32nd workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology Bressanone, Italy. 39. Pinhas, M., Shaki, S. & Fischer, M. H. (2014). Heed the Signs: Operation Signs Have Spatial Associations. The 32nd workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology Bressanone, Italy. 40. Shaki, S. (2014). Making 2 single digits into single 2-digit number: The influences of mere presence of neighboring digit on processing of numbers. the first Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology (ISCOP), Akko, Israel. 41. Fischer, M.H., & Shaki, S. (2014). Reading space into numbers – An Update. KogWis 2014, Tubingen, Germany. 42. Faulkenberry, T., Cruise, A., Lavro, D., & Shaki, S. (2014). Response Trajectories Capture the Continuous Dynamics of the Size Congruity Effect. 55th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, Ca, USA. 43. Shaki, S., Pinhas, M. & Fischer, M.H. (2015). Competing biases in Mental Arithmetic: When Addition is Less and Subtraction is More. The 33rd workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology Bressanone, Italy. 44. Nuerk, HC., Shaki, S., & Fischer, M.H. (2015). Open discussion on "Linguistic influences on numerical cognition". The 33rd workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology Bressanone, Italy. 45. Göbel, S.M., Maier, C., & Shaki, S. (2015). Spatial biases: Number generation is influenced by reading direction. The 33rd workshop on cognitive Neuropsychology Bressanone, Italy. 46. Pinhas, M., Fischer, M.H., & Shaki, S. (2015). Addition goes where the big numbers are: Evidence for a reversed operational momentum effect. ISCOP Annual Meeting, Akko, Israel. 47. Shaki, S. & Fischer, MH (2015). Playing with play-doh betrays your principles: Magnitude-based decision making depends on magnitude order. The International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 48. Shaki, S. (2015). Contrasting biases in mental arithmetic: Operational Momentum revisited. Workshop on "The Cognitive and Neural Basis for the Development of Numeric Understanding", Beer-Sheva, Israel. 49. Shaki, S. (2015). Spatial biases in mental arithmetic without spatial responses? Operational Momentum revisited. 6th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC), Rome, Italy. 50. Göbel, S.M., Maier, C., & Shaki, S. (2015). Spatial biases: Number generation is influenced by reading direction. 6th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC), Rome, Italy. 51. Shaki, S. & Fischer, MH (2015). Playing with play-doh betrays your principles: Magnitude-based decision making depends on magnitude order. 6th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC), Rome, Italy.