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18214
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6564
National Ranking
48

Overview

Avi Karni is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel, working primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics with a focus on cognitive and developmental processes.

The scientist's work spans multiple domains, including:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Children's Physical and Motor Development

Their scholarly output is distributed across important subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology, and Statistics and Probability.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Too little, too much: A limited range of practice 'doses' is best for retaining grapho-motor skill in children" (2020, Learning and Instruction)
  • "Recitation and listening to nursery rhymes in the familiarization with a literacy language in kindergarteners: Not kids' stuff." (2020, Developmental Psychology)
  • "Practice schedule and testing per se affect children's transfer abilities in a grapho-motor task" (2021, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • "Dot-to-dot practice enhances Children's handwriting: The advantage of a multi-session training protocol" (2023, Learning and Instruction)
  • "Long-term benefits after a rhyme-repetition based intervention program for kindergarteners: Better reading and spelling in the first grade." (2021, Developmental Psychology)

The primary publication venues for their work include Learning and Instruction, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Psychological Research, and Cognitive Development.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Avi Karni are:

  • Rafat Ghanamah
  • Hazar Eghbaria-Ghanamah
  • Esther Adi-Japha
  • Rinatia Maaravi-Hesseg
  • Maria Korman

Best Publications

  • Functional MRI evidence for adult motor cortex plasticity during motor skill learning

    A. Karni;G. Meyer;G. Meyer;Peter Jezzard;M. M. Adams

  • The acquisition of skilled motor performance: Fast and slow experience-driven changes in primary motor cortex

    Avi Karni;Gundela Meyer;Christine Rey-Hipolito;Peter Jezzard

  • Dependence on REM sleep of overnight improvement of a perceptual skill

    Avi Karni;David Tanne;Barton S. Rubenstein;Jean J. M. Askenasy

  • Imaging brain plasticity during motor skill learning.

    Leslie G Ungerleider;Julien Doyon;Julien Doyon;Avi Karni

  • The Consolidation and Transformation of Memory

    Yadin Dudai;Yadin Dudai;Avi Karni;Jan Born

  • Cerebral organization for language in deaf and hearing subjects: Biological constraints and effects of experience

    Helen J. Neville;Daphne Bavelier;David Corina;Josef Rauschecker

  • Experience-dependent changes in cerebellar contributions to motor sequence learning

    Julien Doyon;Allen W. Song;Avi Karni;François Lalonde

  • Daytime sleep condenses the time course of motor memory consolidation

    Maria Korman;Julien Doyon;Julia Doljansky;Julie Carrier

  • Multiple shifts in the representation of a motor sequence during the acquisition of skilled performance

    Maria Korman;Naftali Raz;Tamar Flash;Avi Karni

  • Sentence reading: A functional mri study at 4 tesla

    D. Bavelier;D. Corina;P. Jezzard;S. Padmanabhan

  • Brain plasticity related to the consolidation of motor sequence learning and motor adaptation

    Karen Debas;Julie Carrier;Pierre Orban;Marc Barakat

  • Contribution of night and day sleep vs. simple passage of time to the consolidation of motor sequence and visuomotor adaptation learning

    Julien Doyon;Julien Doyon;Maria Korman;Amélie Morin;Valérie Dostie

  • Motor sequence learning increases sleep spindles and fast frequencies in post-training sleep

    Amélie Morin;Julien Doyon;Valérie Dostie;Marc Barakat

  • Learning perceptual skills: behavioral probes into adult cortical plasticity

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  • The acquisition of perceptual and motor skills: a memory system in the adult human cortex.

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  • Fast and slow spindle involvement in the consolidation of a new motor sequence.

    M. Barakat;J. Doyon;K. Debas;G. Vandewalle

  • When practice leads to co-articulation: the evolution of geometrically defined movement primitives.

    Ronen Sosnik;Bjoern Hauptmann;Avi Karni;Avi Karni;Tamar Flash

  • The predictive value of the leveling off of within session performance for procedural memory consolidation.

    Björn Hauptmann;Eva Reinhart;Stephan A. Brandt;Avi Karni

  • Maintaining vs. enhancing motor sequence memories: respective roles of striatal and hippocampal systems.

    Geneviève Albouy;Stuart M. Fogel;Bradley R. King;Samuel Laventure

  • Sex differences in motor performance and motor learning in children and adolescents: an increasing male advantage in motor learning and consolidation phase gains.

    Shoshi Dorfberger;Esther Adi-Japha;Avi Karni

  • fMRI and sleep correlates of the age-related impairment in motor memory consolidation.

    Stuart M. Fogel;Genevieve Albouy;Catherine Vien;Romana Popovicci

  • A link between perceptual learning, adaptation and sleep

    Nitzan Censor;Avi Karni;Dov Sagi

  • Hemispheric specialization for English and ASL: left invariance right variability

    Daphne Bavelier;David Corina;Peter Jezzard;Vince Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Julien Doyon
Julien Doyon Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Julie Carrier
Julie Carrier University of Montreal
Leslie G. Ungerleider
Leslie G. Ungerleider National Institutes of Health
Habib Benali
Habib Benali Concordia University
Stuart M. Fogel
Stuart M. Fogel University of Ottawa
Geneviève Albouy
Geneviève Albouy University of Utah
Peter Jezzard
Peter Jezzard University of Oxford
Gilles Vandewalle
Gilles Vandewalle University of Liège
Robert Turner
Robert Turner Max Planck Society
Pierre Maquet
Pierre Maquet University of Liège

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