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Eli Vakil is affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel and has contributed extensively to the fields of neuroscience and medicine, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology. Their research spans a variety of specialized subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, epidemiology, psychiatry and mental health, and neurology.

Their work frequently addresses topics such as traumatic brain injury research, motor control and adaptation, memory processes and influences, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, memory and neural mechanisms, dementia and cognitive impairment research, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Among the recent papers authored by or involving Vakil are the following:

  • "An eye tracking study of digital text reading: a comparison between poor and typical readers" (2020) published in Reading and Writing
  • "Oculomotor anticipation reveals a multitude of learning processes underlying the serial reaction time task" (2021) published in Scientific Reports
  • "The effectiveness of memory remediation strategies after traumatic brain injury: Systematic review and meta-analysis" (2021) published in Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
  • "How sequence learning unfolds: Insights from anticipatory eye movements" (2020) published in Cognition
  • "Selective Procedural Memory Impairment but Preserved Declarative Memory in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3" (2020) published in The Cerebellum

Vakil collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, notably Simone Schwizer Ashkenazi, with whom they have published seven works. Other frequent collaborators include William Saban (five publications), Bar Lambez (three publications), Natalie Lugasi (three publications), and Anat Marmor (three publications).

Their research is regularly published in venues such as Psychology, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, Psychological Research, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, and the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.

Best Publications

  • Ageing, fitness and neurocognitive function.

    Arthur F. Kramer;Sowon Hahn;Neal J. Cohen;Marie T. Banich

  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) 10?20 years later: a comprehensive outcome study of psychiatric symptomatology, cognitive abilities and psychosocial functioning

    Dan Hoofien;Assaf Gilboa;Eli Vakil;Peter J. Donovick

  • The effect of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) on different aspects of memory: a selective review.

    Eli Vakil

  • Rey auditory-verbal learning test: Structure analysis

    Eli Vakil;Haya Blachstein

  • Effect of Breakfast Timing on the Cognitive Functions of Elementary School Students

    Nachum Vaisman;Hillary Voet;Alla Akivis;Eli Vakil

  • Interpretation of Facial Expressions of Affect in Children with Learning Disabilities with Verbal or Nonverbal Deficits

    Lilly Dimitrovsky;Hedva Spector;Rachel Levy-Shiff;Eli Vakil

  • Rey AVLT: Developmental norms for adults and the sensitivity of different memory measures to age

    Eli Vakil;Haya Blachstein

  • Motor and non-motor sequence learning in patients with basal ganglia lesions: the case of serial reaction time (SRT)

    Eli Vakil;Shimon Kahan;Moshe Huberman;Alicia Osimani

  • Medical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes in school-age children conceived by In-Vitro Fertilization

    Rachel Levy-Shiff;Eli Vakil;Lilly Dimitrovsky;Miriam Abramovitz

  • Comparison of the predictive power of socio-economic variables, severity of injury and age on long-term outcome of traumatic brain injury: sample-specific variables versus factors as predictors.

    Dan Hoofien;Eli Vakil;Assaf Gilboa;Peter J. Donovick

  • Normative Data for Composite Scores for Children and Adults Derived from the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test

    Eli Vakil;Yoram Greenstein;Haya Blachstein

  • Outcome of different treatment mixes in a multidimensional neuropsychological rehabilitation program.

    Jack Rattok;Barbara Ross;Yehuda Ben-Yishay;Ora Ezrachi

  • Predicting long-term outcome following traumatic brain injury (TBI)

    Yuri Rassovsky;Yifat Levi;Eugenia Agranov;Michal Sela-Kaufman

  • Which verbal fluency measure is most useful in demonstrating executive deficits after traumatic brain injury

    Gitit Kavé;Eyal Heled;Eli Vakil;Eugenia Agranov

  • Unawareness of cognitive deficits and daily functioning among persons with traumatic brain injuries.

    Dan Hoofien;Asaf Gilboa;Eli Vakil;Ohr Barak

  • Declarative and procedural learning in Parkinson's disease patients having tremor or bradykinesia as the predominant symptom

    Eli Vakil;Sigal Herishanu-Naaman

  • Baseline Performance and Learning Rate of Procedural and Declarative Memory Tasks: Younger Versus Older Adults

    Eli Vakil;Dafna Agmon-Ashkenazi

  • Dissociation between the procedural learning of letter names and motor sequences in developmental dyslexia.

    Yafit Gabay;Rachel Schiff;Eli Vakil

  • Automatic temporal order judgment: the effect of intentionality of retrieval on closed-head-injured patients.

    Eli Vakil;Haya Blachstein;Dan Hoofien

  • Cognitive reserve components as expressed in traumatic brain injury.

    Yifat Levi;Yuri Rassovsky;Eugenia Agranov;Michal Sela-Kaufman

Frequent Co-Authors

Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Dorly J. H. Deeg University of Amsterdam
Nancy D. Chiaravalloti
Nancy D. Chiaravalloti Kessler Foundation
Gudrun Sartory
Gudrun Sartory University of Wuppertal
Hannie C. Comijs
Hannie C. Comijs VU University Medical Center
David Tzuriel
David Tzuriel Bar-Ilan University
Erik J. A. Scherder
Erik J. A. Scherder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Elaine K. Perry
Elaine K. Perry Newcastle University
Asaf Gilboa
Asaf Gilboa University of Toronto
Edward McAuley
Edward McAuley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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