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Overview

Merav Ahissar is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist has produced a substantial body of work covering a range of topics. These include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Their recent publications reflect a diverse research portfolio. Notable papers include:

  • "Slow update of internal representations impedes synchronization in autism" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Dissecting the Roles of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning in Perceptual Discrimination Judgments" (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Training-induced improvement in working memory tasks results from switching to efficient strategies" (2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)
  • "Poor synchronization yet adequate tempo-keeping in adults with autism" (2023, Autism Research)
  • "Neural correlates of statistical learning in developmental dyslexia: An electroencephalography study" (2023, Biological Psychology)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Merav Ahissar include Tamar Malinovitch, Eva Kimel, Itay Lieder, Aviel Sulem, and Nori Jacoby, with multiple joint publications reflecting ongoing collaboration.

The scientist has contributed to several publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Vision
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Their work spans multiple subfields, including cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, statistics and probability, experimental and cognitive psychology, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Best Publications

  • View from the top: hierarchies and reverse hierarchies in the visual system.

    Shaul Hochstein;Merav Ahissar

  • The Reverse Hierarchy Theory of Visual Perceptual Learning

    Merav Ahissar;Shaul Hochstein

  • Task difficulty and the specificity of perceptual learning.

    Merav Ahissar;Shaul Hochstein

  • Attentional control of early perceptual learning

    Merav Ahissar;Shaul Hochstein

  • Speech comprehension is correlated with temporal response patterns recorded from auditory cortex

    Ehud Ahissar;Srikantan Nagarajan;Merav Ahissar;Athanassios Protopapas

  • Dependence of Cortical Plasticity on Correlated Activity of Single Neurons and on Behavioral Context

    Ehud Ahissar;Eilon Vaadia;Merav Ahissar;Hagai Bergman

  • Encoding of sound-source location and movement: activity of single neurons and interactions between adjacent neurons in the monkey auditory cortex

    M Ahissar;E Ahissar;H Bergman;E Vaadia

  • Auditory processing parallels reading abilities in adults

    Merav Ahissar;Athanassios Protopapas;Miriam Reid;Michael M. Merzenich

  • Reverse hierarchies and sensory learning

    Merav Ahissar;Mor Nahum;Israel Nelken;Shaul Hochstein

  • Dyslexia and the anchoring-deficit hypothesis

    Merav Ahissar

  • Disabled readers suffer from visual and auditory impairments but not from a specific magnocellular deficit.

    Sygal Amitay;Gal Ben-Yehudah;Karen Banai;Merav Ahissar

  • Dyslexia and the failure to form a perceptual anchor.

    Merav Ahissar;Merav Ahissar;Yedida Lubin;Hanna Putter-Katz;Hanna Putter-Katz;Karen Banai;Karen Banai

  • Learning Pop-out Detection: Specificities to Stimulus Characteristics

    Merav Ahissar;Shaul Hochstein

  • Developmental dyslexia: The difficulties of interpreting poor performance, and the importance of normal performance

    Franck Ramus;Merav Ahissar

  • Perceptual bias reveals slow-updating in autism and fast-forgetting in dyslexia.

    Itay Lieder;Vincent Adam;Or Frenkel;Sagi Jaffe-Dax

  • How recent history affects perception: the normative approach and its heuristic approximation

    Ofri Raviv;Merav Ahissar;Yonatan Loewenstein

  • Auditory Processing Deficits in Dyslexia: Task or Stimulus Related?

    Karen Banai;Karen Banai;Merav Ahissar

  • Poor frequency discrimination probes dyslexics with particularly impaired working memory

    Karen Banai;Merav Ahissar

  • Impaired temporal contrast sensitivity in dyslexics is specific to retain-and-compare paradigms.

    Gal Ben-Yehudah;Ella Sackett;Liat Malchi-Ginzberg;Merav Ahissar

  • The spread of attention and learning in feature search: effects of target distribution and task difficulty.

    Merav Ahissar;Shaul Hochstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaul Hochstein
Shaul Hochstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ehud Ahissar
Ehud Ahissar Weizmann Institute of Science
Israel Nelken
Israel Nelken Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michael M. Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco
Eilon Vaadia
Eilon Vaadia Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hagai Bergman
Hagai Bergman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel C. Javitt
Daniel C. Javitt Columbia University
Sandra L. McFadden
Sandra L. McFadden University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Bruno H. Repp
Bruno H. Repp Haskins Laboratories
Peter E. Keller
Peter E. Keller University of Sydney

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