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Overview

Miriam Faust is affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Their research spans several interconnected fields including psychology and neuroscience, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. Experimental and cognitive psychology as well as statistical and nonlinear physics also feature among their areas of specialization.

Their scholarly work explores a variety of topics, notably:

  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques

Miriam Faust's recent publications reveal a focus on brain connectivity and cognitive processes related to language and creativity. Their scientific output includes the following papers:

  • Spontaneous cognition and its relationship to human creativity: A functional connectivity study involving a chain free association task, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Linking L2 proficiency and patterns of functional connectivity during L1 word retrieval, 2021, Brain and Language
  • Critical tipping point distinguishing two types of transitions in modular network structures, 2021, UNC Libraries

The venues in which these works appear align closely with their research scope, including NeuroImage, Brain and Language, and UNC Libraries.

Collaboration is an integral part of their work, with frequent co-authors comprising:

  • Tali R. Marron
  • Ety Berant
  • Vadim Axelrod
  • Katy Borodkin
  • Abigail Livny

This network of collaborators reflects a multidisciplinary approach to topics such as creativity, bilingualism, brain connectivity, and network structures within cognitive neuroscience and psychology.

Best Publications

  • An fMRI investigation of the neural correlates underlying the processing of novel metaphoric expressions

    N. Mashal;M. Faust;T. Hendler;T. Hendler;M. Jung-Beeman

  • Investigating the structure of semantic networks in low and high creative persons.

    Yoed Nissan Kenett;David Anaki;Miriam Faust

  • The role of the right hemisphere in processing nonsalient metaphorical meanings: application of principal components analysis to fMRI data.

    N. Mashal;M. Faust;T. Hendler;T. Hendler

  • A Semantic Network Cartography of the Creative Mind.

    Yoed N. Kenett;Miriam Faust

  • How semantic memory structure and intelligence contribute to creative thought: a network science approach

    Mathias Benedek;Yoed N. Kenett;Konstantin Umdasch;David Anaki

  • Brainwaves are stethoscopes: ERP correlates of novel metaphor comprehension.

    Yossi Arzouan;Abraham Goldstein;Miriam Faust

  • Cerebral hemispheric asymmetries in processing lexical metaphors

    David Anaki;Miriam Faust;Shlomo Kravetz

  • Flexibility of thought in high creative individuals represented by percolation analysis.

    Yoed N. Kenett;Yoed N. Kenett;Orr Levy;Dror Y. Kenett;H. Eugene Stanley

  • The role of the right cerebral hemisphere in processing novel metaphoric expressions taken from poetry: a divided visual field study.

    M. Faust;N. Mashal

  • Sentence context and lexical ambiguity resolution by the two hemispheres

    Miriam Faust;Christine Chiarello

  • The semantic distance task: Quantifying semantic distance with semantic network path length.

    Yoed N. Kenett;Effi Levi;David Anaki;Miriam Faust

  • Semantically convergent and semantically divergent priming in the cerebral hemispheres: lexical decision and semantic judgment

    Miriam Faust;Michal Lavidor

  • Hemispheric differences in processing the literal interpretation of idioms: converging evidence from behavioral and fMRI studies.

    Nira Mashal;Miriam Faust;Talma Hendler;Talma Hendler;Mark Jung-Beeman

  • The role of the right cerebral hemisphere in processing novel metaphoric expressions: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

    Gorana Pobric;Nira Mashal;Miriam Faust;Michal Lavidor

  • Semantic integration during metaphor comprehension in Asperger syndrome

    Rinat Gold;Miriam Faust;Abraham Goldstein

  • Structure and flexibility: Investigating the relation between the structure of the mental lexicon, fluid intelligence, and creative achievement.

    Yoed N. Kenett;Roger E. Beaty;Paul J. Silvia;David Anaki

  • When pumpkin is closer to onion than to squash: The structure of the second language lexicon

    Katy Borodkin;Yoed N. Kenett;Miriam Faust;Nira Mashal

  • Semantic organization in children with cochlear implants: computational analysis of verbal fluency

    Yoed N. Kenett;Deena Wechsler-Kashi;Deena Wechsler-Kashi;Dror Y. Kenett;Dror Y. Kenett;Richard G. Schwartz

  • Right Hemisphere Dysfunction and Metaphor Comprehension in Young Adults with Asperger Syndrome

    Rinat Gold;Miriam Faust

  • An fMRI study of processing novel metaphoric sentences.

    N. Mashal;M. Faust;T. Hendler;M. Jung-Beeman

  • Global and Local Features of Semantic Networks: Evidence from the Hebrew Mental Lexicon

    Yoed N. Kenett;Dror Y. Kenett;Eshel Ben-Jacob;Miriam Faust

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoed N. Kenett
Yoed N. Kenett Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Shlomo Kravetz
Shlomo Kravetz Bar-Ilan University
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Christine Chiarello
Christine Chiarello University of California, Riverside
Michal Lavidor
Michal Lavidor Bar-Ilan University
Yechiel Levkovitz
Yechiel Levkovitz Tel Aviv University
Richard G. Schwartz
Richard G. Schwartz City University of New York
Aljoscha C. Neubauer
Aljoscha C. Neubauer University of Graz
Roger E. Beaty
Roger E. Beaty Pennsylvania State University
Paul J. Silvia
Paul J. Silvia University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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