2026 Nachshon Meiran: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	56	4224	3903	28	25	187	11915

Overview

Nachshon Meiran is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their work spans primarily the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. They have also contributed to Social Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Physiology.

The scientist's research topics include:

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Cognitive Abilities and Testing
Mental Health Research Topics
Cognitive Functions and Memory
EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Diet and Metabolism Studies
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Meiran has published frequently in several venues, such as:

Psychological Research
Emotion
Journal of Cognition
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Current Psychology

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Nachshon Meiran include:

The effect of a high-polyphenol Mediterranean diet (Green-MED) combined with physical activity on age-related brain atrophy: the Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial Polyphenols Unprocessed Study (DIRECT PLUS), 2022, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Are women truly "more emotional" than men? Sex differences in an indirect model-based measure of emotional feelings, 2023, Current Psychology
Neural correlates of future weight loss reveal a possible role for brain-gastric interactions, 2020, NeuroImage
Retest Reliability of Integrated Speed-Accuracy Measures, 2021, Assessment
Pleasant emotional feelings follow one of the most basic psychophysical laws (weber's law) as most sensations do., 2022, Emotion

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Meiran include:

Rotem Berkovich
Katrina Sabah
Gesine Dreisbach
Alon Kaplan
Hila Zelicha

Best Publications

Reconfiguration of processing mode prior to task performance.

Nachshon Meiran

1538
Citations
Component processes in task switching.

Nachshon Meiran;Ziv Chorev;Ayelet Sapir

793
Citations
Modeling cognitive control in task-switching.

Nachshon Meiran

580
Citations
On the Origins of the Task Mixing Cost in the Cuing Task-Switching Paradigm.

Orit Rubin;Nachshon Meiran

418
Citations
Better Late Than Never? On the Dynamics of Online Regulation of Sadness Using Distraction and Cognitive Reappraisal

Gal Sheppes;Nachshon Meiran

411
Citations
Divergent cognitive costs for online forms of reappraisal and distraction.

Gal Sheppes;Nachshon Meiran

388
Citations
Reappraisal (but not distraction) is going to make you sweat: physiological evidence for self-control effort.

Gal Sheppes;Erez Catran;Nachshon Meiran

337
Citations
“Mind the Trap”: Mindfulness Practice Reduces Cognitive Rigidity

Jonathan Greenberg;Keren Reiner;Nachshon Meiran

313
Citations
Cognitive rigidity in unipolar depression and obsessive compulsive disorder: examination of task switching, Stroop, working memory updating and post-conflict adaptation.

Nachshon Meiran;Gary M. Diamond;Doron Toder;Boris Nemets

266
Citations
Old Age Is Associated With a Pattern of Relatively Intact and Relatively Impaired Task-Set Switching Abilities

Nachshon Meiran;Alex Gotler;Amotz Perlman

210
Citations
Antecedents and consequences of maternal involvement in children's homework : A longitudinal analysis

Iris Levin;Rachel Levy-Shiff;Talya Appelbaum-Peled;Idit Katz

206
Citations
Task Switching: Mechanisms Underlying Rigid vs. Flexible Self-control

Nachshon Meiran

194
Citations
Enhanced performance on executive functions associated with examination stress: Evidence from task-switching and Stroop paradigms

Ora Kofman;Nachshon Meiran;Efrat Greenberg;Meirav Balas

189
Citations
The task rule congruency effect in task switching reflects activated long-term memory.

Nachshon Meiran;Yoav Kessler

174
Citations
Situational (state) anger and driving

Rotem Abdu;David Shinar;Nachshon Meiran

173
Citations
Do long tests yield a more accurate diagnosis of dementia than short tests? A comparison of 5 neuropsychological tests.

Donald T. Stuss;Nachshon Meiran;D. Antonio Guzman;Ginette Lafleche

154
Citations
The representation of instructions operates like a prepared reflex: flanker compatibility effects found in first trial following S-R instructions.

Oshrit Cohen-Kdoshay;Nachshon Meiran

142
Citations
Control by action representation and input selection (CARIS): a theoretical framework for task switching.

Nachshon Meiran;Yoav Kessler;Esther Adi-Japha

141
Citations
Online order control in the psychological refractory period paradigm.

Roy Luria;Nachshon Meiran

136
Citations
When the same response has different meanings: recoding the response meaning in the lateral prefrontal cortex.

Marcel Brass;Hannes Ruge;Nachshon Meiran;Orit Rubin

133
Citations
Between self-interest and reciprocity: the social bright side of self-control failure.

Eliran Halali;Yoella Bereby-Meyer;Nachshon Meiran

133
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Golan Shahar Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Gal Sheppes Tel Aviv University

Michael Cole University of East London

Todd S. Braver Washington University in St. Louis

Donald T. Stuss University of Toronto

Gesine Dreisbach University of Regensburg

Marcel Brass Ghent University

Iring Koch RWTH Aachen University

Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University

Meghan L. Butryn Drexel University

External Links

Personal website of Nachshon Meiran

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