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Congratulations to Dr. Noam Markovitch

24 May, 2023

For receiving the best doctoral award in developmental psychology from the APA organization!
Noam's doctorate deals with the understanding of children's differential sensitivity to the effects of the environment on their development. The work's contribution to developmental psychology is very significant, both in theoretical thought and methodological approaches.
Well done Noam!
Noam PhD supervisor, Prof. Ariel Knafo-Noam, has also won the award in the past

 

From acute stress to persistent post-concussion symptoms: The role of parental accommodation and child’s coping strategies

19 April, 2023

An article by PhD candidate Irit Aviv, supervised by Dr. Tammy Pilowsky Peleg and Prof. Hillel Aviezer was selected as the winner of the Eighth Annual TCN/AACN student Project Competition, from among 15 eligible manuscripts

Acute stress following mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) is highly prevalent and associated with Persistent Post-Concussion symptoms (PPCS). However, the mechanism mediating this relationship is understudied.

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Language can, sometimes, impair precise visual memory

9 February, 2022
Language can, sometimes, impair precise visual memory

The relation between language and the way we perceive and remember the world has attracted philosophers and scientists for decades. Language is known to influence the processing of visual information. However, little is known about the effect of verbal coding of a perceived object on processing and maintenance of visual memories. Haggar Cohen-Dallal and Noa Rahamim-Elyakim from Yoni Pertzov’s lab, in collaboration with Nachum Soroker from Loewenstein Rehabilitation Medical Center, took a classic neuropsychologic approach to examine this question by testing stroke patients with aphasia - a common language deficit following stroke. Patients with aphasia typically have trouble to name objects. Here we compared the patients’ memory performance for objects they could and couldn’t name. The results imply a counterintuitive effect of verbal coding – it seems to worsen the precision of memory of the location of objects. The findings point to an interaction between the verbal and visuospatial components of working memory. The results can be explained by the prototypical-categorical nature of language-derived designations (names, common nouns) of visual objects, which are not precise enough for capturing fine details of objects, and specifically their exact location. Thus, language can, sometimes, impair precise visual memory.

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