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Current Research Projects
Hemispheres and Language
- Phonological working memory abilities of successful versus unsuccessful foreign language learners (Jakoby, Faust, Goldstein)
- Hemispheric processing of dominant and subordinate meanings of ambiguous words (Harpaz, Lavidor)
- Dynamics of hemispheric activity in metaphor comprehension (Arzouan, Goldstein, Faust)
- Unilateral hand contractions and its effects on emotional, motivational and cognitive mechanisms (Goldstein)
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Emotion and Motivation
- Neural correlates of emotional processing in romantic and parental relationships (Rubio, Goldstein, Feldman)
- Facial emotional expression perception in 6-month old babies (Goldstein, Feldman)
- Adult attachment styles: EEG patterns and ERPs to emotional stimuli (Zilber, Goldstein, Mikulincer)
- Emotional state, motivation and error processing (Yadid, Geva, Goldstein)
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Recent Publications
- Arzouan, Y., Solomon, S., Faust, M., & Goldstein,
A. (2011). Big words, halved brains and small worlds: Complex brain
networks of figurative language comprehension. PLoS ONE: 6(4): e19345.
- Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J.,& Goldstein, A.
(2011). Mindfulness-induced changes in gamma band activity –
Implications for the default mode network, self-reference and
attention. Clinical Neurophysioology.
- Ramon, D., Geva, R.,& Goldstein, A.
(2011). Trait and state negative affect interactions moderate inhibitory control performance in emotionally loaded conditions.
Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 95-101.
- Goldstein, A., Revivo, K., Kreitler, M., & Metuki,
N. (2010). Unilateral muscle contractions enhance creative
thinking. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17 (6), 895-899.
- Gold, R., Faust, M., & Goldstein, A. (2010).
Semantic integration during metaphor comprehension in Asperger
syndrome. Brain and Language, 113, 124-134.
- Goldstein, A., Arzouan, Y., & Faust, M. (2008). Timing the metaphoric brain: Contribution of ERPs and source localization to understanding figurative language. In Z. Breznitz (Ed.) Brain Research in Language. Springer (pp. 205-224).
- Babkoff, H., Goldstein, A., & Zukerman, G. (2008). Total sleep deprivation and cognitive performance: The case for multiple sources of variance. In D. Lloyd and E.L. Rossi (Eds.) Circadian and Ultradian Rhythms from Molecules to Mind: a New Vision of Life Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
- Zilber, A., Goldstein, A., & Mikulincer, M. (2007).
Adult attachment orientations and the processing of emotional pictures
- ERP correlates. Personality and Individual Differences, 43,
1898-1907.
- Arzouan, Y., Goldstein, A, & Faust, M. (2007).
"Brain waves are stethoscopes": ERP correlates of novel metaphor
comprehension. Brain Research, 1160, 69-81.
- Arzouan, Y., Goldstein, A, & Faust, M. (2007).
Dynamics of hemispheric activity during metaphor comprehension:
Electrophysiological measures. NeuroImage , 36, 222-231.
- Zukerman, G., Goldstein, A., & Babkoff, H. (2007).
The effect of 24-40 hours of sleep deprivation on the P300 response to
auditory target stimuli. Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine,
78 (S1), B216-B223.
- Zivotofsky, A. & Goldstein, A. (2007). Seeing the
forest without losing sight of the trees: Details are processed despite
reversal insensitivity in structure from motion. Neuroscience Letters,
415, 195-199.
- Geal-Dor, M., Goldstein, A., Kamenir, Y., &
Babkoff, H. (2006). The effect of aging on event related potentials and
behavioral responses: comparison of tonal, phonologic and semantic
targets. Clinical Neurophysiology, 117(9), 1974-1989.
Conference Presentations
- Riwkes, S., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Goldstein, A. (2011). Dominance processing in social anxiety - A MEG study. 51th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston.
- Jakoby, H., Goldstein, A., & Faust, M. (2009). Phonological working memory (PWM) abilities of successful versus unsuccessful foreign language learners. Language, Brain, Communication Conference. Bar-Ilan University.
- Berkovich-Ohana, A, Goldstein, A, & Glicksohn, J. (2008). Transforming transcendence into trait: An electrophysiological approach. The Mind & Life Summer Research Institute (MLSRI) 2008, New York.
- Goldstein, A. & Arzouan, Y. (2008). Small worlds, big words and split brains: Network connectivity and metaphor comprehension. GIF workshop on Brain Imaging. Ma'ale Hachamisha, Israel.
- Arzouan, Y., Goldstein, A, & Faust, M (2008).Hemispheric asymmetries in figurative language processing an electrophysiology study using divided visual field paradigm. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
- Faust, M, Goldstein, A, & Arzouan, Y (2007). Electrophysiological measures of metaphor processing by the two cerebral hemispheres. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, New York.Goldstein, A, Arzouan, Y., & Faust, M (2006). Brain waves are stethoscopes: ERP correlates of novel metaphor comprehension. Workshop on Electrophysiological Measures in Language Research. Haifa University.
- Goldstein, A., Zilber, A. & Mikulincer, M. (2005). Attachment anxiety and avoidance and the reaction to affective stimuli: Findings from event-related potentials. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting, National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel, Jerusalem.
- Arzouan, Y., Goldstein, A., & Faust, M. (2005). Event-related potentials of novel metaphor processing. Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Faust, M., Goldstein, A., & Katz-Ranel, E. (2005). Sentence priming effects in the two cerebral hemispheres: Electrophysiological correlates. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York.
- Faust, M., Mashal, N., Hendler, T., Goldstein, A., Arzouan, Y., & Jung-Beeman, M. (2005). Processing conventional vs. novel metaphors by the two cerebral hemispheres. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society 46th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.
- Goldstein, A., Faust, M., & Katz-Ranel, E. (2004). Is this sentence right? Or is it left? ERP correlates of hemispheric sentence processing. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
- Zuckerman, G., Goldstein, A., & Babkoff, H. (2004). The pattern of cognitive performance deficit after mild to moderate sleep loss. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
- Zuckerman, G., Babkoff, H., & Goldstein, A. (2004). The effect of sleep deprivation and the diurnal rhythm on Event Related Potentials (ERP). Paper presented at the 12th World Congress of Psychophysiology. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 54 (1-2), 167.
