Our interdisciplinary, multi-lingual team is conducting fascinating studies, investigating the normal and abnormal learning processes, in both Hebrew and Arabic. Among our domains of inquiry are:
Literacy and numeracy skills development in both healthy populations and individuals with learning difficulties; Subtypes of literacy and numeracy difficulties, including: Accuracy and rate deficits, developmental dyscalculia (DD), math anxiety.
A comprehensive study of the Arabic language:
Attention and Memory: The study of neurocognitive mechanisms underlying attention in humans, in both healthy populations and individuals with learning difficulties. We use a variety of techniques to study attention, including behavioral tasks and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) methods. We explore:
An intensive study of Bilingualism:
The influence of socio-Emotional aspects, literacy environment and instructional factors on learning abilities and academic success:
Intervention tools: Generating early identification tools and interventions for at-risk kindergarten and elementary-school children, both behavioral and brain-based.