Prof. Anat Prior

• Cognitive Consequences of Bilingualism
• Second and Foreign Language Learning
• Interactions Between First and second Language Systems
• Minority Students’ Literacy Performance
• Reading Comprehension in first and Second Language
• Individual Differences in Language Learning
• Domain General vs. Specific Bases of Language Processing

• 1997  B.A in Psychology and an Interdisciplinary Honor Program in the Humanities (Summa Cum Laude), Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1999  M.A in Neuropsychology (Magna Cum Laude) Hebrew University. Emphasis: Neuropsychology of Memory and Language
• 2005  PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Hebrew University, Israel

• Pruss, S., Karni, A., & Prior, A. (2025). Self-reference promotes vocabulary learning in a foreign language. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-10.‏
• Elias, M., van Hell, J. G., Prior, A., & Degani, T. (2025). Cognate facilitation in different-script trilinguals as a function of task demands. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.‏
• Norman, T., Prior, A., & Degani, T. (2025). Contribution of prior linguistic knowledge to L3 phonological perception and production. Journal of Memory and Language, 141, 104600.‏
• Chrabaszcz, A., Laurinavichyute, A., Ladinskaya, N., Baladzhaeva, L., Prior, A., Myachykov, A., & Dragoy, O. (2024). Writing direction influences the spatial representations of past-and future-tense forms: Evidence from eye tracking. Memory & Cognition, 1-16.‏
• Michaly, T., & Prior, A. (2024). Spelling morphology in Hebrew: Comparing monolingual and bilingual children. Reading and Writing, 1-26.‏
• Temelman-Yogev, L., Prior, A., & Katzir, T. (2024). Comprehension monitoring across languages–The effect of online feedback. Learning and Instruction, 92, 101928.‏
• Gafni, C., Herzig Sheinfux, L., Klunover, H., Bar Siman Tov, A., Prior, A., & Wintner, S. (2024). Analyzing learner language: the case of the Hebrew Learner Essay Corpus. Language Resources and Evaluation, 1-42.‏
• Michaly, T., & Prior, A. (2024). Development of derivational morphological knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children: Effects of modality and lexicality. Journal of Child Language, 1-26.‏
• Gade, M., Philipp, A. M., & Prior, A. (2024). Different trajectories for becoming bilingual lead to comparable outcomes in cognitive flexibility. International Journal of Bilingualism, 13670069241240953.‏
• Nativ, L., Nov, Y., Ordan, N., Wintner, S., & Prior, A. (2024). Do more proficient writers use fewer cognates in L2? A computational approach. Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 27(1), 84-94.‏
• Ben-Zion, D., Gabitov, E., Bitan, T., & Prior, A. (2023). Impaired extraction and consolidation of morphological regularities in developmental dyslexia: A domain general deficit?. Neuropsychologia, 188, 108652.
• ‏Sabag-Shushan, T., Katzir, T., & Prior, A. (2023). Assessment of emotion word vocabulary and its contribution to reading comprehension. Applied Psycholinguistics, 44(1), 29-50.‏
• Sammour-Shehadeh, R., Kahn-Horwitz, J., & Prior, A. (2023). Spelling English as a foreign language: a narrative review of cross-language influences due to distance in writing system, orthography and phonology. Reading and Writing, 36(8), 2147-2173.
• ‏Ben-Zion, D., Gabitov, E., Prior, A., & Bitan, T. (2022). Effects of sleep on language and motor consolidation: Evidence of domain general and specific mechanisms. Neurobiology of Language, 3(2), 180-213.‏
• Degani, T., Prior, A., & Wodniecka, Z. (2022). Modulators of cross-language influences in learning and processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 898793.‏
• Pinto, D., Prior, A., & Zion Golumbic, E. (2022). Assessing the sensitivity of EEG-based frequency-tagging as a metric for statistical learning. Neurobiology of Language, 3(2), 214-234.‏
• Shahar-Yames, D., Michaly, T., & Prior, A. (2022). Language and literacy achievements of bilingual students in Israel: A review of research and educational implications. Literacy and Language, 9, 1–19 (in Hebrew).

Resources

Zeltsman-Kulick, R., Katzir, T. & Prior, A.Hebrew Adaptation of the Grey Oral Reading Test. Unpublished assessment tool.

Smith, Y., Walters, J. & Prior, A.Translation norms for Hebrew and English. Translation data for a set of 700 words in Hebrew and English.

Beznos, M. & Prior, A. Hebrew version of the Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire. The questionnaire was originally published in English by Marian, Blumenfeld & Kaushanskaya, 2007, and is a widely used tool in bilingual research. Can be downloaded free of charge from the IRIS database