Prof. Merav Ahissar

The relations between psychological phenomena and their underlying physiological mechanisms have always fascinated me. I began my scientific career with single unit electrophysiology in behaving monkeys. I continued with psychophysics, studying perceptual learning in adult humans. In the past few years I have focused on even higher level skills. We are now studying the relations between perception and cognition.

Recent media attention:

When the brain hits the right notes (International Development Research Centre)

Tuning into how the brain learns (Canadian Geographic)

New Findings on Dyslexia May Aid Diagnosis, Intervention (PsychCentral)

Dyslexia linked to shorter memory trace of previous stimuli (Science Daily)

Hebrew U. researchers gain insight into brain mechanisms underlying dyslexia (Jerusalem Post)

How does dyslexia sound? (TheMarker).

What Musicians Can Tell Us About Dyslexia and the Brain (WIRED).

Recent talks in English:

The Predictive Brain.

Perception and Dyslexia: A Computational Framework.

Recent talks in Hebrew:

To learn about learning ("Kan", The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation) part 1, part 2, part 3

How do we learn new skills? (Cinema & Brain week)

Relation between memory, perception and learning (Madua series)