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Social and nonsocial synchrony are interrelated and romantically attractive by Cohen, M, Abargil, M, Ahissar, M, Atzil, S

“…The mechanisms of romantic bonding in humans are largely unknown. Recent research suggests that physiological synchrony between partners is associated with…”
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Auditory Processing Deficits in Dyslexia: Task or Stimulus Related? by Banai, Karen, Ahissar, Merav

“…The nature of the fundamental deficit underlying reading disability is the subject of a long-standing debate. We previously found that dyslexics with…”
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Attentional Control of Early Perceptual Learning by Ahissar, Merav, Hochstein, Shaul

“…The performance of adult humans in simple visual tasks improves dramatically with practice. This improvement is highly specific to basic attributes of the…”
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Perceptual Training: A Tool for Both Modifying the Brain and Exploring It by Ahissar, Merav

“…Ahissar comments on the findings of Wright and Fitzgerald regarding perceptual training. Ahissar suggests that perceptual learning paradigms are becoming a…”
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Encoding of sound-source location and movement: activity of single neurons and interactions between adjacent neurons in the monkey auditory cortex by Ahissar, M, Ahissar, E, Bergman, H, Vaadia, E

“…1. Neuronal mechanisms for decoding sound azimuth and angular movement were studied by recordings of several single units in parallel in the core areas of the…”
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View from the Top: Hierarchies and Reverse Hierarchies in the Visual System by Hochstein, Shaul, Ahissar, Merav

“…We propose that explicit vision advances in reverse hierarchical direction, as shown for perceptual learning. Processing along the feedforward hierarchy of…”
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The reverse hierarchy theory of visual perceptual learning by Ahissar, Merav, Hochstein, Shaul

“…Perceptual learning can be defined as practice-induced improvement in the ability to perform specific perceptual tasks. We previously proposed the Reverse…”
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The rise and fall of the Gestalt gist by Hochstein, S., Ahissar, M.

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MMN reveals hyper sensitivity to manipulation of the standard's consistency by M., Ahissar

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Task difficulty and the specificity of perceptual learning by Ahissar, Merav, Hochstein, Shaul

“…Practising simple visual tasks leads to a dramatic improvement in performing them. This learning is specific to the stimuli used for training. We show here…”
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Speech Comprehension is Correlated with Temporal Response Patterns Recorded from Auditory Cortex by Ahissar, Ehud, Nagarajan, Srikantan, Ahissar, Merav, Protopapas, Athanassios, Mahncke, Henry, Merzenich, Michael M.

“…Speech comprehension depends on the integrity of both the spectral content and temporal envelope of the speech signal. Although neural processing underlying…”
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Disabled readers suffer from visual and auditory impairments but not from a specific magnocellular deficit by Amitay, Sygal, Ben‐Yehudah, Gal, Banai, Karen, Ahissar, Merav

“…The magnocellular theory is a prominent, albeit controversial view asserting that many reading disabled (RD) individuals suffer from a specific impairment…”
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Sequential spatial frequency discrimination is consistently impaired among adult dyslexics by Ben-Yehudah, Gal, Ahissar, Merav

“…The degree and nature of dyslexics’ difficulties in performing basic visual tasks have been debated for more than thirty years. We recently found that…”
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Spatial vision is superior in musicians when memory plays a role by Weiss, Atalia H, Biron, Tali, Lieder, Itay, Granot, Roni Y, Ahissar, Merav

“…Musicians' perceptual advantage in the acoustic domain is well established. Recent studies show that musicians' verbal working memory is also superior…”
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Auditory processing deficits in reading disabled adults by Amitay, Sygal, Ahissar, Meray, Nelken, Israel

“…The nature of the auditory processing deficit of disabled readers is still an unresolved issue. The quest for a fundamental, nonlinguistic, perceptual…”
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Auditory Processing Parallels Reading Abilities in Adults by Ahissar, Merav, Protopapas, Athanassios, Reid, Miriam, Merzenich, Michael M.

“…A broad battery of psychoacoustic measures and standard measures of reading and spelling were applied to 102 adults. The test group included individuals with a…”
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The ups and downs of conscious visual perception by Hochstein, S., Ahissar, M.

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Are phonological effects fragile? The effect of luminance and exposure duration on form priming and phonological priming by Frost, Ram, Ahissar, Merav, Gotesman, Riki, Tayeb, Sarah

“…We examined the orthographic and phonological computation of words and nonwords focusing on the pseudohomophone test in masked presentations. The priming…”
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Learning pop-out detection : Specificities to stimulus characteristics by AHISSAR, M, HOCHSTEIN, S

“…Training induces dramatic improvement in the performance of pop-out detection. In this study, we examined the specificities of this improvement to stimulus…”
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Isolating the role of visual perception in dyslexia by Shovman, M. M., Ahissar, M.

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