Research Conducted in the Lab Socuses on Cognitive Aspects of Learning and its Breakdown in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Yafit and her team Focus on Different Phases of Skill Learning, from initial Acquisition (online learning) to Memory Consolidation (offline learning). A Major Part of the Research is also dedicated to Understand the Learning Mechanisms that Underlie the Acquisition of Speech and Language-related skills, and Specifically how these processes might be affected in Developmental dyslexia. A related line of research concerns Adaptive plasticity of speech among individuals with Neurodevelopmental disorders. To this end, Research Combines different Disciplines such as cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology and speech Perception. Through the Research Conducted in the lab they hope to gain a Better Understanding about the Mechanisms Involved in Skill Acquisition and to unravel the Neurocoginitive Basis of Different Neurodevelopemntal Disorders.

• Neurocognitive Basis of Developmental Disabilities
• Skill Learning
• Speech and Language Acquisition

2004   B.A. Behavioral Science Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2007   M.A  Psychology Department, Tel-Aviv University

2013   Ph.D Education Department, Bar-Ilan University

2014   Post-Doctoral Studies, Speech Perception and Learning Lab, Psychology Department, Carnegie Mellon University

2016   Post-Doctoral Studies, Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders and the Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa

• Gabay, Y., Dundas, E., Plaut, D., & Behrmann, M. (2017). Atypical perceptual processing of faces in developmental dyslexia. Brain and language, 173, 41-51.
• Collins, E., Dundas, E., Gabay, Y., Plaut, D. C., & Behrmann, M. (2017). Hemispheric organization in disorders of development. Visual Cognition, 25(4-6), 416-429.
• Gabay, Y., & Holt, L. L. (2018). Short-term adaptation to sound statistics is unimpaired in developmental dyslexia. PloS one, 13(6), e0198146.
• Gabay, Y. Shahbari, E., & Mendelshon. (submitted). Feedback timing modulates procedural learning in ADHD (This study is part of the research conducted at University of Haifa, By Elham Shahbari as partial fulfillment of her requirements for a master degree under the supervision of Yafit Gabay).
• Gabay Y., Najjar I.J. Reinisch, E. (sumitted). Normalization for speech rate in individuals with developmental dyslexia (This study is part of the research conducted at University of Haifa, By Innas Najjar as partial fulfillment of her requirements for a master degree under the supervision of Yafit Gabay).
• Gabay, Y. Karni, A., Holt, L.L. (submitted) Consolidation and retention of auditory categories acquired incidentally in performing a visuomotor task. (This research was supported by the National Science Foundation-Binational Scientific Foundation to LLH, AK and YG under Grants no. 2016867, 2015227).
• Gabay, Y., Karni, A., & Banai, K. (revision invited) Different but not impaired the acquisition of skill in deciphering time-compressed speech in persons with developmental dyslexia