Prof. Asaid Khateb
04-8288600
Head of Laboratory: The Main Laboratory for Neurocognitive Research, The Unit for the Study of the Arabic Language
The Main Laboratory for Neurocognitive Research has several devices of diverse technologies that are at the disposal of each our students and investigators: EEG devices, functional near infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS) devices, Eye-tracking device, Electrode positioning device, Force plate device and Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) device. These most up-to-date technologies give our staff the opportunity to carry out innovative studies in different cognitive domains including language processing, reading, learning, attention and visual processing.
The Unit for the Study of the Arabic Language focuses on the impact of diglossia in Arabic on reading acquisition in young children and on the characteristics of skilled reading in adults. Research activity explores the neural bases of language processing using various techniques, including event-related potentials (ERPs), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and functional near infra-red spectroscopy (fNIRS), together with behavioral measures.
- Neuropsychological Aspects of Learning
- Clinical Neuropsychology of Visual Impairments
1988 B.A., Licence in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education
Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland
1990 M.A., Specialization in Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
1998 Ph.D. in Experimental and Applied Psychobiology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Smith, Y., Walters, J. & Prior, A. (2018). Target accessibility contributes to asymmetric priming in translation and cross-language semantic priming in unbalanced bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. doi:10.1017/S1366728917000645
- Shahar-Yames, D. & Prior, A. (in press). The challenge and the opportunity of lexical inferencing in language minority students. Reading and Writing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-018-9830-0
- Shahar-Yames, D., Eviatar, A. & Prior, A. (2018). The separability of lexical and morphological knowledge: Evidence from Russian-Hebrew language minority children: The role of vocabulary. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 3389/fpsyg.2018.00163
- Mor, B. & Prior, A. Frequency Effects in L2 Reading: An Individual Differences Approach. Submitted to Second Language Research
- Zeltsman-Kulick, R., Katzir, T. & Prior, A. (under review) Adolescent word reading in English as a foreign language. Journal of Research in Reading.
- Schwieter, J. & Prior, A. (under review). Translation Ambiguity. Chapter in R. Heredia & A. Cieślicka (Eds.), Bilingual lexical ambiguity resolution. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.