Lecturer, Department of Learning Disabilities
Phone: 04-8249006; Extension: 3006
Email: shelleys@construct.haifa.ac.il
Research Interests: The developmental aspects of the brain and cognition; Basic cognitive processing (Speed of processing, Memory and Perception); the investigation of regular and disabled cognitive skills with the use of ERP; Dyslexia and dyscalculia; Early childhood.
Recent Publications:
Miller-Shaul, S., & Breznitz, Z. (2003). Brain Activity intensity location during orthographic and phonological processing using the LORETA program: Comparison between adult dyslexics and regular readers. Abstracts of the 12th annual meeting of the Israeli society for neuroscience. Neural Plasticity, 10(3), 218.
Breznitz, Z., Oren, R., & Shaul, S. (2003). Brain Activity of Regular and Dyslexic Readers while Reading Hebrew as Compared to English Sentences. Abstracts of the 12th annual meeting of the Israeli society for neuroscience. Neural Plasticity, 10(3), 218.
Katzir, T., Shaul, S., Breznitz, Z., & Wolf, M. (2004). The Universal and Unique in Dyslexia: A cross-linguistic investigation of reading and reading fluency in Hebrew and English speaking children with reading disorders. Reading and Writing, 17, 739-768.
Breznitz, Z., Oren, R., & Shaul, S. (2004). Brain Acivity of Regular and Dyslexic Readers while Reading Hebrew as Compared to English Sentences. Reading and Writing, 17, 707-737.
Miller- Shaul, S., & Breznitz, Z. (2004). Electrocortical Measures during a Lexical Decision Task: A Comparison between Elementary School-Aged Children Normal and Dyslexic Readers and Adult, Normal and Dyslexics Readers. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 165, 399-424.
Shaul, S.(2005). The Characteristics of Young and Adult Dyslexics Readers on Reading and Reading Related Cognitive Tasks as Compared to Normal Readers. Dyslexia, 11, 132-151.
Karni, A., Morocz, I.A., Bitan, T., Shaul, S., Kushnir, T.,& Breznitz, Z. (2005).An fMRI study of the differential effects of word presentation rates (reading acceleration) on dyslexic readers’ brain activity patterns. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 18 (2). 197-219.
Mayseless, N., Shaul, S., & Breznitz, Z. (2005). The differences in brain activation of the auditory and visual modalities during lexical decision task: A comparison between dyslexic and normal readers. . Abstracts of the 14th annual meeting of the Israeli society for neuroscience. Reviews in the Neuroscience, 16, p-s45.
Sela, I., Shaul, S., & Breznitz, Z. (2005). The correlation based model: An alternative system for analyzing ERP data in cognitive research. . Abstracts of the 14th annual meeting of the Israeli society for neuroscience. Reviews in the Neuroscience, 16, p-s57.
Hochman, E., Eviatar, Z.,Breznitz, Z., Nevat. M., & Shaul, S. (2009). Hemispheric cooperation in error processing: laterality differences of the error-related negativity in corrected and uncorrected errors. Laterality ,14(6),618-34.
Hochman, E. Y., Eviatar, Z., Breznitz, Z., Shaul, S., & Nevat, M. (2009) Source localization (LORETA) of the error related negativity reveals different sources for corrected and uncorrected errors. Neuroreport, 20(13),1144-1148.
