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Toward precision EEG: Assessing the reliability of individual-level ERPs across EEG Systems Open

Adi Korisky, Eshsed Rabinovitch, Paz Har-Shai Yahav, Bruce D. McCandliss, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2025

Event-related potentials (ERPs) are among the most established tools for studying the neural mechanisms of perception and cognition. Advancing toward precision EEG, however, places new demands for a better understanding of how reliable neu…

Neural Speech Tracking during Selective Attention: A Spatially Realistic Audiovisual Study Open

Paz Har-Shai Yahav, Eshed Rabinovitch, Adi Korisky, Renana Vaknin Harel, Martin Bliechner , et al. · 2025

Paying attention to a target talker in multitalker scenarios is associated with its more accurate neural tracking relative to competing non-target speech. This “neural bias” to target speech has largely been demonstrated in experimental se…

Author response: Selective attention and sensitivity to auditory disturbances in a virtually real classroom Open

Orel Levy, Shirley Libman Hackmon, Yair Zvilichovsky, Adi Korisky, Aurélie Bidet‐Caulet , et al. · 2025

Selective attention and sensitivity to auditory disturbances in a virtually real classroom Open

Orel Levy, Shirley Libman Hackmon, Yair Zvilichovsky, Adi Korisky, Aurélie Bidet‐Caulet , et al. · 2025

Many people, and particularly individuals with attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (AD(H)D), find it difficult to maintain attention during classroom learning. However, traditional paradigms used to evaluate attention do not capture…

Author response: Selective attention and sensitivity to auditory disturbances in a virtually-real Classroom: Comparison of adults with and without AD(H)D Open

Orel Levy, Shirley Libman Hackmon, Yair Zvilichovsky, Adi Korisky, Aurélie Bidet‐Caulet , et al. · 2025

Selective attention and sensitivity to auditory disturbances in a virtually-real Classroom: Comparison of adults with and without AD(H)D Open

Orel Levy, Shirley Libman Hackmon, Yair Zvilichovsky, Adi Korisky, Aurélie Bidet‐Caulet , et al. · 2025

Many people, and particularly individuals with Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (AD(H)D), find it difficult to maintain attention during classroom learning. However, traditional paradigms used to evaluate attention do not capture…

Auditory attention decoding based on neural-network for binaural beamforming applications Open

Roy Gueta, Elana Zion Golumbic, Jacob Goldberger, Sharon Gannot · 2025

Individuals have the remarkable ability to differentiate between speakers and focus on a particular speaker, even amidst complex acoustic environments with multiple speakers, background noise and reverberations. This selective auditory att…

Challenges and Methods in Annotating Natural Speech for Neurolinguistic Research Open

Galit Agmon, Manuela Jaeger, Ella Magen, Danna Pinto, Yuval Perelmuter , et al. · 2025

Spoken language is central to human communication, influencing cognition, learning, and social interactions. Despite its spontaneous nature, characterized by disfluencies, fillers, self-corrections and irregular syntax, it effectively serv…

Author response: Selective attention and sensitivity to auditory disturbances in a virtually-real Classroom: Comparison of adults with and without AD(H)D Open

Orel Levy, Shirley Libman Hackmon, Yair Zvilichovsky, Adi Korisky, Aurélie Bidet‐Caulet , et al. · 2024

Selective attention and sensitivity to auditory disturbances in a virtually-real Classroom: Comparison of adults with and without AD(H)D Open

Orel Levy, Shirley Libman Hackmon, Yair Zvilichovsky, Adi Korisky, Aurélie Bidet‐Caulet , et al. · 2024

Many people, and particularly individuals with Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (AD(H)D), find it difficult to maintain attention during classroom learning. However, traditional paradigms used to evaluate attention do not capture…

Selective attention and sensitivity to auditory disturbances in a virtually real classroom Open

Orel Levy, Shirley Libman Hackmon, Yair Zvilichovsky, Adi Korisky, Aurélie Bidet‐Caulet , et al. · 2024

Many people, and particularly individuals with attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (AD(H)D), find it difficult to maintain attention during classroom learning. However, traditional paradigms used to evaluate attention do not capture…

Utility of Electroencephalograms for Enhancing Clinical Care and Rehabilitation of Children with Acquired Brain Injury Open

Keren Politi, Patrice L. Weiss, Kfir Givony, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2024

The objective of this literature review was to present evidence from recent studies and applications focused on employing electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring and methodological approaches during the rehabilitation of children with acquir…

Me, My Brain, and I: A Framework for Neuroscience Curriculum Fostering Research‐Practice Partnership Between Scientists and Educators Open

Adi Korisky, Ido Davidesco, Ofek Ben‐Abu, Orel Levy, Klil Abrahami , et al. · 2024

Students' school requirements and learning activities engage many different cognitive processes, including language processing, memory, learning, attention, reasoning, decision‐making, and social interaction. However, students rarely learn…

Selective attention and sensitivity to auditory disturbances in a virtually-real Classroom: Comparison of adults with and without AD(H)D Open

Orel Levy, Shirley Libman Hackmon, Yair Zvilichovsky, Adi Korisky, Aurélie Bidet‐Caulet , et al. · 2024

Many people, and particularly individuals with Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder (AD(H)D), find it difficult to maintain attention during classroom learning. However, traditional paradigms used to evaluate attention do not capture…

An ecological investigation of the effect of background noise on speech processing in a Virtual Classroom Open

Orel Levy, Adi Korisky, Yair Zvilichovsky, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2024

Many real-life situations can be extremely noisy. Psychoacoustic studies have shown that background noise can have a detrimental effect on the ability to process and understand speech. However, most studies use stimuli and task designs tha…

Neural Speech-Tracking During Selective Attention: A Spatially Realistic Audiovisual Study Open

Paz Har-Shai Yahav, Adi Korisky, Renana Vaknin Harel, Eshed Rabinovitch, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2023

Paying attention to a target talker in multi-talker scenarios is associated with its more accurate neural-tracking relative to competing non-target speech. This “neural-bias” to target speech has largely been demonstrated in experimental s…

Neurophysiological Evidence for Semantic Processing of Irrelevant Speech and Own-Name Detection in a Virtual Café Open

Adi Brown, Danna Pinto, Ksenia Burgart, Yair Zvilichovsky, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2023

The well-known “cocktail party effect” refers to incidental detection of salient words, such as one's own-name, in supposedly unattended speech. However, empirical investigation of the prevalence of this phenomenon and the underlying mecha…

Listening to two speakers: Capacity and tradeoffs in neural speech tracking during Selective and Distributed Attention Open

Maya Kaufman, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2023

Speech comprehension is severely compromised when several people talk at once, due to limited perceptual and cognitive resources. In such circumstances, top-down attention mechanisms can actively prioritize processing of task-relevant spee…

“Um…, It’s Really Difficult to… Um… Speak Fluently”: Neural Tracking of Spontaneous Speech Open

Galit Agmon, Manuela Jaeger, Reut Tsarfaty, Martin G. Bleichner, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2023

Spontaneous real-life speech is imperfect in many ways. It contains disfluencies and ill-formed utterances and has a highly variable rate. When listening to spontaneous speech, the brain needs to contend with these features in order to ext…

“Um…, it’s really difficult to… um… speak fluently”: Neural tracking of spontaneous speech Open

Galit Agmon, Manuela Jaeger, Reut Tsarfaty, Martin G. Bleichner, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2022

Spontaneous real-life speech is imperfect in many ways. It contains disfluencies and ill-formed utterances and has a highly variable rate. When listening to spontaneous speech, the brain needs to contend with these features in order to ext…

Covert detection of own-name and semantic violations in task-irrelevant speech, in a realistic Virtual Café Open

Adi Brown, Danna Pinto, Ksenia Burgart, Yair Zvilichovsky, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2022

Detecting that someone has said your name is one of the most famous examples for incidental processing of supposedly-unattended speech. However, empirical investigation of this so-called “cocktail party effect” has yielded conflicting resu…

An ecological investigation of the capacity to follow simultaneous speech and preferential detection of ones’ own name Open

Danna Pinto, Maya Kaufman, Adi Brown, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2022

Many situations require focusing attention on one speaker, while monitoring the environment for potentially important information. Some have proposed that dividing attention among two speakers involves behavioral tradeoffs, due to limited …

Capacity and tradeoffs in neural encoding of concurrent speech during Selective and Distributed Attention Open

Maya Kaufman, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2022

Speech comprehension is severely compromised when several people talk at once, due to limited perceptual and cognitive resources. Under some circumstances listeners can employ top-down attention to prioritize the processing of task-relevan…

Assessing the Sensitivity of EEG-Based Frequency-Tagging as a Metric for Statistical Learning Open

Danna Pinto, Anat Prior, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2021

Statistical learning (SL) is hypothesized to play an important role in language development. However, the measures typically used to assess SL, particularly at the level of individual participants, are largely indirect and have low sensiti…

Opportunities and Limitations of Mobile Neuroimaging Technologies in Educational Neuroscience Open

Tieme W. P. Janssen, Jennie K. Grammer, Martin G. Bleichner, Chiara Bulgarelli, Ido Davidesco , et al. · 2021

As the field of educational neuroscience continues to grow, questions have emerged regarding the ecological validity and applicability of this research to educational practice. Recent advances in mobile neuroimaging technologies have made …

Memory-paced tapping to auditory rhythms: Effects of rate, speech and motor-engagement Open

Anat Kliger Amrani, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2021

Humans have a near-automatic tendency to entrain their motor actions to rhythms in the environment. Entrainment is hypothesized to play an important role in processing naturalistic stimuli, such as speech and music, which have intrinsicall…

Linguistic processing of task-irrelevant speech at a cocktail party Open

Paz Har-Shai Yahav, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2021

Paying attention to one speaker in a noisy place can be extremely difficult, because to-be-attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether this competition is restricted to acoustic-phonetic interfer…

Author response: Linguistic processing of task-irrelevant speech at a cocktail party Open

Paz Har-Shai Yahav, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2021

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Attention to speech: Mapping distributed and selective attention systems Open

Galit Agmon, Paz Har-Shai Yahav, Michal Ben‐Shachar, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2021

Daily life is full of situations where many people converse at the same time. Under these noisy circumstances, individuals can employ different listening strategies to deal with the abundance of sounds around them. In this fMRI study we in…

Linguistic processing of task-irrelevant speech at a Cocktail Party Open

Paz Har-Shai Yahav, Elana Zion Golumbic · 2020

Paying attention to one speaker in noisy environments can be extremely difficult, because to-be-attended and task-irrelevant speech compete for processing resources. We tested whether this competition is restricted to acoustic-phonetic int…

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