Seminars and Lectures

We conduct a series of Minerva Seminars. The seminars are intended to fasten cooperation between Minerva members in the two sites and to lead to more collaborative projects. Minerva Lectures are also open to the academic community in both the University of Haifa and the Technion.

A list of Minerva Seminars conducted on 2011-2012 with links to their abstracts:

Dr. Sabina Kleitman

The model of Self-confidence and its calibration through the eyes of the individual differences approach:
Their generality and their role in learning and decision-making

Dr. Shira Elqayam

Inferring normative values from descriptive premises

Prof. Albert F. Smith

Insufficiency of a letter route for word identification

Dr. Assaf Botzer

Strategic behavior, single decisions and user effort when using binary cues

Prof. Michael Kubovy

Audio-visual objects

Prof. Marlene Behrmann

Complementary neural representations for faces and words

Prof. Sarah Berger

Cognition in motion: Decision-making in infants' adaptive locomotion

A list of Minerva Seminars conducted on 2009-2010 with links to their abstracts:

Dr. Inbal Arnon

Starting Big - The role of multi-word phrases in language learning and processing

Dr. Noam Sagiv

Synaesthesia – a window into perception, consciousness and cognition

Yaron Shlomi

Subjective integration of probabilistic information from description and from experience

Prof. Ruben Gur

Exploring the neurobiology of emotion processing from brain activation to genomics

Prof. Donald T. Stuss

The anterior attentional system consists of several components: consistency of findings

Prof. Wolfgang Prinz

Action simulation: Exploring representational underpinnings of unseen action

Prof. Jochen Braun

Why is visual perception multi-stable?

Mr. Ido Roll

Knowing 'further' – the effect of symbolic invention tasks on the flexibility of students’ knowledge

Prof. Marcel Just

Identifying the content of simple thoughts from the underlying pattern of fMRI-measured brain activity

Dr. Masami Ishihara

Horizontal spatial representations of number and time

Dr. Carmel Mevorach

The intraparietal sulcus and its battle against saliency

Dr Pia Rotshtein

Different ways by which perception can be modulated

Prof. Boris Velichkovsky

From studying cognitive systems to developing cognitive technologies

A list of Minerva Seminars conducted on 2007-2008 with links to their abstracts:

Dr. Andreas Nicklisch

Wage differentials, fairness, and social comparison: An experimental study of interrelated ultimatum bargaining

Dr. Tal Makovski

Maintaining spatiotemporal continuity in vision

Dr. Andreas Glöckner

Investigating intuition automatic and deliberate processes in quick decisions

Prof. Evelyn. G. Schaefer

The role of day-planning devices in prospective memory

Prof. Ralph Hertwig

Mental powers: How less can be more

Dr. David. I. Shore

Attention and perceptual grouping: Exploring the one-object cost in temporal resolution.

Prof. Ronald Fisher

The relation between consistency and accuracy of eyewitness memory

Daphna Heller

The use of perspective information in language comprehension: What eye-movements tell us about real time processing

Prof. Norbert Schwarz

Constructing heuristics on the spot: Malleable inferences from experimental information

Prof. Marius Usher

Modeling choice, metacognitive judgments and intuition

Minerva Lecture:

Prof. Michael Posner (May 2007)

How genes and experience shape attentional networks

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A list of Minerva Seminars conducted on 2004-2006 with links to their abstracts:

Dr. Eldad Yechiam

Using cognitive models to map relations between neuropsychological disorders and human decision making deficits

Dr. Nurit Gronau

Visual associative processing is mediated by a unified representation for semantic and spatial knowledge

Prof. Dr. Hans J. Markowitsch

Brain imaging correlates of patirnts with emotion-related memory disorders

Dr. Galit Yovel

What makes upright faces special? The role of parts and spacing information in face and object recognition

Prof. Michael Kubovy

Prolegomena to a theory of pleasure

Prof. Nachshon Meiran

Using the task-switching paradigm to unveil principles of cognitive control: mixing cost and the task rule congruency effect

Minerva Lecture:

Prof. Elizabeth F. Loftus (May 2005)

What's the Matter with Memory?

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Prof. Dr. Klaus Fiedler

Pseudo-contingencies – an overlooked cognitive illusion

Ph.D. Student Jochim Hansen

The role of expectation in the ease of retrieval effect

Minerva Lecture:

Prof. Frank Rösler (March 2004).

Brain electrical correlates of memory representations

A list of Minerva Seminars conducted on 2000-2003 with links to their abstracts:

Dr. Andrea Kiesel

Parallel activity of task sets - evidence from subliminal priming in task switching

Dr. Nira Liberman

Construal level theory: Implications for construal, prediction and evaluation

Dr. Dominique Lamy

The role of bottom-up in attentional capture

Prof. Albert “Skip” Rizzo

Virtual reality application to psychology

Prof. Endel Tulving

Episodic memory: In what sense is it unique?

Dr. Nachshon Mieran, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,Israel

A modeling framework for identifying global strategies in switching between speeded classification tasks

Prof. David C. Plaut, Carnegie-Mellon University

How important is starting small in language acquisition?

Dr. Marlene Behrmann, Carnegie-Mellon University

Perceptual organization in visual agnosia

Prof. Endel Tulving, University of Toronto and Rotman Institute

Episodic Memory: Historical Perspective

Prof. Andries F. Sanders, Vrije Universiteit at Amsterdam

Modeling results on short-term memory

Prof. Wolfgang Schneider, University of Würzburg

Memory development: Traditional positions and recent trend

Prof. Aaron Ben-Zeev, University of Haifa

Feeling and logic: What is the human intelligence?

A list of Minerva Seminars conducted on 1998-1999 with links to their abstracts:

Prof. Gideon Keren, Eindhoven University of Technology

When is p= .90 Preferred to p= .70? A dispositional-potency approach to lay interpretations of probability statements

Prof. Michael Kubovy, University of Virginia

On the lawfulness of grouping by proximity

Dr. Rachel Barkan, Indiana University

Decreasing risk-taking: The reinforcement value of non-payoff information in accident preventing tasks

Prof. Ronald Fisher, Florida International University

Viewing conditions and metacognitive judgments as predictors of accuracy of eyewitness memory

Prof. Gordon Winocur, Rotman Research Institute

The neuropsychology of memory: A comparative approach

Prof. Fritz Strack, University of Würzburg

The regulation of human judgment – preconditions, strategies, and bases of knowledge

Prof. Ruthi Kimchi, Haifa University

Perceptual organization of visual objects: A microgenetic analysis.

Prof. Ido Erev, Technion

The value of cognitive game theoretic analysis of choice behavior

Prof. Christina Meinecke, Max Planck Institute, Munich

Texture segmentation and the effect of retinal eccentricity

Prof. Tom Wallsten, University of North Carolina

Cognitive models of judgment and their implications to optimal combination of N judgments.

Prof. Roger Remington, NASA-Ames

The effects of free flight on the detection of traffic errors by controllers

Workshops

In response to the recommendations of the Minerva Review Committee (November, 2003), we decided to initiate Minerva Workshops. Each workshop focuses on one main theme, and includes several lectures, followed by open discussions. Members of the Minerva Center, graduate students, and external researchers involved in the projects of the Center, participate in the workshops, gaining the opportunity to produce a synergy of ideas that can inspire significant future collaborative research.

Here is a list of Minerva workshops held on 2013:

The 19th Minerva Workshop: Belfer Memorial Symposium on Decisions Under Severe Uncertainty (January 2013)

The 18th Minerva Workshop: Workshop on Loss Aversion and Decisions (January 2013)

Here is a list of Minerva workshops held on 2012:

The 17th Minerva Workshop: Workshop on Decisions and Emotional Expressions (June 2012)

The 16th Minerva Workshop: Workshop on Competition and Impression (May 2012)

The 15th Minerva Workshop: Workshop on Cognition and Organizational Behavior: in Honor of Daniel Gopher and Miriam Erez (May 2012)

Here is a list of Minerva workshops held on 2011:

The 14th Minerva Workshop (Nov 2011)

The 13th Minerva Workshop: Workshop on the Neuroscience and Psychophysiology of Experience-Based Decisions (June 2011)

The 12th Minerva Workshop (June 2011)

The 11th Minerva Workshop: Workshop on the Effect of Rare Events (January 2011)

Here is a list of Minerva workshops held on 2009 – 2010:

The 10th Minerva Workshop (October 2010)

The 9th Minerva Workshop (October 2010)

The 8th Minerva Workshop on Small Decisions, Culture and Emotions (June 2010)

The 7th Minerva Workshop (July 2009)

Here is a list of Minerva workshops held on 2006 – 2007:

The 6th Minerva Workshop on Decision Making (February 2007)

The 5th Minerva Workshop on Decision Making (December 2006)

The 4th Minerva Workshop on Decision Making (March 2006)

Here is a list of Minerva workshops held on 2004 – 2005:

The 3rd Minerva Workshop (September 2005)

The 2nd Minerva Workshop: Many Faces of Attention (July 2005)

The 1st Minerva Workshop on Decisions from Experience (October 2004)

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Advisory Board's Meetings

Every two years the Advisory Board of the Center gets together with the researchers of the center to evaluate the progress of the research taking place.

The Eighth meeting of the Advisory Council took place March, 7-9, 2010, in Haifa. The Advisory Council members from Germany and Israel met with the researchers from the University of Haifa and the Technion. The researchers presented their recent work and their laboratories.