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
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
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 NicklischDr. 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
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)
A list of Minerva Seminars conducted on 2004-2006 with links to their abstracts:
Dr. Eldad YechiamDr. Nurit Gronau
Prof. Dr. Hans J. Markowitsch
Brain imaging correlates of patirnts with emotion-related memory disorders
Dr. Galit Yovel
Prof. Michael Kubovy
Prolegomena to a theory of pleasure
Prof. Nachshon Meiran
Minerva Lecture:
Prof. Elizabeth F. Loftus (May 2005)
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).
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 Prof. David C. Plaut, Carnegie-Mellon UniversityHow 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
Prof. Michael Kubovy, University of Virginia
On the lawfulness of grouping by proximity
Dr. Rachel Barkan, Indiana University
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