An excellent Matlab workshop was delivered by Itamar Holder to our students last week.

Everyone enjoyed and gained more knowledge on Matlab programming language.

*From left to right: Daria, Bahiya, Itamar, Adi, Hadas and Jasmine ( who took the photo). 06.03.20*

Adi presented her work on crowding and eccentricity at the annual Conference on Cognition Research (ISCoP 2020) in Akko, Israel

**The seventh Conference on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology** *– 27.02.20*

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This week we officialy celebrated the launching of our new lab together with the labs of Noga Cohen and Tali Raveh.

From right to left: Hadas Nathan Gamliel, Jasmine Sagi, Dr. Tali Raveh, Dr. Noga Cohen, Dr. Amit Yashar, Prof. Hanan Alexander (the Dean of the Faculty of Education), Michal Kogan (the architect) and Corina Hershkovich

Congratulations to Adi Shechter for receiving the Yuval Ne’eman’s award

Adi Shechter has been awarded the Yuval Ne’eman scholarship by the Israeli Ministry of Science & Technology for her Ph.D. thesis. This 3-year scholarship has been given to Adi for her study “Effort and effortlessness in the development of word recognition fluency: An experimental investigation using pupillometry”, under the supervision of Prof. David Share.

Postdoctoral and PhD Positions Available at Our Lab

Full-time postdoctoral and PhD positions are available in the Visual Cognition Lab of Dr. Amit Yashar at the University of Haifa. The postdoc position will be an initial appointment for one year with the option to renew annually for 3-4 years.

The positions involve conducting research on visual perception, attention and perceptual learning using behavioral psychophysical and computational methods. Applicants must hold a degree in a related field such as psychology, computer science, neuroscience, or vision science. Strong communication skills and a record of research productivity are necessary. The expected start date is spring or fall 2020.

Applicants should send a brief statement of interest, CV, and three references to Amit Yashar amit.yashar@edu.haifa.ac.il

ISCOP Acre 2020

February 27, 2020: Adi will present a poster at the upcoming ISCOP in Acre.

Dominance over appearance of the outer flanker explains the inner–outer asymmetry of crowding
Adi Shechter and Amit Yashar
University of Haifa