Full Professor

Prof. Michal Lavidor

Full Professor
Telephone
Email
lavidom@mail.biu.ac.il
Office
Brain Research Building / Room 402
Reception Hours
By Appointment
CV

Education

 

BA

The Hebrew Univesuty

Psychology and Computer Science

1988

MA

Bar-Ilan

Psychology

1994

PhD

Bar-Ilan

Psychology

1999

 

Master Thesis: Length effects in the two cerebral hemispheres

Advisor: Prof. Harvey Babkoff

 

PhD Thesis: Hemispheric processing of Language.

Advisor: Prof. Harvey Babkoff

 

Academic Positions

 

Teaching positions at Bar-Ilan

 

October 2005

Associate Professor

June 1999

Doctoral Advisor

1995

TA

Other

 

2005

Reader (Associate-Professor), 100% FT, Department of Psychology, University of Hull

2004-2003

Senior Lecturer, 100% FT, Department of Psychology, University of Hull

2002-2003

Lecturer, 100% FT, Department of Psychology, University of Hull

2002-2005

Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University College London

2000-2001

Marie-Curie research fellow, Psychology, University of York

2000

Tutor to Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, York

1994-1999

Statistical and research consultant, Administrative Office of Regional Colleges and Pre-Academic Training Programs, Bar-Ilan University

1993-1994

Research assistant (sleep project), Psychology Department, Bar-Ilan University

1993-1999

Quantitative research methods, Introduction to Statistics, Perception, Instructor at the Psychology department, Bar Ilan University.

1994-1997

Introduction to Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Lecturer at Ariel College.

1995-1998

Data analyst and Data manager in a research and consulting company (Ergonomic Applications - ErgoPlic Ltd, Israel).

 

Professional Postions

 

Conferences

Organizer of an international TMS conference in Bar Ilan, June 2007.

Organizer of a workshop in Lyon (CNRS): Two hemispheres, one reading system (24-28 April, 2003). Funded by the British academy and the local host (the CNRS in Lyon). Papers presented at the workshop were later on published in a special issue of Brain and Language that I edited (Brain and Language, 88(3), March 2004).

 

Public

 

1997-1999

Conducting and reporting polygraph research requested by a government bureau.

1999

A developer of a national Psychological test (research methods field)

 

Research Interests

        מנחה מ.א. ודוקטורט

 

  • Language and decision-making
  • The differences between the two hemispheres.
  • New invasive brain stimulation
  • Reading and reading problems.
  • Cognitive empowerment
  • Spatial processing in both hemispheres
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation – TMS
  • Perceptual Priming
  • Temporal and numeral perception
Research Achievement

Congratulations for winning a grant from the German Israeli Foundation

Last Updated Date : 25/05/2022