Associate Professor

Prof. Avi Goldstein

Associate Professor
Telephone
Email
avi.goldstein@biu.ac.il
Office
Brain Research Building / Room 406
Reception Hours
Tuesday 10:00-11:00 By Appointment
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    B.A., Psychology & Biology, Bar-Ilan University (1994)

    Ph.D., Experimental Psychology, Bar-Ilan University (1999)
    Dissertation topic: "The effect of stimulus position in the visual field on word perception: psychophysical and cognitive manipulations"

    Post-Doctoral research at Beckman Institute and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998-99), Cognitive Electrophysioloy, Event-Related Brain Potentials

    Publications

    Recent Publications

    Sauer, A., Grent-'t-Jong, T., Wolf, M., Singer, W., Goldstein, A., Uhlhaas, P. (2023). Spectral and phase-coherence correlates of impaired auditory mismatch negativity (MMN) in schizophrenia: a MEG study. Schizophrenia Research, 261, 60-71.

    Korisky, A., Goldstein, A., Gordon, I, (2022). The dual neural effects of oxytocin in autistic youth: Results from a randomized trial. Scientific Reports, 12, 16304.

    Korisky, A., Gordon, I, Goldstein, A. (2022). Oxytocin impacts top-down and bottom-up social perception in adolescents with ASD: A MEG study of neural connectivity. Molecular Autism, 13, 36.

    Levy, J., Influss, M., Masalha, S., Goldstein, A., & Feldman, R. (2022) Dialogue intervention for youth amidst intractable conflict attenuates neural prejudice response and promotes adults' peacemaking. PNAS Nexus, pgac236, doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac236

    Herfurth, K., Harpaz, Y., Roesch, J., Mueller N., Walther, K., Pauli, E., Kaltenhaeuser, M., Goldstein, A., Hamer, H., Buchfelder, M., Dörfler, A., Prell, J., & Rampp, A. (2022). Localization of beta power decrease as measure for lateralization in pre-surgical language mapping with MEG, compared with fMRI and validated by Wada test. Frontiers Human Neuroscience. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2022.996989

    Reuveni, I., Herz, N., Peri, T., Schreiber, S., Harpaz, Y., Geisser, R., Bonne, O. & Goldstein, A. (2022). Neural oscillations while remembering traumatic memories in post-traumatic stress disorder. Clinical Neurophysiology, 139, 58-68.

    Korisky, A., Goldstein, A., Zaidel, A., & Gordon, I. (2022). Reduced sensitivity to curvature in adolescents diagnosed with ASD. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 92,101929. doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2022.101929.

    Zeev-Wolf, M., Dor-Ziderman, Y., Pratt, M., Goldstein, A., & Feldman, R. (2022). Investigating default mode network connectivity disruption in children of mothers with depression. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 220, 130-139. 1-10. doi:10.1192/bjp.2021.164

    Levy, J., Goldstein, A., Influss, M., Masalha, S. & Feldman, R. (2022). Neural rhythmic underpinnings of intergroup bias: Implications for peace-building attitudes and dialogue. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17, 408-420. doi::/10.1093/scan/nsab106

    Dor-Ziderman, Y., Zeev-Wolf, M., Klein, E. H., Bar-Oz, D., Nitzan, U., Maoz, H., Segev, A., Goldstein, A., Koubi, M., Mendelovic, S., Gvirts, H. & Bloch, Y. (2021). High-gamma oscillations as neurocorrelates of ADHD: A MEG crossover placebo-controlled study. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 137, 186-193.

    Balthazard, P., Berka, C., Berson, Y., Blader, S., Goldstein, A., Gordon, I., et al., (2021). Leadership and team processes: A Neuroscience perspective. Academy of Management Proceedings, 1, 13752.

    Dor-Ziderman, Y., Lutz, A., & Goldstein, A. (2019). Prediction-based neural mechanisms for shielding the self from existential threat. NeuroImage202, 116080.

    Arviv, O., Goldstein, A., & Shriki, O. (2019). Neuronal avalanches and time-frequency representations in stimulus-evoked activity. Scientific Reports9, 1-14.

    Research Interests
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    • Cognitive and Affective Psychophysiology
    • Electromagnetic Brain Imaging
    • Hemispheric Functioning
    Laboratory

    Last Updated Date : 15/02/2024