CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Miriam Faust, Ph.D

full Professor

Department of Psychology

and

The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center

Bar-Ilan University

Ramat Gan 52900, Israel

 

 

10 Matmon Street

Tel-Aviv 62094, Israel                      

Phone: (home) +972-3-6962388  (office) +972-3-5318547

Fax:     (home) +972-3-6913595   (office) +972-3-5350267        

e-mail: faustm@mail.biu.ac.il

Married + four children

 

EDUCATION

         

 

1975                            1975      BA                             Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel:
                                   Medical School (Department of

                                                                         Communication Disorders

                                   Magna Cum Laude

 

1983   MA                    Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel:

                                      Department of Psychology (Experimental Psychology)

                                      Excellent

 

 

1990   PhD                    Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel:

                                      Department of Psychology (Experimental Psychology)

                                      Excellent, With Highest Distinction  

 

 

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT

 

Experimental Psychology; Psycholinguistics, Brain and language, Brain and Creativity. Language and Communication Disorders, Neuropsychology of Language, Reading and Dyslexia, Research Methods in Psychology,

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

                                                                                         

Language processing in the left and right cerebral hemispheres, Developmental language disorders, Psychology of reading, Reading disabilities, Language production, Brain and creativity.

 

 

RESEARCH  GRANTS

 

1) Ford Foundation Grant (1985)                                

2) Koret Postdoctoral grant  (1993-1995)                   

3) Ford Foundation grant   (1995-1996)                     

4) BSF Grant   (with Christine Chiarello) (1995-1997)                                         

5) The Israel Science Foundation, ISF (1999-2002)   

6) Ford Foundation grant (2002-2004)                       

7) BSF Grant (with Mark Beeman) (2004-2007)                                          

8) Gonda Brain Research Grant (2004)                      

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION           

 

Member of the Psychonomic Society

Member of the International Neuropsychological Association

Member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society

 

 

Member of The National Council for Research and Development, 2004-

 
 
AD HOC REVIEWER

 

Neuropsychologia,  Neuropsychology, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Brain and Language, Brain and Cognition, Megamot (Hebrew), Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology, Memory and Cognition, Cognitive Brain Research.

 

 

                                       

 

 

Publications- last 5 years

 

           

 

Kravetz, S., Faust, M., & David, M. (2000). Accepting the mental illness label, percieved control over the illness, and rehabilitation outcome. Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 23, 324-332.

 

Faust, M. & Weisper, S. (2000). Understanding metaphors in the two cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Cognition,  43, 186-191.

                                                                                       

Faust, M., Silber, A., & Kaniel, S. (2001). Evidence from sentence priming for an atypical language organization in the brain of dyslexic males. Laterality, 6, 39-56.

 

Faust, M., Babkoff, H., & Avidor-Reiss, I. (2000). Sentence and word shape as co-primes for target words presented in the two visual hemifields. Brain and Language, 73, 50-61.

 

Lavidor, M., Babkoff, H., & Faust, M. (2001) Analysis of standard and nonstandard visual word format in the two hemifields. Neuropsychologia, 39, 430-439.

 

Kravetz, S., Faust, M. & Shalit, M. (2001) Health of men with a mental disorder or brain injury: Wives’ labeling and husband’s perceived control. Rehabilitation Psychologly, 46, 436-451

 

Chiarello, C., Liu, S., & Faust, M. (2001). Bihemispheric sensitivity to sentence anomaly. Neuropsychologia, 39, 1451-1463.

 

Faust, M. (2002). Hemispheric asymmetry in dyslexia: Evidence from 

sentence priming. In S. Sohov (Ed.) Advances in Psychology Research.

(pp  19-36). New York: Nova Science Publishers

 

Kravetz, S., Faust,, M. & Dasberg, I. (2002) Mental Health: Reports of health providers and health consumers. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 25, 388-397 

 

Faust. M. & Kahana, A. (2002). Priming summation in the cerebral hemispheres: Evidence from semantically convergent and semantically divergent primes. Neuropsychologia, 40, 892-901.

 

Faust, M., Kravetz, S., & Netzer, E. (2002). The effects of sentence context on the processing of unambiguous words by the two cerebral hemispheres. Brain and Language, 80, 438-448.

 

 

Faust, M., Dimitrovsky, L., & Schacht, T. (2003). Naming difficulties in children with dyslexia: Application of the tip of the tongue paradigm. Journal of Learning Disabilities,  36, 203-216.

 

Faust, M. & Sharfstein-Friedman, S. (2003). Naming difficulties in  Adolescents with dyslexia: Application of the tip of the tongue paradigm. Brain and Cognition, 53, 211-217.

 

Faust, M., Bar-Lev, A., & Chiarello, C.  (2003). Sentence priming effects in the two cerebral hemispheres: Influences of  lexical relatedness, word order and sentence anomaly. Neuropsychologia , 41, 480-492.

 

Faust, M., & Lavidor, M.(2003). Semantically convergent and semantically divergent priming in the cerebral hemispheres: Lexical Decision and Semantic Judgement. Cognitive Brain Research , 17,  585-597.

 

Faust, M. Kravetz, S., & Nativ, O. (2004). The representation of aspects of

the self in the two cerebral hemispheres. Personality and Individual

Differences , 13, 607-619

 

       

Faust, M., Barak, O., & Chiarello, C. (in press). The effects of  multiple script priming on word recognition by the two Cerebral hemispheres: Implications for discourse processing. Brain andLanguage