Ahissar Lab for Perceptual Learning

This means that individuals with autism can accurately estimate environmental statistics, but their speed of updating internal priors is slower than typically developing individuals. (6/6)

This suggests that the impairment in synchronizing with external beats in individuals with autism is due to reduced online error correction rather than elevated internal noise levels. (5/6)

New paper in Autism Research😊Keren Kasten, @norijacoby, and @MeravAhissar's study delves into the difficulty individuals with autism have in synchronizing movements to external events. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… (1/6)

Happy to update: our Autism Research paper published today: "Poor synchronization yet adequate tempo-keeping in adults with autism", Kasten, Jacoby &  Ahissar: ASDs' poor synchronization to external beat stems from reduced online error-correction and not higher internal noise .

A recent paper by @neuro_gal @AhissarLab @norijacoby and others (nature.com/articles/s4146…) found that synchronization of finger-tapping to a metronome is less precise in autistic participants, and that these differences seemed to be due to reduced correction of timing errors.

Introducing Brainy Days Session VI: "Trends in Plasticity, Memory and Adaptive Behavior". Speakers: @CGrienberger & @CharanRanganath. More info here: elsc.huji.ac.il/events-and-out…

ELSC is delighted to announce that @aya_benya won an #ERCStG from the @ERC_Research for a research proposal titled “Identifying the building blocks of memory for events”. Read more here: elsc.huji.ac.il/elsc-news/news…

We are now accepting applications for a tenure track position! Application deadline is September 30th. More information can be found here: elsc.huji.ac.il/opportunities/…

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Repeated series learning revisited with a novel prediction on the reduced effect of item frequency in dyslexia, with @Eva_Kimel, Itay Lieder, and @MeravAhissar disq.us/t/49rhtxz

(please RT). A fully funded PhD position to work with us @UCLEarInstitute @UCLBrainScience on developing a task battery to assess individuals' listening "footprint". Email me for more info. Further details here: findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

#ELSCseminarseries with @Censor_Lab on the topic of "Rapid learning (and unlearning) in the human brain" will take place on Thursday, June 9th, at 14:00 IST. Come hear the lecture at ELSC: Room 2004, Goodman bldg., Safra Campus. elsc.huji.ac.il/events-and-out…

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These observations suggest that the huge task-specific enhancement of WM capacity stems from a task-specific switch to perceptual routines, implemented in perceptual regions. 6/7

New paper in Cerebral Cortex @OxfordJournals by Tamar Malinovitch, Philippe Albouy, @zatorrelab, and @MeravAhissar! academic.oup.com/cercor/advance… 1/7