Dr. Sagi Jaffe-Dax
Research work
In the Center for Cognitive Development we study various aspects of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Specifically, we are interested in how perception and learning change along development. We employ computational, neuroimaging and eye-tracking tools to uncover the mechanism that support these developmental dynamics from early infancy to adulthood.
Areas of interest & scientific knowledge
Cognitive Neuroscience
Methodology
Human StudiesSelected Publications
- Jaffe-Dax S, Boldin AM, Daw ND and Emberson LL (2020) A computational role for top-down modulation from frontal cortex in infancy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(3): 508-514. https://dx.doi.org/10.1162%2Fjocn_a_01497
- Lieder I, Vincent A, Frenkel O, Jaffe-Dax S, Sahani M and Ahissar M (2019) Perceptual bias reveals slow updating in autism and fast forgetting in dyslexia. Nature Neuroscience, 22(2): 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0308-9
- Jaffe-Dax S, Kimel E and Ahissar M (2018) Shorter cortical adaptation in dyslexia is broadly distributed in the superior temporal lobe and includes the primary auditory cortex. eLife, 7: e30018. https://dx.doi.org/10.7554%2FeLife.30018
- Jaffe-Dax S, Frenkel O and Ahissar M (2017) Dyslexics’ faster decay of implicit memory for sounds and words is manifested in their shorter neural adaptation, eLife, 6: e20557. https://dx.doi.org/10.7554%2FeLife.20557
- Jaffe-Dax S, Raviv O, Jacoby N, Loewenstein Y and Ahissar M (2015) A Computational Model of Implicit Memory Captures Dyslexics’ Perceptual Deficits, Journal of Neuroscience, 35(35): 12116-12126. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1302-15.2015
