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SHLOMO  BENTIN,  CHARLES & MARILYN GOLD FAMILY PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AND ED 
Status : DECEASED Birth place : BUCHAREST
Office Phone: 02-588-1090 Fax: 02-582-5659
E-Mail: msbentin@mscc.huji.ac.il
U.R.L: http://pissaro.soc.huji.ac.il/Shlomo/people/shlomo.html
 
Department Faculty  
PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Dept. Description
 
Academic Degree   Institution Year
Ph.D. HEBREW UNIV. 1982
 
Academic Position   Year
PROFESSOR 1994
ASSOC. PROFESSOR 1989
SENIOR LECTURER 1986
LECTURER 1983
 
Administrative Position   From To
Director, Aranne Laboratory of Human Psychophysiology and Neuro-
behavioral Studies, Dep't of Neurology, Hadassah Univ. Hosp.,
1976-1989.
Director, Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory.
 
External Academic Positions
Visiting Scientist: Haskins Labs, New Haven 1982-85; Rotman
Research Inst., Toronto, since 1995
Member, Haskins Labs, since 1984
Visiting Prof.: UC at San Diego, 1989-90; INSERM, Lyon,
1995-96; Rotman Research Inst., Toronto, 1995; Max Planck
Inst. of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, 1998;
Inst. of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, Bron, France, 2001-02;
UC at Berkeley, 2011-12.
Awards: Recipient, Israel Prize in Psychology, 2012.
 
Research Interests
Cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology.
Attention and attention disorders. Face perception. Semantic and episodic
processes. Reading and reading disorders.
 
Research Projects
Attentional processes in face perception.
The role of the motor system in understanding the other's mind.
 
Selected Publications
Publication Title   Year
Automaticity in contextualized emotion perception. 2011
Not on the face alone: Perception of contextualized face 2009
Seeing with profoundly inhibited mid-level visual areas: 2009
Stimulus type, level of categorization and spatial-frequencies 2009
Familiarity effects in the categorization levels of faces and 2009
Mirror activity in the human brain while observing hand 2009
Putting facial expressions back in context. In: 2008
Attentional and perceptual factors affecting the attentional 2008
Angry, disgusted, or afraid? Studies on the malleability of 2008
Interactive processes in matching identity and expressions of 2008
Word associations are formed incidentally during sentential 2008
Functional plasticity in ventral temporal cortex following 2007
Electrophysiological neural mechanisms for detection, configural 2007
Dissociated neural mechanisms for face detection and configural 2007
Semantic boost on episodic associations: An empirically-based 2007
Mutual information of image fragments predicts categorization in 2007
A mismatch negativity study of local-global auditory processing. 2007
Too many trees to see the forest: Performance, ERP and fMRI 2007
Differential integration efforts of mandatory and optional 2006
Processing the trees and the forest during initial stages of 2006
Disordered semantic representation in schizophrenic temporal 2006
Associating unseen events: Semantically mediated formation of 2005
Neural sensitivity to human voices: ERP evidence of task and 2003
The neural basis of face perception. In: 2003
Face-selective activation in a congenital prosopagnosic subject. 2003
Magneto-encephalographic evidence for spatio-temporal semantic 2003
Semantic association and relational processing facilitate the 2003
Accounts for the N170 face-effect: A reply to Rossion, Curran, & 2002
Cognitive penetrability of the face structural encoding: 2002
Conceptual priming in visual face-processing: 2002
Domain specificity versus expertise: Factors influencing 2002
Processing specificity for human voice stimuli: 2001
Semantic effect on episodic associations. 2001
Is spreading of semantic activation truly automatic? The 2001
Is pre-attentive processing compromised by prolonged 2001
Linguistic theory and psychological reality: A reply to Boudelaa 2001
Structural encoding of human and schematic faces: Holistic and 2001
Syntactic and semantic factors in processing gender agreement in 2001
Face detection and face identification: ERP evidence for 2000
What have Klingon letters and faces in common? An fMRI study on 2000
Neurophysiological correlates of face gender processing in 2000
Electrophysiological evidence for an early (pre-attentive) 2000
Unilateral neglect following right hemisphere damage: 2000
Guidelines for using human event-related potentials to study 2000
ERP manifestations of processing printed words at different 1999
Selective visual streaming in face recognition: Evidence from 1999
Semantic influence on processing gender agreement: Evidence from 1999
Variable cerebral responses to equally distinct deviance in four 1998
Mismatch negativity in dichotic listening: Evidence for 1998
Levels of processing and selective attention effects on encoding 1998
Temporal cortex activation in human subjects viewing eyes and 1998
Time course and scalp distribution of ERP activity during 1998
Electrophysiological studies of face perception in humans. 1996
Attention factors mediating syntactic deficiency in 1996
Reading in a language without orthography. On the involvement of 1996
Phonology, phonological awareness, and reading. In: 1996
Language-related field potentials in the anterior-medial 1995
Semantic, phonological and morphological awareness in children 1995
Semantic processing of attended and unattended words in dichotic 1995
Orthographical depth and phonological intuitions: The influence 1995
 
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