Publications

Coming Soon:

Hershman, R., Keha, E., Sapir, A., Weiss, E., Henik, A., & Kaufmann, L. (under revision). Evidence for Two Types of Task Conflict in a Color-Digit Stroop Task. 

Pickard-Jones*, B., d'Avossa, G., & Sapir, A. (submitted). Do changes in lateralised light assumptions index cognitive function? Evidence for sex-specific effects. 

Pickard-Jones*, B., d'Avossa, G., & Sapir, A. (under revision). Attention changes with age, but light priors do not. 

Hershman, R., Keha, E., Beckmann, L., Weiss, E., Henik, A., & Sapir, A. (submitted). A Task Conflict Gradient in The Gestalt-Color-Digit Stroop Task. 

Manuscripts in preparation:

Hershman, R., Beckmann, L., Keha, E., Sapir, A., & Henik, A. (in prep). Evidence for Both Task and Information Conflicts in the Color-Digit Stroop Task: A Pupillometry Study. 

Pickard-Jones*, B., d’Avossa, G., & Sapir, A. (in prep) Sequential effects in shape from shading. (This is a new analysis of about 70 children, 100 young adults, and 70 old adults, looking at the effect of the previous trial on 3D perception). 

Pickard-Jones*, B., Oliver, A., Peca, M., & Sapir, A. (in prep) The effect of instruction wording on bisection errors in the Landmark Task. 

Matthews* J., & Sapir, A. (in prep) Explicit lights change the assumed light source left bias, but not the ‘light from above’ prior. Matthews*, J., Earnshaw, L., Mills, D. L., & Sapir, A. (in preparation) The Role of Top-Down Attention in Shape from Shading: an ERP study. * PhD student first author

Published Outputs:

Hershman, R., Sapir, A., Keha, E., Wagner, M., Weiss, E. M., & Henik, A. (2023). EXPRESS: The Contribution of Difficulty of an Irrelevant Task to Task Conflict. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218241228709. 

Sapir, A., Hershman, R., & Henik, A. (2021). Top-down effect on pupillary response: Evidence from shape from shading. Cognition, 212, 104664. (Impact factor 3.85) 

Pickard-Jones*, B., d'Avossa, G., & Sapir, A. (2020). 3D shape-from-shading relies on a light source prior that does not change with age. Vision Research, 177, 88-96. (Impact factor 1.886) 

Burnett*, K., d’Avossa, G., Sapir A. (2018) Dimensionally specific capture of attention: Implications for saliency computation. Vision, 2, 9. 

Aisenberg, D., Sapir, A., Close, A., Henik, A., & d’Avossa, G. (2018). Right anterior cerebellum BOLD responses reflect age related changes in Simon task sequential effects. Neuropsychologia, 109, 155-164. (Impact factor 3.05) 

Dundon, N.M., Katshu, M.Z.U.H., Harry, B., Roberts, D., Leek, E.C., Downing, P., Sapir, A., Roberts, C. and d’Avossa, G. (2017). Human Parahippocampal Cortex Supports Spatial Binding in Visual Working Memory. Cerebral Cortex, pp.1-11. (Impact factor 4.861) 

Andrews*, B., d’Avossa, G., Sapir, A. (2017). Aging changes 3D perception: evidence for hemispheric rebalancing of lateralized processes. Neuropsychologia, 99, 121-127. (Impact factor 3.05) 

Burnett*, K., d'Avossa, G., Close, A., & Sapir, A. (2016). Spatial attention can be biased towards an expected dimension. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(11), 2218-2232. (Impact factor 2.14)

Aisenberg, D., Sapir, A., d'Avossa, G., & Henik, A. (2014). Long trial durations normalise the interference effect and sequential updating during healthy aging. Acta psychologica, 153, 169-178. (Impact factor 1.984) 

Close*, A., Sapir, A., Burnett, K., & d'Avossa, G. (2014). Attention to multiple locations is limited by spatial working memory capacity. Journal of vision, 14(9), 17. (Impact factor 2.24) 

Sapir, A., Jackson, K., Butler, J., Paul, M.A., & Abrams, R. A. (2013). Inhibition of return affects contrast sensitivity. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(7), 1305-1316. (Impact factor 2.14)

Andrews*, B., Aisenberg, D. d'Avossa, G. Sapir, A. (2013). Cross-cultural effects on the assumed light source direction: Evidence from English and Hebrew readers. Journal of vision 13 (13). (Impact factor 2.24) 

Burnett*, K. E., d'Avossa, G., Sapir, A. (2013). Matching cue size and task properties in exogenous attention. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(12), 2363-2375. (Impact factor 2.14) 

van Koningsbruggen, M. G., Gabay, S., Sapir, A., Henik, A., & Rafal, R. D. (2010). Hemispheric asymmetry in the remapping and maintenance of visual saliency maps: a TMS study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(8), 1730-1738. (Impact factor 3.420; A; cited by 51 articles) 

Rengachary J., d’Avossa, G., Sapir, A., Shulman, G. L., & Corbetta, M. (2009). Is the Posner reaction time test more accurate than clinical tests in detecting left neglect in acute and chronic stroke? Archives Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 90 (12):2081-8. (Impact factor 3.966; A; cited by 55 articles) 

Sapir, A., Dobrusin, M., Henik, A., & Ben-Bashat, G. (2007). Neuroleptics reverse attentional asymmetry in schizophrenia but do not influence inhibition of return. Neuropsychologia, 45, 3263-3271. (Impact factor 3.05)

Sapir, A., Kaplan, J.B., He, B.J., & Corbetta, M (2007). Neuroanatomical correlates of directional hypokinesia in patients with hemispatial neglect. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 4045-4051. (Impact factor 6.709)

Sapir, A., d’Avossa, G., McAvoy, M., Shulman, G. L., & Corbetta, M. (2005). Brain signals for spatial attention predict performance on a motion discrimination task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 17810-17815. (Impact factor 12.78; A+; cited by 140 articles) 

Corbetta, M., Kincade, M.J., Lewis, C., Snyder, A.Z., & Sapir A. (2005). Neural basis and recovery of spatial attention deficits in spatial neglect. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1603-1610. (Impact factor 24.88; A+; cited by 975 articles) 

Sacher, Y., Serfaty, C., Deouell, L., Sapir, A., Henik, A., & Soroker, N. (2004). Role of disengagement failure and attentional gradient in unilateral spatial neglect - a longitudinal study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 26(12), 746-755. (Impact factor 2.439) 

Sapir, A., Hayes, A., Henik, A., Danziger, S., & Rafal, R. D., (2004). Parietal lobe lesions disrupt saccadic remapping of the visual environment: a study of inhibitory location tagging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(4), 503-509. (Impact factor 3.420; A+; cited by 174 articles) 

Sapir, A., Rafal, R. D., & Henik, A. (2002). Attending to the thalamus: inhibition of return and nasal-temporal asymmetry in the pulvinar. NeuroReport, 13(5), 693-697. (Impact factor 1.703) 

Sapir, A., Henik, A., Dobrusin, M., & Hochman, E. Y. (2001). Attentional asymmetry in schizophrenia: Disengagement and inhibition of return deficits. Neuropsychology, 15, 361-370. (Impact factor 3.295)

Meiran, N., Chorev, Z., & Sapir, A. (2000). Components of the Task-Shift Cost. Cognitive Psychology, 41, 211-253. (Impact factor 3.746; A+; - cited by 775 articles)

Sapir, A., Soroker, N., Berger, A., & Henik, A. (1999). Inhibition of Return in spatial attention: Direct evidence for collicular generation. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 1053-1054. (Impact factor 24.88; A+; - cited by 387 articles) * PhD student first author Submitted Manuscripts