My scientific expertise is cognitive neuroscience, with special focus on the psychological and neural properties of the human visual system.
Specifically, in my work I investigate the unique mechanisms and processes that underlie the perception of various visual categories such as faces, objects, scenes and words, but also the commonalities shared by them. For example, one such process is temporal integration, namely, the ability to form a unified representation from temporally-separated stimuli.
In my current work I am investigating the memory systems that enable this process, the characteristics of the integration process, and the features of the visual representations that are formed. These issues are examined by combining electrophysiological (ERP) and behavioral techniques, and by examining healthy individuals as well as individuals with specific neuropsychological deficits affecting various aspects of visual perception, such as agnosia, prosopagnosia, and simultanagnosia.
email: danaki@mscc.huji.ac.il
Recent Publications
- Davidson, P. S. R., Anaki, D., Ciaramelli, E., Cohn, M., Kim, A., & Moscovitch, M. (in press). Does parietal cortex support episodic memory? A review of patient data. Neuropsychologia.
- Zion-Golumbic, E., Golan, T., Anaki, D. & Bentin S. (in press). Sensitivity for human faces in high-frequency EEG Gamma-Band. NeuroImage.
- Anaki, D., Zion-Golumbic, E. & Bentin, S. (2007). Electrophysiological neural mechanisms for detection, configural analysis and recognition of faces. NeuroImage, 37, 1407-1416.
- Anaki, D. & Moscovitch, M. (2007). When a face is (or is not) more than the sum of its its features: Configural and analytic processes in temporal facial integration. Visual Cognition, 15, 741-763.
- * Kaufman, Y., Anaki, D., Binns, M., & Freedman, M. (2007). Rate of cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease: The impact of quality of life, spirituality and religiosity. Neurology, 68, 1509-1514.
- Anaki, D., Kaufman, Y., Freedman, M. & Moscovitch, M. (2007). Associative prosopagnosia without (apparent) perceptual processing or structural encoding impairment: A case study. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1658-1671.
- Anaki, D., Boyd, J., & Moscovitch M. (2007). Temporal integration in face perception: Evidence of configural processing of temporally separated faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,33, 1-19.
- Davidson, P. S. R., Anaki, D. Saint-Cyr, J. A., Chow T., & Moscovitch, M. (2006). Recognition memory impairment in early Parkinson's disease: Evidence from the word frequency mirror effect, subjective experience, and the process dissociation procedure. Brain, 129, 1768-1779.
- Anaki, D., Faran, Y., Henik, A. & Ben-Shalom, D. (2005). The false memory and the mirror effects: The roles of familiarity and backward association in creating false recollections. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 87-102.
- Henik, A., Rubinsten, O., Anaki, D. (2005). Ben-Gurion University Hebrew Association Norms. Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University Press (Hebrew).
- Anaki, D., & Henik, A. (2003). Is there a "strength effect" in automatic semantic priming? Memory & Cognition, 31, 262-272.
- Anaki, D., Faust, M., & Kravetz, S. (1998). Cerebral hemispheric asymmetries in processing lexical metaphors. Neuropsychologia, 36, 691-700.