Yifat Faran PhD

Working with Prof. Henik: in my work under the supervision of Prof. Henik and Dr. Dorit Ben Shalom, I studied language and memory. During my Ph.D. studies I studied extensively the priming effect, focusing on the influence of the target on the prime.

My work taught me that this influence is probably due to strategies participants adopt during the task. We found that the influence of the prime on the target and of the target on the prime do not happen simultaneously.

In addition, I studied memory in collaboration with David Anaki and Dr. Dorit Ben Shalom.

We studied the relation between word frequency and false memory in the DRM paradigm. We found that when semantic relations from the words in the list to the target word are equated, low frequency words are more often falsely recognized than high frequency words. This finding supports the argument that unseen words are encoded during study of unrelated words.

email: yfi@bgu.ac.il

phone: 972-8-6874224

Recent Publications

  • Faran, Y. & Ben Shalom, D. (in press). Possible parallels between memory and emotion processing in autism: a neuropsychological perspective. In Bowler, D. and Boucher, J., (Eds.), Memory in Autism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Ben Shalom, D., Mostofsky, S. H., Hazlett, R. L., Goldberg, M. C., Landa, R. J., Faran, Y., McLeod, D. R., & Hoehn-Saric, R. (2006). Normal physiological emotions but differences in conscious expression of feelings in children with high-functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(3), 395-400.
  • Rubinsten, O., Anaki, D., Henik, A., Drori, S. & Faran, Y. (2005). Free association norms in the Hebrew language. In A. Henik, O. Rubinsten, & D. Anaki, (Eds.), Word norms in Hebrew (pp. 17-34). Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
  • Faran, Y. (2005). The direction of association between neighbouring words. In A. Henik, O. Rubinsten, & D. Anaki, (Eds.), Word norms in Hebrew (pp. 67-82). Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
  • Anaki, D., Faran, Y., Ben Shalom D., & Henik, A. (2005). The false memory and the mirror effects: The role of familiarity and backward association in creating false recollections. Journal of Memory and Language, 52(1), 87-102.