Ziad Safadi (Behavioral Science) received his B.A. and M.A. at Ben-Gurion University in Cognitive Psychology and School Psychology and finish writing his Ph.D. thesis on "Attentional Inhibition and Facilitation in Schizophrenia", under the supervision of Prof. Avishai Henik and Prof. Ora Kaufman.

His research focuses on how attentional inhibition and facilitation are involved in clinical symptoms of schizophrenia. The importance of his research is to uncover the Neurocognitive basis of thesis mechanisms

email: safadi@bgu.ac.il

Recent Publications

• Henik, A., Merrill, D., Ro, T., Rafal, R. & Safadi, Z. (1999). Interaction between color and word processing in flanker task. Journal of Experimental Psychology.
• Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., Henik, A and Safadi, Z., (2007). Task-Relevance Modulates Performance Inside and Outside the Focus of Attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.