Theses & Dissertations

Year			Student	Advisor
2023	Behavioral and electrophysiological manifestations of social cognition in young adults with autism spectrum disorder compared with their neurotypical peers	PhD	Gaziel-Guttman, Meyrav	Prof. Nira Mashal
2022	Effect of exposing to a creative environment on novel metaphor generation (HEBREW)	MA	Himan Heltai, Shahar	Prof. Nira Mashal
2022	Relationship between irony, idioms and social situation comprehension among children with autism (HEBREW)	MA	Lellouche Botboll, Naama	Prof. Nira Mashal
2022	Generation of bridging and predictive inferences during reading comprehension : a brain stimulation study (HEBREW)	MA	Ohayon, Tamar	Dr. Menahem Yeari Prof. Nira Mashal
2021	Assessment of pragmatic abilities in adolescents with typical development	MA	Fussman, Shanie	Prof. Nira Mashal
2020	Effect of aerobic walk on verbal creativity and verbal fluency of adults with intellectual disability with non-specific etiology, compared to adults with typical development (HEBREW)	MA	Shapira, Dorel	Prof. Nira Mashal Prof. Hefziba Lifshitz
2020	Influence of meta-cognitive intervention on children age 5-10 tendency to spontaneous recognition of mathematical structures (HEBREW)	PhD	Sharir, Tal	Prof. Zmira Mevarech Prof. Nira Mashal
2019	Analyzing the connection between various levels of inclusion and the recognition of faces and houses among children with autism, compared to typically developing children (HEBREW)	MA	Cohen, Odeya	Dr. Or Catz Prof. Nira Mashal
2019	Cognitive functions that contribute to verbal and artistic creativity among children (HEBREW)	MA	Haimov, Michal	Prof. Nira Mashal
2019	Facial attractiveness and face perception among pre-adolescents with high-functioning ASD comparison to typically development (HEBREW)	MA	Kfir, Adva	Dr. Or Catz Prof. Nira Mashal
2018	The effect of trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on auditory verbal learning and reading comprehension of adults with learning disability (HEBREW)	PhD	Aran Ehrenreich, Yossi	Prof. Nira Mashal
2018	Enhancing irony comprehension in high-functioning autistic adolescents with an intervention (HEBREW)	MA	Arie Shunem, Mor	Prof. Nira Mashal
2018	The role of left IFG in phonological, syntactic and semantic processing of homographic words : a transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) study (HEBREW)	PhD	Raviv, Haim	Prof. Nira Mashal Prof. Orna Peleg
2017	Brain lateralization and cooperation between the hemispheres within lexical decision, among intellectually disabled within a specific etiology, and amongst those with down’s syndrome, in comparison to adults with regular development (HEBREW)	MA	Cohen, Bat-El	Prof. Hefziba Lifshitz Prof. Nira Mashal
2017	The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on cognitive control in healthy participant (HEBREW)	PhD	Metzuyanim-Gorelick, Shlomit	Prof. Nira Mashal
2017	The Influence of the ontological hierarchy on hybrid perception by children with typical development and by children with langauge impairment	PhD	Sanhedrai, Navah	Prof. Nira Mashal Prof. Yeshayahu Shen
2017	Comprehension and production of gestures within preschool children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with ceberal palsy (CP), pre and post motor and semantic intervention plans (HEBREW)	PhD	Shamir, Inbal	Prof. Esther Adi-Japha Prof. Nira Mashal
2016	Hemispheric processing of metaphors in genetics among high school students (HEBREW)	PhD	Franko, Tsipi	Prof. Nira Mashal
2016	Hemispheric processing of figurative language in adults with ASD and schizophrenia patients (HEBREW)	PhD	Saban-Bezalel, Ronit	Prof. Nira Mashal
2016	Understanding verbal and visual metaphors in children with learning disabilities: relation to verbal and nonverbal ability (HEBREW)	MA	Sharkia-Shmalia, Asma	Prof. Nira Mashal
2016	The effect of training to improve executive functions with multitasking performance among children with ADHD (HEBREW)	MA	Tsarfaty, Smadar Dadu	Prof. Nira Mashal Dr. Yitzhak Weiss
2015	The use of semantic and pragmatic knowledge in sentence comprehension: a transcranial direct current stimulation study (HEBREW)	MA	Osovlanski, Hagit	Prof. Nira Mashal
2014	Hemisphere processing of ironies and idioms by adults with dyslexia (HEBREW)	MA	Adler-Coral, Naama	Prof. Nira Mashal
2014	An fMRI investigation of the relation between understanding metaphoric expressions and language lateralization in schizophrenia (HEBREW)	MA	Ben-Aharon, Orna	Prof. Nira Mashal
2014	The development of metaphorical language comprehension and production in autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilities (HEBREW)	PhD	Kasirer, Anat	Prof. Nira Mashal