Michal Ben-Shachar Postdoctoral Fellow office: 490 Jordan Hall phone: 650-725-1255 email: michal@white.stanford.edu

Michal completed her MA and PhD studies in Cognitive Psychology at Tel-Aviv Univerity, Israel. She studied language comprehension, and particularly syntactic processing, using behavioral and functional neuroimaging methodologies. Michal was further involved in designing functional imaging procedures to evaluate the lateralization of language in patients, prior to brain surgery. Her main research interests are in the development of cognitive processes involved in reading single words and sentences, and in their neural representation.

Publications:

• Ben-Shachar, M., Hendler, T., Kahn, I., Ben-Bashat, D., & Grodzinsky, Y. (2003). The neural reality of syntactic transformations: Evidence from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Psychological Science, 14(5), 433-440.
• Ben-Shachar, M., Palti, D., & Grodzinsky, Y. (2004). Neural correlates of syntactic movement: Converging evidence from two fMRI experiments. NeuroImage, 21(4), 1320-1336.

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