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Recent Articles

  1. Lifshitz Ben-Basat, A. & Mashal, N. (2021). Enhancing Creativity by Altering the Frontoparietal Control Network Functioning Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation. Experimental Brain Research. 

  2. Yankovitz, B. & Mashal, N. (2020). Can brain stimulation improve semantic joke comprehension? Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 32,4, 357-368, DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2020.1756832.

  3. Kasirer, A., Adi-Japha, E., & Mashal, N. (2020).Verbal and Figural Creativity in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder and, Typical Development. Frontiers in Psychology. 

  4. Menashe, S., Leshem, R., Heruti, V., Kasirer, A., Yair, T., & Mashal, N. (2020).  Elucidating the role of selective attention, divergent thinking, language abilities, and executive functions in metaphor generation. Neuropsychologia, 142.

  5. Mashal, N., Yankovitz, B., & Lifshitz-Vahab, H. (2019). Lexical decision performance using the divided visual field technique following training in adults with intellectual disabilities with and without Down syndrome. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2019.1642344.

  6. Saban-Bezalel, R, & Mashal, N. (2019). Different Factors Predict Idiom Comprehension in Children and Adolescents with ASD and Typical Development. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 4740–4750.

  7. Saban-Bezalel, R., Dolfin, D. Laor, N. & Mashal, N. (2019). Irony comprehension and mentalizing ability in children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 58, 30-38.

  8. Kasirer, A. & Mashal, N. (2018). Fluency or Similarities? Cognitive Abilities that Contribute to Creative Metaphor Generation. Creativity Research Journal, 30, 205-211.

  9. Osovlanski, H., & Mashal, N. (2017). The role of the Superior Temporal Gyrus in Processing Semantic and Pragmatic Information: A transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 44, 239-248.

  10. Yankovitz, B.-e.; Kasirer, A.; Mashal, N. The Relationship between Semantic Joke and Idiom Comprehension in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Brain Sci. 2023, 13, 935. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/brainsci13060935

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