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Name: Dr. Dorit Ben Shalom

Faculty: Social Sciences and Humanities

Department: Foreign Literatures and Linguistics

Rank: Senior Lecturer

Degree: Ph.D. [UCLA]

Areas of Research:
Neurolinguistics
Neuropsychology of autism

Neuroscience Courses:
Neurolinguistics
Seminar in Neurolinguistics

Research Students:
Hila Green
Noa Oron
Hava Elliott
Cheryl Vardi

Selected Publications:
D. Ben Shalom, S.H. Mostofsky, R.L. Hazlett, M.C. Goldberg,
R.J. Landa, Y. Faran, D.R. McLeod, R. Hoehn-Saric (in press)
Normal physiological emotions but differences in expression of
conscious feelings in children with high-functioning autism.
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

D. Anaki, Y. Faran, D. Ben Shalom, A. Henik (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.

D. Ben Shalom (2003)
Memory in autism: review and synthesis.
Special Issue of Cortex on the theme of "Memory: Anatomical Regions, Physiological Networks and Cognitive Interactions", 39(4-5), 1129 - 1138.

K. Lakshminarayanan , D. Ben Shalom, V. van Wassenhove V, D. Orbelo, J. Houde, D. Poeppel (2003)
The effect of spectral manipulations on the identification of affective and linguistic prosody.
Brain and Language, 84(2), 250 - 263.

D. Ben Shalom, S.H. Mostofsky, R.L Hazlett, M.C. Goldberg, D. Mcloud,
R.L. Hoehn-Saric (2003)
Intact GSRs and impaired self-reports in response to emotional pictures in
high-functioning autism.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,985, 501-504.

D. Ben Shalom (2003)
Understanding SLI: a neurpsychological perspective.
In Yonata Levy and Jeannette Schaeffer, eds. Language Competence across
Populations: Towards a Definition of Specific Language Impairment, 413-424.

D. Ben Shalom (2001)
Language in autism: pragmatics and grammar development.
Glot International 5(7), 235 - 242.

D. Ben Shalom (2000)
Developmental depersonalization: the prefrontal cortex and self funtions in autism.
Consciousness and cognition 9(3), 457-460.

D. Ben Shalom (2000)
Autism: emotions without feelings.
Autism 4(2), 205-206.

D. Ben Shalom (2000)
Trace deletion and Friederici's (1995) model of syntactic processing.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23(1), 22-23.