Members of the School of Education


Babai, Reuven
Phone at TAU: 03-6408841
Fax: 03-6405068
E-mail: reuvenb@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Intuitive thinking. Cognitive development. Science and mathematics education.

Current Research Topics:
Cognitive acceleration through science education in school. fMRI and RT study of intuitive reasoning in science and mathematics.

Methods and Techniques:
Reaction Time, fMRI.


Friedmann, Naama
Phone at TAU: 03-6405257
Fax: 03-6406294
E-mail: naamafr@post.tau.ac.il
homepage: http://www.tau.ac.il/~naamafr

Research area:
Neuropsychology of language, agrammatic aphasia, dyslexia.

Current Research Topics:
Syntactic characterization of agrammatic aphasia, peripheral dyslexias in Hebrew, working memory and sentence comprehension.

Methods and Techniques:
Experiments with brain-damaged individuals, testing their language and reading skills.

List of selected publications


Margalit, Malka
Phone at TAU: 03-6408758
Fax: 03-5346023
E-mail: malka@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Learning disabilities.

Current Research Topics:
Interactions between affective and cognitive processing among individuals with learning disabilities

Methods and Techniques:
Interviews, observations and questionnaires


Stavy, Ruth
Phone at TAU: 03-6405107
Fax: 03-6405068
E-mail: ruth@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Science education; intuitive reasoning in science and mathematics.

Current Research Topics:
The nature of intuitive reasoning in science and mathematics.

Methods and Techniques:
Reaction time and fMRI.


Strauss, Sidney
Phone at TAU: 03-6408470
Fax: 03-6407360
E-mail: sidst@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Cognitive development of children. Teacher's cognition.

Current Research Topics:
Adults' (teachers') mental modes of children's minds, learning and forgetting.

Methods and Techniques:
Protocol analysis. Thinking outloud. Metaphor analysis.


Tirosh, Dina
Phone at TAU: 03-6407412
Fax: 03-6405068
E-mail: dina@post.tau.ac.il

Research area:
Mathematics education; intuitive reasoning in mathematics and science

Current Research Topics:
The nature of intuitive reasoning in mathematics and science

Methods and Techniques:
Reaction time and fMRI