Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir
University position
Research Associate
Departments
Institutes
Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute
Home page
http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/pages/p... (personal home page)
Research Theme
Interests
I am interested in action control and executive function or how people go about controlling their actions. Namely, how they manage to control their responses and adapt them online when circumstances deem them no longer appropriate, such as when carrying out an action and suddenly finding it necessary to stop abruptly.
I am also interested in the different facets of compulsivity as instances where control may be impaired.
Recently I have become interested in the social and ethical considerations that result from neuroscience research, such as the debate surrounding the use of cognitive enhancing drugs in various circumstances.
Finally, I have also investigated multisensory processing, namely how we integrate information from vision, hearing and touch that arrive at slightly different times (temporal disparity or incongruity).
Research Focus
Keywordscognition executive function inhibition control multisensory |
Clinical conditionsAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder Cognitive impairment Eating disorders Obsessive compulsive disorder Phobias |
Equipment
Behavioural analysis
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Neuropsychological testing
Collaborators
Cambridge | InternationalAvishai Henik Web: http://medic.bgu.ac.il/brain/h... Alan Kingstone Web: http://bar.psych.ubc.ca/People/... |
Key publications
Morein-Zamir S, Hommersen P, Johnston C, Kingstone A (2008), “Novel Measures of Response Performance and Inhibition in Children with ADHD.” J Abnorm Child Psychol Details
Morein-Zamir S, Chua R, Franks I, Nagelkerke P, & Kingstone A (2007), “Expectancies influence response inhibition and response control” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance 33(1):149-162 Details
Morein-Zamir S, Soto-Faraco S, Kingstone A (2003), “The capture of vision by audition: Deconstructing temporal ventriloquism” Cognitive Brain Research 17:154-163
Publications
2007
Morein-Zamir S, Turner DC, Sahakian BJ (2007), “A review of the effects of modafinil on cognition in schizophrenia.” Schizophr Bull 33(6):1298-306 Details
Sahakian B, Morein-Zamir S (2007), “Professor's little helper.” Nature 450(7173):1157-9 Details
2006
Morein-Zamir S, Chua R, Franks I, Nagelkerke P, Kingstone A (2006), “Measuring online volitional response control with a continuous tracking task.” Behav Res Methods 38(4):638-47 Details
Morein-Zamir S, Kingstone A (2006), “Fixation offset and stop signal intensity effects on saccadic countermanding: a crossmodal investigation.” Exp Brain Res 175(3):453-62 Details
Morein-Zamir S, Nagelkerke P, Chua R, Franks I, Kingstone A (2006), “Compatibility effects in stopping and response initiation in a continuous tracking task.” Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester) 59(12):2148-61 Details
2005
Morein-Zamir S, Henik A, Balas M, Soroker N (2005), “Differential processing of word and color in unilateral spatial neglect.” Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23(2-3):259-69 Details
Soto-Faraco S, Morein-Zamir S, Kingstone A (2005), “On audiovisual spatial synergy: the fragility of the phenomenon.” Percept Psychophys 67(3):444-57 Details
2004
Morein-Zamir S, Nagelkerke P, Chua R, Franks I, Kingstone A (2004), “Inhibiting prepared and ongoing responses: is there more than one kind of stopping?” Psychon Bull Rev 11(6):1034-40 Details
Scheres A, Oosterlaan J, Geurts H, Morein-Zamir S, Meiran N, Schut H, Vlasveld L, Sergeant JA (2004), “Executive functioning in boys with ADHD: primarily an inhibition deficit?” Arch Clin Neuropsychol 19(4):569-94 Details
2003
Morein-Zamir S, Meiran N (2003), “Individual stopping times and cognitive control: converging evidence for the stop signal task from a continuous tracking paradigm.” Q J Exp Psychol A 56(3):469-89 Details
Scheres A, Oosterlaan J, Swanson J, Morein-Zamir S, Meiran N, Schut H, Vlasveld L, Sergeant JA (2003), “The effect of methylphenidate on three forms of response inhibition in boys with AD/HD.” J Abnorm Child Psychol 31(1):105-20 Details
2002
Kingstone A, Klein R, Morein-Zamir S, Hunt A, Fisk J, Maxner C (2002), “Orienting attention in aging and Parkinson's disease: distinguishing modes of control.” J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 24(7):951-67 Details
Morein-Zamir S, Henik A, Spitzer-Davidson I (2002), “The importance of irrelevant-dimension variability in the stroop flanker task.” Psychon Bull Rev 9(1):119-25 Details