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Research interests
My field of expertise is Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. I am interested in the relation between the brain and behavior in the typical and atypical (for example, in FAS, and ADHD) development of two main abilities: 1. the executive aspects of attention and control – such as inhibitory control, monitoring, and error-detection – and their implications for the child’s self-regulation; and 2. the very early processing of numerosities, the beginning of the connection between digit symbols and their numerical meaning, and the internal mental representation of the number line. These two broad topics are also combined in some of my projects. In my lab we use a multi-method approach including behavioral responses (reaction time, accuracy, gaze direction), as well as electrophysiological measurements (event-related potentials).
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, The influence of attention on the inhibition of return (IOR) Phenomenon
1 Oct 1992 → 30 Sep 1998
Award Date: 1 Nov 1998
Master, Competition between endogenous and exogenous orienting of visual attention, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1 Oct 1988 → 30 Sep 1992
Award Date: 1 Jun 1993
Bachelor, Bar-Ilan University
1 Oct 1983 → 30 Sep 1988
Award Date: 1 Jun 1989
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Error processing and coping with stressful real-life situations in children and their mothers
Yeshua, M. & Berger, A., 1 Jan 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Development and Psychopathology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Self-Regulated Parenting: A Systematic Review of the Relations Between Effortful Control, the Big-Five, and Parenting Practices
Yeshua, M. & Berger, A., 1 Apr 2026, In: Psychological Reports. 129, 2, p. 947-980 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open Access3 Scopus citations -
Extending the model of children’s conduct problems: A cross-sectional study of the interaction of maternal temperament and character, maternal parenting practices, and their child’s effortful control
Yeshua, M., Cloninger, C. R., Zohar, A. H. & Berger, A., 1 Aug 2025, In: PLOS ONE. 20, 8 August, e0330897.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Neonatal Surgency Moderates the Association Between the Home Environment and Executive Functions in Children With a Family History of ADHD
Einziger, T., Auerbach, J. G. & Berger, A., 1 Nov 2025, In: Infant and Child Development. 34, 6, e70072.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reduced Theta Inter-Trial Phase Coherence in Error Processing: A Marker of Neural Dysfunction in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Devor, T., Einziger, T., Ben-Shachar, M. S., Klein, C., Auerbach, J. G. & Berger, A., 1 Jan 2025, In: Psychophysiology. 62, 1, e14764.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Steps Toward Decreasing Maternal Alcohol Consumption in Israel: Nationwide Trends During a Decade
Senecky, Y., Zrubavel Yaaron, N., Chodick, G., Berger, A., Hen-Herbst, L., Fund, I. B., Massalha, M., Matot, R. & Ganelin-Cohen, E., 1 Mar 2025, In: Public Health Reports. 140, 2-3, p. 221-229 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Interplay between Maternal Depression and ADHD Symptoms in Predicting Emotional and Attentional Functioning in Toddlerhood
Levy, M., Berger, A., Egotubov, A., Gordon-Hacker, A., Sheiner, E. & Gueron-Sela, N., 1 Aug 2025, In: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. 53, 8, p. 1231-1247 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Israel-Arab Muslim Children’s Socioemotional Functioning at Kindergarten and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Relations With Cognitive and Socioemotional Abilities, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status
Kabha, L., Einziger, T., Gueron-Sela, N. & Berger, A., 27 Jun 2024, In: Developmental Psychology. 61, 1, p. 51-72 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Development of Cognitive Control in Preschoolers and Kindergarteners: The Case of Post-Error Slowing and Delayed Disinhibition
Yeshua, M. & Berger, A., 1 Apr 2024, In: Journal of Intelligence. 12, 4, 41.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Visual–Spatial Abilities Are NOT Related to the Speed of Mental Rotation
Ben-Shachar, M. S. & Berger, A., 9 May 2024, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 50, 7, p. 752-768 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations
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From early risk to ADHD phenotype: The protective role of enriched home environment
Berger, A. (Participant), Einziger, T. (Participant), Zilberman-Hayun, Y. (Participant), Auerbach, J. (Participant) & Atzaba-Poria, N. (Participant)
2021 → …Activity: Other
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Early home environment and adolescent’s ADHD; the mediating role of children’s effortful control
Berger, A. (Speaker)
24 May 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Negative affectivity and inhibitory control: Children’s self-regulation in negative emotional challenges
Berger, A. (Speaker)
24 May 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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When 1+1 is not 2: Brain responses to arithmetical errors in typical and atypical development
Berger, A. (Speaker)
2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Theory of mind development in Israeli Arab Muslim children
Berger, A. (Participant) & Kabha, L. (Participant)
2017 → …Activity: Other
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Outcome of children after traumatic brain injury – first results of the CREACTKids study
Berger, A. (Speaker)
2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Atypical numerosity processing: ERP evidence in infants with prenatal alcohol exposure
Berger, A. (Speaker)
29 Apr 2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Coping with Frustration at Preschool Age: Neural correlates of inhibitory control while experiencing frustration
Berger, A. (Speaker)
9 Jun 2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Coping with frustration at preschool age: Neural correlates of inhibitory control while experiencing frustration and maternal biological versus environmental influences
Berger, A. (Speaker)
2013 → …Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Effortful control in preschool children and their parents
Berger, A. (Speaker)
2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Prizes
Press/Media
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What if ADHD risk isn’t fixed at birth, but shaped by how early environments interact with a child’s sensitivity?
Landau-Leidner, R., Auerbach, J., Arbelle, S., Atzaba-Poria, N. & Berger, A.
8/01/26
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
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People with ADHD? Give your children an enriching environment
Berger, A. & Einziger, T.
29/08/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
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Infant brains detect arithmetic errors
Berger, A., Tzur, G. & Posner, M. I.
3/09/06
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media
Equipment
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Sensitivity to the Cognitive Home Environment in ADHD: Who is Sensitive and Through Which Mechanism
Berger, A. (PI) & Gielis, T. E. T. E. (CoPI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/29
Project: Research
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A Monitoring Brain System for the Evaluation of Information
Posner, M. I. (PI) & Berger, A. (CoPI)
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
1/01/05 → …
Project: Research
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Detection of Error by Infants
Berger, A. (PI) & Posner, M. I. (CoPI)
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
1/01/01 → …
Project: Research
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Dealing with frustration: An electrophysiologicaland behavioral study of self-regulation in young children and their mothers
Berger, A. (PI)
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Dealing with frustration: An electrophysiological and behavioral study of self-regulation in young children and their mothers
Berger, A. (PI)
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Dealing with frustration: An electrophysiological and behavioral study of self-regulation in young children and their mothers
Berger, A. (PI)
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Dealing with frustration: An electrophysiological and behavioral study of self-regulation in young children and their mothers
Berger, A. (PI)
1/01/20 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Intra-Subject Variability in adolescents with ADHD: an ERP study of Neural Sources and Longitudinal Predictors
Berger, A. (PI)
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
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An ERP Study of Number Processing and Error Detection in FAS and ADHD
Jacobson, S. W. (PI) & Berger, A. (CoPI)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
10/07/14 → 31/03/18
Project: Research
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The neurocognitive basis of numerical cognition
Henik, A. (PI), Tzelgov, J. (CoPI), Berger, A. (CoPI) & Rubinstein, O. (CoPI)
1/01/12 → 31/12/15
Project: Research