I am interested in the relation between the brain and behavior during development. The focus of my work is on the development of the executive aspects of attention and control, such as inhibitory control, monitoring and error-detection, and the development of number representation and mathematical skills. I employ behavioral tasks used in cognitive experimental psychology, and adapt them for studying young children. I measure behavioral responses (reaction time, accuracy, gaze direction) as well as electrophysiological measurements (Event-Related Potentials).
Some of my current projects:
* The development of error detection, from infancy to adulthood
* The development of brain representation of numerosities, from infancy to adulthood
* The development of self-regulation and temperament in children at familial risk for ADHD
Emotional regulation in kindergarten children and their mothers

(a) Books
Berger, A. (2011). Self-regulation: Brain, cognition, and development. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
(b) Chapters in Books

Ben-Shalom, T., Berger, A., & Henik, A. (to appear 2012). The beginning of the road: Learning mathematics for the first time. In D. Molfese, Z., V. Berninger, & O. Rubinsten (Eds.) Reading, writing, mathematics, and the developing brain: Listening to many voices. College Station, TX: Springer Publishing.

Berger, A., Buchman, Ch., & Green-Bleier, T. (2011). Development of error detection. In M.I. Posner (Ed.), Cognitive neuroscience of attention 2nd edition. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

(c) Refereed Articles in Scientific Journals

Berger, A. (2011). Electrophysiological evidence for numerosity processing in infancy. Developmental Neuropsychology,36(6),668-681.

Tzur, G., Berger, A., Luria, R., & Posner, M. I. (2010). Theta synchrony supports Weber-Fechner/Steven's Law for error processing, uniting high and low mental processes. Psychophysiology, 47, 758-766.
Auerbach, J.G., Atzaba-Poria, N., Berger, A., Landau, R., Arbelle, S., Raz, Y., & Ebstein, R. (2010). Dopamine risk and paternal ADHD symptomatology associated with ADHD symptoms in four and half-year-old boys. Psychiatric Genetics 20(4), 160-165.
Landau, R., Sadeh, A., Vassoly, P., Berger., A., Atzaba- Poria, N., & Auerbach, J.G. (2010). Sleep patterns of seven-week-old infants at familial risk for ADHD. Infant Mental Health Journal 31(6), 630-646.

Landau, R., Avital, M., Berger, A., Atzava-Poria, N. Arbelle, S., Faroy, M*., & Auerbach, J.G. (2010). Parenting of 7-month-old infants at familial risk for ADHD. Infant Mental Health Journal 31(2), 141-158.

Tzur, G. & Berger, A. (2009). Fast and slow brain rhythms in rule/expectation violation tasks: Focusing on evaluation processes by excluding motor action. Behavioural Brain Research, 198, 420-428.
Landau, R., Amiel-Laviad, R., Berger, A., Atzava-Poria, N., & Auerbach, J.G. (2009). Parenting of 7-month-old infants at familial risk for ADHD during infant’s free play, with restrictions on interaction. Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 173-182.

Auerbach, J.G ., Berger, A., Atzaba-Poria, N., Arbelle, S., Cypin, N., Friedman, A., & Landau, R. (2008). Temperament at 7, 12, and 25 months in children at familial risk for ADHD. Infant and Child Development, 17, 321-338.

Berger, A., Kofman, O., Livneh, U., & Henik, A. (2007). Multidisciplinary perspectives on attention and the development of self-regulation. Progress in Neurobiology, 82, 256–286.

Tzur, G. & Berger, A. (2007). When things look wrong: Theta activity in rule violation. Neuropsychologia, 45, 3122-3126.

Cohen Kadosh, R., Cohen Kadosh, K., Linden, D.E.J., Gevers, W., Berger, A., & Henik, A. (2007). The Brain locus of interaction between number and size: A combined functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related potential study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(6), 957-970.

Berger, A., Tzur, G., & Posner, M. I. (2006). Infant brains detect arithmetic errors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 103(33), 12649-12653.

Berger, A. (2006). On the reliability of cognitive measurement – the case of visual orienting. Experimental Psychology, 53(3), 209–217.

Kofman, O., Berger, A., Friedman, A., & Abu Jaffar, A. (2006). Motor inhibition impairment in school-aged children following exposure to organophosphate pesticides in infancy. Pediatric Research, 60(1), 88-92.

Browne, O.R., Benmoyal-Segal, L., Bryk, B., Zumsteg, D., David, Y., Kofman, O., Berger, A., Soreq, H., & Friedman, A. (2006). Coding region paraoxonase polymorphisms dictate accentuated neuronal reactions in chronic, sub-threshold pesticide exposure. The FASEB Journal, 20, 1733-1735.

BA Bar-Ilan University - Psychology and Computer Sciences
MA Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Psychology
Advisor: Avishai Henik
Title: Competition between endogenous and exogenous orienting of visual attention
PhD Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Psychology
Advisor: Avishai Henik
Title: The influence of attention on the Inhibition of Return (IOR) phenomenon
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Oregon - Psychology Department Attention and Temperament Development Lab, under
the supervision of Professors Michael Posner and Mary Rothbart