LABORATORY FOR VISUAL PERCEPTION AND ACTION
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Gal Namdar
Publications
Research Interests
My research focuses on the human processing of magnitude and its effects on action and perception. My studies utilize several behavioral methods to pinpoint how presented numbers can change the way we act and perceive the world around us.
Namdar, G., Algom, D., & Ganel, T. (2018). Dissociable effects of stimulus range on perception and action. Cortex, 98, 28-33.
Namdar, G., Ganel, T., & Algom, D. (2018). The Size congruity effect vanishes in grasping: Implications for the processing of numerical information. Scientific Reports, 7:6467.
Namdar, G., & Ganel, T. (in press). Numerical magnitude affects online execution, not planning of visuomotor control. Psychological Research.
Ganel, T., Namdar, G., & Mirsky, A. (2017). Bimanual grasping does not adhere to Weber's law. Scientific Reports, 7:6467.
Namdar, G., Ganel, T., & Algom, D (2016). The extreme relativity of perception: A new contextual effect modulates human resolving power. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 509–515.
Namdar, G., Avidan, G., & Ganel, T. (2015). Effects of configural processing on the spatial resolution for face features. Cortex, 72, 115-123.
Namdar, G., & Ganel, T. (2015). Cross-modal effects of auditory magnitude on visually-guided grasping. Journal of Vision, 15, 1-10.
Namdar, G., Tzelgov, J., Algom, D., & Ganel, T. (2013). Grasping numbers: evidence for automatic influence of numerical magnitude on grip aperture. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 830–835.