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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

  1. Vakil, E., & Tweedy, J.R (1985). Head injury and encoding of frequency, temporal and spatial information.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, San Diego, CA. USA.
  2. Vakil, E., & Tweedy, J.R. (1985). Head injury, aging, and memory automaticity.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  3. Vakil, E., & Rattok, J. (1985). Memory deficits in delayed recall, repetition, and content after head injury.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  4. Tweedy, J.R., & Vakil, E. (1987).  Concussion and age effects on memory for frequency of occurrence, temporal and spatial information.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Washington, DC, USA.
  5. Vakil, E., Blachstein, H., Sheleff, P., & Grossman, S. (1987).  Immediate-delayed BVRT reproduction and lateralized hemispheric damage.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Washington, DC, USA.
  6. Vakil, E. (1987).  Head injury and automatic processes.  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  7. Vakil, E., & Sheleff, P. (1987).  Assessment and remediation of everyday memory problems following a head injury: A holistic approach.  Workshop presented at the International Conference on the Rehabilitation of the Head-Injured Person:  A Neuropsychological Perspective, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  8. Hoofien, D., Vakil, E., Cohen, G., & Sheleff, P.  (1987). Empirical results of a ten-year follow-up study on the effects of a neuropsychological rehabilitation program: A revaluation of chronicity.  Presented at the International Conference on the Rehabilitation of the Head-Injured Person:  A Neuropsychological Perspective, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  9. Hoofien, D., Vakil, E., & Blachstein, H. (1987). A longitudinal study of the relationship between cognitive improvement in treatment and rehabilitation outcome.  Presented at the International Conference on the Rehabilitation of the Head-Injured Person: A Neuropsychological Perspective, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  10. Hoofien, D., & Vakil, E. (1988).  Group intervention in vocational training of closed-head injured patients.  Presented at the National Conference of Social Workers, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  11. Vakil, E., Hoofien, D., & Blachstein, H. (1989).  Acquisition of verbal and nonverbal information by right- vs. left-brain-injured patients.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  12. Blachstein, H., Vakil, E., & Hoofien, D. (1990).  Learning disability in CHI patients: An acquisition and retention deficit. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Orlando, FL, USA.
  13. Vakil, E., & Blachstein, H. (1990).  Rey AVLT:  Factor analysis and measurement of incidental learning of temporal order.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Innsbruck, Austria.
  14. Vakil, E., Blachstein, H., & Hoofien, D. (1990).  Automatic temporal order judgment:  The effect of intentionality of retrieval on closed-head injured patients.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Innsbruck, Austria.
  15. Vakil, E., Hoofien, D., Sheleff, P., Blachstein, H., & Niego, O. (1990).  Performance of left- vs. right-brain-injured patients on long-term delayed recall of verbal and nonverbal memory tests.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Innsbruck, Austria.
  16. Vakil, E., Galek, S., Soroker, N., Ring, H., & Gross, Y. (1991).  The effect of right vs. left cerebral damage on automatic processes:  The case of frequency judgment.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, San Antonio, TX, USA.
  17. Vakil, E., Biran, N., & Soroker, N. (1991).  The effect of right vs. left cerebral damage on automatic processes:  The case of spatial location.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, San Antonio, TX, USA.
  18. Vakil, E., Arbel, N., Gozlan, M., Hoofien, D., & Blachstein, H. (1992).  The relative importance of informational units and its role in the long-term recall of closed-head injured and control groups.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.
  19. Vakil, E., Biederman, Y., Liran, G., & Groswasser, Z.  (1992). Closed-head injured patients and control group in frequency judgment:  Implicit vs. explicit measures.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.
  20. Vakil, E., Jaffe, R., Eluz, S., Groswasser, Z., & Aberbuch, S. (1993).  Recall versus reading speed of words:  Evidence of preserved priming in closed-head injured patients.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Galveston, TX, USA.
  21. Vakil, E., Golan, E., Grunbaum, Z., Groswasser, Z., & Aberbuch, S. (1993).  Implicit and explicit measures of contextual information:  Head injured vs. control subjects.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Galveston, TX, USA.
  22. Vakil, E. (1993).  Neuropsychology in Israel.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Madeira, Portugal.
  23. Vakil, E., Manovich, R., Ramati, E., & Blachstein, H. (1993).  The Stroop task as a measure of inhibitory mechanism: Efficiency in the elderly. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Madeira, Portugal.
  24. Vakil, E. (1993). Residual memory of traumatic brain-injured patients:  Theoretical and clinical implications.  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  25. Vakil, E. (1993).  Different approaches in psychotherapy with adult traumatic brain- injured patients.  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  26. Hoofien, D., Rolnik, A., Lvitzky, O., Vakil, E., Blachstein, H., & Mirkin, A. (1993).   A follow-up study of traumatic brain-injured patients:  Rationale, methods, and initial results.  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  27. Rolnik, A., Hoofien, D., Lvitzky, O., Vakil, E., & Sigal, J. (1993).  Variables related to military service as predictors of adaptation after severe traumatic brain injury:  Initial conclusions.  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  28. Vakil, E., Melamed, M., & Even, N. (1994).  Implicit and explicit measures of contextual information:  Elderly versus young adult subjects.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Angers, France.
  29. Vakil, E., Weisz, H., Jedwab, L., Groswasser, Z. & Aberbuch, S. (1994).  The Stroop color-word task as a measure of selective attention:  Efficiency in closed-head-injured patients. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Angers, France.
  30. Vakil, E., Kahana, A., & Blachstein, H. (1994).  Automatic temporal order judgment:  The effect of age and intentionality of retrieval.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Angers, France.
  31. Vakil, E., Sherf, R., Hoffman, M., & Stern, M. (1995). Direct and indirect measures of temporal order and spatial location memory:  Control versus CHI subjects.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Seattle, WA, USA.
  32. Vakil, E., Mosak, C., & Ashkenazi, M. (1996).  The effect of aging on script memory for typical and atypical actions.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Chicago, IL, USA.
  33. Vakil, E., Soroker, N., & Borenstein, E. (1996).  Differential effect of right and left hemispheric lesions on two memory tasks:  Free recall and temporal order judgment. Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  34. Vakil, E., Openheim, M., Falck, D., Aberbuch, S., & Groswasser, Z. (1997). The indirect influence of modality on the direct memory for words and their modality: Closed-head injured patients versus control participants.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Orlando, FL, USA.
  35. Vakil E., Schnaider-Beeri, M., Adonski A., & Levencron, S. (1998). Perceptual priming, aging and Alzheimer's disease. Presented at the 2nd Bessie & Louis Stein Geriatrics Conference on Aging in the Mediterranean and the Middle East.
  36. Vakil, E., & Tesler, E. (1998). Frequency judgment: The effects of testing condition and scoring method on age and learning conditions.  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  37. Vakil, E., & Lebstein, M. (1998). Procedural memory as a tool for detection malingering of amnesia. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  38. Vakil, E., & Bar-Lev, N. (1998). The development of procedural memory. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  39. Vakil, E., Nagar, I., & Grunhaus, L. (1998). The effect of ECT on procedural memory in patients with depression.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, Honolulu, HI, USA.
  40. Vakil, E., Ben-Chaim, E., & Grunhaus, L. (1998). The effect of ECT on perceptual priming in patients with depression.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, Honolulu, HI, USA.
  41. Vakil, E., Hendler, T., Oshri, M., Amitai, V., Salhov, D., & Zohar, J. (1998). Declarative versus procedural memory in OCD.  Presented at the Meeting of the Israel Society for Biological Psychiatry, Kfar Giladi, Israel.
  42. Kramer, A., Hahn, S., Banich, M., Cohen, N., McAuley, E., Bardell, L., Harrison, C., Chason, J., Vakil, E., Prioux, H., Glass, A., Minear, M., & Nash, C. (1998). Influence of aerobic fitness on the neurocognitive function of sedentary older adults.  Presented at the Seventh Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  43. Vakil, E. (1998). Memory impairment following closed-head injury:  Conceptual, diagnostic, and rehabilitation implications.  Invited lecture presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
  44. Vakil, E., Soroker, N., & Blachstein, H. (1998).  The effect of basal ganglionic lesions on declarative and procedural tasks. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
  45. Vakil, E., & Herishanu-Naaman, S. (1998). Declarative and procedural learning in subtypes of Parkinson’s disease: Patients with tremor versus bradykinesia as the predominant symptom. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
  46. Vakil, E. (1999). The contribution of the basal ganglia to the memory system: Cognitive approach. Presented at the Israel Society for Physiology and Pharmacology, Ma’ale Hachamisha, Israel.
  47. Gigi, A., Kahana, E., Vakil, E., Hadar, U., & Prohovnik, I.  (1999). Neuropsychological assessment in early Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Presented at Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25, 739.12.
  48. Vakil, E., Altman, A., Barnea, A., & Karni, H. (1999). The effect of interactive versus independent context on face recognition: Closed-head injured patients versus control participants. Presented at the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  49. Vakil, E., Gordon, Y., & Birnstok, S. (2000).  Declarative and nondeclarative sequence learning tasks: Closed-head injured patients versus control participants.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Denver, CO, USA.
  50. Vakil, E. (2000).  Memory and brain: The involvement of the basal ganglia in the skill-learning process.  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Haifa, Israel.
  51. Hoofien, D., Gilboa, A., & Vakil, E. (2000). Self-awareness as the difference between subjective and objective evaluations and its relations to psychiatric symptomatology and daily functioning among persons with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI).  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Haifa, Israel.
  52. Ken-Dror, E., Nachshon, I., & Vakil, E. (2000). Effects of saliency in figure or ground on recognition memory of facial stimuli by closed-head injured patients.  Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israel Psychological Association, Haifa, Israel.
  53. Hoofien, D., Gilboa,  A., Vakil, A., & Donovick, P. (2000). Traumatic brain injury (TBI) 10-20 years later: A comprehensive follow-up study of psychiatric symptomatology, cognitive abilities and psychosocial functioning. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Brussels, Belgium.
  54. Hoofien, D., Barak, O., Vakil, E., & Gilboa, A. (2001). Depression after TBI: Affective contents or cognitive/somatic symptoms. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Brasilia, Brazil.
  55. Vakil, E., Kraus, A., Bor, B., & Groswasser, Z. (2002). Skill learning in CHI patients as demonstrated by the Serial Reaction Time Task. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Toronto, Canada.
  56. Vakil, E., & Oded, Y. (2002). Cued recall, priming and saving in CHI patients.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Toronto, Canada.
  57. Vakil, E., Sharot, T., Markowitz, M., Aberbuch, S., & Groswasser, Z. (2002). Script memory for typical and atypical actions: Control versus closed-head injured participants. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
  58. Hoofien, D., Gilboa, A., Vakil, A., & Barak, O. (2002). Unawareness of cognitive deficits and its relations to daily functioning among persons with traumatic brain injuries. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
  59. Vakil, E., Loewenschuss, I., & Karni, A. (2002). Time-delay and transfer in different stages of learning the Tower-of-Hanoi. Presented at the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO, USA.
  60. Vakil, E., & Raz, T. (2003). Factors affecting the context effect: Learning conditions, divided attention and time delay. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  61. Vakil, E., Stadler, A., & Kolman, L. (2004). The effect of age on motor skill learning as demonstrated by a modified version of the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task.  Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  62. Vakil, E., Busharia, I., & Soroker, N. (2004). Context effect in patients with right and left hemispheric lesions. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  63. Vakil, E. & Wasserman, A. (2004). The development of perceptual and conceptual memory in different memory systems. Presented at the Joint Meeting of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment and the International Neuropsychological Society in Brisbane, Australia.
  64. Cohen, O., Tanne, D., Vakil, E., Nitsan, Z., Chapman, J., & Hassin-Baer, S. (2004). The association between the level of education and neuropsychiatric manifestations in Parkinson’s disease. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurolology in San Francisco, CA, USA.
  65. Silberg, T. & Vakil, E. (2004). The influence of learning instruction on context effect: Immediate and delayed testing. Presented at the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  66. Cohen, O., Tanne, D., Vakil, E., Nitsan, Z., Tanne, D. Hassin-Baer, S. (2005). The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) is a sensitive but not a specific tool for evaluation of frontal lobe dysfunction in patients with Parkinson's disease. Presented at the International Congress on Parkinson's disease, Berlin, Germany.
  67. Vakil, E. & Rhein, Z. (2006). The effect of length of sequence in the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) task on learning rate and transfer. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4) in Sydney, Australia.
  68. Vakil, E. & Heled, E. (2006). Adaptive versus Routine training methods for solving the Tower of Hanoi puzzle: The cost of transfer. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4) in Sydney, Australia.
  69. Levy-Gigi, E. & Vakil, E. (2006). Context effect on memory in eyewitness testimony versus retroactive interference paradigms. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4) Sydney, Australia.
  70. Vakil, E. (2006). Memory impairment following diffused versus focal brain lesions: The case of TBI. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-4) Sydney, Australia.
  71. Bar David, O. & Vakil, E. (2006). What is really learned in sequence learning? Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference Zurich. Switzerland.
  72. Silberg, T. & Vakil, E. (2006). What defines "Target" versus "Context" information? Factors contributing to the "Context Effect" on memory. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference Zurich. Switzerland.
  73. Rhein, Z. & Vakil, E. (2006). The effect of sequence complexity in the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) on learning rate and transfer? Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference Zurich. Switzerland.
  74. Vakil, E. (2007). Beyond trial and error: Theory - driven methods of memory assessmen and remediation. Workshop, Presented at the annual meeting of The Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI), Australia.
  75. Vakil, E. (2007). Opening the black box: Analyzing cognitive processes to connect brain and behavior – the case of memory. Keynote speaker, Presented at the annual meeting of The Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI), Australia.
  76. Paran. D., Litinsky. I., Navon. S., Hendler, T., Caspi. D.,  & Vaki, E. (2007). Impaired memory and learning abilities in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus as measured by the Rey-Auditory Verbal Learning Test. Presented at the annual European Congress of Rheumatology EULAR, Barcelona, Spain.
  77. Vakil, E. (2008). Beyond trial and error: Theory - driven methods of memory assessment and remediation. Workshop, Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Hawaii, USA.
  78. Shapira-Lichter, I., Litinsky, I., Maimon, A., Vakil, E., Caspi, D., Hendler, T., & Paran, D. (2008). Functional MRI assessment of memory impairment in SLE. Preliminary results. Presented at the 7th European Lupus Meeting. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  79. Zadka, H., Bergman, H., & Vakil, E. (2008). Number of occurrences of different stimuli on probabilistic classification tasks does not affect the learning process. The Israel Society for Neuroscience, 17th Annual Meeting, Eilat, Israel.
  80. Vakil, E., Raz, T., & Levy, D. A. (2009). Probing the brain substrates of cognitive processes responsible for context effects on recognition memory. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  81. Levy, D. A., and E. Vakil. Forgotten but not gone: Unconscious memory traces yield context effects on recognition. Presented at COST Conference on Consciousness and its Measures, Limassol, Cyprus, December 2009.
  82. Hassin-Baer, S., Karni, A., Cohen, O. S., & Vakil, E. (2009). Cognitive procedural learning and long-term memory in patients with Parkinson's disease extensively trained in the Tower of Hanoi Puzzle. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  83. Shapira-Lichter, I., Hendler, T., Litinsky, I., Vakil, E., Caspi, D., & Paran, D. (2010). Dynamic Signature of Free Recall in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Healthy and SLE Participants. Presented at the 16th Annual Meeting Human Brain Mapping - HBM, Barcelona, Spain.
  84. Lifshitz, H., Vakil, E., & Iyhie, M. (2010). Explicit and Implicit Memory Among Participants with William Syndrome, Down Syndrome and Fragile X versus Participants with Typical Development. Presented at the 43rd Gatlinburg Conference on research in Intellectual disability, Maryland, USA.
  85. Bloch, A. & Vakil, E. (2010). The Impact of Delay, Interactive Instructions and Exposure Time on the Emergence of Memory Context Effects. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Krakow, Poland.
  86. Lifshitz, H., Vakil, E., & Iyhie, M. (2010). Explicit and implicit memory among participants with Down syndrome and Fragile X versus participants with the same cognitive level. Presented at the 12th international conference on Fragile X syndrome, Detroit, USA.
  87. Vakil, E. (2010). Memory Impairment following Traumatic Brain Injury: Can we learn from TBI about Brain-Behavior Relations? Yes we can! Keynote speaker, Presented at the 61st. Conference of the Israeli Association of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  88. Tibon, R., Vakil, E., Levy D.A., & Goldstein, A. (2010). Differential brain activation patterns for item recognition and intertemporal associations: a MEG study. Presented at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Neuroscience, Eilat, Israel.
  89. Vakil, E, Shalev, E., & Agranov, E. (2011). Direct and indirect memory measures of contextual information: High versus low functioning patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  90. Vakil, E., Lev-Ran Galon, C., & Agranov, E. (2011). Conceptual and Perceptual Skill Learning: High versus low functioning patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  91. Levy, D. A., Tibon, R., Vakil, E., & Goldstein, A. (2011). Item recognition and inter-temporal associations: A MEG study. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco, USA.
  92. Vakil, E., Hassin-Baer, S., & Karni, A. (2011). Robust long-term retention of patients with Parkinson's disease on the Tower of Hanoi Puzzle following multi-session training. Presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory (ICOM5), York, England.
  93. Vakil, E., & Schonbach-Medina, S. (2011). The influence of contextual information on performance in attentional versus recognition tasks. Presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory (ICOM5), York, England.
  94. Tibon, R., Vakil, E., Levy, D., & Goldstein, A. (2011). Early and Late Retrieval Processes: A MEG study of Neural Dynamics Related to Inter-temporal Context Effect. The XI International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON). Palma, Mallorca, Spain.
  95. Gabay, Y., Schiff, R., & Vakil, E. (2012). Dissociation between online and offline learning in Developmental Dyslexia. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Montreal, Canada.
  96. Levi, Y., Vakil, E., Agranov, E., Sela, M., Sverdlik, A., & Rassovsky, Y. (2012). Predicting long-term outcome following Traumatic Brain Injury: An empirical investigation of the reserve hypothesis. Presented at the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) Ninth Annual World Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  97. Sela, M., Rassovsky, Y., Agranov, E., Levi, Y., Sverdlik, A., & Vakil, E. (2012). Emotional reserve in Traumatic Brain Injury: Evaluating construct validity of emotional reserve and its relationship to functional outcome. Presented at the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) Ninth Annual World Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  98. Gofer-Levi, M., Silberg, T., Brezner, A., & Vakil, E. (2012). Skill learning among children with spastic CP. Presented at the International Cerebral Palsy Conference, Pisa, Italy.
  99. Vakil, E. (2013). The Reserve Construct: How homogeneous is it? Symposium organizer, Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Hawaii, USA.
  100. Vakil, E., Levi, Y., Agranov, E., Sela-Kaufman, M., & Rassovsky, Y. (2013). Predicting long-term outcome following traumatic brain injury (TBI): Three-factor cognitive reserve structure. Symposium, presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Hawaii, USA.
  101. Rassovsky, Y., Sela-Kaufman, M., Levi, Y., Agranov, E., & Vakil, E. (2013). Emotional reserve in traumatic brain injury: Evaluating construct validity of emotional reserve and its relationship to functional outcome. Symposium, presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Hawaii, USA.
  102. Schiff, R., & Vakil, E. (2013). The development of skill learning as demonstrated by the ‘Tower of Hanoi’ task. presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Hawaii, USA.
  103. Vakil, E. (2013). Traumatic Brain Injury: Neuropathology, memory and outcome. Symposium organizer, presented at the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN) Conference, Berlin, Germany.
  104. Vakil, E. (2013). Memory impairment following Traumatic Brain Injury. Presented at the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (ESN) Conference, Berlin, Germany.
  105. Gofer-Levi, M., Silberg, T., Brezner, A., & Vakil, E. (2013). The Differential Effect of Age and Non- Verbal Intelligence on Different Skill Learning Types among Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  106. Silberg, T., Eliayhu, R., Vakil, E., Ahonniska-Assa, J., Brezner, A., & Pilowsky, T. (2013). Verbal memory abilities among children with severe TBI: the differential effect of age on the Rey AVLT. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  107. Gofer-Levi, M., Silberg, T., Brezner, A., & Vakil, E. (2013). Motor Sequence Learning in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy: Differentiation between General Skill Learning and Implicit Sequence Learning. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM), Milwaukee, WI, USA.
  108. Bloch, A., Brick, L., Refael, M., Ariav, K., & Vakil, E. (2014). Context effects in adults with ADHD: Behavioral and eye movement measures. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
  109. Vakil, E., Mass, M., & Schiff, R. (2014). Adults with ADHD eye movement performance on the Stroop task. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
  110. Gabay, Y., Schiff, R., Vakil, E., & Holt, L. (2014). Impaired probabilistic learning mechanisms in Developmental Dyslexia. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
  111. Blachstein, H. & Vakil, E. (2014). Verbal learning across the lifespan: An analysis of the components of the learning curve. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
  112. Taragin, D., Tzuriel, D., & Vakil, E. (2014). Mental rotation: The effects of processing strategy and gender on children’s performance and eye movements’ pattern. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
  113. Zadka, H., Bergman, H., & Vakil, E. (2014). Patients with Parkinson’s Disease are able to learn in a probabilistic feedback-based learning environment when level of uncertainty is reduced. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
  114. Gofer-Levi, M., Silberg, T., Brezner, A., & Vakil, E. (2014). What can implicit measures tell us about learning abilities among children with Cerebral Palsy (CP)? Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
  115. Bloch, A., Tamir, D., Zeilig, G., & Vakil, E. (2014). Motor and non-motor sequence learning in people with spinal cord injury. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Mid-Year Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel.
  116. Vakil, E. (2014). Cognitive reserve and TBI.  Keynote speaker, Presented at the annual meeting of the la Société de Neuropsychologie de Langue Française (SNLF). Paris, France.
  117. Vakil, E. (2014). Outsourcing memories: Factors that determine memory context effects.  Presented at the annual meeting of the la Société de Neuropsychologie de Langue Française (SNLF). Paris, France.
  118. Nitzan-Tamar, O., Kramarski, B. & Vakil, E. (2015). Eye-Tracking patterns as a tool to identify and classify cognitive styles. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Denver, USA.
  119. Vakil, E. (2015). Eye tracking: Implicit measures of implicit memory. Presented at The 1st Israeli Eye Tracking Conference. Tel Aviv, Israel.
  120. Vakil, E. (2015). Declarative versus procedural memory: the distinction between task and process. Presented at the International Conference Cognitive and Neurocognitive Aspects of Learning Abilities and Disabilities. Haifa, Israel.
  121. Vakil, E., Ben-Nachum, U., Sompolinsky, B. & Berant, E. (2015). Memory for context and field dependence in patients with moderate-to-severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Sydney, Australia.
  122. Vakil, E. (2015). Long-term outcome following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Three-factor cognitive reserve structure. Presented (Symposium) at the annual American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), Dallas, USA.
  123. Vakil, E. (2015). Community integration for individuals with brain injury: A cross-cultural review of service delivery models. Presented (Symposium discussant) at the annual American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), Dallas, USA.
  124. Vakil, E. (2015). Dissociation Between Memory Processes: The Contribution of Research on Memory Impairment Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Keynote speaker, Presented at the annual American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), Dallas, USA.
  125. Chen, I., Lifshitz-Vahav, H., & Vakil, E. (2015). Intelligence and memory trajectories among adolescents and adults with ID compared to those with typical development (TD). Presented at the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, Athens, Greece.
  126. Zemach, M., Lifshitz-Vahav, H., & Vakil, E. (2015). Intelligence and memory trajectories in middle age and adults with ID, compared to those with TD. Presented at the International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, Athens, Greece.
  127. Packer, L., Silberg, T., Gofer-Levi, M., Landa, J., Brezner, A., & Vakil, E. (2015). Implicit memory in children with TBI shows similar trends as typically developing children. Presented at the International Conference on Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury, Liverpool, England.
  128. Vakil, E. (2015). Long-term outcome following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Three-factor cognitive reserve structure. Invited lecture presented at The College of Clinical Neuropsychologists (CCN), Queensland Branch, Australia.
  129. Vakil, E. (2015). Dissociation Between Memory Processes: The Contribution of Research on Memory Impairment Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Invited lecture presented to School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University Melbourne, Australia.
  130. Vakil, E. (2015). Long-term outcome following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Three-factor cognitive reserve structure. Invited lecture presented at the School of Psychology, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia.
  131. Vakil, E., Aviv, O., Mishael, M., & Sacher, Y. (2016). Direct and indirect measures of context in patients with moderate-to-severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): The additive contribution of eye tracking. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  132. Vakil, E. (2016).  Anticipation measures of sequence learning: Manual versus oculomotor versions of the serial reaction time task. Invited lecture presented at the 6th International Meeting of the Haifa Forum for Brain and Behavior, Haifa, Israel.
  133. Packer, L., Silberg, T., Gofer-Levi, M., Landa, J., Brezner, A., & Vakil, E. (2016). Motor and cognitive skill learning preserved after pediatric traumatic brain injury, Presented at the Eleventh World Congress on Brain Injury, Hague, the Netherlands.
  134. Kahana-Levy, N., Borowsky, A. & Vakil, E. (2016). The effects of repetitive presentation of a specific video based hazard on novice and experienced drivers' hazard perception procedural learning abilities. Presented at the European conference of human centered design for intelligent transport systems, Loughborough University, UK.
  135. Vakil, E., Bloch, A., & Cohen, H. (2016). Anticipation measures of sequence learning: Manual versus oculomotor versions of the Serial Reaction Time Task. Presented at the 6th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-6), Budapest, Hungary.
  136. Vakil, E. (2016). Direct and indirect measures of context in patients with TBI: The additive contribution of eye tracking. Symposium presented at the 6th International Conference on Memory (ICOM-6), Budapest, Hungary.
  137. Vakil, E., Betser-Cohen, G., & Vardi, N. (2016). Conceptual and perceptual processes involved in context effect in memory: Behavioral and eye tracking measures. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, London, UK.
  138. Vakil, E. (2016). Long-term outcome following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Three-factor cognitive reserve structure. Invited lecture, Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI). ASSBI Webinar Series 2016.
  139. Kahana-Levy, N., Golkin, S., Borowsky, A., & Vakil, E. (2016). The effects of repetitive presentation of a specific video based hazard on novice and experienced drivers hazard perception procedural learning abilities. Proceedings of the European Conference on Human Centered Design for Intelligent Transport Systems. Loughborough, UK.
  140. Parag, O., & Vakil, E. (2017). Distinct eye movements for different cognitive processes as expressed in the face recognition task. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  141. Vakil, E. Ohayon, M., & Aviv, O. (2017). Direct and indirect measures of context in older versus young adult: The additive contribution of eye tracking. Presented (Symposium) at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  142. Vakil, E. (2017). Long-term outcome following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Three-factor cognitive reserve structure. Invited lecture presented at the Kessler foundation, N.J. USA.
  143. Vakil, E. (2017). Dissociation between Memory Processes: The Contribution of Research on Memory Impairment following Traumatic Brain Injury. Invited lecture presented at the conference on Memory, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
  144. Vakil, E. (2017). Declarative versus procedural memory: the distinction between task and process. Invited lecture presented at the Israeli Scientific Foundation (ISF) workshop on language and memory, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
  145. Vakil, E. (2017). The effect of practice variability on transfer in a cognitive skill learning task. Invited lecture presented at the International conference on Cognitive Improvement: Approaches, Mechanisms and Applications. Bar Ilan University, Israel.
  146. Packer, L, Gofer-Levi, M., Silberg, T., Bar, O., Landa, J., Brezner, A & Vakil, E. (2017). Skill Learning Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury is Associated with Child’s Phase of Recovery: Preliminary Findings. The 2nd International Conference on Pediatric Brain Injury, Rome, Italy.
  147. Vakil, E. (2017). Dissociation between memory processes: The contribution of research on memory impairment following Traumatic Brain Injury. Invited lecture presented to Center for Applied Neuroscience. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
  148. Vakil, E., McDonald, S, Vardi-Shapiro, N., & Allen, S. K. (2018). Facial expressions yielding context memory effect: The additive contribution of eye movements. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Washington, DC., USA.
  149. Bloch, A., Vakil. E., Shaham, M., Tamir, D., Zeilig, G., (2018). Characterizing implicit sequence learning deficits following spinal cord injury using an oculomotor Serial Reaction Time Task among individuals with tetraplegia. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Washington, DC., USA.
  150. Schwizer Ashkenazi, S., Silberg, T., Gutman D., Brezner A., Vakil, E. (2018). Implicit Sequence Learning in Children with Cerebral Palsy: New Directions and Preliminary Findings. Presented at the East European and Mediterranean Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (EEMCPDM) Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  151. Vakil, E., Schwizer Ashkenazi, S., Nevet-Perez, M., & Hassin-Baer, S. (2018). Implicit sequence learning in individuals with Parkinson’s disease, measured by an oculomotor activated Serial Reaction Time Task. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
  152. Vakil, E., Schwizer Ashkenazi, S., & Sacher, Y. (2018). Implicit  Sequence Learning Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Measured by an Oculomotor-Activated Serial Reaction Time Task. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
  153. Kahana-Levy, N., Vakil, E., Borowsky, A., & Sacher, Y. (2018). The effects of repetitive presentation of a specific video based hazards on drivers after Traumatic Brain Injury and age matched experienced drivers' hazard awareness abilities. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.
  154. Tal, A., Bar, M., & Vakil, E. (2018). Exploratory and exploitatory tendencies in oculomotor anticipation during a Serial Reaction Time Task. Presented at the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci) conference, Madison, WI, USA.
  155. Tal, A., & Vakil, E. (2018). Probabilistic analysis of oculomotor signal reveals non sequential learning patterns in a sequential learning paradigm. Presented at the Society for Mathematical Psychology (MathPsych) conference, Madison, WI, USA.
  156. Dalla Torre, M. & Vakil, E. (2019). Eye movements as a potential factor for facilitating memory retrieval in older adults. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New York City, NY, USA.
  157. Vakil, E., Greenstein, Y., Weiss, I., & Shtein, S. (2019). The effects of moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury on episodic memory. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New York City, NY, USA.
  158. Krch, D., Frank, L., Chiaravalloti, N. D., Vakil, E., & DeLuca, J. (2019). Cognitive reserve protects against memory decrements associated with neuropathology in traumatic brain injury. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New York City, NY, USA.
  159. Stone, E., Vakil, E., DeLuca, J., Genova, H. (2019). Facial affect recognition differences in individuals with MS: A pilot study using eye-tracking. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New York City, NY, USA.
  160. Vakil, E., Deitcher, Y., & Sachar, Y. (2019). Effect of eye movement reactivation on visual memory among individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Presented at the European Conference on Eye Movement (ECEM). Alicante, Spain.
  161. Vakil, E., Deitcher, Y., & Sachar, Y. (2019). Effect of eye movement reactivation on visual memory among individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA.
  162. Lugasi, N., Sachar, Y., & Vakil, E. (2020). The effect of facial expressions on the process of learning, and memory of face images among healthy participants and individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI): Examination using eye movements. Presented (virtually) at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Vienna, Austria.
  163. Lambez, B., & Vakil, E. (2021). Auditory and visual Versions of the WMS III Logical Memory subtest: The effect of relative importance of information units on forgetting Rate. Presented (virtually) at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.
  164. Lambez, B., & Vakil, E. (2021). The effectiveness of External vs. Internal memory remediation strategies as a function of injury severity in individuals with traumatic brain injury: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Presented (virtually) at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.
  165. Tal, A., & Vakil, E. (2021). Dissociating grammar learning from sequence learning in a sequence learning task; CogSci 2021 Boston-Cambridge Meetup at MIT-BCS, Boston, USA.
  166. Vakil, E. (2021). Dissociations of memory processes: The contribution of research on memory impairment following Traumatic Brain Injury.  Keynote speaker, Presented at the annual meeting of the la Société de Neuropsychologie de Langue Française (SNLF). Paris, France.
  167. Schwizer Ashkenazi, S., Raiter-Avni, R., & Vakil, E. (2022). The benefit of assessing implicit sequence learning in pianists with an eye-tracked Serial Reaction Time Task. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  168. Lugasi, N., Sachar, Y., & Vakil, E. (2022). Emotional context-dependent effect: Perceptual vs. conceptual processes. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA.
  169. Schwizer Ashkenazi, S. & Vakil, E. (2022). Do facial expressions yield Context-Dependent Effect in times of COVID-19? Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
  170. Schwizer Ashkenazi, S., Hacohen-Brown, S. & Vakil, E. (2022). Implicit sequence learning in elderly - measured by an Oculomotor Activated Serial Reaction Time Task (O-SRT). Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
  171. Lowenscuss-Erlich, I., Karni, A., Gal, C., & Vakil, E. (2022). The effect of intervals after practicing a simple motor task and a complex cognitive task. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
  172. Lugasi, N., Sacher, Y., & Vakil, E. (2023). The Effect of Face and Body Expressions on the Process of Learning and Memory of Images Among Healthy Participants and Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Examination Using Eye Movements. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.
  173. Vakil, E., Schiff, R. & Blachstein, H. (2023). Implicit Sequence Learning Deficits in Developmental Dyslexia: The Role of Verbal Material, Auditory Modality and Procedural Learning. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.
  174. Vakil, E., Schwizer Ashkenazi, S., Finazzi, S., & Sacher, Y. (2023). Context Effect and Modality Transfer in Controls and Individuals Following Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.
  175. Marmor, A., Vakil, E., & Meiner, Z. (2024). Cognitive Reserve, as Measured by Higher Education Level, Predicts Delayed Age of Onset but Higher Deterioration Rate Among Patients with Alzheimer's Disease Receiving Treatment. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New York, NY, USA.
  176. Lambez, B., Vakil, E., Azouvi, P., & Vallat-Azouvi, C. (2024). Working Memory
  177. Multicomponent Model Outcomes in Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New York, NY, USA.
  178. Marmor, A., Vakil, E., & Meiner, Z. (2024). Cognitive Reserve as a Predictor of Age of Onset and Cognitive Decline in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease. Will be presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC). Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  179. Vakil, E., Blachstein, H., Elyoseph, Z (2024). Factor Analyses Across Life Span: Based on Composite Scores Derived from the Rey – Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT). Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Porto, Portugal.
  180. Lambez, B., Pivenc, L., Vakil, E., & Granata, A. (2024). Parental Post-Traumatic Stress and Post-Traumatic Growth for Children with Acquired Brain Injury: The Role of Attachment Style and Injury Severity. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Porto, Portugal.
  181. Vakil, E. (2024). Brain Health and the Many Faces of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Discussant of the symposium Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Porto, Portugal.
  182. De Picciotto, Y., Amit, I., Vakil, E., & Saban, W. (2024). Online Assessment of Cognitive Impairment in Large -Scale Cerebellar Ataxia Cohort: Mixed Methods Study. Presented at the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, Porto, Portugal.