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Nachshon Meiran : Curriculum Vitae

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

Berkovich, R., & Meiran, N. (2024). Both pleasant and unpleasant emotional feelings follow Weber’s Law but it depends how you ask. Emotion.
Garbi, D., & Meiran, N. (2024). The structure of individual differences in procedural working memory: Comparing task switching and stimulus response rule information load. Intelligence, 104, 101817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2024.101817
Givon, E., Berkovich, R., Oz-Cohen, E., Rubinstein, K., Singer-Landau, E., Udelsman-Danieli, G., & Meiran, N. (2023). Are women truly “more emotional” than men? Sex differences in an indirect model-based measure of emotional feelings. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04227-z
Amir, I., Peleg, L., & Meiran, N. (2022). Automatic effects of instructions: a tale of two paradigms. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01596-1
Bakun Emesh, T., Garbi, D., Kaplan, A., Zelicha, H., Yaskolka Meir, A., Tsaban, G., Rinott, E., & Meiran, N. (2022). Retest reliability of integrated speed–accuracy measures. Assessment, 29(4), 717–730. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120985609
Berkovich, R., & Meiran, N. (2022). Pleasant emotional feelings follow one of the most basic psychophysical laws (Weber’s law) as most sensations do. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001161
Givon, E., Udelsman-Danieli, G., Almagor, O., Fekete, T., Shriki, O., & Meiran, N. (2022). Can feelings “feel” wrong? Similarities between counter-normative emotion reports and perceptual errors. Psychological Science, 09567976211063915. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211063915
Kaplan, A., Zelicha, H., Yaskolka Meir, A., Rinott, E., Tsaban, G., Levakov, G., Prager, O., Salti, M., Yovell, Y., Ofer, J., Huhn, S., Beyer, F., Witte, V., Villringer, A., Meiran, N., B Emesh, T., Kovacs, P., von Bergen, M., Ceglarek, U., … Shai, I. (2022). The effect of a high-polyphenol Mediterranean diet (Green-MED) combined with physical activity on age-related brain atrophy: the Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial Polyphenols Unprocessed Study (DIRECT PLUS). The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 115(5), 1270–1281. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqac001
Kleiman, T., Meiran, N., & Eyal, T. (2022). Perspectives, they might be a-changin’: A proactive-control take on the cognitive cost of maintaining one’s own perspective. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001132
Levakov, G., Kaplan, A., Yaskolka Meir, A., Rinott, E., Tsaban, G., Zelicha, H., Meiran, N., Shelef, I., Shai, I., & Avidan, G. (2021). Neural correlates of future weight loss reveal a possible role for brain-gastric interactions. NeuroImage, 224, 117403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117403
Pereg, M., Harpaz, D., Sabah, K., Ben-Shachar, M. S., Amir, I., Dreisbach, G., & Meiran, N. (2021). Learning the abstract general task structure in a rapidly changing task content. Journal of Cognition, 4(1), 31. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.176
Pereg, M., & Meiran, N. (2021). Power of instructions for task implementation: superiority of explicitly instructed over inferred rules. Psychological Research, 85(3), 1047–1065. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01293-5
Sabah, K., Dolk, T., Meiran, N., & Dreisbach, G. (2021). Enhancing task-demands disrupts learning but enhances transfer gains in short-term task-switching training. Psychological Research, 85(4), 1473–1487. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01335-y
Sabah, K., Meiran, N., & Dreisbach, G. (2021). Examining the trainability and transferability of working-memory gating policies. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement, 5(3), 330–342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-021-00205-8
Singer-Landau, E., & Meiran, N. (2021). Cognitive appraisal contributes to feeling generation through emotional evidence accumulation rate: Evidence from instructed fictional reappraisal. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 21(7), 1366–1378. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001006
Givon, E., Itzhak-Raz, A., Karmon-Presser, A., Danieli, G., & Meiran, N. (2020). How does the emotional experience evolve? Feeling generation as evidence accumulation. Emotion, 20(2), 271–285. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000537
Gordon, S., Todder, D., Deutsch, I., Garbi, D., Alkobi, O., Shriki, O., Shkedy-Rabani, A., Shahar, N., & Meiran, N. (2020). Effects of neurofeedback and working memory-combined training on executive functions in healthy young adults. Psychological Research, 84, 1586–1609. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01170-w
Kopp, B., Steinke, A., Meiran, N., Seer, C., & Lange, F. (2020). Stimulus- and response-based interference contributes to the costs of switching between cognitive tasks. Psychological Research, 84(4), 1112–1125. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1113-5
Meiran, N. (2020). Simple Control (Commentary). Journal of Cognition, 3(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.107
Gluth, S., & Meiran, N. (2019). Leave-One-Trial-Out, LOTO, a general approach to link single-trial parameters of cognitive models to neural data. ELife, 8. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.42607
Karmon-Presser, A., & Meiran, N. (2019). A signal-detection approach to individual differences in negative feeling. Heliyon, 5(4), e01344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01344
Meiran, N., Dreisbach, G., & von Bastian, C. C. (2019). Mechanisms of working memory training: Insights from individual differences. Intelligence, 73, 78–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2019.01.010
Pereg, M., & Meiran, N. (2019). Rapid instructed task learning (but not automatic effects of instructions) is influenced by working memory load. PLOS ONE, 14(6), 1–25. https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0217681.html
Pereg, M., Shahar, N., & Meiran, N. (2019). Can we learn to learn? The influence of procedural working-memory training on rapid instructed-task-learning. Psychological Research, 83(1), 132–146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1122-4
Sabah, K., Dolk, T., Meiran, N., & Dreisbach, G. (2019). When less is more: costs and benefits of varied vs. fixed content and structure in short-term task switching training. Psychological Research, 83(7), 1531–1542. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1006-7
Cole, M. W., Patrick, L. M., Meiran, N., & Braver, T. S. (2018). A role for proactive control in rapid instructed task learning. Acta Psychologica, 184, 20–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.06.004
Gordon, S., Todder, D., Deutsch, I., Garbi, D., Getter, N., & Meiran, N. (2018). Are resting state spectral power measures related to executive functions in healthy young adults? Neuropsychologia, 108, 61–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.10.031
Karmon-Presser, A., Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N. (2018). How does it “feel”? A Signal Detection approach to feeling generation. Emotion, 18(1), 94–115. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000298
Katzir, M., Ori, B., & Meiran, N. (2018). “Optimal suppression” as a solution to the paradoxical cost of multitasking: examination of suppression specificity in task switching. Psychological Research, 82(1), 24–39. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0930-2
Liefooghe, B., Braem, S., & Meiran, N. (2018). The implications and applications of learning via instructions. Acta Psychologica, 184, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.09.015
Meiran, N., & Shahar, N. (2018). Working memory involvement in reaction time and its contribution to fluid intelligence: An examination of individual differences in reaction-time distributions. Intelligence, 69, 176–185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2018.06.004
Pereg, M., & Meiran, N. (2018). Evidence for instructions-based updating of task-set representations: the informed fadeout effect. Psychological Research, 82(3), 549–569. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-017-0842-1
Shahar, N., Pereg, M., Teodorescu, A. R., Moran, R., Karmon-Presser, A., & Meiran, N. (2018). Formation of abstract task representations: Exploring dosage and mechanisms of working memory training effects. Cognition, 181, 151–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.007
Verbruggen, F., McLaren, R., Pereg, M., & Meiran, N. (2018). Structure and implementation of novel task rules: A cross-sectional developmental study. Psychological Science, 29(7), 1113–1125. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618755322
Cole, M. W., Braver, T. S., & Meiran, N. (2017). The task novelty paradox: Flexible control of inflexible neural pathways during rapid instructed task learning. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 81, 4–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.02.009
ErEl, H., & Meiran, N. (2017). A drop in performance on a fluid intelligence test due to instructed-rule mindset. Psychological Research, 81(5), 901–909. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-016-0796-8
Halali, E., Meiran, N., & Shalev, I. (2017). Keep it cool: Temperature priming effect on cognitive control. Psychological Research, 81(2), 343–354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-016-0753-6
Meiran, N., Liefooghe, B., & De Houwer, J. (2017). Powerful instructions: Automaticity without practice. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26(6), 509–514. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721417711638
Meiran, N., & Pereg, M. (2017). Automatic retrieval of newly instructed cue-task associations seen in task-conflict effects in the first trial after cue-task instructions. Experimental Psychology, 64(1), 37–48. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000349
Regev, S., & Meiran, N. (2017). Cue response dissociates inhibitory processes: Task identity information is related to backward inhibition but not to competitor rule suppression. Psychological Research, 81(1), 168–181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0742-1
Shahar, N., Teodorescu, A. R., Anholt, G. E., Karmon-Presser, A., & Meiran, N. (2017). Examining procedural working memory processing in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 253, 197–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.03.048
Forman, E. M., Shaw, J. A., Goldstein, S. P., Butryn, M. L., Martin, L. M., Meiran, N., Crosby, R. D., & Manasse, S. M. (2016). Mindful decision making and inhibitory control training as complementary means to decrease snack consumption. Appetite, 103, 176–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2016.04.014
Gonen-Yaacovi, G., Arazi, A., Shahar, N., Karmon, A., Haar, S., Meiran, N., & Dinstein, I. (2016). Increased ongoing neural variability in ADHD. Cortex, 81, 50–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.04.010
Hadas, I., Gal, R., Bokovza, L., Meiran, N., Feifel, D., & Zangen, A. (2016). Exposure to salient, dynamic sensory stimuli during development increases distractibility in adulthood. Scientific Reports, 6, 21129. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep21129
Har-Lev, M., & Meiran, N. (2016). Can’t take my eyes off of you: Tendency to maintain cognitive activation of significant other representations. Emotion, 16(7), 1019–1032. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000191
Meiran, N., Pereg, M., Givon, E., Danieli, G., & Shahar, N. (2016). The role of working memory in rapid instructed task learning and intention-based reflexivity: An individual differences examination. Neuropsychologia, 90, 180–189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.06.037
Rahamim, O., Garbi, D., Shahar, G., & Meiran, N. (2016). Evaluative processes in self-critical individuals: The role of success and failure inductions. Personality and Individual Differences, 100, 105–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.083
Shahar, N., Teodorescu, A. R., Karmon-Presser, A., Anholt, G. E., & Meiran, N. (2016). Memory for action rules and reaction time variability in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 1(2), 132–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2016.01.003
Arbiv, D. C., & Meiran, N. (2015). Performance on the antisaccade task predicts dropout from cognitive training. Intelligence, 49, 25–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2014.11.009
Guez, J., Rogel, A., Getter, N., Keha, E., Cohen, T., Amor, T., Gordon, S., Meiran, N., & Todder, D. (2015). Influence of electroencephalography neurofeedback training on episodic memory: A randomized, sham-controlled, double-blind study. Memory, 23(5), 683–694. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2014.921713
Katzir, M., Ori, B., Eyal, T., & Meiran, N. (2015). Go with the flow: How the consideration of joy versus pride influences automaticity. Acta Psychologica, 155, 57–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.12.003
Katzir, M., Ori, B., Hsieh, S., & Meiran, N. (2015). Competitor Rule Priming: Evidence for priming of task rules in task switching. Psychological Research, 79(3), 446–462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0583-3
Meiran, N., Pereg, M., Kessler, Y., Cole, M. W., & Braver, T. S. (2015). Reflexive activation of newly instructed stimulus–response rules: evidence from lateralized readiness potentials in no-go trials. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 15(2), 365–373. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-014-0321-8
Meiran, N., Pereg, M., Kessler, Y., Cole, M. W., & Braver, T. S. (2015). The power of instructions: Proactive configuration of stimulus–response translation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 768–786. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000063
Regev, S., & Meiran, N. (2015). Cue-type manipulation dissociates two types of task set inhibition: backward inhibition and competitor rule suppression. Psychological Research, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-015-0663-z
Shahar, N., & Meiran, N. (2015). Differential contribution of task conflicts to task switch cost and task mixing cost in alternating runs and cued task-switching: Evidence from ex-Gaussian modeling of reaction time distributions. Psychological Research, 79(2), 259–266. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0569-1
Shahar, N., & Meiran, N. (2015). Learning to control actions: Transfer effects following a procedural cognitive control computerized training. PLoS ONE, 10(3), e0119992. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119992
Braverman, A., Berger, A., & Meiran, N. (2014). The hierarchy of task decision and response selection: A task-switching event related potentials study. Brain and Cognition, 88, 35–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2014.04.006
Braverman, A., & Meiran, N. (2014). Conflict control in task conflict and response conflict. Psychological Research, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-014-0565-5
Ganel, T., Freud, E., & Meiran, N. (2014). Action is immune to the effects of Weber’s law throughout the entire grasping trajectory. Journal of Vision, 14(7), 11–11. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.7.11
Goldstein, S. P., Forman, E. M., Meiran, N., Herbert, J. D., Juarascio, A. S., & Butryn, M. L. (2014). The discrepancy between implicit and explicit attitudes in predicting disinhibited eating. Eating Behaviors, 15(1), 164–170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.10.021
Greenberg, J., & Meiran, N. (2014). Is mindfulness meditation associated with “feeling less?” Mindfulness, 5(5), 471–476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-013-0201-2
Greenberg, J., & Meiran, N. (2014). The role of emotional engagement and mood valence in retrieval fluency of mood incongruent autobiographical memory. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 83. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00083
Halali, E., Bereby-Meyer, Y., & Meiran, N. (2014). Between self-interest and reciprocity: The social bright side of self-control failure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(2), 745–754. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033824
Regev, S., & Meiran, N. (2014). Post-error slowing is influenced by cognitive control demand. Acta Psychologica, 152, 10–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.07.006
Shahar, N., Teodorescu, A. R., Usher, M., Pereg, M., & Meiran, N. (2014). Selective influence of working memory load on exceptionally slow reaction times. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(5), 1837–1860. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037190
Ganor-Stern, D., Tzelgov, J., & Meiran, N. (2013). How are automatic processes elicited by intended actions? Frontiers in Psychology, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00851
Greenberg, J., Reiner, K., & Meiran, N. (2013). “Off with the old”: Mindfulness practice improves backward inhibition. Frontiers in Psychology, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00618
Meiran, N., Dimov, E., & Ganel, T. (2013). Selective attention to perceptual dimensions and switching between dimensions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(1), 191–201. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0027638
Pereg, M., Shahar, N., & Meiran, N. (2013). Task switching training effects are mediated by working-memory management. Intelligence, 41(5), 467–478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2013.06.009
Rahamim, O., Bar-Anan, Y., Shahar, G., & Meiran, N. (2013). Task-switching methodology: A platform for indirect measures of evaluation and evaluative personality processes. Zeitschrift Für Psychologie, 221(1), 15–22. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000126
Abdu, R., Shinar, D., & Meiran, N. (2012). Situational (state) anger and driving. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 15(5), 575–580. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2012.05.007
Greenberg, J., Reiner, K., & Meiran, N. (2012). “Mind the trap”: Mindfulness practice reduces cognitive rigidity. PLoS ONE, 7(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036206
Hsieh, S., Chang, C.-C., & Meiran, N. (2012). Episodic retrieval and decaying inhibition in the competitor-rule suppression phenomenon. Acta Psychologica, 141(3), 316–321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.09.001
Meiran, N., & Cohen-Kdoshay, O. (2012). Working memory load but not multitasking eliminates the prepared reflex: Further evidence from the adapted flanker paradigm. Acta Psychologica, 139(2), 309–313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.12.008
Meiran, N., Cole, M. W., & Braver, T. S. (2012). When planning results in loss of control: intention-based reflexivity and working-memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 104. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00104
Rahamim, O., Meiran, N., Ostro, S., & Shahar, G. (2012). Individuals with histrionic personality disorder features categorize disliked persons as negative following intimacy induction : A state trait interaction analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 52(7), 788–793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.01.006
Tzur-Bitan, D., Meiran, N., Steinberg, D. M., & Shahar, G. (2012). Is the looming maladaptive cognitive style a central mechanism in the (Generalized) anxiety–(major) depression comorbidity: An intra-individual, time series study. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 5(2), 170–185. https://doi.org/10.1521/ijct.2012.5.2.170
Ellenbogen, R., & Meiran, N. (2011). Objects and events as determinants of parallel processing in dual tasks: Evidence from the backward compatibility effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(1), 152–167. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019958
ErEl, H., & Meiran, N. (2011). Mindset changes lead to drastic impairments in rule finding. Cognition, 119(2), 149–165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.002
Hareuveny, R., Eliyahu, I., Luria, R., Meiran, N., & Margaliot, M. (2011). Cognitive effects of cellular phones: A possible role of non-radiofrequency radiation factors. Bioelectromagnetics, 32(7), 585–588. https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.20671
Mayan, I., & Meiran, N. (2011). Anger and the speed of full-body approach and avoidance reactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 22. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00022
Meiran, N., Diamond, G. M., Toder, D., & Nemets, B. (2011). Cognitive rigidity in unipolar depression and obsessive compulsive disorder: Examination of task switching, Stroop, working memory updating and post-conflict adaptation. Psychiatry Research, 185(1), 149–156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2010.04.044
Meiran, N., Hsieh, S., & Chang, C.-C. (2011). “Smart inhibition”: Electrophysiological evidence for the suppression of conflict-generating task rules during task switching. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 11(3), 292–308. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-011-0037-y
Braverman, A., & Meiran, N. (2010). Task conflict effect in task switching. Psychological Research, 74(6), 568–578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-010-0279-2
Colzato, L. S., Beest, I. van, van den Wildenberg, W. P. M., Scorolli, C., Dorchin, S., Meiran, N., Borghi, A. M., & Hommel, B. (2010). God: Do I have your attention? Cognition, 117(1), 87–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2010.07.003
Katzir, M., Eyal, T., Meiran, N., & Kessler, Y. (2010). Imagined positive emotions and inhibitory control: The differentiated effect of pride versus happiness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36(5), 1314–1320. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020120
Meiran, N., Hsieh, S., & Dimov, E. (2010). Resolving task rule incongruence during task switching by competitor rule suppression. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36(4), 992–1002. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019761
Sheppes, G., Meiran, N., Spivak, O., & Shahar, G. (2010). An indirect measure of negative self reference interacts with academic failure to predict continuing depressive symptomatology. Journal of Research in Personality, 44(5), 602–609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2010.08.002
Tzur-Bitan, D., Meiran, N., & Shahar, G. (2010). The importance of modeling comorbidity using an intra-individual, time-series approach (Commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2–3), 172–173. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X10000816
Cohen-Kdoshay, O., & Meiran, N. (2009). The representation of instructions operates like a prepared reflex: flanker compatibility effects found in first trial following S-R instructions. Experimental Psychology, 56(2), 128–133. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.56.2.128
Kessler, Y., & Meiran, N. (2009). The reaction-time task-rule congruency effect is not affected by working memory load: further support for the activated long-term memory hypothesis. Psychological Research, 74(4), 388–399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-009-0261-z
Kessler, Y., Shencar, Y., & Meiran, N. (2009). Choosing to switch: Spontaneous task switching despite associated behavioral costs. Acta Psychologica, 131(2), 120–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2009.03.005
Luria, R., Eliyahu, I., Hareuveny, R., Margaliot, M., & Meiran, N. (2009). Cognitive effects of radiation emitted by cellular phones: The influence of exposure side and time. Bioelectromagnetics, 30(3), 198–204. https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.20458
Ruge, H., Braver, T., & Meiran, N. (2009). Attention, intention, and strategy in preparatory control. Neuropsychologia, 47(7), 1670–1685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.004
Sheppes, G., Catran, E., & Meiran, N. (2009). Reappraisal (but not distraction) is going to make you sweat: Physiological evidence for self-control effort. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 71(2), 91–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.06.006
Ellenbogen, R., & Meiran, N. (2008). Working memory involvement in dual-task performance: Evidence from the backward compatibility effect. Memory & Cognition, 36(5), 968–978. https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.36.5.968
Kessler, Y., & Meiran, N. (2008). Two dissociable updating processes in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34(6), 1339–1348. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013078
Meiran, N. (2008). The dual implication of dual affordance. Experimental Psychology, 55(4), 251–259. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.55.4.251
Meiran, N., & Kessler, Y. (2008). The task rule congruency effect in task switching reflects activated long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34(1), 137–157. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.34.1.137
Meiran, N., Kessler, Y., & Adi-Japha, E. (2008). Control by action representation and input selection (CARIS): a theoretical framework for task switching. Psychological Research, 72(5), 473–500. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-008-0136-8
Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N. (2008). Divergent cognitive costs for online forms of reappraisal and distraction. Emotion, 8(6), 870–874. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013711
Sheppes, G., Meiran, N., Gilboa-Schechtman, E., & Shahar, G. (2008). Cognitive mechanisms underlying implicit negative self concept in dysphoria. Emotion, 8(3), 386–394. https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.8.3.386
Soref, A., Dar, R., Argov, G., & Meiran, N. (2008). Obsessive–compulsive tendencies are associated with a focused information processing strategy. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46(12), 1295–1299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2008.09.001
Yehene, E., Meiran, N., & Soroker, N. (2008). Basal ganglia play a unique role in task switching within the frontal-subcortical circuits: Evidence from patients with focal lesions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(6), 1079–1093. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.20077
Cohen-Kdoshay, O., & Meiran, N. (2007). The representation of instructions in working memory leads to autonomous response activation: Evidence from the first trials in the flanker paradigm. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60(8), 1140–1154. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210600896674
Schweizer, T. A., Oriet, C., Meiran, N., Alexander, M. P., Cusimano, M., & Stuss, D. T. (2007). The cerebellum mediates conflict resolution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(12), 1974–1982. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.12.1974
Sheppes, G., & Meiran, N. (2007). Better late than never? On the dynamics of online regulation of sadness using distraction and cognitive reappraisal. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(11), 1518–1532. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167207305537
Yehene, E., & Meiran, N. (2007). Is there a general task switching ability? Acta Psychologica, 126(3), 169–195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.11.007
Cohen‐Servi, A., Meiran, N., & Kessler, Y. (2006). Event‐based prospective memory for poorly attended events. Experimental Psychology, 53(4), 301–307. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.53.4.301
Eliyahu, I., Luria, R., Hareuveny, R., Margaliot, M., Meiran, N., & Shani, G. (2006). Effects of radiofrequency radiation emitted by cellular telephones on the cognitive functions of humans. Bioelectromagnetics, 27(2), 119–126. https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.20187
Kessler, Y., & Meiran, N. (2006). All updateable objects in working memory are updated whenever any of them are modified: Evidence from the memory updating paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32(3), 570–585. https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.32.3.570
Kofman, O., Meiran, N., Greenberg, E., Balas, M., & Cohen, H. (2006). Enhanced performance on executive functions associated with examination stress: Evidence from task-switching and Stroop paradigms. Cognition and Emotion, 20(5), 577–595. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930500270913
Luria, R., & Meiran, N. (2006). Dual route for subtask order control: Evidence from the psychological refractory paradigm. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59(4), 720–744. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724980543000060
Luria, R., Meiran, N., & Dekel-Cohen, C. (2006). Stimulus-cued completion of reconfiguration and retroactive adjustment as causes for the residual switching cost in multistep tasks. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18(4), 652–668. https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440500423293
Berger, A., Sadeh, M., Tzur, G., Shuper, A., Kornreich, L., Inbar, D., Cohen, I. J., Michowiz, S., Yaniv, I., Constantini, S., Kessler, Y., & Merian, N. (2005). Task switching after cerebellar damage. Neuropsychology, 19(3), 362–370. https://doi.org/10.1037/0894-4105.19.3.362
Hochman, E. Y., & Meiran, N. (2005). Central interference in error processing. Memory & Cognition, 33(4), 635–643. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03195330
Luria, R., & Meiran, N. (2005). Increased control demand results in serial processing: Evidence from dual-task performance. Psychological Science, 16(10), 833–840. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01622.x
Meiran, N. (2005). Task rule-congruency and Simon-like effects in switching between spatial tasks. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 58(6), 1023–1041. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724980443000421
Meiran, N., & Chorev, Z. (2005). Phasic alertness and the residual task-switching cost. Experimental Psychology, 52(2), 109–124. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.52.2.109
Meiran, N., & Daichman, A. (2005). Advance task preparation reduces task error rate in the cuing task-switching paradigm. Memory & Cognition, 33(7), 1272–1288. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193228
Rubin, O., & Meiran, N. (2005). On the origins of the task mixing cost in the cuing task-switching paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31(6), 1477–1491.
Ruge, H., Brass, M., Koch, I., Rubin, O., Meiran, N., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2005). Advance preparation and stimulus-induced interference in cued task switching: further insights from BOLD fMRI. Neuropsychologia, 43(3), 340–355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.06.014
Yehene, E., Meiran, N., & Soroker, N. (2005). Task alternation cost without task alternation: Measuring intentionality. Neuropsychologia, 43(13), 1858–1869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.03.010
Meiran, N., Friedman, G., & Yehene, E. (2004). Parkinson’s disease is associated with goal setting deficits during task switching. Brain and Cognition, 54(3), 260–262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2004.02.043
Scheres, A., Oosterlaan, J., Geurts, H., Morein-Zamir, S., Meiran, N., Schut, H., Vlasveld, L., & Sergeant, J. A. (2004). Executive functioning in boys with ADHD: primarily an inhibition deficit? Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 19(4), 569–594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acn.2003.08.005
Brass, M., Ruge, H., Meiran, N., Rubin, O., Koch, I., Zysset, S., Prinz, W., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2003). When the same response has different meanings: Recoding the response meaning in the lateral prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage, 20(2), 1026–1031. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00357-4
Gotler, A., Meiran, N., & Tzelgov, J. (2003). Nonintentional task set activation: Evidence from implicit task sequence learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10(4), 890–896. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196549
Koch, I., Ruge, H., Brass, M., Rubin, O., Meiran, N., & Prinz, W. (2003). Equivalence of cognitive processes in brain imaging and behavioral studies: Evidence from task switching. NeuroImage, 20(1), 572–577. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00206-4
Luria, R., & Meiran, N. (2003). Online order control in the psychological refractory period paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29(3), 556–574. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.29.3.556
Morein-Zamir, S., & Meiran, N. (2003). Individual stopping times and cognitive control: Converging evidence for the stop signal task from a continuous tracking paradigm. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A: Human Experimental Psychology, 56A(3), 469–489. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724980244000495
Scheres, A., Oosterlaan, J., Swanson, J., Morein-Zamir, S., Meiran, N., Schut, H., Vlasveld, L., & Sergeant, J. A. (2003). The effect of methylphenidate on three forms of response inhibition in boys with AD/HD. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 31(1), 105–120. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021729501230
Meiran, N., Hommel, B., Bibi, U., & Lev, I. (2002). Consciousness and control in task switching. Consciousness and Cognition: An International Journal, 11(1), 10–33. https://doi.org/10.1006/ccog.2001.0521
Meiran, N., & Marciano, H. (2002). Limitations in advance task preparation: Switching the relevant stimulus dimension in speeded same—different comparisons. Memory & Cognition, 30(4), 540–550. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03194955
Gotler, A., & Meiran, N. (2001). Cognitive processes underlying a frontally-mediated component of task-switching. Brain and Cognition, 47, 142–146.
Meiran, N. (2001). Event coding, executive control, and task-switching (Commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 893–894. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X01360107
Meiran, N., & Gotler, A. (2001). Modelling cognitive control in task switching and ageing. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 13(1–2), 165–186. https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440042000269
Meiran, N., Gotler, A., & Perlman, A. (2001). Old age is associated with a pattern of relatively intact and relatively impaired task-set switching abilities. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 56(2), P88–P102. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/56.2.P88
Meiran, N. (2000). Modeling cognitive control in task-switching. Psychological Research, 63(3), 234–249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004269900004
Meiran, N. (2000). Reconfiguration of stimulus task sets and response task sets during task switching. In S. Monsell & J. Driver (Eds.), Control of cognitive processes: Attention and Performance XVIII (pp. 377–400). MIT Press.
Meiran, N., Chorev, Z., & Sapir, A. (2000). Component processes in task switching. Cognitive Psychology, 41(3), 211–253. https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2000.0736
Meiran, N., Levine, J., Meiran, N., & Henik, A. (2000). Task set switching in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 14(3), 471–482. https://doi.org/10.1037/0894-4105.14.3.471
Moulden, D. J. A., Picton, T. W., Meiran, N., Stuss, D. T., Riera, J. J., & Valdes-Sosa, P. (1998). Event-related potentials when switching attention between task-sets. Brain and Cognition, 37(1), 186–190.
Meiran, N. (1996). Reconfiguration of processing mode prior to task performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 22, 1423–1442.
Meiran, N., Stuss, D. T., Guzman, D. A., Lafleche, G., & Willmer, J. (1996). Diagnosis of dementia: Methods for interpretation of scores of 5 neuropsychological tests. Archives of Neurology, 53(10), 1043–1054. https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1996.00550100129022
Stuss DT, Meiran N, Guzman D, Lafleche G, & Willmer J. (1996). Do long tests yield a more accurate diagnosis of dementia than short tests?: A comparison of 5 neuropsychological tests. Archives of Neurology, 53(10), 1033–1039. https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.1996.00550100119021

Old papers

Chapnik Smith, M., Meiran, N., & Besner, D. (2000). On the interaction between linguistic and pictorial systems in the absence of semantic mediation: Evidence from a priming paradigm. Memory & Cognition, 28(2), 204–213. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03213800
Levin, I., Levy-Shiff, R., Appelbaum-Peled, T., Katz, I., Komar, M., & Meiran, N. (1997). Antecedents and consequences of maternal involvement in children’s homework: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 18(2), 207–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0193-3973(97)90036-8
Shiloh, S., Berkenstadt, M., Meiran, N., Bat‐Miriam‐Katznelson, M., & Goldman, B. (1997). Mediating effects of perceived personal control in coping with a health threat: The case of genetic counseling. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27(13), 1146–1174. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb01799.x
Giora, R., Meiran, N., & Oref, P. (1996). Identification of written discourse topics by structure coherence and analogy strategies: General aspects and individual differences. Journal of Pragmatics, 26(4), 455–474. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(95)00040-2
Meiran, N. (1996). Is reading ability related to activation dumping speed? Evidence from immediate repetition priming. Memory & Cognition, 24(1), 41–59. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197271
Smith, M. C., Meiran, N., & Besner, D. (1996). When is a direct test of memory more sensitive than an indirect test? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Expérimentale, 50(1), 139–148. https://doi.org/10.1037/1196-1961.50.1.139
Meiran, N., Genislav, N., Hasman, A., & Inbal, S. (1995). General intelligence and its relationship to immediate memory for novel and activated information. Personality and Individual Differences, 18(1), 149–158. https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-8869(94)00120-H
Meiran, N., & Jelicic, M. (1995). Implicit memory in Alzheimer’s disease: A meta-analysis. Neuropsychology, 9(3), 291–303. https://doi.org/10.1037/0894-4105.9.3.291
Toth, J. P., Levine, B., Stuss, D. T., Oh, A., Winocur, G., & Meiran, N. (1995). Dissociation of processes underlying spatial S-R compatibility: Evidence for the independent influence of what and where. Consciousness and Cognition, 4(4), 483–501. https://doi.org/10.1006/ccog.1995.1052
Tsal, Y., Meiran, N., & Lamy, D. (1995). Towards a resolution theory of visual attention. Visual Cognition, 2(2–3), 313–330. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506289508401736
Meiran, N., Israeli, A., Levi, H., & Grafi, R. (1994). Individual differences in self reported cognitive failures: The attention hypothesis revisited. Personality and Individual Differences, 17(6), 727–739. https://doi.org/10.1016/0191-8869(94)90042-6
Meiran, N., Netzer, T., Netzer, S., Itzhak, D., & Rechnitz, O. (1994). Do tests of nonverbal decoding ability measure sensitivity to nonverbal cues? Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 18(3), 223–244. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02170027
Tsal, Y., Meiran, N., & Lavie, N. (1994). The role of attention in illusory conjunctions. Perception & Psychophysics, 55(3), 350–358. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207605
Meiran, N., Nadler, I., & Fischman, E. (1990). The validity of intelligence tests in professional studies and their relationship to intelligence factors: Towards differential prediction [Hebrew]. Megamot, 33, 92–113.
Zakay, D., Meiran, N., & Ben-Shalom, H. (1990). Cognitive processes of time estimation [Hebrew]. Psychologia, 1, 95–103.
Meiran, N. (1989). Voluntary response selection in free association. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 30(4), 255–265. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9450.1989.tb01088.x
Meiran, N., & Fischman, E. (1989). Categorization parameters and intelligence. Intelligence, 13(3), 205–224. https://doi.org/10.1016/0160-2896(89)90018-4

Other

Meiran, N. (2014). The task cuing paradigm: A user’s guide. In J. A. Grange & G. Houghton (Eds.), Task Switching and Cognitive Control (pp. 45–73). Oxford University Press.
Meiran, N., Cole, M. W., & Braver, T. S. (2013). When planning results in loss of control: Intention-based reflexivity and proactive control. In G. Seebas, M. Schmitz, & P. M. Gollwitzer (Eds.), Acting intentionally and its limits: Individuals, groups, institutions (pp. 263–290). Berlin: De Gruyter.
Meiran, N., & Dimov, E. (2011). Selective attention to perceptual dimensions and switching between dimensions. In D. Algom, D. Zakay, E. Chajut, S. Shaki, Y. Mama, & V. Shakuf (Eds.), Fechner Day 2011. Raanana, Israel: International Society for Psychophysics.
Meiran, N. (2010). Task-switching: Mechanisms underlying rigid vs. flexible self control. In R. Hassin & K. Ochsner (Eds.), Self control in society, mind, and brain (pp. 202–220). Oxford University Press.
Meiran, N., & Gotler, A. (2001). Modeling cognitive control in task-switching and ageing. In U. Mayr, D. Spieler, & R. Kliegl (Eds.), Ageing and executive control. (pp. 165–186). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Meiran, N. (2000). Book review of A. F. Sanders “Elements of human performance.” High Ability Studies, 11, 221–223.
Meiran, N. (1998). Memory organization. In J. May (Ed.), The concise encyclopedia of pragmatics (pp. 573–575). Pergamon Press.