Ayelet N. Landau, PhD

Ayelet N. Landau, PhD Ernst Strüngman Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience Email: ayelet.landau@gmail.com In Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt Germany Phone: +49 (0) 162 2733 110 Research Interests Cognitive neuroscience of visual attention. Functional consequences of brain rhythms. Perception of time and its physiological mechanisms. Current Position 2010-Present Post-Doctoral Scientist, Fries group, Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt, Germany. Education PhD in Psychology, Emphasis: Cognition, Brain and Behavior University of California, Berkeley (May, 2010) PhD committee: Prof. Robertson, Prof. Prinzmetal, Prof. Silver and Prof. Ivry MA in Clinical Neurophsychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Thesis advisor: Prof. Shlomo Bentin BA double major: Psychology and Philosophy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Awards and Honors 2008 Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at Tahoe, Fellowship 2006-2007 Departmental Block Grant, award for doctoral studies, Psychology Department, UC Berkeley 2006 Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, Fellowship 2004-2006 Fulbright Fellowship, award for doctoral studies 2005 University Honor, MA degree, Summa Cum Laude, The Hebrew University 2001 University Honor, BA degree, Magna Cum Laude, The Hebrew University Peer Reviewed Publications Landau, A. N. and Fries, P. (2012). Attention samples stimuli rhythmically. Current Biology, 22(11), 1000-4. Cain, M. S., Landau, A. N., & Shimamura, A. P. (2012). Action video game experience reduces the cost of switching tasks. Attention Perception & Psychophysics, 74(4) 641-7. Landau, A. N., Elwan, D., Holtz, S. and Prinzmetal, W. (2012). Voluntary and involuntary attention vary as a function of impulsivity. Psychonomics Bulletin and Review, 19(3) 405-11. Landau CV 1

Rokem, A., Landau, A. N., Prinzmetal, W., Wallace, D. L., Silver, M. A. and D Esposito, M. (2012). Modulation of inhibition of return by the dopamine D2 receptor agonist bromocriptine depends on individual DAT1 genotype. Cerebral Cortex, 22 (1133-1138). *Landau A. N., *List A., Brooks, J.L., Flevaris, A., Fortenbaugh, F., Esterman M., VanVleet, T., Albrecht, A., Alvarez, B., Robertson, L. C. and Schendel, K. (2011) Shifting attention in viewer- and object-based reference frames after unilateral brain injury. Neuropsychologia, 49, 2090-2096. * ANL and AL contributed equally to this work Labruna, L., Fernandez-del-Olmo, M., Landau, A. N., Duque, J., and Ivry, R. B. (2011). Modulation of the motor system during visual and auditory language processing. Experimental Brain Research, 211(2), 243-250. Landau, A. N., Aziz-Zadeh, L., and Ivry, R. B. (2010) Modulations of the N170 component by semantic priming. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(45), 15254-15261. Rokem, A. S., Landau, A. N., Garg, D., Prinzmetal, W., and Silver M. A. (2010). Cholinergic enhancement increases the effects of voluntary attention but does not affect Involuntary Attention. Neuropsychopharmacology, 35(13), 2538-2544. Silver, M. A., Landau, A. N., Lauritzen, T. Z., Prinzmetal, W., and Robertson, L. (2010). Isolating human brain functional connectivity associated with a specific cognitive process. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XV, edited by BE Rogowitz and TN Pappas, Proceedings of SPIE, 7527, 75270B-1-75270B-9. Aminoff, E. M., Balslev, D., Borroni, P., Bryan, R. E., Chua, E. F., Cloutier, J., Cross, E. S., Drew, T., Funk, C. M., Gil-da-Costa, R., Guerin, S. A., Hall, J. L., Jordan, K. E., Landau, A. N., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Montaser-Kouhsari, L., Olofsson, J. K., Quadflieg, S., Somerville, L. H., Sy, J. L., Uddin, L. Q., and Yamada, M. (2010). The landscape of cognitive neuroscience: Challenges, rewards, and new perspectives. In: Gazzaniga, M. (Ed.) The cognitive neurosciences IV. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (*authors in alphabetical order). Prinzmetal, W., and Landau, A. (2009). Dissecting spatial visual attention. In V. Coltheart (Ed.), Tutorials in Visual Cognition. Hove, UK: Psychology Press. Landau, A. N., and Bentin, S. (2008). Attentional and perceptual factors affecting the attentional blink for faces and objects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34(4). 818-830. List, A., Brooks, J.L., Esterman, M., Flevaris, A., Landau, A.N., Bowman, G., Stanton, V., VanVleet, T., Robertson L.C., and Schendel, K.L.P. (2008). Visual spatial neglect, re-assesed. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 14(2) 243-256. Esterman M., Prinzmetal W., DeGutis J., Landau A., Hazeltine E., Verstynen T., Robertson L. (2008). Voluntary and involuntary attention affect face discrimination differently. Neuropsychologia, 46(4), 1032-1040. Landau CV 2

Landau, A. N., Esterman, M., Bentin, S., Robertson, L. C., and Prinzmetal, W. (2007) Different effects of voluntary and involuntary attention on EEG activity in the gamma band. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(44), (11986-11990). Aviezer, H., Landau, A.N., Robertson, L.C., Peterson, M.A., Soroker, N., Sacher, Y., Bonneh, Y., and Bentin, S. (2007). Implicit integration in a case of integrative visual agnosia. Neuropsychologia, 45(9), (2066-2077). List A., and Landau A. N. (2006) Attention and intention, decoded! Journal of Neuroscience, 26(26), 6907-6908. Yamanashi-Leib, A., Landau, A. N., Baek Y., Chong, S. C., and Robertson, L. C. (in press). Extracting the mean size across the visual field in patients with mild, chronic unilateral neglect. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Kosovicheva, A. A., Sheremata, S. L., Rokem, A., Landau, A. N., and Silver M. A. (in press) Cholinergic enhancement reduces orientation-specific surround suppression but not visual crowding. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Manuscripts in Preparation Landau, A. N., and Bentin, S. (submitted, under review). Attentional Blink effects on the detection of faces and objects are earlier than we thought! An ERPs study. Landau, A. N., and Robertson, L. C., (Submitted). Spatial attention increases hemispheric teamwork. Landau, A. N., Kosovicheva, A., Rokem, A. and Silver, M. A. (in prep). Stimulus driven factors and goal directed attention: psychophysics, electrophysiology and cholinergic modulation. Landau, A. N., and Bentin, S. (in prep). Do faces capture attention? A Change detection study. Landau, A. N., Prinzmetal, W., Roberston, L. C., and Silver, M. A. (in prep). Networks for voluntary and involuntary spatial attention: an fmri coherency study. Landau CV 3

Organizer for Symposia and Workshops Neurobiology of Cognition - Gordon Research Seminar proposed to accompany the Gordon Research Conference planned for 2014, USA. (Co-organizer with Lucia Melloni). Alpha: from Mechanism to Cognition (spring 2013), ESI workshop planned for early 2013 including leading figures in the field of neural oscillations (Co-organizer with Barbara Händel). Rhythms for Perception and Attention (August, 2011) Symposium at the European Conference for Visual Perception, Toulouse, France. (Co-organizer with Rufin VanRullen). Conference Presentations Landau, A. N., and Fries, P. (Dec, 2012). Attentional Rhythms: lessons from Psychophysics and MEG. Talk to be presented at the Israeli Society for Neuroscience, Eilat, Israel. Landau, A. N., and Fries, P. (Nov, 2012). MEG Exploration of Attentional Rhythms. Poster to be presented at a workshop titled Orienting of Attention, Tuebingen Germany. Prinzmetal, W., Whiteford, K, Austerweil, J. and Landau, A. N. (May, 2012). When Information Matters: The Effects of Cue Predictability and Distrators. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Landau, A. N., and Fries, P. (May, 2011). Detection performance is modulated at a lowtheta selection rhythm. Talk presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Silver, M., Kosovicheva, A., and Landau, A. N. (May, 2011). ERP correlates of orientationspecific surround suppression. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Kosovicheva, A., Landau, A. N., and Silver, M. A. (Nov, 2010). Interactions of sustained spatial attention and surround suppression: an SSVEP study. Poster presented at the society for neuroscience annual meeting, San Diego, California. Landau, A. N., Kosovicheva, A., and Silver, M. A. (May, 2010). Interactions of sustained spatial attention and surround suppression: an SSVEP study. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Connel-Pensky, A., Landau, A. N., and Prinzmetal W. (May, 2010). The Effects of Voluntary Attention on the Event-Related Potentials and Gamma-Band Response of EEG. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Prinzmetal, W., Rokem, A. S., Landau, A. N., Wallace, D., Silver, M. A., and D Esposito, M. (May, 2010). The D2 dopamine receptor agonist bromocriptine enhances voluntary but not involuntary spatial attention in humans. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Landau CV 4

Landau, A. N., Prinzmetal, W., Robertson, L. C. and Silver, M. A. (October, 2009). Neural Mechanisms of Voluntary and Involuntary attention: An fmri coherency study. Talk presented at society for neuroscience annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois. Landau, A. N., Prinzmetal, W., Robertson, L. C. and Silver, M. A. (May, 2009). Neural Mechanisms of Voluntary and Involuntary attention: An fmri coherency study. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Elwan D., Landau, A. N., Holtz, S., and Prinzmetal, W. (May, 2009). Voluntary and Involuntary Attention Vary as a Function of Impulsivity. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. List, A., Landau, A. N., Brooks, J. L., Flevaris, A., Fortenbaugh, F., Esterman, M., VanVleet T. M., Albrecht, A., Alvarez, B., Robertson, L. C., and Schendel, K. (May, 2009). Object-based attention in patients with left and right hemisphere lesions. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Cain, M. S., Landau, A. N., Prinzmetal, W., Robertson, L. C., and Shimamura, A. P. (May, 2009). Attention processes in action video game players. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Rokem, A., Garg, D., Landau, A. N., Prinzmetal, W. Silver, M. A. (May, 2009). Effects of cholinergic enhancement on voluntary and involuntary visuospatial attention in humans. Poster presented at the vision science society annual meeting, Naples, Florida. Landau, A. N., Elwan D., Holtz, S., and Prinzmetal, W. (Mar, 2009). Voluntary and Involuntary Attention Vary as a Function of Impulsivity. Poster presented at the 16th Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. List, A., Landau, A. N., Brooks, J. L., Flevaris, A., Fortenbaugh, F, Esterman, M., VanVleet T. M., Albrecht, A., Alvarez, B., Robertson, L. C., and Schendel K. (Mar, 2009). Object-based attention in patients with left and right hemisphere lesions. Poster presented at the 16th Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Landau, A. N., and Robertson L. C. (Aug, 2008). Attention accelerates inter-hemispheric transfer time. Poster presented at CSAIL, Hood River, Oregon. Landau, A. N., and Robertson L. C. (May, 2008). Attention Accelerates Inter-Hemispheric Transfer Time. Talk presented at the vision sciences society annual meetings, Naples, Florida Landau, A. N., Pierce L., and Robertson L. C. (Apr, 2008). The neural fate of attended vs. ignored words: lessons from neurologically healthy participants and a patient with unilateral neglect. Poster presented at the 15th Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. Landau, A. N., VanVleet, T., DeGutis, J., and Roberston L. C. (Nov, 2007). The neural fate of attended vs. ignored faces: lessons from neurologically intact participants and a patient Landau CV 5

with unilateral neglect Poster presented at Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, California. Landau, A. N., Esterman, M., Robertson, L. C., Pinzmetal W. (May, 2007). Electrophysiological correlates of voluntary and involuntary attention to faces. Poster was presented in Vision Science Society meeting, Sarasota, Florida. Landau, A. N., Aziz-Zadeh, L., and Ivry, R. B. (Aug, 2007) Physiological responses during face perception are affected by semantic content of preceding sentences. Talk presented at CSAIL, Hood River, Oregon. Landau, A. N., Aziz-Zadeh, L., and Ivry, R. B. (May, 2007) Physiological responses during face perception are affected by semantic content of preceding sentences. Poster was presented in the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, New York, NY. Landau, A. N. (Apr, 2007) Neurophysiological interactions of perceptual and semantic processing. Talk presented at the Berkeley Stanford graduate student conference, Stanford, CA. Landau, A. N., Esterman, M., Robertson, L. C., and Prinzmetal, W. (Nov, 2006)Electrophysiological correlates of voluntary and involuntary attention to faces. Poster was presented in OPAM conference Houston, TX. Landau, A. N., Esterman, M., Robertson, L. C., and Prinzmetal W. (Nov, 2006) Electrophysiological correlates of voluntary and involuntary attention to faces. Poster was presented in neuroscience retreat Tahoe. Landau, A.N., LaBouf, C., and Robertson, L.C. (May, 2006). Why are faces resistant to the attentional blink? (Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota). Landau, A. N., Esterman, M. Shirley, C. L., Bentin, S., Robertson, L. C., and Prinzmetal, W. (2006) Electrophysiological correlates of voluntary and involuntary attention to faces. Poster was presented in the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting, San Francisco, CA. Landau, A. N., Esterman, M., Shirley, C. L., Bentin, S., Robertson, L. C., and Prinzmetal, W. (2006) Electrophysiological correlates of voluntary and involuntary attention to faces. Poster was presented in the 2006 Berkeley Stanford Cognition Brain and Behavior meeting, Berkeley. Esterman, M., Prinzmetal, W., Degutis, J., Landau, A. N., Hazeltine, E., Verstynen, T. & Robertson, L. C. (April, 2006). Different behavioral and neural consequences of voluntary and involuntary attention to faces. (Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco). Landau, A. N., Aviezer, H., Robertson, L. C., Peterson, M. A., Soroker, N., Sacher, Y., Bonneh, Y., and Bentin, S. (2005) Implicit Object Recognition in Visual Integrative Agnosia: Case SE. Poster presented in the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society, Sarasota, FL. Landau CV 6

Landau, A. N., and Bentin, S. (2005). Do faces capture attention? a change detection study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning Conference, Hood River, OR. Schendel, K., List, A., VanVleet, T., Brooks, J., Stanton, V., Flevaris, A., Landau, A. N., Esterman, M., and Robertson, L. (2005). Neglect: subcomponents and neural substrates. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY. Esterman, M., DeGutis, J., Hazeltine, E., Verstynen, T., Landau, A. N., Robertson, L. C., and Prinzmetal, W. (2005). Neural correlates of voluntary and involuntary attention. Paper presented at the Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning Conference, Hood River, OR. Landau, A. N., and Bentin S. (2004). Faces and objects engage attention independently: A doubly-dissociated attentional blink. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. Morris, J. P., Landau, A. N., McCarthy, G. and Bentin, S. (2004). Scalp-recorded N170 is influenced by the context of a perceived gaze shift. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Landau, A. N. (2003). The role of attention in face processing. Oral presentation, in the Cognitive and Neuropsychological Colloquium, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Bentin, S., and Landau A. N. (2003). Attention requirements and perceptual threshold for processing faces: Performance and ERP evidence from attentional blink and perceptual learning paradigms. Oral Presentation presented in the sixth International Brain Research Organization, World congress of neuroscience. Prague, Czech Republic. Landau, A. N., and Bentin, S. (2003). The Role of Attention in Face Processing: Evidence from the Attentional Blink Paradigm. An oral presentation presented in the XIII conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Granada, Spain. Landau, A. N. and Bentin, S. (2003). Attention requirements for processing faces: Performance and ERP evidence from attentional blink and perceptual learning paradigm. Presented in the 5th Congress of the Federation of European Psychophysiology Societies Bordeaux, France. Landau CV 7

Teaching Experience Courses: 2005 Human Brain Dysfunction, UC Berkeley (with Prof. Robert T. Knight) Duties: Graduate student instructor that involved teaching weekly discussion sections, reviewing and assisting students in reading current class-relevant literature, and test preparation. 2004 Perception and Sensation, UC Berkeley (with Prof. William Prinzmetal) Duties: Graduate student instructor that involved teaching weekly discussion sections, reviewing and assisting students in reading current class-relevant literature, test preparation and supervising term paper preparation. 2002 Cognitive Processes, The Hebrew University (with Prof. Shlomo Bentin) Duties: Teaching assistant, conducting office hours, assisting students with current class relevant material and test preparation and grading. 2001 Cognitive Processes, The Hebrew University (with Prof. Asher Cohen) Duties: Teaching assistant, including preparation slides for the main lecture plans as well as conducting office hours, assisting students with current class relevant material and test preparation and grading. Mentoring: Masters Theses Helene Marianne Schreyer, University of Bern, 2012 and post Bachelor Katharina Volkening, Munich University, 2009 students Anna Kosovicheva, UC Berkeley, 2009-2010 Han Duong, UC Berkeley, T35 summer research program 2008 Undergraduates High School Deena Elwan, UC Berkeley Aleksey Zvinyatskovskiy, UC Berkeley Mariel Owen, UC Berkeley Nola Klemfuss, UC Berkeley Karina Sakanaka, UC Berkeley Cheryl Shirley, UC Berkeley Lara Peirce, UC Berkeley Cassandra LaBouf, UC Berkeley Osnat Mussel, Hebrew University Aya Navon, Hebrew University Sarah Holtz, Head-Royce School, Oakland, CA Clinical Clinical coordinator and student advisor Neuropsychology interfacing practicum sites and master students. MA Program 2001-2003 Landau CV 8

Invited Talks Landau, A. N. (Jan, 2013). Spatial attention: from taxonomy to brain rhythms. The Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Landau, A. N. (Dec, 2012). Spatial attention: from taxonomy to brain rhythms. The Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Landau, A. N. (Dec, 2012). Spatial attention: from taxonomy to brain rhythms. The Department of Psychology, Haifa University, Israel. Landau, A. N. (Dec, 2012). Spatial attention: from taxonomy to brain rhythms. The Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Landau, A. N. (Dec, 2012). Spatial attention: from taxonomy to brain rhythms. Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Israel. Landau, A. N. (Apr, 2012). Spatial attention: taxonomy and brain rhythms. Haifa Cognitive Science Forum, Haifa University, Israel. Landau, A. N. (Feb, 2011). Investigating attentional selection rhythms using psychophysics and MEG. Talk given at the University Hospital Brain Imaging Center, Frankfurt, Germany. Landau, A. N. (Mar, 2010). Neural circuits mediating voluntary and involuntary spatial attention. Talk presented at the Cognitive Colloquium of the department of psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Landau, A. N., Prinzmetal, W., Robertson, L. C., and Silver, M. A. (Jan, 2009). Neural circuits mediating voluntary and involuntary attention: a functional MRI coherency study. SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XV conference, San Jose, CA. Landau, A. N., Prinzmetal, W., Robertson, L. C., and Silver, M. A. (Dec, 2009). Neural circuits mediating voluntary and involuntary attention: a functional MRI coherency study. Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center Research Day, University of California, Berkeley, CA. Landau, A. N., Rokem, A., and Prinzmetal, W. (Feb, 2009) Two distinct systems for spatial attention: Evidence from Trait impulsivity and neuropharmacology. Talk presented at the D Esposito Lab, University of California, Berkeley. Landau, A. N., Rokem, A., and Prinzmetal, W. (Feb, 2009). Two distinct systems for spatial attention: evidence from trait impulsivity and neuropharmacology. Talk presented at the Cognition Brain and Behavior seminar, University of California, Berkeley. Landau, A. N. (Nov, 2008) Neural mechanisms of voluntary and involuntary attention. Talk presented in the cognitive neuroscience colloquia series, FC Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Landau CV 9

Landau, A. N., Esterman, M., Robertson, L. C., and Prinzmetal, W. (Nov, 2007) Electrophysiological correlates of voluntary and involuntary attention to faces. Talk presented in the Israeli Society for Neuroscience meeting, Eilat, Israel. Landau, A. N. (Apr, 2004) The role of attention in face processing: evidence from the Attentional Blink Paradigm. Presented at a joint lab meeting (perception and attention labs) at UC Berkeley. Landau, A. N. (2005) Implicit object recognition in visual integrative agnosia: case SE Presented at the Veterans Affairs Center for Rehabilitation and Extended Care Unit, Martinez, CA. Ad-hoc reviewing Cognition Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Cortex Frontiers in Neuroscience Frontiers in Psychology Cerebral Cortex Acta Psychologica Biological Psychology Service References 2007 Student representative in a departmental open job search committee. 2006-2007 Student coordinator for Annual Berkeley-Stanford Student Talks. 2006-2008 Organizer of the bi-weekly Journal Club for cognitive neuroscience of attention. Pascal Fries, MD, PhD Director, Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) In cooperation with Max Planck Society Email: pascal.fries@esi-frankfurt.de Tel: +49 (0) 69 967 69501 Lynn Robertson, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute University of California, Berkeley Email: lynnrob@berkeley.edu Tel: +1 510 642 6266 Michael Silver, PhD Professor, School of Optometry and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Email: masilver@berkeley.edu Tel: +1 510 642 3130 William Prinzmetal, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology University of California, Berkeley Email: wprinz@berkeley.edu Tel: +1 510 685 8623 Richard Ivry, PhD Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute University of California, Berkeley Email: ivry@berkeley.edu Tel: +1 510 642 7146 Landau CV 10