Academic Education
Academic Education
FURTHER TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1. Visiting scientist, Groupe de Recherches de Neuropsychologie, Hôpital de la Salpetrière, Paris, France, 1980, 1983.
2. Visiting scientist, Centre de Recherche sur l’Epistemologie et l’Autonomie, Paris, 1982, 1984-5.
3. Visiting scientist, Cognitive Development Unit, London, 1985.
4. Visiting teaching fellow, Princeton University, 1985-6.
5. Visiting teaching scientist, Center for the study of normal and pathological language, INSERM, Paris, 1987.
6. Visiting scientist, The Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University, 1989.
7. Visiting scholar, The Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, 1990.
8. Visiting scholar, The Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1992.
9. Visiting fellow, Division of Child Language and Development, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 1993.
10. Visiting fellow, Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 1994.
11. Research fellow, The Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, 1998-99.
12. Member, steering committee, Program of Cognitive Studies.
AWARDS AND GRANTS:
1968, 1971 Excellence prizes, Tel Aviv University.
1971 Fulbright travel grant.
1971/2, 1972/3, 1973/4 Stanford University Fellowships.
1974 Linguistic Summer Institute fellowship.
1976, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86 Research grants, The Institute for Developmental Psychology, The Hebrew University.
1976, 1977, 1981 Research grant, Central Research Authority, Hebrew University.
1977-79, 1979-81 Research grants, The Ford Foundation.
1977, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83 Research grants, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University.
1979, 1980 Travel grants, European training program on brain and behavior.
1980, 1984, 1987 I.N.S.E.R.M. (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research) visiting scientist fellowships.
1980, 1981, 1984, 1985 C.N.R.S. (French National Center for Scientific Research) travel grants.
1981/2 Research grant, The Israel Center for Psychobiology.
1982, 1983, 1984, 1985 Advanced Visiting Scientist grants, the French Government.
1983-l985 Research grant, The Israeli Academy of Science.
1984 Research grant, Center for cognition, The school of education, The Hebrew University.
1985 Advanced visiting scientist grant, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France.
1985 Social Sciences Research Council travel grant.
1988 - present The Martin and Claire Rabson endowment grants.
1997 Travel grant, the British Council.
1997 Research grant, Center for cognition, The school of education, The Hebrew University.
1997 Research grant, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
1998/99 The Golestan Foundation fellowship.
2000/01 Research grant, The Research authority of the Hebrew University.
2006 The Polonsky Prize for novelty and creativity awarded to the monograph “The Antipodes of the Mind”
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Associate editor, Pragmatics and Cognition.
Past Associate editor, New Ideas in Psychology.
Editorial board, Revista Cîencia (Science Review), State University of São Paolo (Brazil)
Editorial board, Human Cognition Processing, John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Occasional reviewing for the American Journal of Psychology, the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Consciousness and Cognition, Developmental Psychology, the European Journal for Cognitive Psychology, Intellectica, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Journal of Experimental Psychology - General, Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human learning and memory, the Journal of Pragmatics, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, Journal of Mind and Behavior, Mana, New Ideas in Psychology, Poetics Today, Philosophical Psychology, Psycholoquy, Pragmatics and Cognition, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Research, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Thinking and Reasoning, various Israeli journals and university presses as well as the Israeli Academy of Science and the U.S.-Israel bi-national scientific foundation, the European Community Scientific Commission, and various commercial and university presses.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
At the Hebrew University:
Member of the academic committee of the Rotman Center for Cognitive Science, The School of Education.
Member of the committees of research funding, computer funding, library and teaching matters of the Faculty for Social Sciences.
Chairman, committee on teaching matters, Faculty of Social Sciences. Member of the Lady Davies grants committee.
Chairman, Program for excellency, Faculty of Social Sciences. Member, Committee of the Schindler Foundation.
Principal organizer, The 23th scientific meeting of the Israeli Psychological Association, 1991.
Chairman, committee on B.A. program, Faculty of Social Sciences.
Member of the committee on research students in the humanities and social sciences.
Member, area committee, Department of Psychology.
Member, area committee, Department of Musicology.
Member, area committee, School of Education.
Member. area committee, Program for Cultural Studies.
Member, committee on promotions in the humanities and social sciences.
Member, committee on tenure in the humanities and social sciences.
Member, committee on library affairs, Faculty of the social sciences.
Outside the Hebrew University:
Member of the scientific committee on cognitive psychology, The Israel Academy of Science. Consultant for the Hebrew edition of the Dictionary of Psychology.
Promotions committee, Faculty of the Humanities, Tel Aviv University.
PUBLISHED WORKS:
Monographs:
1. Shanon, B. The Representational and the Presentational: An essay on cognition and the study of mind. London and New York: Harvester-Wheatsheaf/Prentice Hall, 1993.
2. Shanon, B. The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the phenomenology of the Ayahuasca experience. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
3. Shanon, B.The Representational and the Presentational: Second revised edition with new postscript. London and New York: Harvester-Wheatsheaf/Prentice Hall, 1993.
4. Scientific Consultant: Dictionary of Psychology by Arthur S. Reber, Hebrew edition, Keter Publication House, Jerusalem, 1992.
Articles:
1. Shanon, B. Interpretation of ungrammatical sentences. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 12, 389-400, 1973.
2. Shanon, B. Lateralization effects in reaction times to simple sentences. Cortex, 10, 360-365, 1974.
3. Shanon, B. The two meanings of a homophone. Perception and Psychophysics, 16, 571-574, 1974.
4. Shanon, B. On the two kinds of presuppositions in natural language. Foundations of Language, 14, 247-249, 1976.
5. Shanon, B. Semantic and syntactic features in the context of dreams. Linguistic Inquiry, 7, 518-519, 1976.
6. Shanon, B. Aristotelianism, Newtonianism, and the physics of the layman. Perception, 5, 241-243, 1976.
7. Shanon, B. Overseas calls. Linguistic Inquiry, 7, 724-726, 1976.
8. Shanon, B. Review of Cofer (Ed.): The Structure of Human Memory. Quarterly Review of Biology, 52, 323, 1977.
9. Shanon, B. Even, only and almost hardly. Studies in Language, 2, 35-70, 1978.
10. Shanon, B. Classification and identification in an aphasic patient. Brain and Language, 5, 188-194, 1978.
11. Shanon, B. Writing positions in Americans and Israelis. Neuropsychologia, 16, 587-591, 1978.
12. Shanon, B. The genetic code and human language. Synthese, 39, 401-415, 1978.
13. Shanon, B. Have you been to Paris? Acta Psychologica, 43, 313-328, 1979.
14. Shanon, B. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Acta Psychologica, 43, 469-476, 1979.
15. Shanon, B. Lateralization effects in lexical decision tasks. Brain and Language, 8, 380-387, 1979.
16. Shanon, B. Lateralization effects in response to words and non-words. Cortex, 15, 541-549, 1979.
17. Shanon, B. Graphological patterns as a function of handedness and culture. Neuropsychologia, 17, 457-465, 1979.
18. Shanon, B. The image-like and the language-like. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2, 566-567, 1979.
19. Shanon, B. Semantic processing during sleep. The Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 14, 382-384, 1979.
20. Shanon, B. A squish in Hebrew morphology. Theoretical Linguistics, 6, 211-219, 1979.
21. Shanon, B. Labeling. Journal of Pragmatics, 4, 43-49, 1980.
22. Shanon, B. & Balzano, J. Identification and classification of characters in two alphabets. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 9, 261-274, 1980.
23. Shanon, B. Dreaming and dream reports. Journal of Pragmatics, 4, 449-459, 1980.
24. Shanon, B. Lateralization effects in musical decision tasks. Neuropsychologia, 18, 21-31, 1980.
25. Shanon, B. The significance of self-awareness. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 618, 1980.
26. Shanon, B. What is in the frame?--Linguistic indicators. Journal of Pragmatics, 5, 35-44, 1981.
27. Shanon, B. Life between two deaths - Review of H. Atlan: Entre le crystal et la fumée, Jerusalem Post, 1981.
28. Shanon, B. Classification of musical information presented to the right and left ear. Cortex, 17, 583-595, 1981.
29. Shanon, B. A calculus of semantic values. Synthese, 52, 283-298, 1982.
30. Shanon, B. Identification and classification of words and drawings in two languages. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 34A, 135-152, 1982.
31. Shanon, B. Lateralization effects in the perception of Hebrew and English words. Brain and Language, 17, 107-123, 1982.
32. Shanon, B. Thought, language and poetry. Akhshav, 11, 158-163, 1982 [in Hebrew].
33. Shanon, B. Colour associates to semantic linear orders. Psychological Research, 44, 75-83, 1982.
34. Shanon, B. What do the birds say? In J.P. Dupuy and P. Dumouchel (Eds.), Auto-organization, Paris: Seuil, 1982 (in French).
35. Shanon, B. Psycholinguistics, The Hebrew Encyclopaedia, Appendix B, 1983 [in Hebrew].
36. Shanon, B. Answers to where-questions. Discourse Processes, 6, 319-352, 1983.
37. Shanon, B. Descartes’ puzzle--An organismic approach. Cognition and Brain Theory, 6, 185-195, 1983.
38. Shanon, B. & Eifermann, R. Dream-reporting discourse. Text, 4, 369-379, 1984.
39. Shanon, B. Room descriptions. Discourse Processes, 7, 225-255, 1984.
40. Shanon, B. Meno--A cognitive-psychological approach. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 35, 129-147, 1984.
41. Shanon, B. Asymmetries in musical aesthetic judgments. Cortex, 20, 567-573, 1984.
42. Shanon, B. The polyglot mismatch and the monolingual tie. New Ideas in Psychology, 2, 75-79, 1984.
43. Shanon, B. The case for introspection. Cognition and Brain Theory, 7, 167-180, 1984.
44. Shanon, B. How to tell the time in Hebrew. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 14, 317-329, 1985.
45. Shanon, B. On the place of representations in cognition, in D. N. Perkins, J. Lochhead, and J. C. Bishop (Eds.), Thinking, pp. 33-49. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987.
46. Shanon, B. The non-abstractness of mental representations. New Ideas in Psychology, 5, 117-126, 1987.
47. Shanon, B. Why doesn’t a stone have a grammar of physics? Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 17, 83-91, 1987.
48. Shanon, B. Cooperativeness and implicature: A reversed perspective. New Ideas in Psychology, 5, 289-293, 1987.
49. Shanon, B. Enactment and Gedanken experiments. Journal of Mental Imagery, 11, 142-144, 1987.
50. Shanon, B. The channels of thought. Discourse Processes, 11, 221-242, 1988.
51. Shanon, B. The limitations of the representational view of mind. Human Intelligence, 8/4, 5, 1988.
52. Shanon, B. Remarks on the modularity of mind. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 39, 331-352, 1988.
53. Shanon, B. The similarity of features. New Ideas in Psychology, 6, 307-321, 1988.
54. Shanon, B. Semantic representation of meaning--a critique. Psychological Bulletin, 104, 70-83, 1988.
55. Shanon, B. Structural relations in thought sequences. In D. M. Topping, V. Kobayashi and D. Crowell (Eds.), Thinking Across Cultures. Philadelphia: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989.
56. Shanon, B. Metaphors for language and communication. Revue Internationale de Systematique, 3, 43-59, 1989.
57. Shanon, B. Thought sequences. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 1, 129-159, 1989.
58. Shanon, B. Why do we (sometimes) think in words? In K. J. Gilhooly, M. Keane, R. Logie and G. Erdos (Eds.), Lines of Thought: Reflections in the Psychology of Thinking. New York: Wiley, 1989.
59. Shanon, B. A simple comment regarding the Turing Test. New Ideas in Psychology, 19, 249-256, 1989.
60. Shanon, B. Right and left in Hebrew, Journal of Pragmatics, 13, 315-317, 1989.
61. Shanon, B. Can semantic representations serve as the basis for cognitive activity? In K. Benyamini, M. Amir, A. Dolev, E. Cohen & I.M. Schlesinger (Eds.), Theory and Application in Psychology: Volume in memory of Israel Lieblich, pp. 165-175, Jerusalem: Magnes, 1990 [in Hebrew].
62. Shanon, B. and Atlan, H. Von Förster's Theorem on connectedness and organization: Semantic applications. New Ideas in Psychology, 9, 81-90, 1990.
63. Shanon, B. Why are dreams cinematographic?, Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 5, 235-248, 1990.
64. Shanon, B. The knot in the handkerchief, Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 5, 109-114, 1990.
65. Shanon, B. Non-representational frameworks for psychology: A typology. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2, 1-22, 1990.
66. Shanon, B. Consciousness, The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 11, 137-152, 1990.
67. Shanon, B. What is context? Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 20, 158-166, 1990.
68. Shanon, B. Meno: A dozen years later. In M. Canto-Sperber (Ed.): Les Paradoxes de la Connaissance: essais aur le Ménon de Platon, pp. 335-360, Editions Odile Jacob, Paris 1991. [a translation into French of (#40) and a Postscript].
69. Shanon, B. Faulty language selection in polyglots, Language and Cognitive Processes, 6, 339-350, 1991.
70. Shanon, B. Representation - senses and reasons. Philosophical Psychology, 4, 355-374, 1991.
71. Shanon, B. Cognitive psychology and modern physics - some analogies, The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 3, 201-234, 1991.
72. Shanon, B. Novelty in thinking, Substance, 62/63, 48-54, 1991.
73. Shanon, B. Alternative theoretical frameworks for psychology. In A. Still and A. Costall (Eds.), Against cognitivism. London: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1991 (pp. 237-263).
74. Shanon, B. Reflexions sur la complexite de la cognition humaine. In J. P. Dupuy and F. Fogelman-Soulie (Eds.), Les theories de la complexite: Autour de l’oeuvre d’Henri Atlan. Paris: Seuil, 1991 [in French].
75. Shanon, B. Memory as a tool: An analogy with the guiding stick, New Ideas in Psychology, 9, 89-93, 1991.
76. Shanon, B. The representational view in perspective: A response to Lucas, Psychological Bulletin, 110, 264-267, 1991.
77. Shanon, B. Chauvinism - A misdirected accusation: A reply, Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 21, 369-371, 1991.
78. Shanon, B. Consciousness and the computer: A reply to Henley, Journal of Mind and Behavior, 12, 371-376, 1991.
79. Shanon, B. Are connectionist models cognitive?, Philosophical Psychology, 5, 235-255, 1992.
80. Shanon, B. Metaphor: From fixedness and selection to differentiation and creation. Poetics Today, 13, 659-685, 1992.
81. Shifroni, E. and Shanon, B. Interactive user modeling: An integrative explicit-implicit approach, User Modeling and User-adapted Interaction, 2, 331-365, 1992.
82. Shanon. B. Central modularity, Scientific Contributions to General Psychology, 8, 95-104, 1992.
83. Shanon, B. Why am I not a behaviorist? Metaphor and Symbolic Activity, 7, 41-44, 1992.
84. Shanon, B. A few words on “Chapters in the history of psychology”, Psychologia, 3, 87-88, 1992 [in Hebrew].
85. Shanon, B. Why are we (sometimes) conscious of our thoughts? Pragmatics and Cognition, 1, 25-49, 1993.
86. Shanon, B. What’s next: Implications for psychological research, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 197-198, 1993.
87. Shanon, B. Fractal patterns in language, New Ideas in Psychology, 11, 105-109, 1993.
88. Shanon, B. Context and its discontents, review of D. Gillespie’s The Mind’s We: Contextualism in Cognitive Psychology, American Journal of Psychology, 139-146, 1994.
89. Shanon, B. Review of O. Flanagan’s Consciousness Reconsidered, Pragmatics and Cognition, 3, 185-187, 1994.
90. Shanon, B. Complex systems - situated, dynamic and interactive - Review of H. Hendriks-Jansen’s Catching ourselves in the act. Philosophical Psychology, 10, 248-254. 1997.
91. Shanon, B. A cognitive-psychological study of Ayahuasca, The MAPS Newsletter, 7, 13-15, 1997.
92. Shanon, B. Pure logic is not sufficient, Ha’Aretz, 1997 [in Hebrew].
93. Shanon, B. The three types of consciousness. In Gonzales, E. M., et. al., (eds.) Encontro com as Ciências Cognitivas, 227-239, 1997.
94. Shanon, B. Cognitive psychology and the study of Ayahuasca, Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness, 6, 77-94, 1997.
95. Shanon, B. Fodor’s impasse - a converse perspective and a way out, Journal for the Theoretical Study of Behavior, 28, 129-145, 1998.
96. Shanon, B. Metaphorical pluralism - not on the substantive level!, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 164-165, 1998.
97. Shanon, B. What is the function of consciousness? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5, 295-308, 1998.
98. Shanon, B. Ideas, insights and reflections associated with Ayahuasca visions, The MAPS Newsletter, 8, 18-21, 1998.
99. Shanon, B. Ayahuasca visions - a comparative cognitive investigation, Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness, 7, 227-250, 1998.
100. Shanon, B. Mind, consciousness, being, Galileo, 31, 51-57, 1998 [in Hebrew].
101. Shanon, B. The intrinsic temporality of human cognition, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 650-651, 1998.
102. Shanon, B. The ways of the eyes: Observing Velasquez’ Las Meninas, Semiotica, 124, 189-210, 1999.
103. Shanon, B. Ayahuasca, mind and consciousness, The Noetic Journal, 2, 305-315, 1999.
104. Shanon, B. Ayahuasca and creativity, The MAPS Newsletter, 10, 18-19, 2000.
105. Shanon, B. Interpersonal commonalities in the visions of Ayahuasca drinkers, in P. M. Hejl (ed.) Universalien und Konstruktivismus, pp. 154-180, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2001. [in German]
106. Shanon, B. Against the spotlight model of consciousness, New Ideas in Psychology, 19, 77-84, 2001.
107. Shanon, B. Altered temporality, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8, 18-31, 2001.
108. Shanon, B. The divine within - Review of Smith’s Cleansing the Doors of Perception, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8, 86-91, 2001.
109. Shanon, B. Being outside the dominion of time, The MAPS Newsletter, 11, 48-53, 2001.
110. Shanon, B. Entheogens, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, 85-94, 2002.
111. Shanon, B. Ayahuasca visualizations - A structural typology, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, 3-30, 2002.
112. Shanon, B. Ayahuasca and the study of mind, in B. Labate and W.S. Araújo, (eds.), Uso Ritual da Ayahuasca, pp. 631-659, Campinas (Brazil): Editora Mercado de Letras, 2002. [in Portuguese]
113. Shanon, B. Cognition, Epistemology, Ontology: A commentary on Praetorius’ Cognition, language, action, Psycoloquy, 2002 [electronic journal].
114. Shanon, B. Remember the classics! A commentary on Perruchet and Vinter, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 353-354, 2002.
115. The Ayahuasca Experience: Moments of Insight, Transformation and Healing, in G. Zuluga and C. Correal, (eds.), En Seminario Internacional de Etnomedicina: Aproximacon al conocimiento de los sistemas tradicionales de salud, pp. 43-53, Bogotá: Amazon Conservation Team, Instituto de Etnobiologia, Universidad El Bosque, 2002.
116. Shanon, B. Hallucinations, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10, 3-31, 2003.
117. Shanon, B. The embodiment of mind, in M. Wrigley (ed.) Festschrift to Marcelo Dascal, pp. 531-572, Campinas (Brazil): UNICAMP, 2003.
118. Shanon, B. The Contents of Ayahuasca Visions, Mana: Estudos de Antropologia Social, 9, 109-152, 2003 [in Portuguese].
119. Shanon, B. Three stories concerning synaesthesia: A commentary on Synaesthesia by Ramachandran and Hubbard, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10, 69-74, 2003.
120. Shanon, B. The biblical Merkava vision and ayahuasca visions - a comparative commentary, Studies in Spirituality, 13 31-43, 2003.
121. Shanon, B. Altered states and the study of consciousness - the case of ayahuasca, Journal of Mind and Behavior, 24 125-154, 2003.
122. Shanon, B. Ayahuasca in Transition, Review of Labate Beatriz C.: A reinvencao do uso da ayahuasca nos centros urbanos, Mana: Estudos de Anthropologia Social, in press [in Portuguese].
123. Shanon, B. (1993), ‘A Picture of Mind’ and ‘The Representational and the Presentational’. in The Representational and the Presentational: An Essay on Cognition and the Study of Mind, Chapter 17 and Chapter 18, New York, NY: Harvester/Wheatsheaf, 261-282, 283-297, references. In B. Nooteboom (Ed.), Knowledge and learning in the firm: The fundamentals of embodied cognition, Volume I (pp. 399-437).Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
124. Shanon, B. Towards a new psychology of the conscious, in J., Stewart, O. Gapenne & E. di Paulo (eds.), Enaction: Towards a new paradigm for cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, in press.
125. Shanon, B. Consciousness, experience and modes of knowing: a discussion of G. Nixon “The continuum of experience: Non-conscious experience”, The Karl Jaspers Forum, Target Article 95, commentary 11, August 2007.
126. Shanon, B. Biblical entheogens: A speculative hypothesis, Time and Mind,1, pp. 51-74, 2008.
127. Shanon, B. A psychological theory of consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, No. 5, pp. 5-47, 2008.
128. Shanon, B. Mind-Body, Body-Mind: Two Distinct Problems. Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 697-701, 2008.
129. Shanon, B. Reasons for Involving the Notion of God when Theorizing about Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, No. 8, pp.102-109, 2008.
130. Shanon, B. Las Meninas Revisited. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 15, No. 9, pp. 117-123, 2008.
131. Shanon, B. Music and Altered States: Consciousness, Transcendence, Therapy and Addictions, Review of D. Aldrige, J. Fachner (eds). Time and Mind, 1, 365-371, 2008.
132. Shanon, B. First Person, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, May 3/4, p.7, 2008.
INVITED TALKS AND PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
1. Have you been to Paris? Vassar College, November 1974.
2. Questions of pl*ace and time, Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence, Yale University, February 1975.
3. Scores - a general typology for representational structures, Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 1977.
4. Language and cognition, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, spring 1977.
5. Writing patterns in Israelis and Americans, Annual meeting of the Israeli Psychological Association, Tel Aviv, October 1978.
6. Writing patterns in Israelis and Americans, Conference of the International Neuropsychology Society, Amsterdam, June 1979.
7. Lateralization effects in musical decision tasks, Conference of the International Neuropsychological Society, Amsterdam, June 1979.
8. Where-questions, Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, August 1979.
9. Music and the brain, Summer School on Brain and Behavior, Patras, Greece, September 1979.
10. Identification and classification of words and drawings in two languages, Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Phoenix, November 1979.
11. Descriptions, Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, New Haven, June 1980.
12. Lateralization effects in musical judgments, Third Workshop on Physical and Neuropsychological Foundations of Music, Ossiach (Austria), August 1980.
13. Language and auto-organization, Cerisy Colloquium on Auto-organization, Cerisy (France), June 1981.
14. Thought sequences and the language of consciousness, Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berkeley, August 1981.
15. Descriptions of rooms, International Symposium on Text Processing, Fribourg, September 1981.
16. Lateralization effects in the reading of Hebrew and English. European Neuroscience Conference, Liege, September 1981.
17. A comparative study of word perception in Israelis and Americans, European Conference of the International Neuropsychological Society, Deauville, June 1982.
18. Asymmetrical patterns in the aesthetic evaluation of music, European Conference of the International Neuropsychological Society, Deauville, June 1982.
19. What do the birds say?--Notes on a theory of communication, First European Conference on Cognition and Neuropsychology, Bressanone, January 1983.
20. Should the student of adult cognition be interested in the child? Institute of Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 1983.
21. Meaning, language and communication, Annual meeting of the Israeli Psychological Association, Jerusalem, October 1983.
22. The modularity of mind: structural vs. dynamic, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April l984.
23. Reflections on the complexity of cognition, Cerisy colloquium on complexity, Cerisy (France), June, l984.
24. The role of representations in cognition, Conference on thinking, Harvard University, August 1984.
25. Presentations and representations, Cornell University, September 1984.
26. The non-abstractness of mental representations, The Psychological Round Table, Philadelphia, November 1984.
27. The modularity of mind, Cornell University, December 1984.
28. Presentations and representations, Stanford University, January 1985.
29. Presentations and representations, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 1985.
30. Against representation, Cognitive Development Unit, London, February 1985.
31. Presentations and representations, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, May 1985.
32. Remarks on the acquisition of skill and expertise, Cognitiva Conference, Paris, June 1985.
33. Language and music, representations and scores, Workshop on Music and Cognition, Jerusalem, June 1985.
34. On the modularity of mind, Workshop on verbal communication, Corsica, October 1985.
35. Critique of the representational-computational view of mind, Workshop on verbal communication, Corsica, October 1985.
36. Thought sequences, Princeton University, November 1985.
37. Representation - senses and reasons, Princeton University, February 1986.
38. On the modularity of mind, Princeton University, March 1986.
39. Mental representations - why and why not?, Annual meeting of the Israeli Psychological Association, Tel Aviv, March 1987.
40. The representational-computational paradigm in cognition, Seminar on Minds, Machines and Society, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, Jerusalem, April 1987.
41. Mental representations - why, why not and what else? Colloquium in the history and philosophy of science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 1987.
42. The limitations of the representational view of mind, 8th international congress of logic, methodology and philosophy of science, Moscow, August 1987.
43. Mental representations - a critique, International meeting of the society for ecological psychology, Trieste, August 1987.
44. Central modularity, Second meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Madrid, September 1987.
45. How language affects thinking, Workshop on child development, Tel Aviv University, December 1987.
46. The problem of representation in psychology, Seminar on networks, Institute of advanced studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 1988.
47. Context and mental representation, Text and context conference, Tel Aviv University, July 1988.
48. Why are we (sometimes) conscious of our thoughts?, Fourth international conference on thinking, Aberdeen, August 1988.
49. Why do we think in words? Third meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Cambridge, September 1988.
50. The concept of “network”, The Science Magazine, The Israeli Broadcasting Service, April 1988.
51. Cognition, The Israeli Broadcasting Service, April 1988.
52. Is Psychology a Science? A debate with Prof. Y. Leibovich, Hillel House, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December 1988.
53. Why do we (sometimes) think in words?, Department of Psychology, Warsaw University, Warsaw, April 1989.
54. The representational view of mind: A critique, The Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, April 1989.
55. The medium in language and the arts, The Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw, April 1989.
56. Problems with the semantic representation of meaning, The Polish semantic club, Warsaw, April 1989.
57. The representation of meaning, Faculty of Computer Science, The Technion, Haifa, June 1989.
58. Why do we think in words?, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, June 1989.
59. Context and the representation of meaning, 1st Edinburgh round table on the mental lexicon, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, June 1989.
60. Mental images--Not epiphenomenal but not pictures either, Fourth International Conference on Thinking, San Juan, August 1989.
61. Handicap, limitation and creativity, The President of Israel House, Jerusalem, November 1989.
62. Representationalism and its alternatives, Domains of Mental Functioning: Attempts at Synthesis, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, December 1989.
63. What is context? Workshop on ecological psychology, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, December 1989.
64. Thoughts, words and consciousness, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, February 1990.
65. Theoretical frameworks in psychology, Fourth meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Como, September 1990.
66. Mental images - not epiphenomenal but not CRT pictures either, Fourth meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Como, September 1990.
67. Alternative frameworks in psychology, the First Israeli conference for cognitive psychology, Beer Sheva, December 1990.
68. Why do we think in words? International conference on language and thought, Campinas, August 1991.
69. What is context? European conference on ecological psychology, Manchester, September 1991.
70. Units in psychological theory, European conference on ecological psychology, Manchester, September 1991.
71. The locus of psychology, The 23rd scientific conference of the Israeli Psychological Association, Jerusalem, October 1991.
72. Representationalism and its critique, The 23rd scientific conference of the Israeli Psychological Association, Jerusalem, October 1991.
73. The place of semantic representations in cognitive theory, tutorial given at the Center of Semiotics, the University of San Marino, December 1991.
74. Metaphor: From selection to generation, International workshop on metaphor, Tel Aviv University, May 1992.
75. Theoretical frameworks in cognition, The philosophy colloquium, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December 1992.
76. Representationalism - problems and alternatives, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, December 1992.
77. Reflections on human consciousness, Center for Rationality, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 1993.
78. Learning, novelty and creativity, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, January 1993.
79. Representationalism - a comprehensive view, International conference of the Society for Theoretical Psychology, Paris, April 1993.
80. Modularity - from structure to dynamics, Workshop on neuropsychology and modularity, Institute for advanced studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 1993.
81. Learning: Impasses and ways out, International conference on neural networks and learning, The Center for Neural computation, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 1993.
82. Cognition: from symbol manipulation to action in the world, International conference on Pragmatics and Cognition, Tel Aviv, June 1993.
83. Consciousness, workshop on Buddhism and consciousness, Klil (Israel), July 1993.
84. Language, thought and consciousness, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, December 1993.
85. Language,thought and consciousness, Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, May 1994.
86. What psychologists can contribute to the anthropologists studying amazonian culture?, Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Acre, Rio Branco (Brazil), September 1994.
87. A cognitive psychologist looks at Ayahuasca, Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, September 1994.
88. The representational and the presentational, The Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, December 1994.
89. The phenomenology of the Ayahuasca experience, 1st international conference on Hoasca studies, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), November, 1995.
90. Representations and presentations, 1st international encounter on cognitive science, Marilia (Brazil), November, 1995.
91. Amazonian shamanism - why of interest to the cognitive psychologist?, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, March 1995.
92. A century of scientific psychology, Colloquium on the Zeitgeist of the end of the 20th century, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 1995.
93. The function of consciousness, Toward a science of consciousness, Tucson, April 1996.
94. The function of consciousness, The Israeli cognitive society, Tel Aviv, June 1996.
95. Ayahuasca - a cognitive-psychological perspective, The first forum on the spiritual traditions of the peoples of the Americas, Morelia (Mexico), June 1996.
96. The personal and the sub-personal levels of explanation in psychology, Annual meeting of the European society for philosophy and psychology, Barcelona, July 1996.
97. Genuinely psychological psychological explanation, Second conference for socio-cultural research, Geneva, September 1996.
98. Introduction, replies to discussants and prospectus for the future - Symposium on The Representational and the Presentational, 2nd Brazilian-International encounter on cognitive science, Campos (Brazil), November 1996.
99. Consciousness and its function, The 2nd Brazilian-International encounter on cognitive science, Campos (Brazil), November 1996.
100. Consciousness and its function, The center for neural computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December 1996.
101. What constitutes a cognitive-psychological explanation? Department of Psychology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 1997.
102. Mind-brain and the mind-body problems - a psychologist’s perspective, Symposium on the mind-brain problem, Center for neural computation, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, April 1997.
103. Why consciousness? Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrew, April 1997.
104. Why Ayahuasca - a cognitive-psychological perspective, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrew, April 1997.
105. Consciousness: Novelty in thinking, action in the world and creativity. Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, April 1997.
106. Consciousness and its functions. School for cognitive and computer sciences, University of Sussex, April 1997.
107. The functions of consciousness, meeting of the European society for philosophy and psychology, Padua (Italy), August 1997.
108. Ayahuasca and the study of mind, Takiwasi rehabilitation and research center, Tarapoto (Peru), August 1997.
109. Against the torch-light model of consciousness, The meeting of the Israeli society for cognitive psychology, Tel Aviv University, October 1997.
110. Psychology towards the end of the century - a general perspective, The meeting of the Israeli society for cognitive psychology, Tel Aviv University, October 1997.
111. Consciousness - problems and avenues for investigation, The meeting of the Israeli society for cognitive psychology, Tel Aviv University, October 1997.
112. The cognitive study of Ayahuasca, conference on the future of Ayahuasca, The University of Campinas, Campinas (Brazil), November 1997.
113. Consciousness - the virtual reality of the mind, International conference on Autopoiesis, The Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), April 1997.
114. The voyage to the world of Ayahuasca, Colloquium on shamanism, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 1998.
115. Reflections on consciousness, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, March 1998.
116. Consciousness, 3rd international meeting of the Brazilian cognitive society, Campinas (Brazil), April 1998.
117. Cognitive psychology and the study of Ayahuasca, Conference on the primacy of consciousness, Lisbon, April 1998.
118. Round table - The nature of consciousness (coordinator and participant), Conference on the primacy of consciousness, Lisbon, April 1998.
119. The study of mind in psychology and in other disciplines, conference on multidisciplinary in science, Haifa University, Haifa (Israel), May 1998.
120. Cognition, consciousness and the study of the human mind, interview with Avi Kazman, Israeli Broadcasting Service, August 1998.
121. Ayahuasca and the study of mind, Conference on Psychoactivity, Amsterdam, October, 1998.
122. The acts of consciousness, Institute for Cognitive Science, Lyon, February, 1999.
123. Ways to consciousness, Ecole Politechnique, Paris, March 1999.
124. Psychological insight, personal transformation and healing in the context of Ayahuasca visions - a phenomenological analysis, Annual meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Berkeley (California), May 1999.
125. Reflections on consciousness, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, June, 1999.
126. Ayahuasca and consciousness, Nova consciencia, Campina Grande (Brazil), March 2000.
127. A cognitive psychologist looks at Ayahuasca, Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tuscon (Arizona), April 2000.
128. The status of psychology, Institute for the history and philosophy of the sciences and the ideas, Tel Aviv University, June 2000.
129. The Empire of Light: Ayahuasca, mythology, good and evil, the 4th Mishkenot Encounter for Religion and Culture, Jerusalem, June 2000.
130. The tri-partite system of consciousness, the 4th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Bruxelles, June 2000.
131. Information vs. meaning, The 4th meeting of the Brazilian society for cognitive science, Marilia (Brazil), December, 2000.
132. Consciousness (conference workshop), The 4th meeting of the Brazilian society for cognitive science, Marilia (Brazil), December, 2000.
133. What do altered states of consciousness tell us about human consciousness? Nova consciencia, Campina Grande (Brazil), February, 2001.
134. Beyond time, meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, Seattle, April, 2001.
135. Reflections on shamanism and consciousness, Seminar on shasmanism and altered states of consciousness, The Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, July, 2001.
136. The mystery of consciousness and the foundations of consciousness, Conference on consciousness and its place in nature, Skovde (Sweden), August, 2001.
137. Reflections on the Self, Conference on personal identity, The State University of São Paolo, São Vicente (Brazil), December, 2001.
138. A cognitive psychologist looks at Ayahuasca, The National University of Colombia, Leticia (Colombia), December, 2001.
139. Reflections on human consciousness, Center for Rationality, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, December, 2001.
140. Thought, language and consciousness, 6th meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Barcelona, June, 2002.
141. Brain and mind, brain-sciences and mind-sciences, special colloquium, Department of Physiology, Hebrew University Medical School, July, 2002.
142. Ayahuasca - a cognitive psychological perspective, Workshop on traditional Amerindian medicine, University of Bogota (Colombia), July, 2002.
143. Ayahuasca, The Medical Scientific Network, London, September, 2002.
144. Invited participant, Research meeting on spiritual transformation, The Metanexus Institute, Philadephia, October, 2002.
145. The Antipodes of the Mind, 3rd conference on Psychoactivity, Amsterdam, November, 2002.
146. The Antipodes of the Mind, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, October, 2002.
147. The Antipodes of the Mind, 3rd conference on Psychoactivity, Amsterdam, November, 2002.
148. Psychology between the unconscious and the conscious, The Adams Brain Center, Tel Aviv Universitry, December, 2002.
149. Altered temporality, Conference on Space, Time and Beyond, Lucerne (Switzerland), January, 2003.
150. Ayahuasca and consciousness, Workshop on ayahuasca, Manaus (Brazil), July, 2003.
151. The Antipodes of the Mind, interview for “All in the Mind”, Australian National Radio, November, 2003.
152. Sacred plants in the Judean desert, workshop of the Rationality center, The Hebrew University, December, 2003.
153. Speculations on the use of psychoactive plants in the early Israelite religion, Conference on Entheogenesis, Vancouver (Canada), February, 2004.
154. The antipodes of the mind, Department of Psychology, Bond University (Australia), February, 2004.
155. Interview with Yotam Feldman, Haaretz Magazine, November 25th, 2005, pp. 44 - 50 [in Hebrew].
156. Who needs psychology? The Cognitive Science Program, The Hebrew University, December, 2005.
157. The puzzles and mysteries of consciousness, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, December, 2005.
158. Brain, mind and consciousness, Symposium in memory of Prof. Yehosuha Leibowitz, Tel Aviv University, January, 2006.
159. The implications of altered states to the study of human consciousness, Albert Hoffmann’s centenary symposium, Basel, January, 2006.
160. The mysteries and puzzles of consciousness, Encounter of the Center of Rationality, The Hebrew University, February, 2006.
161. Aesthetic facets of altered states of consciousness, The Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv University, March, 2006.
162. Synaesthesia, metaphor and poetic creativeness in altered states of consciousness, "Seeing the Voices", symposium on synaesthesia, Tel Aviv University, March, 2006.
163. The Antipodes of the Mind, 2nd conference on altered states of consciousness, Curitiba (Brazil), April, 2006.
164. Reflections on consciousness and reality, 2nd conference on altered states of consciousness, Curitiba (Brazil), April, 2006.
165. The Antipodes of the Mind, the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Psychoactive substances, Sao Paulo (Brazil), April, 2006.
166. Against representationalism and towards a phenomenological psycyhology of experience, CNRS summer school on enaction, Oleron (France), July, 2006.
167. The Antipodes of the Mind, 2nd conference on shasmanism and ayahuasca, Iquitos (Peru), July, 2006.
168. New frameworks for phenomenological psychological research, Conference on Husserl and the sciences, the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, December, 2006.
169. The puzzles of consciousness, Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, December, 2006.
170. Between India and Amerindia: Aletered states of consciousness, mind and spirituality, Conference on Indian approaches to mind and consciousness, Delhi, January, 2007.
171. Altered states of consciousness - psychological and philosophical issues, Seminar on esoteric traditions and altered states of mind, the Esalen Institute, California, April, 2007.
172. The ayahuasca experience, 4th Forum on the Spiritual Traditions of America, Guatemala, January, 2008.
173. Ayahuasca visions - program for a cognitive investigation, Second Conference on the Study of Hallucinations, Paris, April, 2009.
174. Ayahuasca visions - psychological and philosophical considerations, Second Conference on the Study of Hallucinations, Paris, April, 2009.
175. Hallucinations - philosophical ramifications, Second Conference on the Study of Hallucinations, Paris, April, 2009.
176. The ayahuasca experience - empirical psychological research and philosophical ramifications, Meeting of the Israeli Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Jerusalem, March, 2009.
177. Towards a psychological theory of consciousness, The cognitive colloquium, Department of Psychology, the Hebrew University, April, 2009.
178. Human consciousness - challenges and lines for investigation, Student forum,. Department of Philosophy, The Hebrew University, May, 2009.
179. Ayahuasca healing - a phenomenological survey, Takiwasi conference on the medicinal and curative aspects of ayahuasca, Tarapoto (Peru), June, 2009.
180. The psychological study of human consciousness, Institute for Consciousness Studies, University of Copenhaguen, September, 2008.