Tal Ness
About Me
I am a psycholinguist, interested in sentence processing. I am particularly intrigued by the interaction between domain-general executive functions and language processing.
I did my PhD in Neuroscience at Tel-Aviv University, in Dr. Aya Meltzer-Asscher's lab.
I am currently doing my post-doc in Dr. Jared Novick's lab at the University of Maryland, working on a joint NSF project with Dr. Albert Kim at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Education & Experience
Post-doctoral Associate
2021 - present
University of Maryland, College Park
Working jointly with Jared Novick (UMD) and Albert Kim (CU Boulder)
PhD in Neuroscience
2017 - 2021
Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
Advisor: Aya Meltzer-Asscher
M.Sc in Neuroscience in Linguistics
B.Sc in Linguistics and Biology
2016 - 2017
Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
Advisor: Aya Meltzer-Asscher
2013 - 2016
Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
Expertise
My main skill set
EEG & ERP
Programing languages:
Matlab, R, Python
Statistical analyses
&
Computational modeling
Ness, T. & Meltzer-Asscher, A. (2021). Love thy neighbor: facilitation and competition between parallel predictions.
Ness, T. & Meltzer-Asscher, A. (2021). From pre-activation to pre-updating: A threshold mechanism for commitment to strong predictions.
Ness, T. & Meltzer-Asscher, A. (2021). Rational adaptation in lexical prediction: The influence of prediction strength.
In special issue: Rational Approaches in Language Science, in Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1166.
Ness, T. & Meltzer-Asscher, A. (2019). When is the verb a potential gap site? The influence of filler maintenance on the active search for a gap.
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(7), 936-948.
Ness, T. & Meltzer-Asscher, A. (2018). Predictive pre-updating and working memory capacity: Evidence from event-related potentials.
Lexical inhibition due to failed prediction: Behavioral evidence and ERP correlates.
Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory and cognition, 44(8), 1269-1285.