Einat Rashal

Biography

Einat studies visual perception and attention. She holds a BA in Psychology and Music, MA in Cognitive Psychology and Human Factors, and a PhD in Psychology, awarded by the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Following graduation, she held an Erasmus postdoc position in the Gestalt Revision Lab at KULeuven, Belgium. Einat then won a Marie-Składowska-Curie Individual Fellowship for a postdoc at EPFL, Switzerland. She further held a postdoc position at UGent, Belgium, where she worked in an international multidisciplinary consortium (Mac-Brain), and specialized in EEG methods while studying attention-control and visuomotor integration.

Research and scholarship

My current research focuses on the relationship between attention and perceptual objects, and the dissociation between direct and indirect measures of perceptual organization. To investigate these questions, Einat incorporates psychophysical experiments in the lab and online, EEG experiments, and advanced research methods.

Teaching

I have ten years of experience in developing and delivering teaching materials and student assessment for undergraduate courses. Specifically, I taught courses on Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, Statistics (including SPSS), and academic writing to first- and second-year students in several undergraduate programs in social sciences at three HEIs in Israel. Furthermore, I delivered lectures on Perception and was involved in preparing course materials for an EEG lab practical at UGent.

I successfully supervised undergraduate and postgraduate research projects, a MSc thesis, and a visiting PhD student at UGent, and was heavily involved in other postgraduate theses before that. Additionally, I have provided assessment for undergraduate and postgraduate research projects and theses, both in the departmental and faculty levels at UGent.

Further information

You can find more information about me and my work here

Supervision

Einat supervises students at BSc, MSc and PhD levels.

Example students’ research includes reward-based capture of visual and auditory attention in ADHD, EEG markers of awareness, the role of attention in perceptual organization, and visual crowding.

Students interested in studying visual cognition for an advanced degree, volunteer in the lab or participate in an experiment, can email e.rashal@keele.ac.uk.