ד"ר גלית אגמון
CV
ACADEMIC TRACK
2021-2024 Postdoctoral Fellow The University of Pennsylvania, USA
Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine
Advisor: Murray Grossman (RIP), Naomi Nevler (from 2023)
Quantifying syntactic complexity in speech; used for early screening of cognitive decline.
2018-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow Bar-Ilan University, Israel
The Gonda Multidisciplinary Center for Brain Research
Advisors: Michal Ben-Shachar, Elana Zion-Golumbic
Studying brain signals of speech processing in noisy environments.
2012-2018 Ph.D. The Hebrew University, Israel
The Edmond and Lily Safra Center (ELSC) for Brain Sciences
Advisors: Yosef Grodzinsky, Yonatan Loewenstein
Dissertation: Processing Polarity in Natural Language Quantifiers
Studying the cognitive and neurological traits of processing negative quantifiers, by combining linguistics, formal logic, behavioral experiments, and fMRI.
2011-2012 Research Trainee McGill University, Canada
Department of Linguistics
Studying advanced syntax and semantics at McGill’s Ph.D. program in Linguistics.
Conducting fMRI research at the Montreal Neurological Institute on processing quantifiers.
2009-2011 M.Sc. The Hebrew University, Israel
The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation
As part of the direct to Ph.D. program in computational neuroscience.
2006-2009 B.A. The Hebrew University, Israel
Linguistics & Cognitive Sciences
Linguistic courses were from both the generative stream and the structuralist stream. Cognitive Science electives focused on language processing.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2021 Merit Award, Society for the Neurobiology of Language. (postdoc)
2019 The Israeli Ministry of Science Navon Fellowship. (postdoc)
2016-2017 Limud BeChevruta scholarship for selected discussion group programs. (Ph.D.)
2009-2016 The 5-year Joseph and Michelle Jacobs scholarship for ELSC students. (Ph.D.)
2012-2015 The 3-year Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility Program Fellowship. (Ph.D.)
2016 The Institute of psychobiology travel grant. (Ph.D.)
2009, 2010 Faculty of Sciences Dean’s Award. (M.Sc.) and poster award. (M.Sc.)
2006-2008 Three-year consecutive winner of the Dean’s award; Summa cum laude. (B.A.)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2018-2019 Instructor, Foundations of Language. M.A. seminar, Language Logic and Cognition Center (LLCC), The Hebrew University.
2018 (spring) Instructor, Cognitive Processes. B.A. required course, Psychology, The Hebrew U.
2016, 2017 (fall) Instructor, Introduction to Cognition. Ph.D. required course, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), The Hebrew University. (in English) Galit Agmon Neuro-linguistics, Ph.D.
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February 2024
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2011, 2013 (spring) Teaching Assistant, Language, Thought and Society. B.A. elective, School of Language Sciences, The Hebrew University. (in English and in Hebrew)
2009 (fall) Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Linguistics. B.A. required course, English Linguistics track, The Hebrew University. (in English)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
ORGANIZING READING GROUPS AND WORKSHOPS
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R tutorial (multi-lab meetings, Gonda Center, Bar-Ilan University; 2020)
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Acquisition & Processing of Language from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (The Hebrew U; 2016, 2017)
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Statistical Issues (LLCC, The Hebrew University; 2014)
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Cognition and Inter-individual Differences (ELSC, The Hebrew University; 2013)
JOURNAL AND CONFERENCE AD-HOC REVIEWER
Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research (2023, 2024); Journal of Neuroscience (2022, 2023); American Journal of Audiology (2023); American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (2023); Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics (2022); Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Meeting (2019); International Graduate Student Conference on Diverse Approaches to Languages (2011)
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2022 Agmon, G., Pradhan, S., Ash, S., Nevler, N., Liberman, M., Grossman, M., & Cho, S. Automated measures of syntactic complexity for spontaneous speech. Poster presented at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Philadelphia, PA. 2021 Agmon, G., Bleicher, M. G., Tsarfaty, R., & Zion Golumbic, E. Neural tracking of linguistic features in real-life speech. Video presentation presented at Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN), online due to COVID-19. 2021 Agmon, G., Bleicher, M. G., Tsarfaty, R., & Zion Golumbic, E. “Um…, it’s really difficult to... um… speak fluently”: Neural tracking of spontaneous speech. Video presentation presented at SNL, online conference due to COVID-19.
2020 Agmon, G., Har-Shai Yahav, P., Ben-Shachar, M., & Zion Golumbic E. Neural networks for attention to speech: Mapping distributed and selective attention. Poster presented at SNL, online due to COVID-19.
2019 Agmon, G., Yablonski, M., Menashe, B., & Ben-Shachar, M. Identifying the cognitive components of the morphological fluency task. Poster presented at SNL, Helsinki, Finland.
2017 Agmon, G. & Nelken, I. The Emergence of Music and Language, Invited talk at the 10th Brain Circle Meeting Anniversary, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2016 Agmon, G., Deschamps, I., Loewenstein, Y., & Grodzinsky, Y. Processing negative polarity in quantifiers and in adjectives. Poster presented at the 22nd conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Bilbao, Spain.
2016 Agmon, G. “Few” and “many” are more similar to proportional quantifiers than to degree adjectives. Talk at the 32nd meeting of the Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL), Jerusalem, Israel.
2016 Agmon, G. Is “few” a small number? Comparing negative polarity in quantifiers and in adjectives. Talk at the 3rd conference of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology (ISCOP), Akko (Acre), Israel.
2016 Agmon, G., Deschamps, I., Loewenstein, Y., & Grodzinsky, Y. Less is more: negative quantifiers are more difficult to process than negative adjectives. Poster presented at SNL, London, the UK.
2010 Agmon, G. Affixal negation in Hebrew adjectives. Talk at Linguists of Tomorrow conference, the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
2010 Agmon, G. & Doron, E. Adjectival negation in Hebrew. Poster presented at the Hebrew University Faculty Day (3rd place winner), Jerusalem.
Publications
GALIT AGMON – PUBLICATIONS
(^ Corresponding author; * Equal contribution)
PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
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Agmon, G.^, Pradhan, S., Ash, S., Nevler, N., Liberman, M., Grossman, M. & Cho, S. (2024). Automated measures of syntactic complexity in production: Speech of older and younger adults. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 67(2): 545-561. DOI:10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00009
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Cho, S.^, …, Agmon, G., …, Grossman, M., Liberman, M., Nevler, N. (2024). Automatic classification of AD pathology in FTD phenotypes using natural speech. Alzheimer’s & Dementia. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13748
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Cho, S.^, Olm, C. A., Ash, S., Shellikeri, S., Agmon, G., Cousins, K., Irwin, D. J., Grossman, M., Liberman, M. & Nevler, N. (2024). Automatic classification of AD pathology in FTD phenotypes using natural speech. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 1-13. DOI: 10.1002/alz.13748
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Nevler, N.^, Cho, S., Cousins, K., Ash, S., Olm, C. Shellikeri, S., Agmon, G., …, Grossman, M. (2024). Changes in digital speech measures in asymptomatic carriers of pathogenic variants associated with frontotemporal degeneration. Neurology 102(2). DOI: 10.1212/WNL.000000000020792
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Agmon, G.^, Jaeger, M., Tsarfaty, R., Bleichner, M., & Zion Golumbic, E. (2023). “Um…, it’s really difficult to... um… speak fluently”: Neural tracking of spontaneous speech. Neurobiology of Language, 4(3): 435-454. DOI: 10.1162/nol_a_00109
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Agmon, G.^, Loewenstein, Y. & Grodzinsky, Y. (2022). Negative sentences exhibit a sustained effect in delayed verification tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 48(1):122. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0001059
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Agmon, G.*, Har-Shai, P.*, Ben-Shachar, M. & Zion Golumbic, E.^. (2021). Neural networks for attention to speech: Mapping distributed and selective attention onto the brain. Cerebral Cortex 32(17): 3763-3776. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab446
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Agmon, G.^, Bain, J. S., Deschamps, I. (2021). Negative polarity in quantifiers evokes greater activation in language-related regions compared to negative polarity in adjectives. Experimental Brain Research 239(5): 1427-1438. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-021-06067-y
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Grodzinsky, Y.*^, Behrent, K.*, Agmon, G., Bittner, N., Jockwitz, C., Caspers, S., Amunts, K. & Heim, S. (2021). A linguistic complexity pattern that defies aging: The processing of multiple negations. Journal of Neurolinguistics 58: 100982. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100982
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Lambez, B., Agmon, G., Har-Shai Yahav, P., Rassovsky, Y. & Zion Golumbic, E.^. (2020). Individual capacity for selective and distributed attention to speech: The role of cognitive capacity and acquired experience. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics 82: 3594-3605. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-020-02091-2
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Grodzinsky, Y.^, Deschamps, I., Pieperhoff, P., Iannilli, F., Agmon, G., Loewenstein, Y. & Amunts, K. (2020). Logical negation mapped onto the brain. Brain Structure and Function 225:19-31. DOI: 10.1007/s00429-019-01975-w
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Agmon, G.^, Loewenstein, Y. & Grodzinsky, Y. (2019). Measuring the cognitive cost of downward monotonicity by controlling for negative polarity. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 4(1): 36. DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.770
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Deschamps, I.*, Agmon, G.*, Lowenstein, Y. & Grodzinsky, Y.^. (2015). The processing of polar quantifiers, and numerosity perception. Cognition 143: 115-128. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.06.006
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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Cho, S.^, Shellikeri, S., Cousins, S., Ash, S., Agmon, G., Gonzalez-Recober, C., Irwin, D., Liberman, M., Grossman, M. & Nevler, N. (2023). Automatic classification of underlying AD vs. FTLD pathology in people with clinical Frontotemporal Dementia using digital speech marker. Alzheimer’s & Dementia 19(S14): e073794. DOI: 10.1002/alz.073794
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Cho, S.^, Shellikeri, S., Ash, S., Agmon, G., …, Nevler, N., Liberman, M. & Grossman, M. (2022). Longitudinal changes of automated speech markers in MCI and mild AD. Alzheimer’s & Dementia 18(S5): e061835. DOI: 10.1002/alz.061835
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Cho, S.^, Agmon, G., Shellikeri, S., Cousins, K., Ash, S., Irwin, D., Spindler, M., Madiedo, A.D.A., Elman, L., Quinn, C., Liberman, M., Grossman, M., Nevler, N. (2021). Prosodic characteristics of prepausal words produced by patients with neurodegenerative disease. Proceedings of Speech Prosody, 120-124. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-25
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Grodzinsky, Y.^, Agmon, G., Kedem, S., Deschamps, I. & Loewenstein, Y. (2018). The processing cost of downward entailingness: The representation and verification of comparative constructions. In Uli Sauerland & Stephanie Solt (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22(1), 435-451. Berlin: ZAS. DOI: 10.21248/zaspil.60.2018.475
BOOK CHAPTERS
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Agmon, G. Negation of Adjectives in Modern Hebrew (2013). In Khan, G. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, Brill. DOI: 10.1163/2212-4241_ehll_EHLL_COM_000490
PREPRINTS/UNDER REVIEW
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Pinto, D., Agmon, G. & Zion Golumbic E.^ (2020). The role of spatial separation on selective and distributed attention to speech. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2020.01.27.920785
תאריך עדכון אחרון : 05/12/2024
