Roi Cohen Kadosh

Roi Cohen Kadosh (last name Cohen Kadosh, Hebrew: רועי כהן קדוש, born 1976) is an Israeli-British cognitive neuroscientist notable for his work on numerical and mathematical cognition and learning and cognitive enhancement. He is a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and the head of the Cognition, Learning, and Plasticity Group at the University of Oxford and a senior fellow in Psychology at Jesus College. He is married to the developmental cognitive neuroscientist Kathrin Cohen Kadosh.

Roi Cohen Kadosh
Born1976
Israel
NationalityIsrael, British
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive Neuroscience, Numerical Cognition, Cognitive enhancement
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Doctoral advisorAvishai Henik
Websitepsy.ox.ac.uk/research/cohen-kadosh-laboratory

Biography

Roi was born in Israel in 1976. He became interested in psychology at age 14, following his mother's illness and early death. After absolving mandatory service in the Israel Defence Forces, he started his studies at Achva College, and received his undergraduate degree in Behavioral Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2002. Based on his achievements in his undergraduate studies, he received the prestigious Kreitman Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and was accepted to the direct track in PhD in neuropsychology with Prof. Avishai Henik. During his PhD degree (Summa Cum Laude), he completed the European Diploma in Cognitive and Brain Sciences (EDCBS), and received training as an intern in clinical neuropsychology, at Beit Leowenstein Rehabilitation Center. He then decided to follow a research career, and received a Rothschild post-doctoral fellowship and funding from European Commission and the International Brain Research Organization to join the Institute Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London for his postdoctoral training. In 2009 he received a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship to move to the University of Oxford where he established his lab.

Numerical Cognition

Cohen Kadosh started to work on numerical cognition under the supervision of Avishai Henik. Cohen Kadosh's work has focused on how humans represent numbers and the psychological and biological mechanisms that support superior,[1] typical,[2][3] and impaired numerical understanding,[4] a research with implications for a wide range of fields including psychology, education, and neuroscience. His work in this field has led to significant changes in several dominant theories of numerical cognition.[5][6]

Synesthesia

Cohen Kadosh has revealed some of the cognitive and perceptual principles of synesthesia[7][8] and its neurobiological mechanisms,[9][10][11] which has implications for the field of neuroplasticity and learning. He has also suggested that the origins of synesthesia might be due to a failure in cortical specialization during infancy and childhood.[12]

Cognitive Enhancement

Cohen Kadosh has been one of the pioneers in combining cognitive training with non-invasive brain stimulation to show its impact on cognition,[13][14] learning,[15] and brain functions.[16] In the last years he has extended his work to examine the role of individual differences at the psychological[17][14][18] and biological level[9] on the impact of brain stimulation on behaviour, those allowing a better mechanistic understanding of brain stimulation and learning.

Neuroethics

Cohen Kadosh has collaborated with neuroethicists to highlight the implications of brain stimulation for cognitive enhancement[19] and shape the current regulation.[20]

Awards and Recognition

[21] · In 2016 he was the recipient of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society Early Career Award.IMBES - Award Nominations

· In 2015 he received the Professorial Distinction Award from the University of Oxford.

· His book The Stimulated Brain[22] garnered at 2015 an Honorable Mention for Biomedicine & Neuroscience at the 2015 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers.2015 Award Winners

· In 2014 he received the Scholar Award from the James S McDonnell Foundation.James S. McDonnell Foundation - Search Funded Grants

· In 2014 the British Psychological Society announced that Roi Cohen Kadosh would be the recipient of the Spearman Medal.Roi Cohen Kadosh wins BPS Spearman Medal — Department of Experimental Psychology

· The European Society for Cognitive Psychology awarded him at 2012 the Paul Bertelson Award.

· In 2010 he was awarded the Career Development Award, from the Society for Neuroscience.

· In 2009 he received The Sieratzki-Korczyn Prize for Advances in the Neurosciences.Adams Super Center for Brain Studies - Tel Aviv University

Published works

The following is a partial list of publications;

Selected Papers
  • 2015 – Linking GABA and glutamate levels to cognitive skill acquisition during development; Human Brain Mapping.[23]
  • 2014 - Cognitive enhancement or cognitive cost: Trait-specific outcomes of brain stimulation in the case of mathematics anxiety; The Journal of Neuroscience.[24]
  • 2013 - The mental cost of cognitive enhancement; The Journal of Neuroscience.[15]
  • 2013 - Long-term enhancement of brain function and cognition using cognitive training and brain stimulation; Current Biology.[16]
  • 2012 – The Neuroethics of Non-invasive Brain Stimulation; Current Biology.[19]
  • 2011 – Enhanced cortical excitability in grapheme-colour synaesthesia and its modulation; Current Biology.[10]
  • 2010 – Modulating Neuronal Activity Produces Specific and Long Lasting Changes in Numerical Competence; Current Biology.[13]
  • 2009 – Numerical Representation in the Parietal Lobes: Abstract or not Abstract?; Behavioral and Brain Sciences.[6]
  • 2007 – Notation-Dependent and -Independent Representations of Numbers in the Parietal Lobes; Neuron.[3]
  • 2007 – Virtual Dyscalculia Induced by Parietal Lobe TMS Impairs Automatic Magnitude Processing; Current Biology.[4]

Miscellaneous
  • 2014 – The Neuroscience of Mathematical Cognition and Learning. An Expert Paper produced on the request of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris.[25]
  • 2014 – The regulation of cognitive enhancement devices (Policy Paper).

Books
  • 2015 – The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition.[26]
  • 2014 - The Stimulated Brain: Cognitive Enhancement Using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation.[22] This book won the 39th Annual PROSE Award (an honourable mention in the Biomedicine & Neuroscience category).

Media Coverage

Cohen Kadosh’s research attracts substantial interest from the public and the media. The following is a partial list;

Print and Digital Media

Radio

  • The Today Programme, BBC, Great Britain (2012).
  • BBC World Service, BBC, Great Britain (2010).

Podcast

Public performance

Television

References
  1. Sella, Francesco; Sader, Elie; Lolliot, Simon; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (2016). "Basic and advanced numerical performances relate to mathematical expertise but are fully mediated by visuospatial skills". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 42 (9): 1458–1472. doi:10.1037/xlm0000249. PMC 5008436. PMID 26913930.
  2. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Henik, Avishai; Rubinsten, Orly; Mohr, Harald; Dori, Halit; van de Ven, Vincent; Zorzi, Marco; Hendler, Talma; Goebel, Rainer (1 January 2005). "Are numbers special?: The comparison systems of the human brain investigated by fMRI". Neuropsychologia. 43 (9): 1238–1248. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.12.017. PMID 15949508.
  3. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin; Kaas, Amanda; Henik, Avishai; Goebel, Rainer (18 January 2007). "Notation-dependent and -independent representations of numbers in the parietal lobes". Neuron. 53 (2): 307–314. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2006.12.025. ISSN 0896-6273. PMID 17224410.
  4. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin; Schuhmann, Teresa; Kaas, Amanda; Goebel, Rainer; Henik, Avishai; Sack, Alexander T. (17 April 2007). "Virtual Dyscalculia Induced by Parietal-Lobe TMS Impairs Automatic Magnitude Processing". Current Biology. 17 (8): 689–693. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.02.056. PMID 17379521.
  5. Gebuis, Titia; Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Gevers, Wim (1 November 2016). "Sensory-integration system rather than approximate number system underlies numerosity processing: A critical review". Acta Psychologica. 171: 17–35. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2016.09.003. PMID 27640140.
  6. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Walsh, Vincent (1 August 2009). "Numerical representation in the parietal lobes: Abstract or not abstract?" (PDF). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32 (3–4): 313–328. doi:10.1017/S0140525X09990938. ISSN 1469-1825. PMID 19712504.
  7. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Henik, Avishai; Walsh, Vincent (9 October 2007). "Small is bright and big is dark in synaesthesia". Current Biology. 17 (19): R834–R835. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.07.048. PMID 17925208.
  8. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Tzelgov, Joseph; Henik, Avishai (1 January 2008). "A synesthetic walk on the mental number line: The size effect". Cognition. 106 (1): 548–557. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.12.007. PMID 17275802.
  9. Terhune, Devin B.; Murray, Elizabeth; Near, Jamie; Stagg, Charlotte J.; Cowey, Alan; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (1 November 2015). "Phosphene Perception Relates to Visual Cortex Glutamate Levels and Covaries with Atypical Visuospatial Awareness". Cerebral Cortex. 25 (11): 4341–4350. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhv015. ISSN 1047-3211. PMC 4816785. PMID 25725043.
  10. Terhune, Devin Blair; Tai, Sarah; Cowey, Alan; Popescu, Tudor; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (6 December 2011). "Enhanced Cortical Excitability in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia and Its Modulation". Current Biology. 21 (23): 2006–2009. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.10.032. PMC 3242051. PMID 22100060.
  11. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Henik, Avishai; Catena, Andres; Walsh, Vincent; Fuentes, Luis J. (1 February 2009). "Induced Cross-Modal Synaesthetic Experience Without Abnormal Neuronal Connections". Psychological Science. 20 (2): 258–265. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02286.x. ISSN 0956-7976. PMID 19175754.
  12. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Henik, Avishai; Walsh, Vincent (1 May 2009). "Synaesthesia: learned or lost?". Developmental Science. 12 (3): 484–491. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2008.00798.x. ISSN 1467-7687. PMID 19371373.
  13. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Soskic, Sonja; Iuculano, Teresa; Kanai, Ryota; Walsh, Vincent (23 November 2010). "Modulating Neuronal Activity Produces Specific and Long-Lasting Changes in Numerical Competence". Current Biology. 20 (22): 2016–2020. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.007. PMC 2990865. PMID 21055945.
  14. Looi, Chung Yen; Duta, Mihaela; Brem, Anna-Katharine; Huber, Stefan; Nuerk, Hans-Christoph; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (23 February 2016). "Combining brain stimulation and video game to promote long-term transfer of learning and cognitive enhancement". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 22003. Bibcode:2016NatSR...622003L. doi:10.1038/srep22003. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4763231. PMID 26902664.
  15. Iuculano, Teresa; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (6 March 2013). "The Mental Cost of Cognitive Enhancement". Journal of Neuroscience. 33 (10): 4482–4486. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4927-12.2013. PMC 3672974. PMID 23467363.
  16. Snowball, Albert; Tachtsidis, Ilias; Popescu, Tudor; Thompson, Jacqueline; Delazer, Margarete; Zamarian, Laura; Zhu, Tingting; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (2013). "Long-Term Enhancement of Brain Function and Cognition Using Cognitive Training and Brain Stimulation". Current Biology. 23 (11): 987–992. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.045. PMC 3675670. PMID 23684971.
  17. Sarkar, Amar; Dowker, Ann; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (10 December 2014). "Cognitive Enhancement or Cognitive Cost: Trait-Specific Outcomes of Brain Stimulation in the Case of Mathematics Anxiety". Journal of Neuroscience. 34 (50): 16605–16610. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.3129-14.2014. PMC 4261089. PMID 25505313.
  18. Santarnecchi, E.; Muller, T.; Rossi, S.; Sarkar, A.; Polizzotto, N. R.; Rossi, A.; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (1 February 2016). "Individual differences and specificity of prefrontal gamma frequency-tACS on fluid intelligence capabilities". Cortex. 75: 33–43. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.11.003. PMID 26707084.
  19. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Levy, Neil; O'Shea, Jacinta; Shea, Nicholas; Savulescu, Julian (2012). "The neuroethics of non-invasive brain stimulation". Current Biology. 2012;22 (4): R108–R111. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.013. PMC 4347660. PMID 22361141.
  20. Maslen, Hannah; Douglas, Thomas; Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Levy, Neil; Savulescu, Julian (1 March 2014). "The regulation of cognitive enhancement devices: extending the medical model". Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 1 (1): 68–93. doi:10.1093/jlb/lst003. PMC 4168724. PMID 25243073.
  21. "Roi Cohen Kadosh — Department of Experimental Psychology". www.psy.ox.ac.uk.
  22. Cohen Kadosh, Roi (1 June 2014). The Stimulated Brain: Cognitive Enhancement Using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation. Elsevier. ISBN 9780124047129.
  23. Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin; Krause, Beatrix; King, Andrew J.; Near, Jamie; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (1 November 2015). "Linking GABA and glutamate levels to cognitive skill acquisition during development". Human Brain Mapping. 36 (11): 4334–4345. doi:10.1002/hbm.22921. ISSN 1097-0193. PMC 4832309. PMID 26350618.
  24. Sarkar, Amar; Dowker, Ann; Cohen Kadosh, Roi (10 December 2014). "Cognitive Enhancement or Cognitive Cost: Trait-Specific Outcomes of Brain Stimulation in the Case of Mathematics Anxiety". Journal of Neuroscience. 34 (50): 16605–16610. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3129-14.2014. ISSN 0270-6474. PMC 4261089. PMID 25505313.
  25. "The Neuroscience of Mathematical Cognition and Learning – ProQuest". search.proquest.com. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  26. Cohen Kadosh, Roi; Dowker, Ann (1 January 2015). The Oxford Handbook of Numerical Cognition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199642342.
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