Self-Regulation: Brain, Cognition, and Development (Human Brain Development Series)
Andrea Bergeris a professor of psychology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel. She received a doctorate in cognitive psychology and then, following her postdoctoral training at the University of Oregon, her research increasingly adopted a developmental perspective. Her field of expertise, developmental cognitive neuroscience, reflects Dr. Berger's interest in the relation between the brain and behavior during normal as well as abnormal development. The main topic investigated in her lab is the development of the executive aspects of attention and control--such as inhibitory control, monitoring, and error detection--and its implications for self-regulation. Her research has recently shown that the brain network involved in error detection and violation of expectations can be identified in infancy. Her research on the development of self-regulation includes studies with typical and atypical children, such as those with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.Dr. Berger has received research funding from the United States-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, the Israeli Science Foundation, and the Israel Ministry of Education, and she has received numerous prizes for her research.