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Prof. Naomi Josman | פרופ' נעמי יוסמן

Ph.D. New York University

Academic Advisor Horizon-Europe, Research Authority

Department of Occupational Therapy

University of Haifa

njosman@univ.haifa.ac.il

Naomi Josman
The Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences at the University of Haifa logo

Research Areas

1. Cognitive Rehabilitation

2. Executive function

3. Occupation

4. Evaluation and assessment

5. Virtual Reality

6. Translational Research

Prof. Josman's research focus on areas of cognitive rehabilitation, specifically cognition, executive function and its influence on occupation. Her work is based on an ecologically valid assessment of cognitive disabilities to performance-based assessments, utilizing innovative methods and tools, inter alia Virtual Reality, for evaluation and intervention. Her research activities extend to the study of a wide range of populations, including: people with Central Nervous System deficits; Individuals diagnosed with Schizophrenia; children with neurodevelopmental deficits; adults with neurological dysfunction. She has authored over 100 research articles and 14 chapters in edited books and presented her work world widely. Lately, she is conducting studies with the aim of translating research. In those projects she collaborates with scientists from different disciplines to translate both the knowledge and the methodology used from the lab to the everyday life of people.