Experience
Knowledge Broker, 2014 - Present
Freelance

Providing the following services:

For knowledge users (e.g., clinicians, policy makers):

  • Evaluation, review and synthesis of research evidence
  • Translational workshops (explaining the evidence and connecting it to applied work)
  • Identifying and characterizing knowledge-practice gaps and the barriers and facilitators for addressing them
  • Designing and managing processes of knowledge uptake and implementation

For academics:
  • Literature reviews for grant and manuscript writing
  • Preparing teaching materials
  • Student workshops


McGill University, 2014 - Present
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Research associate

  • Coordinate a large scale multi-site research project on Bilingualism, involving a variety of methods (EEG, fMRI, Eye-Tracking)
  • Develop and maintain participant database
  • Develop and advise regarding experimental methodology


McGill University, 2013
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Neurolinguistics lab

Research assistant

  • I was responsible for academic manuscript writing and editing.


McGill University, 2005-2013
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Neurolinguistics lab
Doctoral candidate

Dissertation title: The influence of lexical biases and prosodic information during online interpretation of ambiguous pronouns

  • My dissertation project included a set of 3 eye-tracking experiments with over 120 participants. I used an Eye-Link eye-tracker to investigate how listeners interpret personal pronouns in spoken English sentences. The work focused on the effect of lexical biases and contrastive accent in this process.
  • Leading a full eye-tracking research project conceptualization, experimental design, programing and execution, data collection, analysis, presentation and communication of the project's findings.
  • Training and supervising research assistants through tasks related to data collection, operation of equipment, acoustic analysis ect.
  • The main software I used and am proficient in are: SR Research Experiment Builder, SR Research Data Viewer, Microsoft Office programs, SPSS, R. I also have some experience using MATLAB and Statistica.


McGill University, 2008-2010
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Guest lecturer
    "Introduction to Neurolinguistics" (Dr. Marc Pell)


McGill University, 2009-2011
Hebrew-English translator

  • I translated recorded interviews from Hebrew to English for an anthropology research project concerning Ethiopian immigrants in Israel.


EL-AL Airlines, 2004-2005
Security officer

  • Administered out-going and in-coming flight security procedures with the Israeli airlines security teams in France, Greece and Russia among other places.


Grand Central Education Chengdu (Szechuan, China), 2004
English as a second language teacher and teacher trainer

  • Taught English to children, teenagers and adults (up to 15 students per class).
  • Provided teacher training workshops to the school's teachers.


Private tutoring, 2001-2003
English as a second language tutor

  • Tutored small groups of students, as well as individual students, at the elementary, junior high and high school level.


Ben-Gurion Airport, 1999-2003
Security Officer

  • Administered out-going and in-coming flight security procedures.
  • Held spoken English exams for applicants to jobs at the security division.
  • Responsible for designing and leading English workshops for the employees of the security division (20-25 participants per class).


Ort high school and Re'ut Junior high, 1996-1998
Hebrew-English translator

  • Taught Hebrew to new immigrants (up to 20 students per class).


WUJS (World Union of Jewish Students), 1996-1998
Hebrew teacher and counselor

  • Taught Hebrew to international Jewish students (individual and small group tutoring).
  • Held cultural extracurricular activities.

Contact
Here's how to get ahold of me.

Phone
(514) 812-7973

Email
itzhak.inbal@gmail.com

Email
inbal.itzhak@mail.mcgill.ca

Education

McGill University
Montreal, Canada, 2005-2013
PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders

Bar Ilan University
Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2004-2005
One year of an M.A. in Linguistics

Bar Ilan University
Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2001-2003
English as a second language
teacher training program, Magna cum laude

Bar Ilan University
Ramat-Gan, Israel, 1999-2002
B.A. in English Linguistics, Magna cum laude

IDF
Israel, 1996
Hebrew as a second language teacher training program

Volunteer
Experience


Science section editor at "Le Panoptique"
online magazine, 2008-2010


McGill PGSS councilor, representing the PhD students of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2007-2008


Volunteer in Selah (ICMC - Israel Crisis Management Center)- a non-profit organization supporting new immigrants in crisis situations, 2001-2005

Awards &
Scholarships

Faculty of Medicine, Abelson Travel Grant,
McGill University ($500), 2010-2011

Principal's Graduate Fellowship,
McGill University ($900), 2009-2010

Faculty of Medicine Internal Studentship,
McGill University ($12,000), 2008-2009

Principal's Graduate Fellowship,
McGill University ($2,500), 2008-2009

McGill Graduate Studies Fellowship,
($5,000), 2007-2008

CRBLM (Center for Research on Language
Brain and Music student travel grant,
($700), 2006-2007

McGill Graduate Studies Fellowship,
($5,000), 2006-2007

Faculty of Medicine, Abelson Travel Grant,
McGill University ($500), 2005-2006

The Alma Mater Student Travel Grant Award,
McGill University ($750), 2005-2006

McGill Graduate Studies Fellowship,
($5,000), 2005-2006

Recruitment Excellence Fellowship,
McGill University ($5,000), 2005-2006

Publications


Itzhak, I. & Baum, S.R. (under revision).
The role of contrastive accent during online pronominal
reference processing. Applied Psycholinguistics.


Itzhak, I. & Baum, S.R. (in press).
Misleading bias-driven expectations in referential
processing and the facilitative role of contrastive
accent. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.


Pauker, E., Itzhak, I., Baum, S.R., & Steinhuer, K. (2011).
Effects of cooperating and conflicting prosody
in spoken English garden path sentences: ERP
evidence for the boundary deletion hypothesis.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 2731-2751.


Steinhauer, K., Abada, S.H., Pauker, E., Itzhak, I., & Baum,
S.R. (2010). Prosody-sytax interactions
in aging: Event-related potentials reveal
dissociations between on-line and off-line
measures. Neuroscience Letters, 472, 133-138.


Itzhak, I., Pauker, E., Drury, J. E., Baum, S. R., &
Steinhauer, K. (2010). Event-related potentials
show online influence of lexical biases on
prosodic processing. Neuroreport, 21, 8-13.

Conference Presentations


Itzhak, I. & Baum, S.R. (September, 2011). The effect of accent on pronominal reference resolution in the context of Implicit Causality biases. A poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances of Prosody 2, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.


Itzhak, I. & Baum, S.R. (April, 2009). The interaction of Implicit Causality and contrastive stress in the resolution of pronominal reference. A poster presented at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Davis, California, USA.


Abada, S.H., Pauker, E., Itzhak, I., Baum, S.R., & Steinhauer, K. (April, 2008). Older adults' response to co-operating and conflicting prosody in English garden path sentences: An ERP study. A poster presented at Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Prosody: Conference on Prosody and Language Processing, Ithaca, New-York, USA.


Gracco, V.I., Klepousniotou, E., Itzhak, I., Trembley, P., & Baum, S.R. (June, 2007). Spoken word production: Cortical motor areas and sensorimotor organization. A poster presented at Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA.


Itzhak, I., Pauker, E., Baum, S.R., Drury, J.E., & Steinhauer, K. (May, 2007). The interaction of prosody and verb transitivity biases during the processing of spoken garden path sentences: An ERP study. A poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual meeting, New-York, New-York, USA.


Pauker, E., Itzhak, I., Steinhauer, K., Drury, J.E., & Baum, S.R. (May, 2007). An ERP study of prosodically driven pronominal (Dis)agreement. A poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual meeting, New-York, New-York, USA.


Pauker, E., Itzhak, I., Baum, S.R., & Steinhauer, K. (April, 2006). Co-operating and conflicting prosody in spoken English garden path sentences: An ERP study. A poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual meeting, San- Francisco, California, USA.