Ram Frost

Prof. Ram Frost is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with office location in the Social Sciences Building (fifth floor, room 26509). He maintains active research fellowships at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven and the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), underscoring his international collaborative networks.

His research centers on cognitive mechanisms of visual word recognition across languages and statistical learning as an individual capacity for detecting environmental regularities. He investigates universal versus language-specific aspects of reading processes and individual differences in second language acquisition, with current work focusing on the behavioral and neurobiological underpinnings of statistical learning through an ERC Advanced grant.

Recent publications reveal a concentrated research trajectory examining brain signatures of reading proficiency (including beta-band neural activity), theoretical integration of statistical learning into cognitive frameworks, and clinical applications for understanding language impairments. His work bridges cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, and information theory to address fundamental questions about learning mechanisms.

Prof. Frost leads an ERC Advanced grant-funded research program examining statistical learning from multidisciplinary perspectives. His laboratory maintains strong collaborative ties with Haskins Laboratories and BCBL, facilitating cross-institutional research on learning mechanisms and their implications for language processing and acquisition.