Leon Y. Deouell, MD, PhD
Jack H. Skirball chair in neuroscience
I was toward the end of my medical studies when I first met patients with neuropsychological deficits like unilateral neglect and got fascinated with the link between the brain and cognition. I feel privileged for being able to study this, with students and collaborators, ever since. I am a member of a the department of psychology and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Neuroscience where I head the neuroimaging unit. I am also a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Empirical Aesthetics.
Ruoyi Cao,
PhD Student, Neuroscience
Researching
consciousness, attention,
working memory and their relationships using EEG, eyetracker and psychophysics.
Maysan Bader,
PhD Student, Neuroscience
I research auditory perception in humans. More precisely, my current research involves learning the temporal boundaries of sounds and their interactions using EEG with behavioral tasks. My background is originally in Computer Science so I'm also interested in Brain/Machine interactions.
Avigail Meir,
MA Student, Clinical Neuropsychology
I investigate whether regularities in the environment can be learned spontaneously without attention. I am interested in the ability to distinguish and measure cognitive processes using physiological measurements such as EEG and eye tracking, in hope to advance our ability to understand and diagnose congenital and acquired cognitive difficulties.
PERSONNEL
Gal Chen,
PhD Student, Psychology
I study non-conscious processing, and specifically, what happens in the brain when we don't listen. More broadly, I'm extremely interested in the way in which external and internal contents reach consciousness, and how it is determined. Also a big fan of data and science fiction.
email: galrefa.chen at mail.huji.ac.il
Gal Vishne,
PhD Student, Neuroscience
PhD Student, Computational NeuroscienceI study how perception and awareness unfold through time, using a combination of neural recordings and computational modelling. Before joining the computational neuroscience program in ELSC, I recieved a BSc in mathematics from Bar Ilan university.
Noa Guttman
PhD Student, Neuroscience
Jonathan Nir,
PhD Student, Neuroscience
I investigate how people process visual information in complex environments and why we sometimes fail to notice things even when looking directly at them. I'm also interested in how internal cognitive processes can be detected and measured using eye-tracking and other physiological responses. Outside of science, I try to spend as much time as possible at the beach.
email: jonathan.nir at mail.huji.ac.il
Eyal Mcmurray,
MSc Student, Neuroscience
I investigate optic nerve conduction in patients with multiple sclerosis as well as in healthy individuals. My research integrates eye tracking and EEG technologies to enhance our understanding of the neural and visual impairments associated with multiple sclerosis.
Chen Frenkel,
PhD Student,
Psychology
I study how explicit and implicit visual expectations are represented in the brain. I use machine learning algorithms to understand how our expectations are represented in the brain when we expect something. I try to understand if these expectations play out the same when we look forward to the future or dwell on the past.
Alumni
PhD students
Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg (Psychology) 2004 – 2009 - PI, Tel Aviv University
Liad Mudrik (Psychology, Tel Aviv University) 2005 - 2011
Alon Keren (ICNC) 2008 – 2011
Ido Amihai (Neurobiology) 2008 - 2013
Michal Ramot (ICNC) 2006 - 2013
Shani Shalgi (Cognitive Sciences) 2008- 2016
Assaf Breska (Psychology) - PI, Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Tali Shrem (Psychology) 2009 - 2016
Tal Golan (ELSC) 2013 - 2018 - PI, Ben Gurion University
Dvorah Marciano (Psychology, Rationality Center) 2013 - 2018 - PI, Hebrew University
Edden Gerber (ELSC) 2010 - 2018
Tamar Regev (ELSC) 2012- 2020 - Postdoctoral Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carmel Auerback-Asch (ELSC) 2016-2024
Post-doctoral Fellows and research associates
Dr. Hagit Magen 2006 - 2007
Dr. Nicholas Holmes 2007 - 2009
Dr. Nofya Zinger 2013- 2016
Dr. Mathias Luthi 2017-2018
Dr. Ariel Furstenberg