The interdisciplinary program in experimental psychology
The interdisciplinary program in experimental psychology.
The program enables outstanding students to be exposed to a variety of methods and fields of knowledge in experimental psychology and to build, under the close supervision of a faculty member, a personal curriculum in accordance with their areas of interest.
Interdisciplinary researchers
Head of Program- Prof. Daphna Joel - Gender identity, relations between sex and brain structure and function.
Dr. Sagi Jaffe-Dax -Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Modeling, Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, Eye-tracking, Computer Vision.
Social Psychology
Prof. Nira Liberman – Psychological distance, social cognition, decision making, motivation, goal striving, self-regulation, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Prof. Nurit Shnabel – Gender and reconciliation
Prof. Yoav Bar-Anan – Evaluation, social perception, and self-knowledge.
Dr. Yaara Yeshurun – Social neuroscience, behavioral, physiological and neural synchronization
Dr. Michael Gilead -- Conceptual and linguistic processing, mentalizing and internalization, and imagination and foresight.
Cognitive Psychology
Prof. Dominique Lamy -- Visual processing, attention, implicit memory, working memory, consciousness
Prof. Marius Usher – Mathematical models to study cognitive processes (visual search, memory, emotions), decision making, awareness
Prof. Yontan Goshen – Memory and facial processing in the context of basic and applied science.
Prof. Roy Luria – Visual working memory, attention and executive functions, electrophysiology, ERP (event-related potential)
Prof. Liad Mudrik – High-level cognition, semantic integration, consciousness
Psychobiology
Prof. Segev Barak – Neurobiological basis of addiction, learning and memory
Prof. Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu – Stress, cancer, and the immune system
Dr. Boaz Barak – Genetic disorders and autism
Dr. Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal – Social and affective neuroscience, pro-social behavior, empathy
Brain and Cognition
Prof. Roy Mukamel – Neural mechanisms of motor perception and learning
Prof. Galit Yovel – Cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying person recognition
Prof. Talma Hendler – Neural basis of emotions and motivations, brain-machine interface
Prof. Nitzan Censor – Brain imaging and stimulation to study perceptual and motor learning
Prof. Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg – Visual system, eye-movements, and perception
Clinical Psychology
Prof. Gal Sheppes – Emotions, emotional regulation, self-regulation, psychopathology
Prof. Yair Bar-Haim – Anxiety Disorders, Posttraumatic Stress, Developmental Psychopathology, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Prof. Ruvi Dar -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Prof. Amit Lazarov – Threat-monitoring, reward processing, psychopathology
Dr. Nitzan Shahar – Computational psychopathology, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Attention-deficit disorder, learning and decision making
Dr Michal Kahn- Sleep development, cognitive-behavioral treatment for insomnia, links between sleep and technology use, parental cry tolerance
Dr. Reut Naim - Dysregulation, externalizing psychopathology, impulsivity and inhibition, naturalistic “in the wild” measurement, therapeutic interventions
Dr. Yael Millgram - Suicide, Depression, Self-Harm, Emotion, Emotion Regulation, Motivation, Source-attribution of emotion.