The Team

Yohay is a PhD student at the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, under the mentorship of Prof. Yaara Yeshurun. He holds an MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience and a BSc in Biology and Psychology from the same school. His research focuses on social neuroscience, specifically studying group-dependent neural synchronization patterns.

Niccolò is a postdoc working on the philosophy of consciousness. Before moving to Tel Aviv, he completed his PhD in philosophy at Monash University, under the supervision of Jakob Hohwy and Tim Bayne. He is interested in studying consciousness from a philosophy of science perspective. He is currently working on the structure of theories of consciousness and their applicability to different populations. Website link: https://niccolo-negro-research.owlstown.net/

Yarden is a PhD student at the School of Psychological Science at Tel-Aviv University. She completed her B.A in psychology and in the multidisciplinary program in the humanities, and her M.A in psychology from Tel-Aviv University, where she studied in the Brain and Cognition direct M.A program. Her interests include the role of consciousness in voluntary actions, semantic relations and top-down effects on perception.

Itay is a PhD candidate at the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and Psychology with a focus on Neuroscience, as well as an MSc in Neuroscience from the same institution. His research interests center on the relationship between the brain and consciousness, exploring the structure of experience and the mechanisms and functions of conscious and unconscious processing.

Shaked is a PhD candidate in Sagol school for neuroscience. She received her BSc in the Biology and Psychology track from Sagol school for neuroscience in Tel Aviv university, and MSc in the Neurobiology track from Weizman institute. Shaked's research focuses on the scope and limits of unconscious processing which she studies via recording eye movements. Her main research questions are: can scenes be processed unconsciously, and can visual search be done unconsciously.

Rony is a PhD student at the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University, where she also earned her MSc in Computational Neuroscience and her BSc in Computer Science and Psychology. Her research investigates the richness and complexity of conscious visual perception. Rony is a key member of the COGITATE consortium, a large-scale adversarial collaboration between GNWT and IIT. Rony is also the co-founder and vice president of the Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science (MESEC), an initiative that promotes collaboration among early-career researchers in consciousness science.

Maor is a P.h.D student in Cognitive Psychology at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses primarily on unconscious processing - its scope and limitations, as well as the prevalent methodologies used to explore it. He completed his MA in the school of Psychology in Tel Aviv university as part of the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program.

Eden is a Ph.D. student at the Sagol School of Neuroscience. She received her B.Sc. in biology and psychology, and her M.Sc. in Computational Neuroscience from the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Eden is interested in individual differences in unconscious processing and methodological research.

Shai completed his B.A in Psychology and Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University, under the "Consciousness and Cognition program". Shai is interested in the different levels of unconscious processing, methodological questions in the field of consciousness, philosophical perspectives of consciousness and the perception and processing of humor.

Shahaf is a Ph.D. student at the school of Psychological Science. She received her B.A in Cognitive Sciences and Psychology and her M.A in Clinical Psychology. She is interested in the interaction between unconscious and conscious processing and its developmental trajectories, and aims to study the developmental time course of susceptibility to unconscious processing (SUP) during childhood and adolescence.

I am a third year Ph.D. student in psychology, under the joint supervision of Prof. Dino Levy and Prof. Liad Mudrik. I have a B.mus in piano performance and an M.A. in cognitive psychology, in which I studied the unconscious influences on decision making and examined if or how they may threaten the notion of free will. My interest is how value is represented in the brain and I examine if and to what extent can we use the neural data, measured using EEG, to predict subjects valuation and the success of marketing stimuli at the population level.

Sofia is a second-year MSc student at the Sagol School of Neuroscience. She holds a BSc in Psychology and Neuroscience from Maastricht University, where her thesis explored cultural influences on music perception. Her current research focuses on the unconscious processing of top-down expectations and emotions.

Nell is an M.Sc. student at the Sagol School of Neuroscience, jointly supervised by Prof. Tal Dvir and Prof. Liad Mudrik. She holds a dual B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering and Biology, with a focus on neuroscience, from Tel Aviv University. Her research bridges tissue engineering and consciousness studies, using 3D cortical tissues to explore the neural foundations of stimulus-response and consciousness.

Raz is an MSc student at Sagol School of Neuroscience. He received his BSc in Psychology and Cognitive Science from the University of Haifa. Raz’s research focuses on unconscious processing and aims to use habituation to masked scene images, potentially revealed through eye-tracking gaze patterns, to study it

Shir is a first year MSc student at the Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University. She did her BSc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Physics.

Liliya is currently a student in the Lautman interdisciplinary program for outstanding students, and an MSc student at Sagol School of Neuroscience. Her interests range from physics to psychology and emotional processing without awareness.