

The Team
Prof. Liad Mudrik
Principle Investigator
Liad is a researcher at the school of psychological sciences and Sagol school of neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. She completed two Ph.D. dissertations at Tel Aviv University, in cognitive psychology and in philosophy. She then continued to a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. Between 2019 and 2023, she was a member of the young Israeli academy of sciences. She is also one of the leaders of the Cogitate consortium, an international adversarial collaboration aimed at arbitrating between theories of consciousness, and is a co-director of the CIFAR Brain, Mind and Consciousness program.


Shira Yaacobi
Lab Manager
Shira is an MA student in Cognitive Psychology at Tel Aviv University. She holds a BA in Psychology and Management and an MBA from Tel Aviv University. Previously, she worked in the tech industry, focusing on user behavior research and project management.

Yarden Shir
PhD student
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.

Maor Schreiber
PhD student
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 Elbaz
PhD student
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 Fischer
PhD student
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 Bitan
PhD student
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.

Raz Keidar
PhD Student
Raz is a PhD student at Sagol School of Neuroscience. He received his BSc in Psychology and Cognitive Science from the University of Haifa and MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Raz’s research focuses on unconscious processing and aims to study it using oculomotor habituation to masked images.

Shir Sagy
MSc Student
Shir is an 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.

Shira Fink
MSc Student
Shira is an MSc student at the Sagol School of Neuroscience. She completed her B.A. in Psychology and UX at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. Her research focuses on the relationship between anxiety and individual differences in unconscious processing.

Talya Firon
MSc Student
Talya is an MSc student in the Lautman Interdisciplinary program and the Sagol School of Neuroscience. Under the joint supervision of Prof. Yaara Yeshuron and Prof. Liad Mudrik, she studies how social meaning affects awareness.

Tamadur Sawaed
MA Student
Tamadur holds a B.A. in Psychology and is currently an M.A. student in Cognitive Psychology at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include consciousness, unconscious processing, semantic representations, and meaning formation.

Tomer Daloomi
MSc Student
Tomer is an MSc student at the Sagol School of Neuroscience. He holds a Physics BSc (CS minor) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and has six years of experience as an algorithm & software engineer. He is drawn to the relational aspects of conscious experiences. Ultimately, He is interested in researching the potential awareness in AI, and how it compares with ours.
Alumni

Former PhD student (joint supervision with Dr. Gideon Anholt (Ben-Gurion University)).
Shani Bachar-Avnieli

Former MSc in the lab (joint supervision with Prof. Tom Schonberg).
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