Current Lab Members

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Gaya Aran

MA Student
gaya.aran@mail.huji.ac.il
I’m currently pursuing a master’s degree in Experimental Psychology, after achieving a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Comparative Literature. I am curious about cognitive control, emotion regulation and unconscious learning.
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Gal Chen

PhD Student
galrefa.chen@mail.huji.ac.il
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology, In which I’m working with Prof. Hassin and Prof. Deouell. I study the neural and cognitive processes that take place during conscious and non-conscious processing of speech, and the conditions in which we process the things we don't listen to.
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Ran Hassin

Principal Investigator
ran.hassin@huji.ac.il
I received my PhD in 1999 from Tel Aviv University, and spent the longest postdoc ever at NYU. After being dragged from there by four NY policemen, I moved to the Hebrew University in 2002.
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Maya Leshkowitz

PhD Student
mleshkowitz@gmail.com
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. My research focuses on how people intuitively group information over time and how these groups influence their decisions.
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Ohad Livnat

PhD Student
Lab Manager
ohad.livnat@mail.huji.ac.il
I’m a PhD student at the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences. I study individual differences in meta-cognitive appraisals of trust in phenomenology – that is, our spontaneous tendency to trust our conscious experiences or assume and act upon them as if they were objectively true.
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Innbal Menashri

MA Student
Innbal.Menashri@mail.huji.ac.il
I am an MA student in cognitive science. The lab is collaborating with Prof. Lev Muchnik from the Business Administration Dept. to try to understand different aspects of human curiosity and the way they effect goal-pursuit and decision-making.
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Avigail Movshovitz

Research Assistance
avigail.movshovitz@mail.huji.ac.il
I finished my B.A in psychology and Jewish history and currently I’m working as a research assistant in the lab. I’m curious about human behavior, unconscious processing, and what is between them. I’m looking for discovering new ideas and exploring old phenomena.
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Ildiko Krisztina Preiner

PhD Student
i.k.preiner@gmail.com
I am a visiting research fellow at the lab, starting my PhD in the Department of Psychology in 2024. I have been researching nonconscious prioritization speed in relation to memory and minority salience.
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Rina Schwartz

PhD Student
rina.schwartz@mail.huji.ac.il
I’m currently pursuing a PhD in Clinical-Rehabilitation Neuropsychology. I am interested in perception, emotion, and subjective experience. Right now, I study how perception for action relates to understanding what we see.
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Nadav Weisler

MA Student
weisler.nadav@gmail.com
I’m a Master student at the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences and an experienced software engineer. In my own research, I intend to understand the connection between non-conscious prioritization speed and ADHD.