Eran Eldar

Principal investigator

eran.eldar@mail.huji.ac.il

I study the algorithms that govern people's behavior, how these algorithms different from person to person, and how they are implemented in the brain. 

CV, Google Scholar

Alon Erdman 

PhD student & lab manager 

alon.erdman@mail.huji.ac.il

I am interested in mood dynamics in health and disease. Using a custom mobile app and portable physiological sensors, I collect longitudinal data to develop a computational framework that captures the key factors that govern mood psychopathologies. 

Levi Solomyak 

PhD student

levi.solomyak@mail.huji.ac.il

I study the cognitive and neural mechanisms that shape how humans learn from reward. To do so, I integrate computational modeling with fMRI analysis.

Chaviva Moshavi 

PhD student

chaviva.moshavi@mail.huji.ac.il

I'm interested in how people integrate between sensory stimuli and their prior expectations about the stimuli; particularly, how this is affected by anxiety. I'm also interested in how this integration is reflected in the balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. 

Boaz Rosenberg 

PhD student

boaz.rosenberg@mail.huji.ac.il

My research focuses on the differences between emotional and rational evaluations and how conflicts between the two might affect behavior and mental health. I study the existence of these discrepancies using computational models for behavioral tasks and explore their implications for self-control, optimism, and various mental disorders through simulated decision-making agents. 

Ido Ben Shitrit

PhD student

ido.benshitrit@mail.huji.ac.il

I am interested in how emotional states influence decision-making and learning mechanisms.

Yuval Helvits

MA student

yuval.helvits@mail.huji.ac.il

I study how and why people form goals, using behavioral experiments and EEG recordings to understand when desired outcomes become active goals and how that might be related to mental health.