Eldar Lab - People

People

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.

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Paul Sharp

Postdoctoral researcher

paul.sharp@mail.huji.ac.il

I investigate algorithmic accounts of anxious behavior and thought. I have a particular interest in using model-based learning approaches to study anxious belief formation.

Twitter, Personal website

Aviv Emanuel

Postdoctoral researcher

aviv.emanuel@mail.huji.ac.il

I study the computational properties underlying emotions and actions. Specifically, I am keen about how emotions interact with performance to determine effort allocation over time.

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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.

Gal Aharon

PhD student

gal.aharon@mail.huji.ac.il

I’m interested in understanding the role of negative emotional states on learning and decision making following a loss.

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.

Tal Nahari

PhD student

tal.nahari@mail.huji.ac.il

I study how we use information from past and present experience to make decisions.

Boaz Rosenberg

PhD student

boaz.rosenberg@mail.huji.ac.il

I'm interested in uncertainty in self-esteem, its relation to perceived social worth and its effects on anxiety and other related phenomena. My study focuses on development of a self-report measure of self-esteem uncertainty and Bayesian approaches to self-esteem inference.