About the lab
My lab utilizes a broad spectrum of tools, including EEG, MEG, fMRI, various cognitive tasks. Especially, different projects in the lab apply the neuro-phenomenology approach, utilizing depth phenomenology to guide the neural analysis, in collaboration with proficient contemplative practitioners. Such an approach enables studying highly subtle human experiences, typically overlooked in cognitive science, including: ownership, agency, sense of boundaries, sense of time and space, and sense of minimal versus narrative self.
Sweat Lodge Day
Post – Doctorate Fellows
Yair Dor-Ziderman
(2020-present)
Title: Meditative self-dissolution neurophenomenological pathways to existential resilience
PhD students
Liat Ben Uriel
(2016-present)
Title: The Effects of Mindfulness on Teacher-Student Relationships: An Integrative Explanatory Model Co-supervisor: Dr. Shiri Lavy
Limor Shemesh
(2020-present)
Title: Self transcendence in Channelers:
An electrophysiology-phenomenology study
Amit Geva
(2020-present)
Title: Emotional and social cognition in psilocybin microdosing users: A neurocognitive research
Daniel Atad
Yehonatan Nachshoni
Thesis students
Internships
Gabriela Gorsska
(January – May 2019)
PhD student from Warsaw University (supervisor: prof. Miroslaw Kofta)
Title: "Mindfulness meditation as a tool in social psychology".
Talia Josephine Gal Kalter
(July – August 2018)
B.Sc. student from Columbia University, double-majoring in Behavioral Neuroscience and Religion (Tibetan Buddhism)
Erik Apelstein
(summer 2021 - Undergraduate Neurobiology student, Boston University)
MEG Lab Assistant and designed computerized experiments using the E-Prime Software.
Alumni
Roi Regev
(2017-2018)
Title: The effect of Mindfulness intervention on impulsivity in Children with ADHD.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Assaf Kron
Kholoud Shanbour
(2018-present)
Title: The effect of Mindfulness intervention on Mindfulness levels among teachers in Arab society in Israel
Amir David
(2020 – present)
Title: Placing regular and altered states within the consciousness state space (CSS) model: A multi-dimensional approach
Limor Shemesh
Ohad Nave
(2018 – present)
Title: The phenomenology of the dissolution of the sense of self-boundaries: a neurophenomenological study.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Eviatar Shulman, Hebrew University)
Mathis Trautwein
Yoav Schweitzer
(2017-2024)
Title: Studying self-boundary flexibility and its relation to social processing:
A MEG-neurophenomenological research
Erez Nir