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Contemplative Neuroscience and Neurophenomenology Lab

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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.

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Post – Doctorate Fellows

Mathis Trautwein

(2018-2019)

Title: Neural mechanisms of alterations in the sense of self during meditation.

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Yair Dor-Ziderman

(2020-present)

Title: Meditative self-dissolution neurophenomenological pathways to existential resilience

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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

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Yoav Schweitzer

(2017-present)

Title: Studying self-boundary flexibility and its relation to social processing:

A MEG-neurophenomenological research

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Daniel Panitz

(2019-present)

Title: Meditation and memory

Co-supervisor: Dr. Avi Mendelsohn

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Amir David

(2020 – present)

Title: Mindfulness, self-processing and math-anxiety in adolescents.

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Limor Shemesh

(2020-present)

Title: Self transcendence in Channelers:

An electrophysiology-phenomenology study

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Amit Geva

Amit Geva

(2020-present)

Title: Emotional and social cognition in psilocybin microdosing users: A neurocognitive research

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Jonathan David

Jonathan David

(2020-present)

Title: Self-processing in Ayahuasca users:
A MEG study


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Thesis students

Orlia Faes Oded

Orlia Faes Oded

(2020-present)

Title: Empathy, Decentering and Spirituality in adolescents

Co-supervisor:
Dr. Haggai Kupermintz 



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Daniel Atad

Daniel Atad

(2021-present)

Title: Complexity measures for altered states of consciousness





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Nir Tadmor

Nir Tadmor

(2021-present)

Title: Self-processing in Ayahuasca users:
A phenomenology study.




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Yair Lavi

Yair Lavi

(2021-present)

Title: Studying the relationship between embodiment and sleep paralysis




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Arik Metzer

Arik Metzer

(2021-present)

Title: Title: Consciousness State Space model - Experience Sampling‎




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Internships

Gabriela Gorsska

(January – May 2019)

PhD student from Warsaw University (supervisor: prof. Miroslaw Kofta)

Title: "Mindfulness meditation as a tool in social psychology".

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Talia Josephine Gal Kalter

(July – August 2018)

B.Sc. student from Columbia University, double-majoring in Behavioral Neuroscience and Religion (Tibetan Buddhism)

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Erik Apelstein

Erik Apelstein

(summer 2021 - Undergraduate Neurobiology student, Boston University)

MEG Lab Assistant and designed computerized experiments using the E-Prime Software.

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Alumni

Roi Regev

(2017-2018)

Title: The effect of Mindfulness intervention on impulsivity in Children with ADHD.

Co-supervisor: Dr. Assaf Kron

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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

(2017-present)

Title: Meditation and Autobiographical memory

Co-supervisor: Dr. Avi Mendelsohn

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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)

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