Contemplative Neuroscience and Neurophenomenology Lab
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
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
Amit Geva
(2020-present)
Title: Emotional and social cognition in psilocybin microdosing users: A neurocognitive research.
co superviser Dr. yair dor zaiderman
Jonathan David
(2020-present)
Title: Self-processing in Ayahuasca users:
A MEG study
co superviser Dr. yair dor zaiderman
Limor Shemesh -
(2020-present)
Title: Self transcendence in Channelers:
An electrophysiology-phenomenology study.
co superviser Prof. oded maimon
Daniel Atad
(2023- present )
Title: Complexity of MEG Neural Activity During Self Boundary Dissolution in Meditation.
co superviser Dr Pedro Mediano
Thesis students
Yair Lavi
(2021-present)
Thesis Title: Studying the relationship between embodiment and sleep paralysis.
co superviser yair dor zaiderman.
Orlia Faes Oded
(2020-present)
Thesis Title: Empathy, Decentering and Spirituality in adolescents
Co-supervisor:
Dr. Haggai Kupermintz.
Dvir Dafla
(2024-present)
Thesis Title: Safety and effectivness of group mdma assisted theraphy for PTSD patients diagnosed following the events of 07/10/2023: a multicenter open label randomized cross over study
Maayan Igael
Internships
Erik Apelstein
(summer 2021 - Undergraduate Neurobiology student, Boston University)
MEG Lab Assistant and designed computerized experiments using the E-Prime Software.
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)
Alumni
Dr. amir david
(2020 – 2024)
Phd. Title: Placing regular and altered states within the consciousness state space (CSS) model: A multi-dimensional approach
DR. Mathis Trautwein - Post – Doctorate
Dr. Yoav Schweitzer
(2017-2024)
Phd Title: Studying self-boundary flexibility and its relation to social processing:
A MEG-neurophenomenological research
Roi Regev
(2017-2020)
Thesis Title: The effect of Mindfulness intervention on impulsivity in Children with ADHD.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Assaf Kron
Ohad Nave
(2018 – 2021)
Thesis Title: The phenomenology of the dissolution of the sense of self-boundaries: a neurophenomenological study.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Eviatar Shulman, Hebrew University)
Limor Shemesh
(2017-2020)
Thesis Title: Meditation and Autobiographical memory
Co-supervisor: Dr. Avi Mendelsohn
Kholoud Shanbour
(2018-2020)
Thesis Title: The effect of Mindfulness intervention on Mindfulness levels among teachers in Arab society in Israel