The School of Brain Sciences and Cognition
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Research in the school

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Biology

​​​System Neuroscience

Brain

Cognitive Neuroscience

Mol

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Psyco

​Neuropsychology ​

Math

​Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

Neuron

Neurobiology of Diseases and Rehabilitation

Robot

​Cognitive Robotics and Neuro-engineering

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Philosophy of mind and sensing

Autism

​Computational Cognition, Learning, & Intelligence

Nose

Neuroethology

Researches in the school

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Prof. Galia Avidan galiaa@bgu.ac.il Building 98, room 215 Psychology Personal website
Brain connectivity, perception, interoception, fMRI, functional connectivity, gastric-brain interactions, face processing​
Prof. Galila Agam galila@bgu.ac.il Soroka Internal Medicine, Level 6 Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology Personal website  
Dr. Abed Azab azab@bgu.ac.il Soroka University Medical Center, Pnemiyot Building, Room # 648 Nursing & Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology Personal website
Pharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Inflammation, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Psychiatric Disorders, Stroke, Randomized Clinical Trials, Animal Models​
Prof. Ehud Ohana Ohanaeh@bgu.ac.il Soroka medical center Building 12, room 463 Clinical biochemistry and pharmacology Personal website
Biochemistry, transporters, electrophysiology
Prof. Jihad El-Sana el-sana@cs.bgu.ac.il Building 37, room 111 Computer Science Personal website  
Prof. Yael Amitai yaela@bgu.ac.il M6 - 323 Physiology and cell biology Personal website  
Dr. Yuval Bitan ybitan@bgu.ac.il Building 15, room 313 Health Policy and Management Personal website  
Prof. Hadar Ben-Yoav benyoav@bgu.ac.il Building 64, room 204 Biomedical Engineering Personal website  
Prof. Anat Ben-Zvi anatbz@bgu.ac.il Building 39 Life Sciences Personal website GPCR, cell non-autonomous regulation, GNRH, C. elegans, stress
Prof. Ohad Ben-Shahar ben-shahar@cs.bgu.ac.il Building 37, room 114 Computer Science Personal website
Theoretical computational vision; Applied computer vision and (often biologically inspired) robot vision; human visual perception and visual psychophysics; Visual computational neuroscience; Animal vision (with particular interest in marine species)
Dr. Dorit Ben shalom doritb@bgu.ac.il Building 74, room 507 foreign literatures and linguistics Personal website Functional neuroanatomy, language, autism, ADHD​
Dr. Ori Beck becko@bgu.ac.il Building 74, room 330 Philosophy Personal website
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, consciousness, phenomenology, epistemology
Prof. Yoella Bereby-Meyer Yoella@bgu.ac.il Building 98, room 321 Psychology Personal website

​Decision Making, Risk, Judgement under uncertainty​

Prof. Andrea Berger andrea@bgu.ac.il Building 98, room 313 Psychology Personal website
EEG/ERP, Cognitive Development, Attention, Executive Functions, Self-Regulation, Error-Detection, ADHD, FASD
Prof. Claude Brodski claude@bgu.ac.il Building M6/7,room 343 Physiology and Cell Biology Personal website  
Prof. Sigal Berman sigalbe@bgu.ac.il Building 16, room 247 Industrial Engineering and Management Personal website Robotics, motor control​
Prof. Daniel Berend berend@cs.bgu.ac.il Building 37,room 213 Mathematics, Computer Science. Personal website
Applied Probability, Combinatorial Optimization
Prof. David Golomb golomb@bgu.ac.il Building M6, room 427 Physiology and Cell Biology Personal website Theoretical and computational neuroscience, dynamics, neurophysics, numerical simulations, brainstem, spinal cord, thalamus, cortex, system neuroscience.
Prof. Hava Golan havag@bgu.ac.il Building M6 Physiology Personal website Neurodevelopment, Autism, Folate, Animal models, GABA, corticogenesis​
Dr. Tal Golan golan.neuro@bgu.ac.il Building 93, room 4 Cognitive and Brain Sciences Personal website
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning, Visual Perception, Psychophysics, Neuroimaging​
Dr. Daniel Gitler gitler@bgu.ac.il Building M6, room 443 Physiology and Cell Biology Personal website Synaptic transmission, synapse, molecular neuroscience, neurodegenerative disease, Parkinson's Disease, Synapsin, alpha-synuclein, viral transduction, fluorescence microscopy, genetically-encoded sensors, calcium imaging,
Prof. Kobi Gal kobig@bgu.ac.il Building 96, room 223 Software and Information Systems Engineering Personal website Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Decision Making, Learning Analytics, Big Data and Education, Ethical Reasoning in AI
Dr. Or Duek ord@bgu.ac.il M7, room 509 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Community Health Sciences Personal website PTSD, Mechanism of change in PTSD, Neuroscience of Learning, Aversive learning mechanism, Brain circuitry of aversive memory
Prof. Shlomi Dolev dolev@cs.bgu.ac.il Building 37, room 506 Computer Science Personal website  
Prof. Opher Donchin donchin@bgu.ac.il Building 63, room 124 Biomedical Engineering Personal website Motor learning, motor systems, cerebellum, motor adaptation, arm movements, motor cortex, ataxia​
Prof. Ilan Dinstein dinshi@bgu.ac.il Building 98, room 216 Psychology Personal website
Autism, EEG, MRI, fMRI, Sleep, Sensory Systems, Motor Systems, Psychophysics, ASD, Child development, Speech, Motor control, Eye tracking, Vision, Audition, Somatosensory, Tactile, Facial expressions
Dr. Shirley Handelzalts handelza@.bgu.ac.il M7, room 105 Physical Therapy Personal website  
Prof. Avishai Henik henik@bgu.ac.il Building 95, room 003 Psychology Personal website
Numerical cognition, attention, executive functions, Stroop, emotion, pupillometry, synesthesia, cognitive neuroscience
Prof. Michal Hershfinkel hmichal@bgu.ac.il Building M6, room 339 Physiology and Cell Biology Personal website
synaptic signaling, molecular neuroscience, neuronal toxicity
Dr. Maor Wolfsmith maorwolf@gmail.com Building 72, room 67 Education Personal website Language, Schizophrenia, Moral values
Dr. Gad Vatine vatineg@bgu.ac.il Building 42, room 326 The Department of Physiology and Cell Biology Personal website
Stem cells, rare disease, neurodevelopmental, iPSC, electrophysiology, BBB, blood brain barrier, organ on chip​
Prof. Noam Zilberberg noamz@bgu.ac.il Building 40, room 305 Life Sciences Personal website Ion channels, potassium channels, leak channels, potassium channel modifiers, regulation​
Prof. Deborah Toiber toiber@bgu.ac.il Building 40, room 205 Life Science Personal website
Aging, neurodegeneration​
Prof. Florina Uzefovsky florina@bgu.ac.il Building 96, room 414 Psychology Personal website

empathy, genetics, hormones, social development, autism​​​

Prof. ofer yifrach ofery@bgu.ac.il Building 40, room 313 life sciences Personal website Ion channels, action potential, voltage-dependent gating, cooperativity, synergy
Prof. Adrian Israelson adriani@bgu.ac.il Building M6, room 425 Physiology and Cell Biology Personal website
Neurodegenerative diseases, ALS, Misfolded proteins, Misfolded SOD1, Gene therapy
Prof. Hagit Cohen hagitc@bgu.ac.il Mental Health Center, Building 7, room 7 Psychiatry    
Prof. Ariel Cohen arikc@bgumail.bgu.ac.il building 74, 524 Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Personal website

​Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Logic, Human probabilistic reasoning​

Dr. Shira Knafo shirak@post.bgu.ac.il Building 41, room 215 Physiology and Cell Biology Personal website
Molecular and Cognitive Neuroscience
Prof. Shelly Levy-Tzedek shelly@bgu.ac.il בניין דייכמן למקצועות הבריאות, חדר 322 Physical Therapy Personal website  
Prof. Frederic Libersat libersat@bgu.ac.il Building 40, room 315 Life Sciences Personal website
Neuroethology, Neurotoxins, animal behavior, neuroparasitology
Prof. Alon Monsonego alonmon@bgu.ac.il Building 39, room 108 The Shraga Segal dept of Microbiology, Immunology and Geneticsology Personal website Neuro-Immunology; neurodegeneration, autoimmunity
Dr. Shachar Maidenbaum mshachar@bgu.ac.il Building 63, room 201 Biomedical engineering Personal website
spatial cognition, navigation, computational neuroscience, virtual reality, augmented reality, naturalistic science, spatial memory, multisensory interaction, sensory substitution,
Prof. Yifat Miller ymiller@bgu.ac.il Building 42, room 121 Chemistry Personal website
Neurodegenerative diseases, Amyloid beta, Tau protein, Alpha-synuclein, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Computational Biophysics
Prof. Nachshon Meiran nmeiran@bgu.ac.il Building 98, room107 Psychology Personal website  
Prof. Idan Menashe idanmen@bgu.ac.il Building M7, room 511 Public Health Personal website
Autism, Genetics, Eepidemiology, Biostatistics
Prof. Ilana Nisky nisky@bgu.ac.il Building 64, room 105 Biomedical Engineering Personal website
Computational motor control, sensorimotor control, motor learning, multisensory integration, perception and action, human-robot physical interaction, human and machine learning, haptics, neurorehabilitation
Dr. Elior Sulem eliorsu@bgu.ac.il Building 72, room 67 Software and Information Systems Engineering Personal website

​​​​Computational Linguistics, Child Language Acquisition, Computational Pyscholinguistics, Computational Semantics​.​

Prof. Carmel Sofer carmelso@bgu.ac.il Building 93, room 19 Cognition and Brain Sciences Personal website  
Prof. Israel Sekler sekler@bgu.ac.il Building M6, room 441 Physiology and Cell Biol Personal website  
Prof. Rony Azouz razouz@bgu.ac.il M6. 447 Physiology and cell biology Personal website
Somatosensory, whisker, tactile, perception, cortex​
Dr. Yuval Pinter uvp@cs.bgu.ac.il Building 37, room 203 Computer Science Personal website
natural language processing, NLP, machine learning, Deep learning, Computational Linguistics
Prof. Dana Fisman dana@cs.bgu.ac.il Building 37, room 113 Computer Science Personal website  
Prof. Ilya Fleidervish ilya@bgu.ac.il Building M6, room 423 Physiology and Cell Biology Personal website
Neocortex, sodium channel, action potential, axon, myelin, mitochondrial Ca signaling
Prof. Sigal Fleisher-Berkovich fleisher@bgu.ac.il Building M6 Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacology אתר אישי  
Dr. Ari Pakman aripakman@gmail.com Building 17, room 244 Industrial Engineering and Management    
Prof. Alon Friedman alonf@bgu.ac.il Soroka University Medical Center, Floor 6, Room 626 Physiology and Cell Biology Personal website Blood-brain barrier-, Epilepsy, Neuroimaging-, Neurophysiology, Neurological disorders
Dr. Oren Freifeld orenfr@cs.bgu.ac.il Building 37, room 204 Computer Science Personal website
Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Dr. Nir Fresco nfresco@bgu.ac.il Building 93, room 14 Brain and Cognitive Sciences Personal website

​Automaticity; Skill acquisition; Habit formation; Cognitively controlled processes; Inhibition of automatic responses; Philosophy of computation; Philosophy of information; Philosophy of cognition; Computational explanation in cognitive neuroscience​

Prof. Julie  Cwikel jcwikel@bgu.ac.il Building 17,room 114 Social Work & Center for Women's Health Studies and Promotion Personal website cognitive behavioral interventions, women's health, neurobiofeedback, cognitive decline due to cancer, chemobrain, stress and coping
Prof. Abraham Zangen azangen@bgu.ac.il Building 40 office 109 lab 110, 111 Life Sciences Personal website Brain Stimulation, Reward, Addiction, Depression, Attention, Neuroplasticity, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Deep TMS, Behavior, electrophysiology, EEG
Dr. Tamar Kolodny kolodny@bgu.ac.il Building 98, room 107 Psychology Personal website ​neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, ADHD, perception, attention, brain imaging, fMRI, diffusion MRI, spectroscopy (MRS)​
Prof. Yoav Kessler kesslery@bgu.ac.il Building 96, room 405 Psychology Personal website
ERP, EEG, fMRI, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, memory, working memory, cognitive control
Dr. Niv Reggev reggevn@bgu.ac.il Building 98, room 318 Psychology Personal website
stereotypes, social cognitive neuroscience, reward, face perception
Prof. Tammy Riklin Raviv rrtammy@ee.bgu.ac.il Building 33, room 212 Electrical and Computer Engineering Personal website Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning, Brain MRI
Dr. Jennifer Resnik resnikj@bgu.ac.il Building 39, room 214 Life Sciences Personal website
Sensory processing, perception, auditory system, hearing
Prof. Ronen Segev ronensgv@bgu.ac.il Building 40, room 311 Life Sciences Personal website Fish neurobiology, vision, spatial cognition, goldfish, archerfish, electrophysiology​
Dr. Talya Sade tsadeh@bgu.ac.il Building 93, room 22 The Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences Personal website
Episodic Memory, Cognitive Neuroscience
Prof. Yuval Shahar yshahar@bgu.ac.il Building 96, room 226 Software and Information Systems Engineering Personal website
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medical Informatics, Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Temporal Reasoning, Temporal Data Mining, Decision Analysis, EEG analysis
Dr. lior shmuelof shmuelof@bgu.ac.il Building 93, room 20 cognitive and brain sciences Personal website motor control, motor learning, rehabilitation, cognitive neuroscience, imaging
Prof. Maoz Shamir shmaoz@bgu.ac.il Building M6, room 429 Physiology and cell biology Personal website
Computational neuroscience: the neural code, plasticity and learning in the CNS
Dr. Oren Shriki shrikio@bgu.ac.il Building 93, room 23 Cognitive and Brain Sciences Personal website  
Prof. Nadav Shashar nadavsh@bgu.ac.il Eilat Campus Life Science Personal website