People


Principal Investigator


Uri Hertz

I am a senior lecturer at the Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Haifa. Previously, I was part of an interdisciplinary team including neuroscientists and philosophers working on The Human Mind Project. I was also part of the Crowd Cognition group in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in UCL, where we examined the way small groups and crowds make decisions.
Before that, I did my PhD in computational neuroscience at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC), where I studied multisensory integration and perception in Amir Amedi's lab.

  • Address: Room 7108, Rabin Building, University of Haifa, Israel
  • Telephone: (+972) 4 6146239

PhD and Master Students



Lior Gazit

Lior is a PhD student, working on human-algorithms interactions, advice taking and trust, in collaboration with Prof. Ofer Arazy.


Orit Heimer

Orit is a PhD student, working on temporal dynamics of cognitive and emotional learning, in collaboration with Dr. Assaf Kron.


Fady Khoury

Fady is a masters student, working on the effect of lnaguage on decision making. He is interested in the way cultural and cognitive factors relating to language, such as a cultural minority individual making decision in a cultural majority language, affect pro social decisions.


Elena Kozakevich Arbel

Lena is a PhD student, studying the interactive aspects of empathy as a social control mechanism, in collaboration with Prof. Simone Shamay-Tsoory.


Itamar Lahman

Itamar is a PhD student, working on the cost of abstraction in decision making, and the link between cognitive effort and the use of functions by programmers and software developers, in collaboration with Dr. Irit Hadar.


Gili Barkai

Gili is a PhD student, working on the role of locus coeruleus-noradrenergic system in uncertainty based learning, in collaboration with Dr. Shai Gabay.

Undergraduate Students




Alumni

Matan Fintz

Matan is a MSc student, using deep-learning models to characterize human decision making, in collaboration with Dr. Margarita Osadchy.


Gil Salamander

Gil is working on advice giving and learning, looking at how accuired expertise affect information sharing for the benefit of others, and for the benefit of the adviser.