YONI PERTZOV's
visual cognition lab
Yoni Pertzov
Principal Investigator
Read about Yoni Pertzov:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yoni_Pertzov
email: yoni.pertzov@mail.huji.ac.il
Hodaya Neuhaus Malka
Hodaya is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research explores how ADHD symptoms influence emotion recognition, with a focus on attention mechanisms using eye-tracking technology. Additionally, she is interested in individual differences in interpreting emotional cues in context and the role of attention in shaping these perceptions.
Hodaya holds an M.A. in Exploratory Psychology from the Hebrew University, where she studied the effects of virtual social environments on social facilitation. She earned her B.Sc. in Cognitive Science and Psychology from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Zoe Salzer
Zoe holds an M.A in Psychobiology from Tel-Aviv University and a B.A in Psychology from the Open University of Israel. She is currently a PhD student in the department of psychology at the Hebrew University & a recipient of the ‘Atid B’ivrit (Future at the Hebrew University) scholarship. Her research aims to elucidate the intersection between individuals’ gaze behavior and the unique way they interpret scenarios that carry social, technological and political meanings, using eye tracking and dynamic, ecological stimuli.
Liat Israeli-Ran
Dr. Liat Israeli-Ran is a postdoctoral fellow researching the association between individual differences in scan paths and the interpretation of risky situations.
She also investigates eye movement features linked to emotion regulation.
She earned her Ph.D. from Ben-Gurion University, where her research focused on how emotional mechanisms—such as attention to others' emotions, emotional reactivity, and emotion regulation—contribute to empathy.
She also holds a master's degree in social psychology from Ben-Gurion University.
Shira avital
Shira is an M.A. student in the Department of Cognitive Sciences. Her research focuses on the interaction between interpretation and gaze behavior. Shira holds a B.A. in Psychology and International Relations from the Hebrew University. She is also a recipient of the JBC Golden Opportunity Scholarship for students in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Liat Hershkovich
Liat is an MA student in clinical neuropsychology at the Hebrew University. She holds a B.A in Psychology and B.Sc in Neuroscience from Bar-Ilan University. Her research focuses on individual differences in ADHD symptoms in a mimic of neutral, dynamic environments, and the effects of training to reduce distractibility using eye-tracking device. She studies both participants with ADHD and neurotypicals.
The labs' Alumni
Oryah Lancry-DAYAN
Oryah completed her PHD at the clinical neuropsychology track at the Hebrew University. Research interests: The temporal aspects of memory-based gaze as reflecting information processing in the human brain.
Received the president and Rothschilds scholarships .
Currently a post doc in Harvard Medical School
email: oryah.lancry@mail.huji.ac.il
Tal Nahari
Tal completed her PhD in cognitive science. Research interests focus on deconstructing fixation duration. Research tools include eye-tracking, behavioral experiments, and physiological methods.
Tal received the Azrieli scholarship and is currently a post do in UCL
email: Tal.Nahari@mail.huji.ac.il
Haggar
Cohen-DALlal
Haggar completed her PHD at the clinical neuropsychology track at the Hebrew University. Research interests: The different factors that influence the rate of forgetting from visual Working Memory. Her research involves both patients and healthy participants.
Hagar is currently a lecturer in Achva Academic College
email: haggar.cohen@mail.huji.ac.il
Nitzan Guy
Nitzan completed his PhD at the cognitive science department at the Hebrew University. He finished his B.Sc at the combined track for cognition science and computer science. Research interests: Individual differences in eye movements and the influences of neurological traits and personality traits.
Nitzan is currently a post-doc at TAU
email: guynitzan@gmail.com
asael sklar
Asael did a 1 year post-doc at the lab, interested in the selection for awareness process, and its' manifestations in behavior.
Asael is currently a faculty in the IDC
email: asaelsk@gmail.com
Nathalie klein selle
Nathalie did a 1 year post doc at the lab. Her PhD research focused on psychophysiological memory detection using the concealed information test. Specifically, the theory underlying this method and factors related to its external validity.
Nathalie is currently a faculty in BIU
email: nkleinselle@gmail.com
Yishai sorek
Yishai did an M.A. in Art History and Cognitive Science, researching people's responses to visual artworks. Specific interests include visual expertise, affective cognition, museology and predictive coding. Also advised by Prof. Gal Ventura from the Department of Art History and Dr. Noam Gal from The Israel Museum.
email: yishaisorek@gmail.com
Ine van der Cruyssen
Ine completed a Joint PhD at Hebrew University and the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on the detection of concealed knowledge through memory-guided gaze dynamics.
email: i.a.vandercruyssen@uva.nl
Dana Krill
Dana completed an M.A. in clinical neuropsychology at the Hebrew University. Research interests: How complex visual stimuli (e.g. faces) are represented in working memory.
email: danakrill@gmail.com
Hila Shwartz
Hila completed an M.A. in clinical neuropsychology at the Hebrew University. Research interests: Visual working memory in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
email: hilalica@gmail.com
Avraham completed an M.A. student at the philosophy track at the Hebrew University, and at the clinical psychology track at the Ruppin Academic Center. Research interests: eye movements in natural scenes, philosophy of neuroscience.
Zviki Meir
Zviki completed an M.A. at the clinical neuropsychology track at the Hebrew University. Research interests: Cognitive deficits in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and PCA- Posterior Cortical Atrophy.
email: zvikime@gmail.co
sera wiechert
Sera completed a joint PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Amsterdam. Her research focused on investigating the robustness of legally relevant memory phenomena. She is now working as a PostDoc at the Max Planck Institute for Crime, Security and Law, and researches proximal factors contributing to criminal behavior.
Ganit Kupershmidt
Ganit completed her B.Sc. at the combined track for computer science and psychology at the Hebrew University. Research interests:
The influence of prior exposure on similarity patterns during free view
email: kganit94@gmail.com