I am an aspiring Cognitive Computational Neuroscientist.
My interests include anything mind related, from everyday perception to rare strokes of genius, and I am especially eager to understand the computational principles underlying our subjective inner world (consciousness, there I said it!). In my current work I hope to shed light on these perennial questions by combining large datasets of human electrophysiology with behavioral computational modelling.
I am currently finishing my PhD in Computational Neuroscience at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), under the supervision of Prof. Leon Deouell (main advisor) and Prof. Ayelet Landau (set to graduate during the summer\fall of 2024). I also hold a BSc in Abstract Mathematics (summa cum laude).
In my PhD I use large datasets of human electrophysiology to shed light on the nature of our ongoing visual experience (see here our recent intracranial study, and here all of the code for analysis and visualization I wrote for the occasion). I have experience with behavioral modelling and I occasionally dabble in philosophy (for example, here).
See my full CV here, and please reach out.
PhD in Computational Neuroscience, (expected) 2024
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (ELSC)
BSc in Mathematics, 2011
Bar-Ilan University
Instances of sustained stationary sensory input are ubiquitous. However, previous work focused almost exclusively on transient onset responses. This presents a critical challenge for neural theories of consciousness, which should account for the full temporal extent of experience. To address this question, we use intracranial recordings from ten human patients with epilepsy to view diverse images of multiple durations. We reveal that, in sensory regions, despite dramatic changes in activation magnitude, the distributed representation of categories and exemplars remains sustained and stable. In contrast, in frontoparietal regions, we find transient content representation at stimulus onset. Our results highlight the connection between the anatomical and temporal correlates of experience. To the extent perception is sustained, it may rely on sensory representations and to the extent perception is discrete, centered on perceptual updating, it may rely on frontoparietal representations.