Prof. Liad Mudrik
Research work
The lab investigates high-level cognition, both at the behavioral and the neural level. More specifically, we are interested in the following questions:
1. What is consciousness, how does it come about, and what are its functions?
The latter entails two additional questions; first, how deep does unconscious processing run and how it differs from conscious processing. Second, how is consciousness involved not only in information processing, but also in voluntary action.
2. How does cognition affect perception?
We are interested in the way our expectations and semantic knowledge affect perceptual processing and our interpretation of the world.
Areas of interest & scientific knowledge
Cognitive Neuroscience
Selected Publications
- Mudrik, L., Hirschhorn, R., & Korisky, U. (2024). Taking consciousness for real: ‘ecologizing’ the study of conscious vs. unconscious processing. Neuron, 112(10), 1642-1656.
- Amir, Y., Yovel, Y., Assaf, Y. & Mudrik, L. (2023) Experiencing without knowing? Empirical evidence for phenomenal consciousness without access, Cognition, 238, 105529.
- Yaron, I., Melloni, L., Pitts, M. & Mudrik, L. (2022). "The ConTraSt database for analysing and comparing empirical studies of consciousness theories." Nature Human Behaviour 6(4): 593-604.
- Melloni, L., Mudrik, L., Pitts, M., and Koch, C. (2021) Making the hard problem of consciousness easier. Science. 372(6545), 911-912.
- Korisky, U. & Mudrik, L. (2021) Dimensions of perception: 3D real-life objects are more readily detected than their 2D images, Psychological Science, 31(6), 663-677.
