Dr. Michael Gilead
We are interested in the psychological capacities that seem to distinguish humans from non-human animals: conceptual and linguistic processing, mentalizing and internalization, and imagination and foresight.
We examine how these capacities play out in human lives: how they shape our phenomenology (e.g., our emotional lives), and our beliefs (e.g., political ideology, self-concept).
We study these processes at the level of implementation, algorithm, and function, and use neuroimaging, behavioral, and big-data methods.
Cognitive Neuroscience
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Gilead, M., Trope, Y., & Liberman, N. (2020). Above and beyond the concrete: The representational bases of the predictive brain. Target article, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43.
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Gilead, M., Silverman, M., Boccagno, C., Weber, J., & Ochsner, K.N. (2016). Self-regulation via neural simulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113(36), 10037-10042.
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Gamoran A., Kaplan Y., Simchon, A., & Gilead, M. (2021). Using Psychologically-Informed Priors for Suicide Prediction in the CLPsych 2021 Shared Task. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Keyboard to Clinic.
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Gilead, M., Liberman, N., & Maril, A. (2013). The language of future-thought: An fMRI study of embodiment and tense processing. Neuroimage, 65, 267-279. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.073
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Gilead, M., & Liberman, N. (2014). We take care of our own: Caregiving salience increases ingroup bias in response to outgroup threat. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1380-1387.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797614531439
