Prof. Yaara Yeshurun
Research work
It is clear that the filters through which we see the world – our beliefs, our emotions, our knowledge – shape our perception, behavior and interaction with other people. Our lab is interested in studying brain mechanisms underlying shared and divergent understanding of real-life situations during real-life interactions. We do so by doing behavioral, eye-tracking, fMRI and fNIRS experiments.
Areas of interest & scientific knowledge
Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Specialization
Social neuroscienceSelected Publications
- Yeshurun Y, Nguyen M and Hasson U . Amplification of local changes along the timescale processing hierarchy. PNAS. 2017; 114(35):9475-9480
- Yeshurun Y, Swanson S, Simony E, Chen J, Honey CH, Lazaridi C, Hasson U . Same story, different story: Neural representation of frameworks for understanding. Psych Sci. 2017; 28(3): 307-319
- Simony E, Honey CH, Chen J, Lositsky O, Yeshurun Y, Wiesel A, Hasson U. Dynamic reconfiguration of the default mode network during narrative comprehension. Nat Commun. 2016; 7:12141
- Chen P, Chen J, Yeshurun Y, Hasson U, Haxby J, Ramadge P. A reduced-dimension fMRI shared response model. NIPS Proceedings. 2015; 28
- Gelstein S*, Yeshurun Y*, Rozenkrantz L, Shushan S, Frumin I, Roth Y, Sobel N. Human tears contain a chemosignal. Science. 2011; 331:226-30 (*Equal contribution)
- Yeshurun Y, Sobel N. An odor is not worth a thousand words: from multidimensional odors to unidimensional odor objects. Ann Rev Psychol. 2010; 61:219-41
- Yeshurun Y, Lapid H, Dudai Y, Sobel N. The privileged brain representation of first olfactory associations. Curr Biol. 2009; 29(39):12059-69
- Yeshurun Y, Dudai Y, Sobel N. Working memory across nostrils. Behav Neurosci. 2008;1 22(5):1031-7
