Jaffe-Dax Lab
Our Projects
projects of students in our laboratory
Tal Ravid-Roth
Our experiment tracks the eye movements of infants while they observe various videos. The aim of this study is to delve into the realm of early motor development in infants and gain insights into their motor learning processes. By investigating how infants learn and refine motor behaviors through reinforcement mechanisms, we can gain insights into the dynamic interplay between sensory predictions, motor pathways, and the outcomes of learning processes. By deciphering the intricate dance between prediction and actual motor outcomes, we aspire to advance our knowledge of motor learning during infany.
Cachal Neuburger
My research investigates the early foundations of human learning, with a focus on how predictive processes and sensory preferences emerge in infancy. I examine the development of regularity learning, the ability to detect patterns and regularities in the environment. Prediction involves both enhanced brain responses to unexpected events and coordinated activity between frontal and posterior regions when stimuli are predictable. A second line of research explores how spontaneous sensory preferences, particularly in the visual domain, contribute to early learning.
Sivan Flomen
My research focuses on how infants learn to recognize familiar faces. Our study investigates when and how infants begin to recognize familiar faces, focusing on the visual features most critical for face recognition. Using eye-tracking methods, we measure infants’ looking behavior as they view faces that differ in critical versus non-critical features, those that are more or less important for distinguishing individual identities. we aim to uncover the developmental origins of face recognition and understand how early perceptual learning supports the ability to identify and remember people
Carmel Moalem
My research focuses on how the brain develops in two main areas: social synchrony and cortical adaptation. I study how children and adults coordinate their gaze and brain activity during social interactions, using noninvasive brain imaging (fNIRS) and mobile eye tracking. I also examine how the brain adapts to repeated experiences across development, using both fNIRS and intracranial recordings (sEEG).
Daniel Ozery
I am a direct-track M.A. student in psychology in the research track at Tel Aviv University. My research focuses on real-world attentional biases and their impact on pre-reading abilities in toddlers. I study how children in the pre-reading age scan their environment and the actions of the adults around them during a shared reading activity, using mobile eye-tracking.
Manar Khalaila
My research investigates the early development of social cognition, with a particular focus on how children develop stereotypes, and come to understand social hierarchies within multicultural contexts. I examine how children perceive and respond to ingroup and outgroup members, and how these processes are shaped by early social experiences. Using a combination of eye-tracking during child-adapted tasks inspired by the Implicit Association Test (IAT), behavioral experiments, and fNIRS. In addition, I use inter-subject correlation (ISC) to explore how children’s brains synchronize during naturalistic social processing, and how this varies within and between cultural groups.
Collaboration Labs
To Prof. Liad Modrik's website
To Dr. Michal Kahn's website
To Dr. Lior Abramzon-Wisman's website
To Prof. Galit Yuval's website
To Prof. Yaara Yeshurun-Dishon's website
To Dr. Reut Naim-Aricha's website
