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Congratulations to Dr. Noam Markovitch

24 May, 2023

For receiving the best doctoral award in developmental psychology from the APA organization!
Noam's doctorate deals with the understanding of children's differential sensitivity to the effects of the environment on their development. The work's contribution to developmental psychology is very significant, both in theoretical thought and methodological approaches.
Well done Noam!
Noam PhD supervisor, Prof. Ariel Knafo-Noam, has also won the award in the past

 

From acute stress to persistent post-concussion symptoms: The role of parental accommodation and child’s coping strategies

19 April, 2023

An article by PhD candidate Irit Aviv, supervised by Dr. Tammy Pilowsky Peleg and Prof. Hillel Aviezer was selected as the winner of the Eighth Annual TCN/AACN student Project Competition, from among 15 eligible manuscripts

Acute stress following mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) is highly prevalent and associated with Persistent Post-Concussion symptoms (PPCS). However, the mechanism mediating this relationship is understudied.

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Primary means by which humans and animals learn and make decisions

27 December, 2022
Eran Eldar

Emotions and moods often seem to make us behave irrationally. Why, then, do we have them? In new work, Emanuel Aviv and Eran Eldar expose the rationality that may lie hidden even in the most notoriously irrational of emotional states and biases. To do this, they identify three computations that emotional states mediate: computations about where we are, about what we do, and about what our future holds. These computations are primary means by which humans and animals learn and make decisions, and each of them is mediated by a distinct familiar emotion or mood.

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