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We are happy to share a preprint for 'A Case of Control Induced Relevance'

We’re excited to share our latest paper "Using an algorithmic approach to shapehuman decision-making through attractionto patterns" in Nature Communications.

We are thrilled to congratulate Shirel Bakbani-Elkayam on successfully earning her PhD! Her dedication, hard work, and contributions to the lab's work have been truly inspiring. We wish her the best of luck in her future endeavors and look forward to seeing her continued impact in research.

We’re excited to share our latest paper, "The Unboxing Has Already Begun: One Motivation Construct at a Time"

Rika Aviv won the scientific-art contest at the HBBH and IBBRC conference!

The Poster Depicted a Microscope Image of Dopaminergic Neurons from the VTA, Created Using an AAV Virus in the Klavir Lab.

The competition was judged by prof. Belu-Simion Fainaru, a winner of the Israel Prize in the field of interdisciplinary design and art. 

Roy Shoval, Tal Roth and Roy Shoval presented their work at the 11th Conference on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology (ISCoP).

Accepted for publication in Motivation and Emotion - Intact modulation of response vigor in major depressive disorder.

We are proud to share that Rika recently visited the Wen Lab in Rikkyo University, Japan, where she gave an exciting talk about her research on control-modified behavior in mice. 

A special thank you to Wen Wen and her lab members for hosting Rika and providing such a welcoming environment for a fruitful discussions.

An Important Publication: a clarification by Eitan Hemed et al. on their 2020 study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. After identifying a confound in the original data analysis, the authors revised their results for Experiments 1 and 2, but the main theoretical claim remains unchanged.

We are thrilled to announce that our lab has been awarded both an Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grant and a Binational Science Foundation (BSF) grant. These grants will support our ongoing research efforts and contribute to advancing knowledge in our field. We are honored to receive this recognition and are excited to continue our work with these important funding opportunities!

Stay tuned for more updates on our upcoming projects and research developments.

Eitan Hemed received the Post-Doctoral fellowship from the Data Science Research Center at the University of Haifa. During the upcoming year he will work on analysis of infant movements via video, to characterize the development of directional reaching in ecological settings. Eitan will be mentored by Prof. Baruch Eitam, Dr. Sagi Jaffe-Dax (Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University) and Prof. Hagit Hel-Or (Department of Computer Science). 

Eitan Hemed received an award from Yad-Hanadiv foundation, in recognition of academic excellence in his PhD research. The award was part of the symposium in honor of the 2022 Rothschild prize awardee - Prof. Nira Liberman.

Congratulations to Rika for being accepted to the prestigious multidisciplinary Idit program.

October 2022

In Judgment and Decision Making: Choosing to choose or not

In Experimental Brain Research: Motivation(s) from control: response-effect contingency and confirmation of sensorimotor predictions reinforce different levels of selection

Rika replaces Eitan as MCL's manager. Good luck Rika and many many thanks Eitan for the past 5 years!

Eitan and Ilya's automatic imitation paper is accepted at JEPG. Get the preprint, data and code on GitHub or ResearchGate!

Congratulations to Rita for publishing her bachelor's seminar as a paper in Cognition!

Accepted for publication in Scientific Reports - A Dissociation Between a Response’s Effectiveness and its Monetary Outcome. Get the published version here.

Our dear Michael Groisman has passed away after battling cancer. May he rest in peace.

Evidence for intact motivation in Major Depression. After more than two years of data collection a pre-print is out.

In press in JEPG: How is an action's effectiveness evaluated over time in a changing environment.

Out in PBR: Expectancy has surprisingly little influence over relevance-based selective attention

Congratulations to Orit Nafcha and Eitan Hemed - recipients of the Psychonomics travel award for graduate students! Both will present their works at the 60th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. 

Congratulations to Shirel Bakbani-Elkayam for winning the highly competitive Azrieli fellowship! Shirel is the 2nd Azrieli fellow from our lab, together with Orit Nafcha who won in 2018. 

We are grateful for DataCamp's classroom access - where MCL members get to practice their R and Python coding skills!