NOAM KARSH (PhD)

Noam is currently a Research Fellow at the Motivation-Cognition Lab at The University of Haifa and the head of the Motor and Social Cognition Lab at Tel-Hai College. He finished his Ph.D in 2016 at Eitam Lab under the supervision of Dr. Baruch Eitam and Prof. Simone Shamay-Tsoory and continued to work with Dr. Eitam and his students since then.

He has a broad interest both in how the self and social cognition are embodied in motor action. He is especially interested in the rewarding aspects of action-effectiveness. Specifically, his current work is dedicated to understand the contribution both the motor-system and higher-level cognition have to one’s sense of agency and how such mechanisms influence motor preparation, motivation, self-control, shaping behavior, perception and conscious experiences.