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.

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

    • Karsh, N., Berkovsky, O., & Eitam, B. (2018). Evidence for pain attenuation by the motor system-based judgment of agency. Consciousness and Cognition, 57, 134-146.

    • Karsh, N., Eitam, B., Mark, I., & Higgins, E. T. (2016). Bootstrapping agency: How control-relevant information affects motivation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 1333-1350.

    • Karsh, N., & Eitam, B. (2015). I control therefore I do: Judgments of agency influence action selection. Cognition, 138, 122-131.

    • Karsh, N., & Eitam, B. (2015) Motivation from control: A response selection framework. In P. Haggard, & B. Eitam (Eds.), The sense of agency. Oxford University Press.

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