2001 B.A. in Film and Television studies,
Tel Aviv
University (Magna cum
laude)
2005 B.A.
in Biology, Tel Aviv
University (Magna cum laude)
2007
M.A. at
the Unit of Culture
Research, Tel Aviv University (Summa cum laude)
Subject of Thesis: Relative Feminine Dominance in
Epigenetic
Inheritance Research
Supervisors: Prof. Eva Jablonka and Dr.
Snait
Gissis
2013
PhD. at the
Graduate School of
Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
Subject of Research: Neural Markers of Cinematic
Emotion Experience - The Role of interregional Coupling Dynamics
Supervisor: Prof. Talma Hendler
2002-2006
Department
of Film and Television
Teaching
Assistant
Courses:
Television and Media Studies
(tutorial), Cinematic Expression (tutorial)
2007-2012
Department of Film and
Television
Junior Teaching assistant
Course: Emotion, Brain and Cinema
2013-2015
Film and
Television School
Teaching
Fellow
Courses: Neuroaesthetics
and Cinema, Introduction to cognitive theories of motion
pictures
2018
-
Film
and Television School
Senior
Lecturer
Courses: Between
Film and Gaming, Affect and Cinema, Cognitive Theories of Motion Pictures,
Empathy and
Agency in
Motion Pictures and Virtual Reality, Film
Narrative
2002 Research assistant of Dr. Alina Bernstein, Department of Film and Television
2002 Producer of the 4th Tel Aviv International Colloquium in Cinema Studies: Why War
2002 Associate editor Producer of the 4th Tel Aviv International Colloquium in Cinema Studies: Why War
2002-2004 Producer of a journal of graduating film and television students -“Shura Rishona”
2002-2003 Coordinator of a Special Issue of the journal Shofar on Jewish Cinema
2007 Research assistant of Prof. Eva Jablonka, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
2009- 2011 Associate editor of the anthology Just Image: Ethics and the Cinematic
2014- 2015 Post-doc research position, Psychology and Neuroscience Faculty, Maastricht University
2008 Honorable
mention by the Israel Society for
History & Philosophy of Science in memory of Prof. Mara Beller
foroutstanding M.A. work.
2011 Dan David scholarship award for doctoral students.
2016
Minducate
(Tel Aviv University's Internal
Competitive Grant)
Title:
"Virtual
Reality and Learning"; Role: co-PI; Budget:
~$40,000
2019 Erasmus + International Credit Mobility programme scholarship (visiting at Eötvös Loránd University,Budapest)
2019
BrainBoost
(Tel Aviv University's
Internal Competitive Grant)
Title:
"Audiovisual interface for treatment of tic disorders"; Role:
PI; Budget: ~$30,000
2019
Minducate
(Tel Aviv University's Internal
Competitive Grant)
Title:
"Functional
coupling of Ritalin delivery for cognitive enhancement cognitive
in university studentswith ADHD"; Role: PI; Budget:
~$13,000
2019
Israeli
Science Foundation
Title:
"A
Neuroscientific Perspective on Point-of-View editing and Cinematic
Engagement";Role: PI; Budget: ~$91,000
2020
Minducate
(Tel Aviv University's Internal
Competitive Grant)
Title:
"The
effectiveness of VR Social Skills Trainer ® on children with
social skillsdeficit"; Role: PI; Budget: ~$16,500
2020
Tourette
Association of America - Young
Investigator Award
Title:
"XTics
- A Gamified Enhancer of Non-Pharmacological Interventions in Tic
Disorders";Role: PI; Budget: $134,000
2021
Israel
estates committee
Title:
"
Development
of
a Multisensory Feedback System to Deliver Virtual Reality
Constraint-InducedMovement Therapy for children with Hemiparesis"
; Role: co-PI; Budget:
$133,000
2022
Israeli
Science Foundation
Support in a
workshop titled "Empathies, Brain, and the Moving Image"; Role:
PI; Budget: $21,280
(1)
Raz, Gal. "Actuality
of
Banality: Eyal Sivan's The specialist in context." Shofar:
An
Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 24.1 (2005):
4-21.
(2) Raz, Gal. "Narrative sabotage as a tactic in the arena
of collective memory."
<a>
Psychoanalyse
im Widerspruch
34 (2005): 27-41.
<b> translated into Greek and
published in the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Booklet, 2012
(3) Jablonka, Eva, and Gal Raz. "Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: prevalence, mechanisms, and implications for the study of heredity and evolution." The Quarterly review of biology 84.2 (2009): 131-176.
(4) Raz, Gal, Yonatan Winetraub, Yael Jacob, Sivan Kinreich, Adi Maron-Katz, Galit Shaham, Ilana Podlipsky, Gadi Gilam, EyalSoreq, Talma Hendler, "Portraying emotions at their unfolding: a multilayered approach for probing dynamics of neural networks." Neuroimage 60.2 (2012): 1448-1461.
(5)
Raz, Gal, Yael Jacob, Tal Gonen, Yonatan Winetraub,
Eyal Soreq, Tamar Flash, and Talma Hendler. "Cry
for her or cry with her:context-dependent dissociation of two
modes of cinematic empathy reflected in
network cohesion dynamics." Social cognitive and
affective neuroscience
9.1 (2013): 30-38.
(6) Raz, Gal, and Talma Hendler. "Forking cinematic paths to the self: neurocinematically informed model of empathy in motion pictures." Projections 8.2 (2014): 89-114.
(7)
Gilam, Gadi, Tamar Lin, Gal
Raz, Shir Azrielant, Eyal Fruchter, Dan Ariely, and Talma
Hendler. Gilam,
Gadi, et al. "Neural
substrates underlying the tendency to accept anger-infused
ultimatum offers during dynamic social interactions." NeuroImage
120 (2015): 400-411.
(8) Cavazza, Marc, Fred Charles, Stephen W. Gilroy, Julie Porteous, Gabor Aranyi, Julien Cordry, Gal Raz, Nimrod Jakob Keynan, Avihay Cohen, Gilan Jackont, Yael Jacob, Eyal Soreq, IlanaKlovatch, Talma Hendler. "Virtual agents in brain-computer interfaces." The International Journal of Virtual Reality, 15 (2015): 48-60.
(9) Gonen, Tal, Eyal Soreq, Eran Eldar, Eti Ben Simon, Gal Raz, and Talma Hendler. "Human mesostriatal response tracks motivational tendencies under naturalistic goal conflict." Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 11.6 (2016): 961-972.
(10) Raz, Gal*, Alexandra Touroutoglou*, Gadi Gilam, Christine Wilson-Mendenhall, Tamar Lin, Tal Gonen, Yael Jacob, Shir Atzil, RoeeAdmon, Adi Maron-Katz, Talma Hendler*, Lisa Feldman Barrett*. "Functional connectivity dynamics during film viewing reveal common networks for different emotional experiences." Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 16.4 (2016): 709-723.
(11) Yael Jacob, Yonatan Winetraub, Gal Raz, Eti Ben-Simon, Hadas Okon-Singer, Keren Rosenberg-Katz, Talma Hendler, Eshel Ben Jacob. "Dependency Network Analysis (DEPNA) reveals context-related influence of brain network nodes." Scientific reports 6 (2016): 27444.
(12) Raz, Gal*, Lavi Shpigelman*, Yael Jacob, Tal Gonen, Yoav Benjamini, and Talma Hendler. "Psychophysiological whole‐brain network clustering based on connectivity dynamics analysis in naturalistic conditions." Human brain mapping 37.12 (2016): 4654-4672.
(13)
Cohen, Avihay, Nimrod J. Keynan, Gilan Jackont, Nilli Green,
Iris Rashap, Ofir Shany, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza, Talma
Hendler, Gal Raz.
"Multimodal
virtual scenario enhances neurofeedback learning." Frontiers
in
Robotics and AI 3 (2016): 52.
(14) Singer,
Neomi, Nori Jacoby,
Tamar Lin, Gal Raz, Lavi Shpigelman, Gadi Gilam, Roni Y.
Granot, and
Talma Hendler. "Common
modulation of limbic network activation underlies musical
emotions as they unfold." NeuroImage
141 (2016): 517-529.
(15) Young,
Christina B., Gal Raz,
Daphne Everaerd, Christian F. Beckmann, Indira Tendolkar, Talma
Hendler,Guillén Fernández, and Erno J. Hermans. "Dynamic
shifts in large-scale brain network balance as
a function of arousal." Journal of Neuroscience
37.2 (2017):
281-290.
(16)
Lin, Tamar, Gadi Gilam, Gal Raz, Ayelet Or-Borichev,
Yair Bar-Haim, Eyal Fruchter, Talma Hendler. "Accessible
neurobehavioral anger-related markers for vulnerability to
post-traumatic stress symptoms in a population of male
soldiers." Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 11
(2017).
(17)
Abraham, Eyal, Gal
Raz, Orna Zagoory-Sharon, and Ruth Feldman. "Empathy
Networks in the
Parental Brain and their Long-Term Effects on Children's
Stress Reactivity and Behavior Adaptation." Neuropsychologia (2017)).
(18)
Yamin, Hagar Grazya,, Tomer
Gazit, Natalia Tchemodanov, Gal Raz, Gilan Jackont, Fred
Charles, Itzhak
Fried, Talma Hendler, and Marc Cavazza. "Depth
electrode neurofeedback with a virtual reality interface." Brain-Computer
Interfaces
(2017).
(19)
Raz, Gal, Michele
Svanera, Neomi Singer, Gadi Gilam, Maya Bleich Cohen, Tamar Lin,
Roee Admon,Tal Gonen, Avner Thaler, Roni Y. Granot, Rainer Goebel,
Sergio Benini,
Giancarlo Valente. "Robust
inter-subject audiovisual decoding in functional magnetic
resonance imaging using high-dimensional regression." NeuroImage
163 (2017): 244-263.
(20)
Hendler,
Talma*, Gal Raz*, Solnik Shimrit, Yael Jacob,
Roseman Leor, Madah Wahid, Kremer Ilana. Kupchik Mariana, Kotler
Moshe.,Bleich-cohen Maya. "Social
affective context reveals altered network
dynamics in schizophrenia patients." Translational
psychiatry 8,
no. 1 (2018): 29.
(21) Jacob,
Yael, Gadi Gilam, Tamar Lin, Gal Raz, and Talma Hendler. "Anger
modulates
influence hierarchies within and between emotional reactivity
and regulation networks. "Frontiers in behavioral
neuroscience 12 (2018): 60.
(22) Keynan,
Jackob N., Avihay Cohen, Gilan Jackont, Nili Green, Noam Goldway,
AlexanderDavidov, Yehudit Meir-Hasson, Gal Raz, Nathan
Intrator, Eyal Fruchter,
Keren Ginat, Eugene Laska, Marc Cavazza & Talma Hendler. "Electrical
fingerprint of the amygdala guides neurofeedback training for
stress
resilience." Nature human behaviour 3, no. 1 (2019):
63.
(23) Svanera,
Michele, Mattia Savardi, Sergio Benini, Alberto Signoroni, Gal
Raz,
Talma Hendler, Lars Muckli, Rainer Goebel, and Giancarlo Valente.
2019.“Transfer
learning of deep neural network representations for fMRI
decoding.” Journal
of Neuroscience Methods 328 (2019): 108319.
(24) Raz,
Gal,
Giancarlo Valente, Michele Svanera, Sergio Benini, and
AndrásBálint Kovács. "A
robust neural fingerprint of cinematic shot-scale."
Projections 13, no. 3 (2019): 23-52.
(25) Raz,
Gal
Guy Gurevitch, Tom Vaknin, Araz Aazamy, Iddo Gefen, Stanislaw
Grunstein, GalAzouri, and Noam Goldway. "Electroencephalographic
evidence for the
involvement of mirror-neuron and error-monitoring related
processes in virtual body ownership." NeuroImage
(2019): 116351.
(26) Sar-el,
Roy, Haggai Sharon, Nitzan Lubianiker, Talma Hendler* and Gal
Raz*.
"Inducing
a functional-pharmacological coupling in the human brain to
achieve improved drug effect." Frontiers in
Neuroscience-Neuropharmacology
14 (2020): 1036.
(27) Fuhrman,
Orly, Anabel Eckerling, Naama Friedmann, Ricardo Tarrasch*, Gal
Raz*.
"The Moving Learner:
Object manipulation in virtual reality improves vocabulary
learning." Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 37,
no.
3 (2020): 672-683.
(28) Shany,
Ofir*, Ayam Greental*, Gadi Gilam, Daniella Perry, Maya
Bleich-Cohen, MoranOvadia, Avihay Cohen, Gal Raz. "Somatic
engagement alters
subsequent neurobehavioral correlates of affective mentalizing ". Human brain mapping, 42(18),
5846-5861 (2021).
(29) Raz, Gal. "Rage against the Empathy Machine Revisited: The Ethics of the Empathic Affordances of Virtual Reality". Convergence (forthcoming).
(1)
Raz, Gal, Hagin Boaz, Hendler Talma. "E-Motion
Pictures
of the Brain: Recursive Paths between Affective Neuroscience and
Film Studies." in Arthur P. Shimamura (editor), Psychocinematics:
Exploring
Cognition at the Movies. New York: Oxford University Press;
2013. p. 285-313.
(2)
Gadi Gilam, Yehuda Judd Ne'eman, Gal Raz, Tamar Lin,
Eyal Fruchter, Talma Hendler. "Stoic
Regulation: The influence of militarycombat training on
neurobehavioral indices of anger." in José
Fernando A. Cruz and Rui Manuel C. Sofia (editors) Anger and
Anxiety:
Predictors, Coping Strategies, and Health Effects. New York:
Nova Science
Publishers; 2017. p. 165-199.
(3) Raz, Gal. "Virtual reality as an emerging art medium and its immersive affordances." In Noël Shawn Carroll, Laura Di Summa-Knoop, and T.;Loht (editors) The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, pp. 995-1014. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019.
(1)
Gilroy, Stephen W., Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc
Cavazza, Eyal Soreq, Gal Raz, Limor Ikar, Ayelet
Or-Borichov, Udi
Ben-Arie, Ilana Klovatch, and Talma Hendler. "A
brain-computer interfaceto a plan-based narrative." In Proceedings
of the Twenty-Third
international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence
(2013). p.
1997-2005.
(2)
Cavazza, Marc, Fred Charles, Gabor Aranyi, Julie Porteous,
Stephen Gilroy, Gal Raz, Nimrod Jakob Keynan, Avihay
Cohen, Gilan
Jackont, Yael Jacob, Eyal Soreq, Ilana Klovatch, Talma Hendler.
2014. "Towards
emotional regulation through neurofeedback." In Proceedings
of the 5th
Augmented Human International Conference (2014), Kobe,
Japan.
(3) Cavazza, Marc, Gabor Aranyi, Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Stephen Gilroy, Gilan Jackont, Ilana Klovatch, Gal Raz, Nimrod J. Keynan, Avihay Cohen, and Talma Hendler. "Frontal alpha asymmetry neurofeedbackfor brain-computer interfaces." In Brain-Computer Interface Conference (2014).
(4)
Keynan, Jackob N., Gal Raz, Shimrit Solnik, Gadi Gilam,
Tamar Lin, Sharon Visevasser, and Talma Hendler. "Dynamic
network analysisuncovers the neural correlates of alexithymia."
In Society of
Biological Psychiatry 70th Annual Meeting (2015).
(5)
Keynan,
Jackob
Nimrod., Avihay Cohen, Gal Raz, Gilan Jackont, Gadi Gilam,
Ilana
Klovatch, Mark Cavazza, and Talma Hendler. "Modulation
of deep brainactivity and improved emotion regulation via
fMRI/EEG neurofeedback." Biological
Psychiatry 77,
no. 9 (2015): 336S-336S.
(6)
Yamin,
Hagar.,
Tomer Gazit, Nadav Tchemodanov, Gal Raz, Gilan Jakont,
Fred Charles.,
Marc Cavazza, Itzhak Fried, and Talma Hendler. "Neurofeedback
viaIntracranial Depth Electrodes."
In Proceedings of the 6th
International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting (2016).
(7) Gonen, Tal, Eran Eldar, Eyal Soreq, Gal Raz, and Talma Hendler. "A system regulation view of motivational basic elements and their clinical implication in psychiatry." Biological Psychiatry 81, 10 (2017): S56.
* - Equal authorship
Invited Lectures and Scientific Meetings
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Year |
Name of Meeting, City, Country |
Detailed Activity (Poster/Lecture/Organizing etc.) |
2010 |
The Eight Tel-Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies, Israel |
Lecture |
2012 |
CCCT Summer School on Film-Game-Emotion-Brain, Amsterdam University, Netherlands |
Summer School lecture |
2012 |
How Movies Move Us? Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
Special symposium lecture |
2012 |
5th Annual Meeting of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society, New-York, USA. |
Poster |
2012 |
1st Brain Plasticity Symposium, Tel-Aviv, Israel. |
Poster |
2012 |
Organization for Human Brain Mapping conference Beijing, China. |
Poster |
2013 |
Emotional, All Too Emotional: Neuroscience Views of Affect and Regulation, Tel-Aviv University, Israel |
Lecture |
2013 |
BrainTech Israel, Tel-Aviv. |
Poster |
2013 |
Social & Affective Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. |
Poster |
2013 |
19th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seattle, USA. |
Poster |
2013 |
Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference, Berlin. |
Lecture (with Ed Tan, Tim Smith, and Sergio Benini) |
2014 |
The Tenth Tel-Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies, Israel |
Lecture |
2015 |
An event by the British Film Institute: More Than a Feeling: How Your Brain Responds to Romance at the Movies |
Invited talk |
2015 |
Brain Screens: Interfacing Motion Pictures and Neuroscience (symposium), Tel Aviv University |
Lecture (with Talma Hendler) |
2016 |
Steamer Salon - Virtual Reality Film Festival & Lab |
Lecture (with Talma Hendler) |
2016 |
Presentation at the Israeli pavilion at Cannes Film Festival |
Invited talk |
2016 |
Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference, Ithaca, NY. |
Lecture (with Andras Kovacs and Giancarlo Valente) |
2016 |
The Eleventh Tel-Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies, Israel |
Lecture (with Tal Gonen) |
2017 |
Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference, Helsinki, Finland. |
Lecture (with Tal Gonen and Ofir Shany) |
2017 |
Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference, Helsinki, Finland. |
Lecture (with Moran Ovadia) |
2017 |
A symposium by the Alfredo Federico Strauss Center for Computational Neuroimaging, |
Lecture |
2018 |
The Twelfth Tel-Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies, Israel |
Lecture |
2019 |
Society for Neuroscience, 49th annual meeting, Chicago, US |
Poster |
2020 |
Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference, virtual conference |
Lecture |
2021 |
Seminar series in Higher School of Economics, Moscow |
Invited lecture |
2021 |
Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference, virtual conference |
Lecture |
2021 |
First International Conference on Social Neuroscience in Ecologically Valid Conditions, virtual conference |
Invited lecture |
Hebrew
Publications
(Non-Peer Reviewed Journals)
Raz, Gal. The Actuality of the Banality. Shura Rishona 1 (2013).
Raz, Gal and Moran Ovadia. "Brain, Cinema, Empathy." Takriv (Close up): Online magazine for discussion and critique of documentary film 14 (2017).
Provisional Patents
Raz, Gal; Leitner Yael; Hendler, Talma; Rotstein, Michael. "System and Methods for Reducing Tics in Human Subject".
Hendlar, Talma, Gal Raz, Roy Sar-El. "Method for Modifying the Therapeutic Effects of Drugs".
Hendler, Talma, Nimrod Keynan Jacob, Gal Raz. "Resilience Training Application".
Hendler, Talma, Tom Fruchtman-Steinbok, Avihai Cohen, Gal Raz. "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Training".