Gal
Raz, Ph.D.
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Carob
20,
Kfar
Daniel, Israel
+972-8-6843964 |
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Date of Birth: |
31/12/1975 |
Country of Birth: |
Israel |
Senior Lecturer, Steve Tisch School of
Film and Television,
Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University,
Researcher, The Sagol Brain Institue, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical
Center
Education
Academic
Qualifications:
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
Academic
Appointments
2002 - Teaching Assistant the Steve Tisch School of Film and
Television, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
2012 -
Instructor at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv
University, Israel.
2013 - Teaching
Fellow at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv
University, Israel.
2015 - Visiting
Lecturer at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television and Sagol
School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
2018 - Senior
Lecturer at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television and Sagol
School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Other
Professional Experience
Teaching
Experience
(Tel Aviv University):
2001-2006
Tutorial: Television and Media Studies
2002-2005
Tutorial: Cinematic Expression
2002-2006
Teaching assistant: Television and Media Studies, Cinematic
Expression I and II
2009-2012
Class: Emotion, Brain and Cinema
2013-2014,
2016-2017
Class: Neuroaesthetic and Cinema
2014, 2016-2017
Class: Introduction to cognitive theories of motion pictures
2016-2021
Class: Between Film and Gaming
2017-2021
Class: Affect and Cinema
2017-2021
Seminar: Cognitive Theories of Motion Pictures
2017-2021
Seminar: Empathy and Agency in Motion Pictures
2017-2021
Seminar: Film Narrative
Other
Professional
Academic Experience (Tel Aviv University):
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
Awards
and
Grants
2008 Honorable mention
by the Israel Society for History & Philosophy of Science in
memory of Prof. Mara Beller for outstanding 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 (with Naama
Friedman and Ricardo Tarrasch); Budget: ~40,000 US$
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 US$
2019
Minducate
(Tel Aviv University's Internal Competitive Grant)
Title:
"Functional coupling of Ritalin delivery for cognitive enhancement
cognitive in university students with ADHD"; Role: PI; Budget:
~13,000 US$
2019
Israeli
Science Foundation
Title:
"A Neuroscientific Perspective on Point-of-View editing and Cinematic
Engagement"; Role: PI; Budget: ~91,000 US$
2020
Minducate
(Tel Aviv University's Internal Competitive Grant)
Title:
"The effectiveness of VR Social Skills Trainer ® on children with
social skills deficit"; Role: PI; Budget: ~16,500 US$
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 US$
Scientific Publications
Articles
Published
(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. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/188357
(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. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/598822
(4)
Raz, Gal, Yonatan Winetraub, Yael Jacob, Sivan Kinreich, Adi
Maron-Katz, Galit Shaham, Ilana Podlipsky, Gadi Gilam, Eyal Soreq,
Talma Hendler,
"Portraying
emotions
at their unfolding: a multilayered approach for probing dynamics of
neural networks." Neuroimage 60.2 (2012): 1448-1461.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912000250
(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.
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/9/1/30/1676602
(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. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/abstract/journals/projections/8/2/proj080206.xml
(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.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811915006102
(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, Ilana Klovatch, Talma
Hendler. "Virtual agents in brain-computer interfaces."
The International Journal of Virtual Reality, 15
(2015): 48-60.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317301735_Virtual_Agents_in_Brain-Computer_Interfaces
(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.
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/11/6/961/2223675
(10)
Raz, Gal*, Alexandra Touroutoglou*, Gadi Gilam, Christine
Wilson-Mendenhall, Tamar Lin, Tal Gonen, Yael Jacob, Shir Atzil, Roee
Admon,
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.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13415-016-0425-4
(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.
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep27444?WT.feed_name=subjects_neuroscience
(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.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hbm.23335/full
(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. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2016.00052/full
(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. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811916303093
(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. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1759-16.2016
(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). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00038
(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).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.015
(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).
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2326263X.2017.1338008
(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. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811917307802
(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. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-017-0055-9
(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. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00060/full
(22)
Keynan, Jackob N., Avihay Cohen, Gilan Jackont, Nili Green, Noam
Goldway, Alexander Davidov, 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. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0484-3
(23)
Svanera, Michele, Mattia Savardi, Sergio Benini, Alberto Signoroni, Gal
Raz, Talma Hendler, Lars Muckli, Rainer Goebel, and Giancarlo
Valente.
Transfer
learning of deep neural network representations for fMRI decoding.” Journal
of Neuroscience Methods 328 (2019): 108319. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JNEUMETH.2019.108319.
(24) Raz,
Gal, Giancarlo Valente, Michele Svanera, Sergio Benini, and
András Bálint 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, Gal Azouri, 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.
doi:10.3389/fnins.2020.557874
(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 (2020): 1–12.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcal.12515.
Chapters
in Books
(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.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/psychocinematics-9780199862139?cc=il&lang=en&
(2)
Gadi
Gilam, Yehuda Judd Ne'eman, Gal Raz, Tamar Lin, Eyal Fruchter,
Talma Hendler. "Stoic Regulation: The influence of military combat
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.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=63599
(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.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-19601-1_42
Papers
Represented
at Scientific Meetings Published in Proceedings
(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 interface to a plan-based narrative." In Proceedings
of the Twenty-Third international joint conference
on
Artificial
Intelligence (2013). p. 1997-2005. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/106a/e059c9c1984e353f1f8df19f602e5f28faca.pdf
(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. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2582093
(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 neurofeedback for
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 analysis
uncovers 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 brain activity
and improved emotion regulation via fMRI/EEG neurofeedback." Biological
Psychiatry 77,
no. 9 (2015): 336S-336S.
http://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(15)00222-X/pdf
(6) Yamin, Hagar., Tomer Gazit, Nadav Tchemodanov, Gal Raz,
Gilan Jakont, Fred Charles., Marc Cavazza, Itzhak Fried, and Talma
Hendler.
"Neurofeedback via Intracranial Depth Electrodes." In Proceedings of the 6th International
Brain-Computer Interface Meeting (2016).
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fred_Charles/publication/303520365_Neurofeedback_via_Intracranial_Depth_Electrodes/links/5746316e08ae9f741b431528/Neurofeedback-via-Intracranial-Depth-Electrodes.pdf
(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
|
Hebrew Publications
(Non-Peer
Reviewed
Journals)
Raz, Gal. The Actuality of the Banality. Shura
Rishona 1 (2013).
http://www.tau.ac.il/~shura1/1/paper1.PDF
Raz, Gal and Moran Ovadia. "Brain, Cinema, Empathy."
Takriv (Close up): Online magazine for discussion and critique
of documentary film 14 (2017).
https://takriv.net/article/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%97-%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A2-%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%94/
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".