Selected Publications

Lerner, Yulia*, Gal Raz*, Miki Bloch, Michael Krasnoshtein, Michal Tevet, Talma Hendler, Oren Tene. "Empathy-related abnormalities among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: clinical and functional magnetic resonance imaging study".  BJPsych Open 10.5 (2024):e138.

Rotstein, Michael S.*, Sharon Zimmerman‐Brenner*, Shiri Davidovitch, Yael Ben‐Haim, Yuval Koryto, Romi Sion, Einat Rubinstein, Meshi Djerassi, Nitzan Lubiniaker, Tammy Pilowsky Peleg, Tamar Steinberg, Yael Leitner, Gal Raz. "Gamified Closed‐Loop Intervention Enhances Tic Suppression in Children: A Randomized Trial." Movement Disorders (2024) 39: 1310-1322.

Raz, Gal, Shiri Davidovitch, Mor Halevi, Maya Zuckerman, Yael Ben‐Haim, Yuval Koryto, Tamar Steinberg, Yael Leitner, and Michael S. Rotstein. "Impact of movie and video game elements on tic manifestation in children." European Journal of Neurology 31.2 (2024): e16120.

Raz, Gal. "Rage against the Empathy Machine Revisited: The Ethics of the Empathic Affordances of Virtual Reality" . Convergence (2022). Preprint link.

Shany, Ofir, Ayam Greental, Gadi Gilam, Daniella Perry, Maya Bleich-Cohen, Moran Ovadia, Avihay Cohen, Gal Raz. "Somatic engagement alters subsequent neurobehavioral correlates of affective mentalizing." Human brain mapping 42.18 (2021): 5846-5861.‏

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Raz, Gal. "Actuality of Banality: Eyal Sivan's The specialist in context." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 24.1 (2005): 4-21. 

* - equal contribution