Research Topics

Emotion, Motivation, Synchrony

• Neural correlates of vicarious pain perception
• Facial expression processing in social anxiety
• Brain responses to death related stimuli and mortality salience
• Brain responses to visual food cues and their regulation
• Speaker charisma and synchrony
• Social synchrony and neural osciallations

Cognitive Processes

• Neuronal gateways to concious word perception
• Predictive coding in music perception
• Action observation networks

Clinical Populations

• Attentional processing in schizophrenia
• Language comprehension in thought disorder and schizophrenia
• Brain oscillations in schizophrenic syndromes
• MEG indices of PTSD
• Vicarioius pain in fibromyalgia
• Social perception in autism

Other

• MEG correlates of hypnotic induction
• Brain activity and cognitive changes induced by meditation

Publications

Levy, J., Goldstein, A., Feldman, R. (in press). Perception of social synchrony induces mother-child gamma coupling in the superior temporal sulcus. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Sauer, A., Zeev-Wolf, M., Wacogne, C., Wibral, M., Helbling, S., Peled, A., Grinsphoon, A., Goldstein, A., Singer, W., Uhlhaas, P., (in press) Impairment in predictive processes during auditory mismatch negativity in schizophrenia: Evidence from event-related fields. Human Brain Mapping.

Pratt, M., Goldstein, A., Levy, J., Feldman, R. (2017). Maternal depression across the first years of life impacts the neural basis of empathy in preadolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 56, 20-29.

Globerson, E., Granot, R., Tal, I., Harpaz, Y., Zeev-Wolf, M., Goldstein, A. (2017). Brain responses to regular and octave-scrambled melodies: a case of predictive-coding? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 43, 487-498.

Levy, J., Influs, M., Goldstein, A., Masalha, S., Zagoory-Sharon, O., Feldman, R. (2016). Adolescents growing up amidst intractable conflict attenuate brain response to pain of outgroup. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113: 13696-13701.

Arviv, O., Medvedovsky, M., Sheintuch, L., Goldstein, A., Shriki, O. (2016). Deviations from critical dynamics in inter-ictal epileptiform activity. Journal of Neuroscience, 36: 12276-12292

Dor-Ziderman, Y., Ataria, Y., Fulder, S., Goldstein, A., Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2016). Self-specific processing in the meditating brain: A MEG neurophenomenology study. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2016: 1-13. doi: 10.1093/nc/niw019

Herz, N., Reuveni, I., Goldstein, A., Peri, T., Schreiber, S., Harpaz, Y., Bonne, O. (2016). Neural correlates of attention bias in posttraumatic stress disorder: a MEG Study. Clinical Neurophysiology.

Zeev-Wolf, M., Goldstein, A., Bonne, O., Abramowitz, EG. (2016). Hypnotically induced somatosensory alterations: toward a neurophysiological understanding of hypnotic anaesthesia. Neuropsychologia.

Eidelman-Rothman, M., Goldstein, A., Weisman, O., Schneiderman, I., Zagoory-Sharon, O., Decety, J., Feldman, R. (2016). Prior exposure to extreme pain alters neural response to pain in others. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Levy, J., Vidal, J.R., Fries, P., Démonet, J-F., Goldstein, A. (2016). Selective neural synchrony suppression as a forward gatekeeper to piecemeal conscious perception. Cerebral Cortex.

Arviv, O., Goldstein, A., Shriki, O. (2015). Near-Critical dynamics in stimulus-evoked activity of the human brain and its relation to spontaneous resting-state activity. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(41): 13927-13941

Levy, J., Goldstein, A., Zagoory-Sharon, O., Weisman, O., Schneiderman, I., Eidelman-Rothman, M., Feldman, R. (2016). Oxytocin selectively modulates brain response to stimuli probing social synchrony. NeuroImage. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.066

Arviv, O., Goldstein, A., Weeting, J.C, Becker, E.S., Lange, WG., Gilboa-Schechtman, E. (2015). Brain response during the M170 time interval is sensitive to socially relevant information. Neuropsyhologia, 78, 18-28.

Zeev-Wolf, M., Faust, M., Levkovitz, Y., Harpaz, Y., Goldstein, A. (2015). Magnetoencephalographic evidence of early right hemisphere over-activation during metaphor comprehension in schizophrenia. Psychophysiology, 52, 770-781.

Riwkes, S., Goldstein, A., Gilboa-Schechtman, E. (2015). The temporal unfolding of face processing in social anxiety disorder – a MEG study. Neuroimage: Clinical, 7, 678-687.

Harpaz, Y., Robinson, S.E., Medvedovsky, M., Goldstein, A. (2015). Improving the Excess Kurtosis (g2) method for localizing epileptic sources in magnetoencephalographic recordings. Clinical Neurophysiology, 126, 889-897.

Yefet, K., Goldstein, A., Rabany, L., Levkovitz, Y. (2015). Impairments of event-related magnetic fields in schizophrenia patients with predominant negative symptoms. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 231, 325-332.

Tibon, R., Vakil, E., Levy, D. A. Goldstein, A. (2014) Episodic temporal structure modulates associative recognition processes: An MEG study. Psychophysiology, 51, 634-644.

Zeev-Wolf, M., Goldstein, A., Levkovitz, Y., Faust, M. (2014). Fine-coarse semantic processing in schizophrenia: A reversed pattern of hemispheric dominance. Neuropsychologia, 56, 119-128.

Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J., Goldstein, A. (in press). Studying the default mode and its Mindfulness-induced changes using EEG functional connectivity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

Dor-Zaiderman, Y., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J., & Goldstein, A. (2013). Mindfulness-induced selflessness: A MEG neurophenomenological study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience,7, 582.

Ben-soussan, T.D., Berkovich-Ohana, A., Glicksohn, J., Goldstein, A. (2014). A suspended act: increased reflectivity and gender dependent electrophysiological change following Quadrato Motor Training. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:55.

Harpaz, Y., Lavidor, M., Goldstein, A. Right semantic modulation of early MEG components during ambiguity resolution (2013). Neuroimage, 82, 107-114 .

Berkovich-Ohana, A., Dor-Zaiderman, Y., Glicksohn, J., Goldstein, A. (2013). Alterations in the sense of time, space and body in the Mindfulness-trained brain: A neurophenomenologically- guided MEG study. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 912.

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