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Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering

Empathy Building Neuro-lab

What happens in the brain at 18 years old when empathizing? what happens then to our morality?

What happens in the brain when empathizing with people who are different than us? who think differently?

Can specific narratives promote empathy and morality to others? can other narratives decrease empathy and morality to others?

Does empathy increase when taking the perspective of others via virtual reality?

These and other questions are what we explore in our lab.

Feel free to reach out!
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During our memorable 5-y milestone and farewell getogether at Nuuksio!
Illustration by Yoni Levy; the “Virtual Reality†icon by Nikita Kozin is taken from thenounproject.com (CC attribution), and slightly modified.

Social brain. The figure on the right illustrates an example of the kind of work we do: (1) we create semi-realistic simulations of social situations (by virtual-reality, for example), and then (2) implement advanced neuroimaging in order to analyze and interpret the induced (& complex) brain patterns.
To have an initial idea of the neural mechanisms that we investigate, check-out our representative publications in the "lab publications" section below. 

Lab Director

 Jonathan (Yoni) Levy

Jonathan (Yoni) Levy

Members

 Eli Adler

Eli Adler

Doctoral researcher (HUJI uni. & Aalto uni.) | interventions, intergroup relations, politics, media, empathy.
 Niko Somila

Niko Somila

PhD candidate (Uni. of Copenhagen) & Visiting scholar

Neta Ehrilich

Masters student (Bar-Ilan University)

Shiraz Perez

Masters student (Bar-Ilan University)

Alumni

Mirja Inkinen

Masters student (Uni. of Helsinki) | phenomenology, intergroup relations, empathy

Annika Hautala

Masters student (Aalto uni.) | Intergroup relations, empathy,covid19 attitudes

Iida Hakulinen

Research assistant

Yarden Marom

Research assistant

Tommi Arffman

Research assistant

Elise Turk

Postdoc

Jenni Vuorinen

Research assistant (Master level)

Fu Wenli

Masters - Special Assignment

Ivan Perez

Intern

Emma Tonteri

Research assistant

Elisa Koch

PhD candidate

Faraz Roshanizand

Masters student (Uni. of Helsinki) | Neuro-education, intergroup relations, empathy

Niloufar Zebarjadi

PhD graduate (currently postdoc)

Annika Kluge

PhD graduate
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