Welcome to the Symbolic Cognition and Interaction (SCI) Lab website!
The lab is located at the Psychology Department in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva (Bldg. 98, room 120).
Our field of research is social-cognitive neuroscience. We are mostly interested in phenomena that seem to be the result of the social/cultural and communicative/symbolic capacities of humans (for example, the ability to regulate one's emotions, political conflict). In thinking of these phenomena, we focus on individual-level mental events that may subserve them (e.g., perspective-taking processes, the workings of motivational systems), often applying a biological perspective (i.e., thinking in terms of evolutionary functions and biological systems, using neuroimaging methods).
In terms of more concrete topics and questions, we are interested in the following:
intersubjectivity (i.e., social learning, perspective taking, internalization, theory-of-mind), the default network (and the brain's functional neuroanatomy in general), moral/political judgement, evolutionary psychology and gene-culture co-evolution, emotion and emotion regulation, the ideas of psychodynamic psychology, language and symbolic thought, mental representation, mental simulation.
Students who are interested in joining the lab can email us - michael.gilead@gmail.com
The lab is located at the Psychology Department in Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva (Bldg. 98, room 120).
Our field of research is social-cognitive neuroscience. We are mostly interested in phenomena that seem to be the result of the social/cultural and communicative/symbolic capacities of humans (for example, the ability to regulate one's emotions, political conflict). In thinking of these phenomena, we focus on individual-level mental events that may subserve them (e.g., perspective-taking processes, the workings of motivational systems), often applying a biological perspective (i.e., thinking in terms of evolutionary functions and biological systems, using neuroimaging methods).
In terms of more concrete topics and questions, we are interested in the following:
intersubjectivity (i.e., social learning, perspective taking, internalization, theory-of-mind), the default network (and the brain's functional neuroanatomy in general), moral/political judgement, evolutionary psychology and gene-culture co-evolution, emotion and emotion regulation, the ideas of psychodynamic psychology, language and symbolic thought, mental representation, mental simulation.
Students who are interested in joining the lab can email us - michael.gilead@gmail.com