Dr. Uri Hasson is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. He obtained his bachelors in Philosophy and Cognitive Science (1994), and his Master in Cognitive Science (1998) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2004, Hasson completed his doctoral degree in the Neurobiology Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel under the supervision of Dr. Rafael Malach. He continued his post-doctoral training in the labs of Dr. David Heeger and Dr. Nava Rubin in the Center for Neural Science at New York University. In 2008, Hasson joined the faculty at Princeton University, where his laboratory studies the brain responses to natural, real-life events. In particular, he’s interested in understanding how communication through storytelling can affect human cognition. Visit his lab website and learn more about Hasson’s research.
Uri Hasson explores how brain activity is shared between listeners of the same story, and how those shared neural responses are coupled to and shaped by the neural activity in the storyteller’s brain. (Talk recorded in October 2019)
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