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The Robert Ephroimson

Music Cognition Lab

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Team Meeting

Our Team

Get to know the members of the Music Cognition Lab team, a passionate group of individuals who are dedicated to exploring the connection between music and the brain. Led by renowned experts in the field, these researchers bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to their work.

Ronnie Friedel

M.A. Student

ronniefriedel@gmail.com

Yael Gutgold

Fieldwork Student

yael.gutgold@mail.huji.ac.il

Noga Blum

Fieldwork Student

noga.blum@mail.huji.ac.il

Idan Berkovitz

M.A. Student

berkovits.idan@gmail.com

Noa Leviatov

M.A. Student

noa.leviatov@mail.huji.ac.il

Hillel Gottesmann

M.A. Student

hillel.gottesmann@mail.huji.ac.il

Maayan Madar

Research Assistant

maayan.madar@mail.huji.ac.il

Roni Granot is an associate professor at the Musicology Dept. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Hans Slater chair in Musicology. Roni studies different aspects of humans’ ability to process, remember, and respond emotionally to music. She is interested in aspects related to musical expectations, surprise, and tension, cross-modal associations in music, music perception in a cross-cultural perspective, music and well-being, and music and memory. She views her students as companions in a fascinating journey and her mission and joy is to help them follow the route that takes them one step closer towards understanding the questions they are passionate about. She has published in numerous journals and holds collaborations with numerous colleagues in Israel and abroad. She currently serves as Head or the Arts Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Prof. Roni Granot

PI of the Lab

Roni.granot@mail.huji.ac.il

Rona is a professional art music singer and teacher of vocal arts. In her MA thesis at HUJI she showed that pitch accuracy in singing is enhanced when singers are presented with a live singing model as compared to live piano playing. This effect was especially prominent in out-of-tune singers. In her Ph.D. dissertation she explores the differences between production of “analogue” and “digital – ”stylized Non-verbal vocal expressions such as the “Vibrazione” (which serves music as a means of expressivity and as a technical tool for achieving vocal mastery), characterized by gradual increase and decrease of volume on implicit semi-tone pitch glides and a stepwise -explicit version of this gesture. She hypothesizes that accuracy in terms of the overall pitch and intensity contours will be higher in the holistic analogue vocal gesture condition.

Rona Israel Kolatt

Phd Student

rona.israelkolat@mail.huji.ac.il

Shlomi is a composer and Bass player. In his compositions and research he explores the relationship between music and prosody. His Ph.D. dissertation explores whether background music can assist verbal memory. What are the necessary and sufficient conditions for eliciting a positive music effect? What is the underlying memory process? He aims to answer these questions using his musical intuitions, behavioral data, and brain indices.

Shlomi Frige

Phd Student

shlomo.frige@mail.huji.ac.il

Alumni Students

Year of compleation: 2021

Dissertation Title: COTERET

Daniel Spitz

Year of compleation: 2021

Dissertation Title: COTERET

Year of compleation: 2020

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Dr. Amos Boasson

Year of compleation: 2020

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Year of compleation: 2019

Dissertation Title: COTERET

Dr. Naji Essmaeel

Year of compleation: 2019

Dissertation Title: COTERET

Year of compleation: 2020

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Dr. Netta Maymon

Year of compleation: 2020

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Year of compleation: 2019

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Dr. Sarig Sela

Year of compleation: 2019

Dissertation Title: COTERET

Year of compleation: 2020

Dissertation Title :COTERET

Hadas Rishoni

Year of compleation: 2020

Dissertation Title :COTERET

Year of compleation: 2020

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Maayan Golan

Year of compleation: 2020

Dissertation Title :COTERET

Year of compleation: 2020

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Marion Kern

Year of compleation: 2020

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Year of compleation: 2021

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Omer Shuster

Year of compleation: 2021

Dissertation Title: COTERET

Year of compleation: 2021

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Ori Jossef

Year of compleation: 2021

Dissertation Title: COTERET

Year of completion: 2021

Dissertation Title: COTERET

Sigal Chameides

Year of completion: 2021

Dissertation Title: COTERET

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