Academic Qualifications

2001    B.A. in Film and Television studies, Tel Aviv University  (Magna cum laude)          

2005    B.A. in Biology, Tel Aviv University (Magna cum laude)

2007    M.A. at the Unit of Culture Research, Tel Aviv University (Summa cum laude)
Subject of Thesis: Relative Feminine Dominance in Epigenetic Inheritance Research
Supervisors: Prof. Eva Jablonka and Dr. Snait Gissis

2013    PhD. at the Graduate School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
Subject of Research: Neural Markers of Cinematic Emotion Experience - The Role of interregional Coupling Dynamics
Supervisor: Prof. Talma Hendler

Teaching Experience (Tel-Aviv University)

 2002-2006                 Department of Film and Television
                        Teaching Assistant
                        Courses: Television and Media Studies (tutorial), Cinematic Expression (tutorial)

 2007-2012                 Department of Film and Television
Junior Teaching assistant
Course: Emotion, Brain and Cinema

2012-2013                  Department of Film and Television
                                    Instructor
                                    Courses: Neuroaesthetics and Cinema 

2013-2015                   Film and Television School
                                    Teaching Fellow
                                    Courses: Neuroaesthetics and Cinema, Introduction to cognitive theories of motion pictures
                                 

2015-2018                   Film and Television School
                                    Visiting Lecturer
                                    Courses: Between Film and Gaming, Affect and Cinema,
                                    Cognitive Theories of Motion Pictures, Empathy and Agency in Motion Pictures and Virtual Reality, Film Narrative

 

2018 -                          Film and Television School
                                    Senior Lecturer
                                   Courses: Between Film and Gaming, Affect and Cinema, Cognitive Theories of Motion Pictures, Empathy and Agency in                                     Motion Pictures and Virtual Reality, Film Narrative

Other Professional Academic Experience

2002                Research assistant of Dr. Alina Bernstein, Department of Film and Television

2002                Producer of the 4th Tel Aviv International Colloquium in Cinema Studies: Why War

2002                Associate editor Producer of the 4th Tel Aviv International Colloquium in Cinema Studies: Why War

2002-2004       Producer of a journal of graduating film and television students -“Shura Rishona”

2002-2003         Coordinator of a Special Issue of the journal Shofar on Jewish Cinema

2007                Research assistant of Prof. Eva Jablonka, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas

2009- 2011      Associate editor of the anthology Just Image: Ethics and the Cinematic

2014- 2015      Post-doc research position, Psychology and Neuroscience Faculty, Maastricht University

Awards

2008    Honorable mention by the Israel Society for History & Philosophy of Science in memory of Prof. Mara Beller for outstanding M.A. work.

2011    Dan David Scholarship Award for Doctoral Students.

2022    Rector's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Grants

2016    Minducate (Tel Aviv University's Internal Competitive Grant)
Title: "Virtual Reality and Learning"; Role: co-PI; Budget: ~$40,000

2019    Erasmus + International Credit Mobility programme scholarship (visiting at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)

2019    BrainBoost (Tel Aviv University's Internal Competitive Grant)
Title: "Audiovisual interface for treatment of tic disorders"; Role: PI; Budget: ~$30,000

2019    Minducate (Tel Aviv University's Internal Competitive Grant)
Title: "Functional coupling of Ritalin delivery for cognitive enhancement cognitive in university students with ADHD"; Role: PI; Budget: ~$13,000

2019    Israeli Science Foundation
Title: "A Neuroscientific Perspective on Point-of-View editing and Cinematic Engagement"; Role: PI; Budget: ~$91,000

2020    Minducate (Tel Aviv University's Internal Competitive Grant)
Title: "The effectiveness of VR Social Skills Trainer ® on children with social skills deficit"; Role: PI; Budget: ~$16,500

2020    Tourette Association of America - Young Investigator Award
Title: "XTics - A Gamified Enhancer of Non-Pharmacological Interventions in Tic Disorders"; Role: PI; Budget: $134,000

2021    Israeli Estates and Trusts Department
Title: "Development of a Multisensory Feedback System to Deliver Virtual Reality Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for children with Hemiparesis" ; Role: co-PI; Budget: $133,000

2022    Israeli Science Foundation
Support in a workshop titled "Empathies, Brain, and the Moving Image"; Role: PI; Budget: ~$21,280

2022    Research fund in the field of insurance at the Association of Insurance Companies in Israel
Title: "Development of brain-computer interface in virtual reality for neurorehabilitation of traumatic brain injury"; Role: co-PI; Budget: ~$54,000

2024    The Ela Kodesz Institute for Technologies in Healthcare
Title: "Advancing Neurorehabilitation through Gamified Motor Challenge and Reinforcement in Virtual Reality" Role: co-PI; Budget: ~$21,500

Scientific Publications

Articles

(1) Raz, Gal. "Actuality of Banality: Eyal Sivan's The specialist in context." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 24.1 (2005): 4-21. 

(2) Raz, Gal. "Narrative sabotage as a tactic in the arena of collective memory."

<a> Psychoanalyse im Widerspruch 34 (2005): 27-41.
<b> translated into Greek and published in the 14th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Booklet, 2012

(3) Jablonka, Eva, and Gal Raz. "Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance: prevalence, mechanisms, and implications for the study of heredity and evolution." The Quarterly review of biology 84.2 (2009): 131-176.

(4) Raz, Gal, Yonatan Winetraub, Yael Jacob, Sivan Kinreich, Adi Maron-Katz, Galit Shaham, Ilana Podlipsky, Gadi Gilam, EyalSoreq, Talma Hendler, "Portraying emotions at their unfolding: a multilayered approach for probing dynamics of neural networks." Neuroimage 60.2 (2012): 1448-1461.

(5) Raz, Gal, Yael Jacob, Tal Gonen, Yonatan Winetraub, Eyal Soreq, Tamar Flash, and Talma Hendler. "Cry for her or cry with her:context-dependent dissociation of two modes of cinematic empathy reflected in network cohesion dynamics." Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 9.1 (2013): 30-38. 

(6) Raz, Gal, and Talma Hendler. "Forking cinematic paths to the self: neurocinematically informed model of empathy in motion pictures." Projections 8.2 (2014): 89-114.

(7) Gilam, Gadi, Tamar Lin, Gal Raz, Shir Azrielant, Eyal Fruchter, Dan Ariely, and Talma Hendler. Gilam, Gadi, et al. "Neural substrates underlying the tendency to accept anger-infused ultimatum offers during dynamic social interactions." NeuroImage 120 (2015): 400-411. 

(8) Cavazza, Marc, Fred Charles, Stephen W. Gilroy, Julie Porteous, Gabor Aranyi, Julien Cordry, Gal Raz, Nimrod Jakob Keynan, Avihay Cohen, Gilan Jackont, Yael Jacob, Eyal Soreq, IlanaKlovatch, Talma Hendler. "Virtual agents in brain-computer interfaces." The International Journal of Virtual Reality, 15 (2015): 48-60.

(9) Gonen, Tal, Eyal Soreq, Eran Eldar, Eti Ben Simon, Gal Raz, and Talma Hendler. "Human mesostriatal response tracks motivational tendencies under naturalistic goal conflict." Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 11.6 (2016): 961-972.

(10) Raz, Gal*, Alexandra Touroutoglou*, Gadi Gilam, Christine Wilson-Mendenhall, Tamar Lin, Tal Gonen, Yael Jacob, Shir Atzil, RoeeAdmon, Adi Maron-Katz, Talma Hendler*, Lisa Feldman Barrett*. "Functional connectivity dynamics during film viewing reveal common networks for different emotional experiences." Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 16.4 (2016): 709-723.

(11) Yael Jacob, Yonatan Winetraub, Gal Raz, Eti Ben-Simon, Hadas Okon-Singer, Keren Rosenberg-Katz, Talma Hendler, Eshel Ben Jacob. "Dependency Network Analysis (DEPNA) reveals context-related influence of brain network nodes." Scientific reports 6 (2016): 27444. 

(12) Raz, Gal*, Lavi Shpigelman*, Yael Jacob, Tal Gonen, Yoav Benjamini, and Talma Hendler. "Psychophysiological whole‐brain network clustering based on connectivity dynamics analysis in naturalistic conditions." Human brain mapping 37.12 (2016): 4654-4672. 

(13) Cohen, Avihay, Nimrod J. Keynan, Gilan Jackont, Nilli Green, Iris Rashap, Ofir Shany, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza, Talma Hendler, Gal Raz. "Multimodal virtual scenario enhances neurofeedback learning." Frontiers in Robotics and AI 3 (2016): 52. 

(14) Singer, Neomi, Nori Jacoby, Tamar Lin, Gal Raz, Lavi Shpigelman, Gadi Gilam, Roni Y. Granot, and Talma Hendler. "Common modulation of limbic network activation underlies musical emotions as they unfold." NeuroImage 141 (2016): 517-529. 

(15) Young, Christina B., Gal Raz, Daphne Everaerd, Christian F. Beckmann, Indira Tendolkar, Talma Hendler,Guillén Fernández, and Erno J. Hermans. "Dynamic shifts in large-scale brain network balance as a function of arousal." Journal of Neuroscience 37.2 (2017): 281-290. 

(16) Lin, Tamar, Gadi Gilam, Gal Raz, Ayelet Or-Borichev, Yair Bar-Haim, Eyal Fruchter, Talma Hendler. "Accessible neurobehavioral anger-related markers for vulnerability to post-traumatic stress symptoms in a population of male soldiers." Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 11 (2017). 

(17) Abraham, Eyal, Gal Raz, Orna Zagoory-Sharon, and Ruth Feldman. "Empathy Networks in the Parental Brain and their Long-Term Effects on Children's Stress Reactivity and Behavior Adaptation." Neuropsychologia (2017)_).

(18) Yamin, Hagar Grazya,, Tomer Gazit, Natalia Tchemodanov, Gal Raz, Gilan Jackont, Fred Charles, Itzhak Fried, Talma Hendler, and Marc Cavazza. "Depth electrode neurofeedback with a virtual reality interface." Brain-Computer Interfaces (2017).

(19) Raz, Gal, Michele Svanera, Neomi Singer, Gadi Gilam, Maya Bleich Cohen, Tamar Lin, Roee Admon,Tal Gonen, Avner Thaler, Roni Y. Granot, Rainer Goebel, Sergio Benini, Giancarlo Valente. "Robust inter-subject audiovisual decoding in functional magnetic resonance imaging using high-dimensional regression." NeuroImage 163 (2017): 244-263. 

(20) Hendler, Talma*, Gal Raz*, Solnik Shimrit, Yael Jacob, Roseman Leor, Madah Wahid, Kremer Ilana. Kupchik Mariana, Kotler Moshe.,Bleich-cohen Maya. "Social affective context reveals altered network dynamics in schizophrenia patients." Translational psychiatry 8, no. 1 (2018): 29. 

(21) Jacob, Yael, Gadi Gilam, Tamar Lin, Gal Raz, and Talma Hendler. "Anger modulates influence hierarchies within and between emotional reactivity and regulation networks. "Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience 12 (2018): 60.

(22) Keynan, Jackob N., Avihay Cohen, Gilan Jackont, Nili Green, Noam Goldway, AlexanderDavidov, Yehudit Meir-Hasson, Gal Raz, Nathan Intrator, Eyal Fruchter, Keren Ginat, Eugene Laska, Marc Cavazza & Talma Hendler. "Electrical fingerprint of the amygdala guides neurofeedback training for stress resilience." Nature human behaviour 3, no. 1 (2019): 63. 

(23) Svanera, Michele, Mattia Savardi, Sergio Benini, Alberto Signoroni, Gal Raz, Talma Hendler, Lars Muckli, Rainer Goebel, and Giancarlo Valente. 2019.“Transfer learning of deep neural network representations for fMRI decoding.” Journal of Neuroscience Methods 328 (2019): 108319. 

(24) Raz, Gal, Giancarlo Valente, Michele Svanera, Sergio Benini, and AndrásBálint Kovács. "A robust neural fingerprint of cinematic shot-scale." Projections 13, no. 3 (2019): 23-52.

(25) Raz, Gal Guy Gurevitch, Tom Vaknin, Araz Aazamy, Iddo Gefen, Stanislaw Grunstein, GalAzouri, and Noam Goldway. "Electroencephalographic evidence for the involvement of mirror-neuron and error-monitoring related processes in virtual body ownership." NeuroImage (2019): 116351.

(26) Sar-el, Roy, Haggai Sharon, Nitzan Lubianiker, Talma Hendler* and Gal Raz*. "Inducing a functional-pharmacological coupling in the human brain to achieve improved drug effect." Frontiers in Neuroscience-Neuropharmacology 14 (2020): 1036.

(27) Fuhrman, Orly, Anabel Eckerling, Naama Friedmann, Ricardo Tarrasch*, Gal Raz*. "The Moving Learner: Object manipulation in virtual reality improves vocabulary learning." Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 37, no. 3 (2020): 672-683. 

(28) Shany, Ofir*, Ayam Greental*, Gadi Gilam, Daniella Perry, Maya Bleich-Cohen, MoranOvadia, Avihay Cohen, Gal Raz. "Somatic engagement alters subsequent neurobehavioral correlates of affective mentalizing‏ ". Human brain mapping, 42(18), 5846-5861‏ (2021)‏.

(29) Raz, Gal. Rage against the empathy machine revisited: The ethics of empathy-related affordances of virtual reality. Convergence 28.5 (2022): 1457-1475.

(30) Raz, Gal, Shiri Davidovitch, Mor Halevi, Maya Zuckerman, Yael Ben‐Haim, Yuval Koryto, Tamar Steinberg, Yael Leitner, and Michael S. Rotstein. "Impact of movie and video game elements on tic manifestation in children." European Journal of Neurology 31.2 (2024): e16120.

(31) Rotstein, Michael S.*, Sharon Zimmerman‐Brenner*, Shiri Davidovitch, Yael Ben‐Haim, Yuval Koryto, Romi Sion, Einat Rubinstein, Meshi Djerassi, Nitzan Lubiniaker, Tammy Pilowsky Peleg, Tamar Steinberg, Yael Leitner, Gal Raz. "Gamified Closed‐Loop Intervention Enhances Tic Suppression in Children: A Randomized Trial." Movement Disorders (2024) 39: 1310-1322.

(32) Lerner, Yulia*, Gal Raz*, Miki Bloch, Michael Krasnoshtein, Michal Tevet, Talma Hendler, Oren Tene. "Empathy-related abnormalities among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: clinical and functional magnetic resonance imaging study".  BJPsych Open 10.5 (2024):e138.

 

Chapters in Books

(1) Raz, Gal, Hagin Boaz, Hendler Talma. "E-Motion Pictures of the Brain: Recursive Paths between Affective Neuroscience and Film Studies." in Arthur P. Shimamura (editor), Psychocinematics: Exploring Cognition at the Movies. New York: Oxford University Press; 2013. p. 285-313. 

(2) Gadi Gilam, Yehuda Judd Ne'eman, Gal Raz, Tamar Lin, Eyal Fruchter, Talma Hendler. "Stoic Regulation: The influence of militarycombat training on neurobehavioral indices of anger." in José Fernando A. Cruz and Rui Manuel C. Sofia (editors) Anger and Anxiety: Predictors, Coping Strategies, and Health Effects. New York: Nova Science Publishers; 2017. p. 165-199. 

(3) Raz, Gal. "Virtual reality as an emerging art medium and its immersive affordances." In Noël Shawn Carroll, Laura Di Summa-Knoop, and T.;Loht (editors) The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, pp. 995-1014. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019.

Papers Represented at Scientific Meeting Published in Processdings

(1) Gilroy, Stephen W., Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza, Eyal Soreq, Gal Raz, Limor Ikar, Ayelet Or-Borichov, Udi Ben-Arie, Ilana Klovatch, and Talma Hendler. "A brain-computer interfaceto a plan-based narrative." In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence (2013). p. 1997-2005.

(2) Cavazza, Marc, Fred Charles, Gabor Aranyi, Julie Porteous, Stephen Gilroy, Gal Raz, Nimrod Jakob Keynan, Avihay Cohen, Gilan Jackont, Yael Jacob, Eyal Soreq, Ilana Klovatch, Talma Hendler. 2014. "Towards emotional regulation through neurofeedback." In Proceedings of the 5th Augmented Human International Conference (2014), Kobe, Japan.

(3) Cavazza, Marc, Gabor Aranyi, Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Stephen Gilroy, Gilan Jackont, Ilana Klovatch, Gal Raz, Nimrod J. Keynan, Avihay Cohen, and Talma Hendler. "Frontal alpha asymmetry neurofeedbackfor brain-computer interfaces." In Brain-Computer Interface Conference (2014).

(4) Keynan, Jackob N., Gal Raz, Shimrit Solnik, Gadi Gilam, Tamar Lin, Sharon Visevasser, and Talma Hendler. "Dynamic network analysisuncovers the neural correlates of alexithymia." In Society of Biological Psychiatry 70th Annual Meeting (2015).

(5) Keynan, Jackob Nimrod., Avihay Cohen, Gal Raz, Gilan Jackont, Gadi Gilam, Ilana Klovatch, Mark Cavazza, and Talma Hendler. "Modulation of deep brainactivity and improved emotion regulation via fMRI/EEG neurofeedback." Biological Psychiatry 77, no. 9 (2015): 336S-336S. 

(6) Yamin, Hagar., Tomer Gazit, Nadav Tchemodanov, Gal Raz, Gilan Jakont, Fred Charles., Marc Cavazza, Itzhak Fried, and Talma Hendler. "Neurofeedback viaIntracranial Depth Electrodes." In Proceedings of the 6th International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting (2016).

(7) Gonen, Tal, Eran Eldar, Eyal Soreq, Gal Raz, and Talma Hendler. "A system regulation view of motivational basic elements and their clinical implication in psychiatry." Biological Psychiatry 81, 10 (2017): S56.

* - Equal authorship

2022	Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference, virtual conference	Lecture
2023	Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference, virtual conference	Lecture

2024

Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) conference, virtual conference

Lecture

 

Hebrew Publications
(Non-Peer Reviewed Journals)

Raz, Gal. The Actuality of the Banality. Shura Rishona 1 (2013).

Raz, Gal and Moran Ovadia. "Brain, Cinema, Empathy." Takriv (Close up): Online magazine for discussion and critique of documentary film 14 (2017). 

Provisional Patents

Raz, Gal; Leitner Yael; Hendler, Talma; Rotstein, Michael. "System and Methods for Reducing Tics in Human Subject".

Hendlar, Talma, Gal Raz, Roy Sar-El. "Method for Modifying the Therapeutic Effects of Drugs".

Hendler, Talma, Nimrod Keynan Jacob, Gal Raz. "Resilience Training Application".

Hendler, Talma, Tom Fruchtman-Steinbok, Avihai Cohen, Gal Raz. "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Training".