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משרד: 524, בניין חינוך ומדעים

שעות קבלה: יום א׳, 14:00-15:00, בתיאום מראש

אודות

Noga is an associate professor in the Department of Special Education and the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa. Noga's work includes the cognitive, physiological, and neural processes involved in emotion and emotion regulation. Her work employs an affective neuroscience approach that integrates behavioral, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques

Noga received her bachelor's degree in psychology & biology from the Hebrew University and her Master's and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Ben-Gurion University (in the lab of Avishai Henik). She has also received postdoctoral training in neuroimaging at the Weizmann Institute of Science (in the labs of Yadin Dudai and Rony Paz) and in affective neuroscience at Columbia University (in the lab of Kevin Ochsner)

WHAT WE STUDY

In the Emotion Lab, we are interested in understanding the mechanisms that subserve emotional processing and emotion regulation. We are especially interested in the reciprocal links between cognitive control and emotion and how these links can be strengthened via training. Our aims are twofold: 1) to understand the psychological and neural mechanisms that subserve emotion regulation success, and 2) to use this understanding to form novel interventions to improve emotion regulation abilities among healthy and clinical populations

OUR METHODS

To explore regulatory processes and their role in shaping and changing affect, we employ multiple levels of analysis – behavior, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging, across both healthy and sub-clinical populations. Our work includes also a translational part, in which we design cognitive and affective interventions and test their influence on emotional well-being

 Khouri, M., Massarwe, A., & Cohen, N. (2025). Challenges in higher education: Differences between students with and without specific learning disorder and the moderating role of executive functionsPlos One

He, Z., Cohen, N., Shu, J., Bo, K., Wager, T., & Ochsner, K. (2025). Comparing the neural bases of self- and social               reappraisalCerebral Cortex35(7)

Ben-Baruch, Y. D., Zvik, Y., & Cohen, N. (2025). Do we see what we feel? A comparative study of spider size estimation  among experts and people who are highly fearful of spidersCognition and Emotion, 1-8

Keleynikov, M., Lassri, D., Cohen, N., & Benatov, J. (2024). The role of parental mentalizing on the link between parental     depression and child emotion regulationPsychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice

Rosenfeld-Ganzel, A., Shalev, H., Hochman, S., Zultan, R. I., Cohen, N., & Naparstek, S. (2025). Oxytocin’s role in the     interaction between emotion and cognitive control. Biological Psychology196, 109004

Keleynikov, M., Cohen, N., Lassri, D., Gadassi-Polack, R., & Benatov, J. (2025). Trait and state emotion regulation and parental wellbeing during warPersonality and Individual Differences241, 113175

Richter, T., Shani, R., Tal, S., Derakshan, N., Cohen, N., Enock, P. M., … & Okon-Singer, H. (2025). Machine learning meta-analysis identifies individual characteristics moderating cognitive intervention efficacy for anxiety and depression symptomsnpj Digital Medicine8(1), 65

Massarwe, A., & Cohen, N. (2025). Extrinsic emotion regulation: Exploring strategies used by individuals with high and low depression symptomsEmotion

Keleynikov, M., Cohen, N., & Benatov, J. (2024). Maternal distress during the COVID-19 outbreak: A socio-ecological perspective. PloS one, 19(5), e0302266

Levy, S., Cohen, N., & Weinbach, N. (2023). Negative and positive interpretations of emotionally neutral situations modulate the desire to eat personally craved foods. Appetite, 191, 107092

De Smet, S., Cohen, N., & Vanderhasselt, M. A. (2023). Boosting affective control with bifrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): a proof-of-concept study in healthy individuals. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 169, 104401

Nashashibi, L., Khouri, M., Meretyk, I., Livni, T., Cohen, N., & Fruchter, E. (2023). Working in corona-designated departments in a fortified underground hospital: Concerns about corona and predictors of job burnout. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1105632

Massarwe, A., & Cohen, N. (2023). Understanding the benefits of extrinsic emotion regulation in depression. Frontiers in Psychology 14:1120653

Keleynikov, M., Benatov, J., & Cohen, N. (2023). Emotion regulation among parents raising a child with disability: The strained parenting and emotion regulation model. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-18

Ben-Baruch, Y., Raveh, T., Cohen, N. (2022). The link between emotion regulation and size estimation among women with fear of spiders. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:1053381

Buchanan, E., Lewis, S., Paris, B., Forscher, P. Pavlacic, J., Beshears, J. … Cohen, N., & Primbs, M. (2022). The Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 Rapid-Response Dataset. Scientific Data, 10:87

Arbel, R., Szpiro, S., Sagi, J., Khouri, M., Berkovits, L., & Cohen, N. (2022). Reappraising negative emotions reduces distress during the COVID-19 outbreak. Current Psychology, 1-10

Hamerman, R., & Cohen, N. (2022). Emotion control training enhances reappraisal success among individuals with ADHD. Scientific Reports, 12, 14058

Dorison, C., Lerner, J. S.,  Heller, B., H., & Rothman, A. J., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., … Cohen, N., & Buchanan, E., M., & Coles, N., A. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3, 577-602

Weinbach, N., Barzilay, G., & Cohen, N. (2022). Cognitive reappraisal reduces the influence of threat on the desire to eat. Affective Science, 3, 818-826

Legate, N., Nguyen, T. V., Weinstein, N., Moller, A., Legault, L., Vally, Z., … Cohen, N., & Ogbonnaya, C. E. (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (22) e2111091119

Khuori, M., Lassri, D., & Cohen, N. (2022). Job burnout among Israeli healthcare workers during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic: The role of emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress. Plos one 17 (3), e0265659

Gil, M., Cohen, N., & Weinbach, N. (2022). The influence of inhibitory control on reappraisal and the experience of negative emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 36, 364-371

Wang K., Goldenberg A., Dorison, C.A., Miller, J.K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., Agesin, B.B., Bernardo, M., Campos, O., Eudave, L., Grzech, K., Ozery, D.H., Jackson, E.A., Luis Garcia, E.O., Drexler, S.M., Jurković, A.P., Rana, K., Wilson, J.P., Cohen,  N., … Moshontz, H. (2022) A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1089-1110

Shani, R., Tal, S., Derakshan, N., Cohen, N., Enock, P. M., McNally, R. J., … & Okon-Singer, H. (2021). Personalized cognitive training: Protocol for individual-level meta-analysis implementing machine learning methods. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 138, 342-348

Cohen, N., & Arbel, R. (2020). On the benefits and costs of extrinsic emotion regulation to the provider: Toward a neurobehavioral model. Cortex, 130, 1-15. Journal Rank: 12/110, Q1 (Neuroscience, Cognitive neuroscience)

Cohen, N., Ben-Yakov, A., Edelson, M.G., Paz, R., & Dudai, Y. (2020). Prestimulus activity in the cingulo-opercular network predicts memory for realistic episodic experience. Cerebral Cortex, 30,

Hershman, R., Henik, A., & Cohen, N. (2019). CHAP: Open source software for processing and analyzing pupillometry data. Behavior Research Method, 51, 1059-1074

Cohen, N., & Ochsner, K (2018). From surviving to thriving in the face of threats: the emerging science of emotion regulation training. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 24, 143-155

Hershman, R., Henik, A. & Cohen, N. (2018). A Blink detection method based on “noise” in pupillometry data. Behavior Research Methods, 50, 107-114

Cohen, N., & Mor, N. (2018). Enhancing reappraisal by linking cognitive control and emotion. Clinical Psychological Science, 6, 155-164

Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., Gabay, S., Cohen, N., & Henik, A. (2017). Lateralization of emotions: Evidence from pupil size measurement. Cognition & Emotion, 31, 699-711

 Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., Okon-Singer, H., Cohen, N., Toder, D., Nemets, B., & Henik, A. (2017). Attentional bias in clinical depression and anxiety: The impact of emotional and non-emotional distracting information. Biological Psychology, 122, 4-12

Leibovich, T., Cohen, N., and Henik, A. (2016). Itsy bitsy spider?: It Depends… Frontiers for Young Minds, 4:29

Leibovich, T., Cohen, N., & Henik, A. (2016). Itsy bitsy spider?: Valence and self-relevance predict size estimation. Biological Psychology, 121, 138-145

Cohen, N., Ashkenazi, S., Margulies, D., Shafer, A., Taubert, M., Villringer, A., Henik, A., & Okon-Singer, H. (2016). Using executive control training to suppress amygdala reactivity to aversive information. NeuroImage, 125, 1022–1031

Cohen, N., Moyal, N., & Henik, A. (2016). Explicit vs. implicit emotional processing: The interaction between processing type and executive control. Cognition & Emotion, 30, 325-339

Cohen, N., Moyal, N., & Henik., A. (2015). Executive control suppresses pupillary responses to aversive stimuli. Biological Psychology, 112, 1-11

Moyal, N., Cohen, N., Henik, A., & Anholt, G.E. (2015). Emotion regulation as a main mechanism of change in psychotherapy. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 38, e18-e18

 Aisenberg, D., Cohen N., Pick, H., Tressman, I., Rappaport, M., Shenberg, M., & Henik, A. (2015). Social priming improves cognitive control in elderly adults– Evidence from the Simon task. Plos One, 10, e0117151

Cohen, N., Pell, L., Edelson, M.G., Ben-Yakov, A., Pine, A., & Dudai, Y. (2015). Peri-encoding predictors of memory encoding and consolidation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 50, 128-142

Cohen, N., Mor, N., & Henik, A. (2015). Linking executive control and emotional response – A training procedure to reduce rumination. Clinical Psychological Science, 3, 15-25

Cohen, N., Daches, S., Mor, N., & Henik., A. (2014). Inhibition of negative content – a shared process in rumination and reappraisal. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:622

Gabay, S., Pertzov, Y., Cohen, N., Avidan, G., & Henik, A. (2013). Remapping of the environment without corollary discharges: Evidence from scene-based IOR. Journal of Vision, 13:22, 1-10

Okon-Singer, H., Lichtenstein-Vidne, L. & Cohen, N. (2013). Dynamic modulation of emotional processing. Biological Psychology, 92, 480-491

Kalanthroff, E., Cohen, N., & Henik, A. (2013). Stop feeling: Inhibition of emotional interference following stop-signal trials. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7:78

Cohen, N., Henik, A. & Moyal, N. (2012). Executive control attenuates emotional effects – for high reappraisers only? Emotion, 12, 970-979

Cohen, N., & Henik, A. (2012). Do irrelevant emotional stimuli impair or improve executive control? Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 6:33

Cohen, N., Henik, A., & Mor, N. (2011). Can emotion modulate attention? Evidence for reciprocal links in the attentional networks test. Experimental Psychology, 58, 171-179

Degree

Name of Institution and Department

Period of Study

BSc

The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Psychology and Biology

09/2004-06/2007

MA

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Clinical Psychology

09/2007-06/2009

PhD

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Psychology

10/2009-06/2013

 

Post-Doctoral Studies

Name of Host

Name of Institution and Department/Lab

Period of Study

Prof. Yadin Dudai and Prof. Rony Paz

Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Neurobiology

10/2013-01/2016

Prof. Kevin Ochsner

Columbia University, Department of Psychology

01/2016-09/2018

Read Atheer's work in Maariv on social emotion regulation among  Jews and Arabs living in Israel during the war

Listen to an  interview with Prof. Noga Cohen in GALAZ about the mental distress of parents during the war

Read about Mor Keleynikov study about the mental distress of parents during the war, those who are on the first and exposed line for their tender children on ynet and Jerusalem Post

Read about Mor Avraham's research project on the mental toll of the Coronavirus restrictions on parents of children with special needs on ynet

Read about the benefits of reappraising others' negative emotion on coping abilities with COVID19 emotional implications in a  study, conducted during the first lock-down in Israel

Dr. Noga Cohen and Dr. Reout Arbel's paper On the benefits and costs of extrinsic emotion regulation to the provider: Toward a neurobehavioral mode is now available online!

Watch Marlyn Khouri's interview on Musawa Channel about her recent study regarding the emotional effects of the Corona pandemic on young adults

Read about our study on ynet

Listen to an Interview with Dr. Noga Cohen (Feb 2020)

Noga Cohen discusses our study on the emotional implications of COVID-19 on Kol Rega FM (April 2020)

Young Israelis are more concerned about the financial implications of COVID-19 than for the implications for their own health

Alon Fellowship for young investigators from the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel

Postdoc fellowships

Israeli Council for Higher Education (VATAT); advancing women in science

Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

Fulbright

Travel grants

DAAD

Minerva

IBRO

Research grants

DSF-ISF

Israel Ministry of Education

NIPI

Joy Ventures