Olga, Shaimaa, Vasilisa and Sharon presented their posters at VSS 2023! (May 2023)

Avi presented his research at the COVD conference (April 2023)

Was awesome attending together the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center annual retreat (Feb 2023)

Olga submitted her online replication paper together with Limor, and Shaimaa (see our preprint too)  

Avi submitted his PhD thesis! well done ! (Feb 2023)

Vasilisa Shaimaa and Avi presented their research at the ISCOP conference in Akko (Feb 2023)

Sharon visited Giessen University and gave an invited seminar talk there

Olga presented her research at the 1st Multidisciplinary Unit PhD conference at BIU (24 Jan 2023)

Our studies presented at VSS 2022 are now available online at Journal of Vision:  Vasilisa's, Olga's, Yoav's and Sharon's (15 Dec 2022) 

Vasilisa's paper on Positive and negative facial valence perception are modulated differently by eccentricity in the parafovea was just published in Scientific Reports! well done! (15 Dec 2022)

Limor, Shaimaa, Vasilisa, Yoav and Olga's studies were presented at ISFN 2022 - well done to all (4-6 Dec 2022)

Congratulations to Limor for defending her MSc thesis successfully! well done (22 Nov 2022)

Congratulations to Vasilisa - her paper on "Positive and negative facial valence perception are modulated differently by eccentricity in the parafovea" has just been accepted to Scientific Reports (see our preprint) (22 Nov 2022)

Sharon gave a talk about the the visual system and how people see in a youth activity program at Bar Ilan University (21 Nov 2022)

Congratulations to Aya Abu Maaruf for defending her MSc thesis today! (20 Nov 2022)

Sharon gave a seminar at the Stanford Vision Brunch about visual memory and memorability (18 Nov 2022)

Congratulations to Limor, Olga and Shaimaa - their paper has just been submitted (see our print) (Nov 17 2022)

Olga presented her poster at SFN2022 about "FFA and PPA display qualitative differences in parafoveal processing" - well done! (16 Nov 2022)

Sharon gave a talk at the SFN2022 on "Higher-contrast images are better remembered during naturalistic encoding" (14 Nov 2022)

Shaimaa presented her poster at SFN2022 about "Images viewed for longer durations are better remembered during naturalistic encoding" - well done! (13 Nov 2022)

Olga was awarded the SFN's 2022 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) - well deserved! (12 Nov 2022)

Sharon gave a talk at the SFN2022 on "Perceptual bias of closer lower visual field in 3D (VR) environment and its relation to visual input statistics of a moving observer" at the minisymposium "Measuring Complex Human Behaviors via the Interactions Between Virtual Reality and Human Physiological Networks: Evidence From Health and Disease" (12 Nov 2022)

Sharon gave a talk at the Agam Museum in Rishon Letzion on vision and the visual system (27 Oct 2022)

Congratulations to Olga Kreichman for receiving SFN's 2022 Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) (18 Sep 2022)

Welcome Reout Dayan and Hofit Azard for joining our lab ! Reout and Hofit are starting their MSc in Vision Science this year (Oct 2022)

Olga, Avi, and Shaimaa presented their exciting work at the first IVSS conference in Bar Ilan. Well done! (18 Sep 2022)

Congratulations to Dr. Amit Benady for being awarded his PhD - now MD and PhD! well deserved Amit (6 Sep 2022)

Congratulations to Vasilisa for submitting her paper (see our preprint) (27 July 2022)

Congratulations to Yoav, Miroslava, Faten, and Renana for being awarded their MSc degree and to Limor for being awarded her BSc degree in bioinformatics (29 June 2021) 

Sharon gave a seminar at the Stanford Vision Brunch about visual memory and memorability (15 June 2022)

Vasilisa presented her research at the VVSS conference (1 June 2022)

Sharon hosted a symposium at the VVSS conference on "The interplay of visual memory and high-level vision" with Tim Brady, Noa Ofen, Sharon, Yoni Pertzov, Galit Yovel, and Meike Ramon as speakers (1 June 2022)

Ynet report about The Sense of Vision just came out with Sharon and Yossi interviewed (2 June 2022) (.pdf)

Congratulations to Shaimaa Masarwa and Amit Benady for being awarded the Faculty of Life Sciences Excellent Paper Awards (29 May 2022)

Sharon presented our research (with Yoav) at the VSS conference in St Petersburg Florida (May 15 2022)

Olga Kreichman presented her exciting poster at the VSS conference in St Petersburg Florida, well done! (May 14 2022)

Olga, Limor, and Shaimaa presented their studies at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center annual conference at Kfar Blum; Sharon gave a talk (Feb 2022)

Sharon gave a talk at the BIU Vision Science online seminar (22 Feb 2022)

Vasilisa, Olga, Limor, Shaimaa, and Yoav presented their research at the ISCOP conference - well done! (15-16 Feb 2022)

Congratulations to Amit for submitting his PhD thesis (Feb 2022)

Congratulations to Shaimaa Masarwa and Olga Kreichman - our paper about bigger images being better remembered is finally published in PNAS (25 Jan 2022)

Congratulations to Yoav for very successfully defending his MSc thesis (6 Jan 2022)

Our lab welcomes Lamis Ali as a new MSc student (Oct 2021)

The BIU Vision Science seminar 2021-2022 series is continuing online on ZOOM with more exciting talks this upcoming year (1 Oct 2021). Looking forward to it!

Congratulations to Shaimaa, Elyana and Asia for being awarded their MSc degree (15 June 2021) 

Congratulations to Amit Benady on the publication of his paper "Vision affects gait speed but not patterns of muscle activation during inclined walking - a virtual reality study" in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (9 Apr 2021)

Congratulations to Shaimaa Masarwa for being accepted to the "طريقك الاكاديميّه  - דרכך האקדמית" (Tarikek - your academic path)

Our paper with Aviva Berkovich-Ohana "Studying the precuneus reveals structure-function-affect correlation in long-term meditators" published in SCAN is now online (Nov 2020)

Our research was recently covered in News1 (23 Oct 2020)

Sharon will be giving a new seminar course this year on "Visual memory processes" (Oct 2020)

Our lab welcomes Limor Brook as a new MSc student in bioinformatics (Oct 2020)

Congratulations to Olga Kreichman for being awarded the prestigious Levtzion scholarship for outstanding doctoral students by the Council for Higher Education (Oct 2020)

Our BIU Vision Science YouTube channel is up and includes past seminar talk recordings (15 Sep 2020)

The BIU Vision Science seminar 2020-2021 series is beginning online on ZOOM with exciting talks throughout the year (1 Sep 2020)