The School of Brain Sciences and Cognition Computational Cognition, Learning, & Intelligence

System Neuroscience	Cognitive Neuroscience	Neuropsychology
Computational Cognition, Learning, & Intelligence	Cognitive Robotics and Neuro-engineering	Neurobiology of Diseases and Rehabilitation
Neuroethology	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Philosophy of mind and sensing
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Computational cognition, learning, and intelligence refer to the application of computational and mathematical models to understand and replicate cognitive processes and behaviors in humans and animals. This interdisciplinary field combines concepts from computer science, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy to explore the mechanisms underlying human cognition and intelligence, as well as to develop artificial intelligence systems that can perform human-like tasks. Computational models are used to simulate and test various hypotheses about cognitive processes such as perception, attention, memory, language, decision-making, and problem-solving. The insights gained from this field have practical applications in areas such as robotics, education, healthcare, and the development of intelligent systems.

Name	Email	Location	Department	Personal website	Research area
Prof. Ohad Ben-Shahar	ben-shahar@cs.bgu.ac.il	Building 37, room 114	Computer Science	Personal website	Theoretical computational vision; Applied computer vision and (often biologically inspired) robot vision; human visual perception and visual psychophysics; Visual computational neuroscience; Animal vision (with particular interest in marine species)
Prof. Ariel Cohen	arikc@bgumail.bgu.ac.il	building 74, 524	Foreign Literatures and Linguisitics	Personal website	Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Logic, Human probabilistic reasoning
Prof. Julie Cwikel	jcwikel@bgu.ac.il	Building 17,room 114	Social Work & Center for Women's Health Studies and Promotion	Personal website	cognitive behavioral interventions, women's health, neurobiofeedback, cognitive decline due to cancer, chemobrain, stress and coping
Prof. Opher Donchin	donchin@bgu.ac.il	Building 63, room 124	Biomedical Engineering	Personal website	Motor learning, motor systems, cerebellum, motor adaptation, arm movements, motor cortex, ataxia
Dr. Or Duek	ord@bgu.ac.il	M7, room 509	Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Community Health Sciences	Personal website	PTSD, Mechanism of change in PTSD, Neuroscience of Learning, Aversive learning mechanism, Brain circuitry of aversive memory
Prof. Dana Fisman	dana@cs.bgu.ac.il	Building 37, room 113	Computer Science	Personal website
Dr. Oren Freifeld	orenfr@cs.bgu.ac.il	Building 37, room 204	Computer Science	Personal website	Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Prof. Kobi Gal	kobig@bgu.ac.il	Building 96, room 223	Software and Information Systems Engineering	Personal website	Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Decision Making, Learning Analytics, Big Data and Education, Ethical Reasoning in AI
Dr. Tal Golan	golan.neuro@bgu.ac.il	Building 93, room 4	Cognitive and Brain Sciences	Personal website	Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning, Visual Perception, Psychophysics, Neuroimaging
Dr. Shachar Maidenbaum	mshachar@bgu.ac.il	Building 63, room 201	Biomedical engineering	Personal website	spatial cognition, navigation, computational neuroscience, virtual reality, augmented reality, naturalistic science, spatial memory, multisensory interaction, sensory substitution,
Prof. Ilana Nisky	nisky@bgu.ac.il	Building 64, room 105	Biomedical Engineering	Personal website	Computational motor control, sensorimotor control, motor learning, multisensory integration, perception and action, human-robot physical interaction, human and machine learning, haptics, neurorehabilitation
Dr. Yuval Pinter	uvp@cs.bgu.ac.il	Building 37, room 203	Computer Science	Personal website	natural language processing, NLP, machine learning, Deep learning, Computational Linguistics
Prof. Tammy Riklin Raviv	rrtammy@ee.bgu.ac.il	Building 33, room 212	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Personal website	Computational Neuroscience, Deep Learning, Brain MRI
Prof. Ronen Segev	ronensgv@bgu.ac.il	Building 40, room 311	Life Sciences	Personal website	Fish neurobiology, vision, spatial cognition, goldfish, archerfish, electrophysiology
Prof. Yuval Shahar	yshahar@bgu.ac.il	Building 96, room 226	Software and Information Systems Engineering	Personal website	Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Medical Informatics, Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral Economics, Temporal Reasoning, Temporal Data Mining, Decision Analysis, EEG analysis
Dr. lior shmuelof	shmuelof@bgu.ac.il	Building 93, room 20	cognitive and brain sciences	Personal website	motor control, motor learning, rehabilitation, cognitive neuroscience, imaging
Dr. Elior Sulem	eliorsu@bgu.ac.il	Building 72, room 67	Software and Information Systems Engineering	Personal website	Computational Linguistics, Child Language Acquisition, Computational Pyscholinguistics, Computational Semantics.