My current research explores prestimulus predictors for memory encoding. I am also interested in the influence of executive control on aversive learning and in the effects of executive control training on emotional behavior. My PhD research focused on the links between emotion and attentional networks. I am using behavioral, psychophysiological (pupillary responses) and fMRI methods and study both healthy and sub-clinical populations.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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., Moyal, N., & Henik, A. (2015). Explicit vs. implicit emotional processing: The interaction between processing type and executive control. Cognition & Emotion, (ahead-of-print), 1-15.

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.

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

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

Cohen, N., Ashkenazi, S., Margulies, D., Shafer, A., Taubert, M., Villringer, A., Henik, A., & Okon-Singer, H. (2015). Inducing lasting changes in the amygdala using executive control training. NeuroImage.

2004-2007 BSc Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Psychology and Biology.

2007-2009 MA Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology.
Advisor: Prof. Avishai Henik
Title: Emotion and the Attentional Networks.

2009-2013 PhD Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience.
Advisor: Prof. Avishai Henik
Title: Can Emotion Modulate Attention or is it the Other Way Around?

2013-present Postdoc Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Neurobiology.
Advisors: Prof. Yadin Dudai and Prof. Rony Paz
Supported by the EP7 Human Brain Project.

Teaching Assistant in Courses:
BA courses - Introduction to Statistics, Inferential Statistics, Statistics A, Statistics B, Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Lecturer in Courses:
BA courses – Learning, Emotion and Cognition, Sleeping Disorders in the Childhood, Reading – from Theory to Practice, Reading Disorders, Attentional Deficit Disorder.