Our latest preprint is now live on bioRxiv! We developed a new virtual reality paradigm to simulate “Virtual Hallucinations” and explore how people judge the Sense of Reality – our internal gauge for whether experiences feel real. By combining psychophysics, physiology (pupil, heart, and movement), and computational modeling, we show how perception, belief, and prior expectations

Yoni, the first PhD to emerge from the lab, and his dissertation, The Stress-Sensitive Self, explored how stress shapes the cognitive, clinical, and physiological underpinnings of basic self-disturbances in early psychosis—combining virtual reality, computational modeling, and clinical phenomenology. The journey spanned, research, clinical training, and the occasional identity crisis (all in the name of science,

Lisa’s doctoral research focused on the early prediction of stress vulnerability in healthy adults and posttraumatic stress disorder in vulnerable populations, harnessing wearable sensors in real-life focusing on psycho-physiological functioning, in the hope that it will improve early detection and intervention.