Professor Liad Mudrik is a researcher at the school of psychological sciences and Sagol school of neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on conscious experience, its neural mechanisms and functions.
Mudrik’s research on conscious experience asks first – if it plays a functional role in thinking and behavior, second – how it is affected by our semantic knowledge and expectations, and third – how it comes about, or what are the neural mechanisms underlying it. Her lab at TAU pursues these questions using mostly EEG and psychophysics, with a very strong emphasis on finding new ways to scientifically study consciousness in a more ecological manner (using both virtual and augmented reality). The lab strongly emphasized open science practices, both with respect to preregistrations and to data and material sharing.
Mudrik completed two Ph.D. dissertations at Tel Aviv University, in cognitive psychology and in philosophy. She then continued to a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, in Christof Koch’s lab. In 2019, she was selected as a member of the young Israeli academy of sciences. She is also one of the leaders of the Cogitate consortium, an international adversarial collaboration aimed at arbitrating between theories of consciousness, and a Tenenbaum fellow of the CIFAR Brain, Mind and Consciousness program.
