The Emotion Lab, directed by Noga Cohen, studies the ways in which emotion, attention and cognitive control shape human behavior and experience.  We use a combination of behavioral, psychophysiological and brain imaging methods to understand adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation processes.  We study basic emotion regulation mechanisms and design cognitive interventions with the aim to improve emotion regulation among healthy and clinical populations.  

• Emotional Regulation
• Cognition-Emotion Interactions 
• Cognitive and Emotion Regulation Training 
• Psychophysiological Measures (Eye Tracking) 
• Neuroimaging (fMRI) 
• Individual Differences in Emotional Regulation 
• Emotional Support
• Episodic Memory

2007   BSc., Psychology and Biology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

2009   M.A, Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion

           University of the Negev

2013   Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2016   Postdoc, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Neurobiology

2018   Postdoc, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York

• Cohen, N., Moyal, N., & Henik., A. (2016). Executive control suppresses pupillary responses to aversive stimuli. Biological Psychology, 112, 1-11.
• Cohen, N., Moyal, N., & Henik, A. (2016). Explicit vs. implicit emotional processing: The interaction between processing type and executive control. Cognition & Emotion, 30, 325-339.
• Cohen, N., Ashkenazi, S., Margulies, D., Shafer, A., Taubert, M., Villringer, A., Henik, A., & Okon-Singer, H.(2016). Using executive control training to suppress amygdala reactivity to aversive information. NeuroImage, 125, 1022–1031.
• Leibovich, T., Cohen, N., & Henik, A. (2016). Itsy bitsy spider?: Valence and self-relevance predict size estimation. Biological Psychology, 121, 138-145.
• Leibovich, T., Cohen, N., and Henik, A. (2016). Itsy bitsy spider?: It Depends… Frontiers for Yound Minds, 4:29.
• Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., Okon-Singer, H., Cohen, N., Toder, D., Nemets, B., & Henik, A. (2017). Attentional bias in clinical depression and anxiety: The impact of emotional and non-emotional distracting information. Biological Psychology, 122, 4-12.
• Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., Gabay, S., Cohen, N., & Henik, A. (2017). Lateralization of emotions: Evidence from pupil size measurement. Cognition & Emotion, 31, 699-711.
• Cohen, N., & Mor, N. (2018). Enhancing reappraisal by linking cognitive control and emotion. Clinical Psychological Science, 6, 155-164.
• Hershman, R., Henik, A. & Cohen, N. (2018). A Blink detection method based on “noise” in pupillometry data. Behavior Research Methods, 50, 107-114.
• Cohen, N., & Ochsner, K. N. (2018). From surviving to thriving in the face of threats: the emerging science of emotion regulation training. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 24, 143-155.