Inbal Ben Ami Bartal is a faculty member at Tel-Aviv University’s Psychology Department and School of Neuroscience. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Chicago and her postdoctoral studies at Berkeley. Her lab researches the neurological basis of prosocial behavior, focusing on a rodent model of helping, where rats can help another rat by setting it free from a trap. Her lab employs molecular and computational tools to study this issue from the cell level, through neural networks, to behavior. Her research focuses on understanding how the brain processes the distress and pain of others, why we experience empathy for some but not other individuals or groups, and how the decision to help others in need is computed by the brain.
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Emotions 2021/22
The Concept For centuries emotions have been pitted against reason and located somewhere in between the heart and the gut, totally alien to the brain.
