Daniel holds both M.A. in Experimental Psychology and an M.B.A. specializing in Organisational Behavior from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently training to become an Occupational-Organisational Psychologist at Keinan-Sheffy Institute, where he serves as the professional manager of the personnel selection department.

During his time in the Music Cognition Laboratory, he initiated and co-organized the first international Brain, Music, and Cognition conference (2019), studied sad music, its benefits, and connections to both depression and wellbeing, and participated in an international research team exploring how music was used during COVID-19 outbreak across different cultures.

He is mainly interested in understanding how music shapes emotions, neuroaesthetics, and how culture shapes the links between music and wellbeing.

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Omer is a composer, producer and sound engineer. His experience in live events and parties has induced in him an insistent question about the relationship between music and dance. In his MA thesis he developed a method to measure the relation between syncopation, loudness, and prominence of bass. He hypothesized a complementary relationship between the two “groovy” components – bass and syncopation. However, an examination of a small number of examples from Hip-hop, EDM and Jazz showed that Hip-hop actually contains the highest levels of both bass and syncopation, with syncopation occurring across the entire frequency spectrum. 

Sigal is a popular music singer and songwriter. In her MA thesis she collected data from popular music singers (mostly from Israel and Italy ) regarding their experience of Music Performance Anxiety (MPA). She was especially interested in MPA factors that might be specific to this group such as somatic symptoms related to the singing apparatus (dryness in the mouth, difficulty in breathing etc.), the use of microphone and amplification, and performing with their own material. She found that these factors indeed play a special role though not necessarily in the expected direction. For example, performing with their own music increased their experience of flow and decreased their MPA. In addition, she showed that attitude towards stress is a significant factor in MPA.