Avital Hahamy

I am an independent Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, heading the naturalistic experience group. My group investigates the neural mechanisms underlying real-world behaviours by using naturalistic paradigms (e.g., movie watching) in behavioural and neuroimaging experiments (fMRI/MEG). Our research involves designing and applying advanced analysis methods, including Large Language Models and computer vision, to explore how humans construct an ongoing understanding of daily experiences, and how this understanding builds cognitive models that are implemented in neural representations. We also study how these neural mechanisms are altered in clinical conditions.