I am a student in the direct PhD program in Psychology at the Hebrew University, interested in the mechanisms that enable our understanding of others' emotions and feelings. Specifically, I investigate how different information channels (visual, auditory) contribute differentially to cognitive and affective empathy in neurotypical and autistic individuals.  In my research, I combine behavioral, psychophysiology and EEG methods as well as advanced statistical methods (e.g., mixed model analysis, Bayesian modeling analysis). I am also involved in projects investigating the effects of sleep disturbances on perception and behavior.

 

Publications:

• Jospe, K., Genzer, S., Manson, L., Ong, D., Zaki, J., Soroker, N., & Perry, A. (in press). Impaired empathic accuracy following damage to the left hemisphere. Biological Psychology.
• Choshen-Hillel, S., Sadras, I., Gordon-Hecker, T., Genzer, S., Rekhtman, D., Caruso, E. M., Clements, K. L., Ohler, A., Gozal, D., Israel, S., Perry, A., & Gileles-Hillel, A. (in press). Nightshift bias in pain management: Physicians in the emergency department experience less empathy for patients' pain and prescribe fewer analgesics during nightshifts. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
• Genzer, S., Ong, D. C., Zaki, J., & Perry, A. (2022). Mu rhythm suppression over sensorimotor regions is associated with greater empathic accuracy. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac011
• Rum, Y., Genzer, S., Perry, A., Markovitch, N., Jenkins, J., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2022). Are there positive effects of having a sibling with a disability? The development of empathy in children. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13740
• Mandelkorn, U.,* Genzer, S.,* Choshen-Hillel, S., Reiter, J., Meira e Cruz, M., Hochner, H., Kheirandish-Gozal, L., Gozal, D., & Gileles-Hillel, A. (2020). Escalation of sleep disturbances amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional international study. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, jcsm-8800.‏ https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.8800

         *Contributed equally

• Jospe, K., Genzer, S., Klein Selle, N., Ong, D., Zaki, J., & Perry, A. (2020). The contribution of linguistic and visual cues to physiological synchrony and empathic accuracy. Cortex, 132, 296-308.‏ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.09.001