One of the main research areas in our lab focuses on the maturation of empathy and morality throughout human development, and the neural mechanisms operating this process. 

Here are several of our main publications in this area: 

• Neural shifts in alpha rhythm's dual functioning during empathy maturation

  N Zebarjadi, J Levy

  Brain and Behavior, 2023

• Adolescents growing up amidst intractable conflict attenuate brain response to pain of outgroup

  J Levy, A Goldstein, M Influs, S Masalha, O Zagoory-Sharon, R Feldman

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (48), 13696-13701

• Maturation of pain empathy from child to adult shifts from single to multiple neural rhythms to support interoceptive representations

  J Levy, A Goldstein, M Pratt, R Feldman

  Scientific Reports 2018

• The neural development of empathy is sensitive to caregiving and early trauma

   J Levy, A Goldstein, R Feldman

   Nature Communications 2019