Publications
2026
Zebarjadi, N., Kluge, A., Glerean, E., Tassinari, M., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., & Levy, J. (2026). Polarized neural responses to political narratives are sensitive to small variations in self-reported political perspectives. iScience, 29(1), Article 114268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.114268
2025
Schwartz, L., Levy, J., Shapira, Y., Salomonski, C., Hayut, O., Zagoory-Sharon, O., & Feldman, R. (2025). Empathy aligns brains in synchrony. iScience, 28(6), Article 112642. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112642
Schwartz, L., Levy, J., Salomonski, C., Peleg, I., Hayut, O., Zagoory, O., & Feldman, R. (2025). Social interactions between attachment partners increase inter-brain plasticity. Brain Research, 1865, Article 149856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2025.149856
Kluge, A., Zebarjadi, N., Tassinari, M., Lin, F. H., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., & Levy, J. (2025). Supportive but biased: Perceptual neural intergroup bias is sensitive to minor reservations about supporting outgroup immigration. Neuropsychologia, 208, Article 109068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2025.109068
Adler, E., Hasler, B. S., Hasson, Y., Landau, D., Baratz, G., Halperin, E., & Levy, J. (2025). Virtual regulation: Can immersive virtual reality be used to assist intergroup interventions? The moderating effect of political ideology. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 28(7), 1459-1482. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302251324892
Adler, E., Leshem, O. A., Levy, J., Kabaz, M., & Halperin, E. (2025). One step forward, two steps back: The dark side of helping initiatives in protracted conflicts. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000819
Kluge, A., & Levy, J. (2025). Extreme ingroup and outgroup perspectives counter-intuitively impact intergroup polarisation at the level of neural oscillations. Cortex, 184, 250-262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.12.020
2024
Kluge, A., & Levy, J. (2024). Ideological symmetry in out-group bias: a neuroimaging study in the context of vaccine hesitancy. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2, Article 1447842. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsps.2024.1447842
Kluge, A., Somila, N., Lankinen, K., & Levy, J. (2024). Neural alignment during outgroup intervention predicts future change of affect towards outgroup. Cerebral Cortex, 34(4), Article bhae125. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae125
Kluge, A., Adler, E., Nir, L., Halperin, E., Sams, M., & Levy, J. (2024). Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias. Political Psychology, 45(6), 1105-1121. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12967
Schwartz, L., Levy, J., Hayut, O., Netzer, O., Endevelt-Shapira, Y., & Feldman, R. (2024). Generation WhatsApp: inter-brain synchrony during face-to-face and texting communication. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 2672. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52587-2
Zebarjadi, N., Kluge, A., Adler, E., & Levy, J. (2024). New Vistas for the Relationship between Empathy and Political Ideology. eNeuro, 11(11), Article ENEURO.0086-24.2024. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0086-24.2024
Swider-Cios, E., Turk, E., Levy, J., Beeghly, M., Vroomen, J., & van den Heuvel, M. I. (2024). The association of maternal-infant interactive behavior, dyadic frontal alpha asymmetry, and maternal anxiety in a smartphone-adapted still face paradigm. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 66, Article 101352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101352
Schwartz, L., Hayut, O., Levy, J., Gordon, I., & Feldman, R. (2024). Sensitive infant care tunes a frontotemporal interbrain network in adolescence. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 22602. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73630-2
Levy, J., Kluge, A., Hameiri, B., Lankinen, K., Bar-Tal, D., & Halperin, E. (2024). The paradoxical brain: Paradoxes impact conflict perspectives through increased neural alignment. Cerebral Cortex, 34(9), Article bhae353. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae353
2023
Zebarjadi, N., Adler, E., Kluge, A., Sams, M., & Levy, J. (2023). Ideological values are parametrically associated with empathy neural response to vicarious suffering. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 18(1), Article nsad029. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsad029
Azevedo, F., Pavlović, T., Rêgo, G. G., Ay, F. C., Gjoneska, B., Etienne, T. W., Ross, R. M., Schönegger, P., Riaño-Moreno, J. C., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Cian, L., Longoni, C., Chan, H. F., Van Bavel, J. J., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Alfano, M., Gelfand, M. J., ... Sampaio, W. M. (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries. Scientific data, 10(1), Article 272. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02080-8
Zebarjadi, N., & Levy, J. (2023). Neural shifts in alpha rhythm's dual functioning during empathy maturation. Brain and Behavior, 13(9), Article e3110. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.3110
2022
Pavlović, T., Azevedo, F., De, K., Riaño-Moreno, J. C., Maglić, M., Gkinopoulos, T., Donnelly-Kehoe, P. A., Payán-Gómez, C., Huang, G., Kantorowicz, J., Birtel, M. D., Schönegger, P., Capraro, V., Santamaría-García, H., Yucel, M., Ibanez, A., Rathje, S., Wetter, E., Stanojević, D., ... Van Bavel, J. J. (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS Nexus, 1(3), Article pgac093. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac093
Adler, E., Hebel-Sela, S., Leshem, O. A., Levy, J., & Halperin, E. (2022). A social virus: Intergroup dehumanization and unwillingness to aid amidst COVID-19 − Who are the main targets?☆. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 86, 109-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.11.006
Turk, E., Endevelt-Shapira, Y., Feldman, R., van den Heuvel, M. I., & Levy, J. (2022). Brains in Sync: Practical Guideline for Parent–Infant EEG During Natural Interaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 833112. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.833112
Turk, E., Vroomen, J., Fonken, Y., Levy, J., & van den Heuvel, M. I. (2022). In sync with your child: The potential of parent–child electroencephalography in developmental research. Developmental Psychobiology, 64(3), Article e22221. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22221
Levy, J., Jääskeläinen, I. P., & Taylor, M. J. (2022). Editorial: Magnetoencephalography for social science. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16, Article 1105923. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.1105923
Van Bavel, J. J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Pavlović, T., Alfano, M., Gelfand, M. J., Azevedo, F., Birtel, M. D., Cislak, A., Lockwood, P. L., Ross, R. M., Abts, K., Agadullina, E., Aruta, J. J. B., Besharati, S. N., Bor, A., Choma, B. L., ... Boggio, P. S. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 517. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9
Levy, J., Influs, M., Masalha, S., Goldstein, A., & Feldman, R. (2022). Dialogue intervention for youth amidst intractable conflict attenuates neural prejudice response and promotes adults’ peacemaking. PNAS Nexus, 1(5), Article pgac236. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac236
Seinfeld, S., Hasler, B. S., Banakou, D., & Levy, J. (2022). Editorial: Virtual reality and empathy. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 1089006. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1089006
Jääskeläinen, I. P., Ahveninen, J., Klucharev, V., Shestakova, A. N., & Levy, J. (2022). Behavioral Experience-Sampling Methods in Neuroimaging Studies With Movie and Narrative Stimuli. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, Article 813684. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.813684
Levy, J., Goldstein, A., Influs, M., Masalha, S., & Feldman, R. (2022). Neural rhythmic underpinnings of intergroup bias: Implications for peace-building attitudes and dialogue. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17(4), 408-420. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsab106
Schwartz, L., Levy, J., Endevelt-Shapira, Y., Djalovski, A., Hayut, O., Dumas, G., & Feldman, R. (2022). Technologically-assisted communication attenuates inter-brain synchrony. NeuroImage, 264, Article 119677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119677
Van Bavel, J. J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjåstad, H., Nezlek, J. B., Pavlović, T., Alfano, M., Gelfand, M. J., Azevedo, F., Birtel, M. D., Cislak, A., Lockwood, P. L., Ross, R. M., Abts, K., Agadullina, E., Aruta, J. J. B., Besharati, S. N., Bor, A., Choma, B. L., ... Boggio, P. S. (2022). Author Correction: National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (517), 10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9). Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 1949. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29658-x
Hautala, A., Kluge, A., Hameiri, B., Zebarjadi, N., & Levy, J. (2022). Examining implicit neural bias against vaccine hesitancy. Social Neuroscience, 17(6), 532-543. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2162119
2021
Santamaría-García, H., Baez, S., Aponte-Canencio, D. M., Pasciarello, G. O., Donnelly-Kehoe, P. A., Maggiotti, G., Matallana, D., Hesse, E., Neely, A., Zapata, J. G., Chiong, W., Levy, J., Decety, J., & Ibáñez, A. (2021). Uncovering social-contextual and individual mental health factors associated with violence via computational inference. Patterns, 2(2), Article 100176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2020.100176
Eckstein, M., Zietlow, A. L., Gerchen, M. F., & Levy, J. (2021). Editorial: Neurobiological Systems Underlying Reward and Emotions in Social Settings. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, Article 644672. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.644672
Zebarjadi, N., & Levy, J. (2021). Neural shifts in alpha rhythm's dual functioning during empathy. Brain and Behavior, 11(11), Article e2355. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2355
Zebarjadi, N., Adler, E., Kluge, A., Jääskeläinen, I. P., Sams, M., & Levy, J. (2021). Rhythmic Neural Patterns During Empathy to Vicarious Pain: Beyond the Affective-Cognitive Empathy Dichotomy. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, Article 708107. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.708107
Hasler, B. S., H. Landau, D., Hasson, Y., Schori-Eyal, N., Giron, J., Levy, J., Halperin, E., & Friedman, D. (2021). Virtual reality-based conflict resolution: The impact of immersive 360° video on changing view points and moral judgment in the context of violent intergroup conflict. New Media and Society, 23(8), 2255-2278. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444821993133
Levy, J., Lankinen, K., Hakonen, M., & Feldman, R. (2021). The integration of social and neural synchrony: A case for ecologically valid research using MEG neuroimaging. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(1-2), 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa061
2020
Zeev-Wolf, M., Levy, J., Ebstein, R. P., & Feldman, R. (2020). Cumulative Risk on Oxytocin-Pathway Genes Impairs Default Mode Network Connectivity in Trauma-Exposed Youth. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 11, Article 335. https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2020.00335
Levy, J., & Bader, O. (2020). Graded Empathy: A Neuro-Phenomenological Hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, Article 554848. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.554848
2019
Zeev-Wolf, M., Levy, J., Goldstein, A., Zagoory-Sharon, O., & Feldman, R. (2019). Chronic Early Stress Impairs Default Mode Network Connectivity in Preadolescents and Their Mothers. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4(1), 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2018.09.009
Levy, J., & Feldman, R. (2019). Synchronous Interactions Foster Empathy. Journal of Experimental Neuroscience, 13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1179069519865799
Levy, J., Goldstein, A., & Feldman, R. (2019). The neural development of empathy is sensitive to caregiving and early trauma. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 1905. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09927-y
Levy, J., Yirmiya, K., Goldstein, A., & Feldman, R. (2019). Chronic trauma impairs the neural basis of empathy in mothers: Relations to parenting and children's empathic abilities. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 38, Article 100658. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100658
Levy, J., Yirmiya, K., Goldstein, A., & Feldman, R. (2019). The Neural Basis of Empathy and Empathic Behavior in the Context of Chronic Trauma. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, Article 562. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00562
Levy, J., & Démonet, J. F. (2019). MEG data representing a gamma oscillatory response during the hold/release paradigm. Data in Brief, 23, Article 103787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.103787
Hasson, Y., Schori-Eyal, N., Landau, D., Hasler, B. S., Levy, J., Friedman, D., & Halperin, E. (2019). The enemy's gaze: Immersive virtual environments enhance peace promoting attitudes and emotions in violent intergroup conflicts. PLoS ONE, 14(9), Article e0222342. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222342
2018
Levy, J., Goldstein, A., Pratt, M., & Feldman, R. (2018). Maturation of pain empathy from child to adult shifts from single to multiple neural rhythms to support interoceptive representations. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 1810. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19810-3
Zeev-Wolf, M., Levy, J., Jahshan, C., Peled, A., Levkovitz, Y., Grinshpoon, A., & Goldstein, A. (2018). MEG resting-state oscillations and their relationship to clinical symptoms in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20, 753-761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.09.007
2017
Pratt, M., Goldstein, A., Levy, J., & Feldman, R. (2017). Maternal Depression Across the First Years of Life Impacts the Neural Basis of Empathy in Preadolescence. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 56(1), 20-29.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2016.10.012
Levy, J., & Feldman, R. (2017). Can Teenagers Feel the Pain of Others? Peeking into the Teenage Brain to Find Empathy. Frontiers for young minds science edited for kids, by kids. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym2017.00059
Levy, J., Goldstein, A., & Feldman, R. (2017). Perception of social synchrony induces mother-child gamma coupling in the social brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(7), 1036-1046. Article nsx032. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx032
Braboszcz , C., Cahn, B. R., Levy, J., Fernandez, M., & Delorme, A. (2017). Increased Gamma Brainwave Amplitude Compared to Control in Three Different Meditation Traditions. PLoS ONE, 12(1), 1-27. Article e0170647. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170647
2016
Levy, J., Goldstein, A., Influs, M., Masalha, S., Zagoory-Sharon, O., & Feldman, R. (2016). Adolescents growing up amidst intractable conflict attenuate brain response to pain of outgroup. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(48), 13696-13701. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612903113
Levy, J., Goldstein, A., Zagoory-Sharon, O., Weisman, O., Schneiderman, I., Eidelman-Rothman, M., & Feldman, R. (2016). Oxytocin selectively modulates brain response to stimuli probing social synchrony. NeuroImage, 124, 923-930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.066
Eidelman-Rothman, M., Levy, J., & Feldman, R. (2016). Alpha oscillations and their impairment in affective and post-traumatic stress disorders. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 68, 794-815. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.07.005
Levy, J., Vidal, J. R., Fries, P., Démonet, J. F., & Goldstein, A. (2016). Selective neural synchrony suppression as a forward gatekeeper to piecemeal conscious perception. Cerebral Cortex, 26(7), 3010-3022. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv114
2015
Eidelman-Rothman, M., Goldstein, A., Levy, J., Weisman, O., Schneiderman, I., Mankuta, D., Zagoory-Sharon, O., & Feldman, R. (2015). Oxytocin affects spontaneous neural oscillations in trauma-exposed war veterans. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9(JUNE), Article 165. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00165
2014
Levy, J., Hagoort, P., & Démonet, J. F. (2014). A neuronal gamma oscillatory signature during morphological unification in the left occipitotemporal junction. Human Brain Mapping, 35(12), 5847-5860. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22589
Vidal, J. R., Perrone-Bertolotti, M., Levy, J., De Palma, L., Minotti, L., Kahane, P., Bertrand, O., Lutz, A., Jerbi, K., & Lachaux, J. P. (2014). Neural repetition suppression in ventral occipito-temporal cortex occurs during conscious and unconscious processing of frequent stimuli. NeuroImage, 95, 129-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.03.049
2013
Levy, J., Vidal, J. R., Oostenveld, R., FitzPatrick, I., Démonet, J. F., & Fries, P. (2013). Alpha-band suppression in the visual word form area as a functional bottleneck to consciousness. NeuroImage, 78, 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.04.020
2009
Levy, J., Pernet, C., Treserras, S., Boulanouar, K., Aubry, F., Démonet, J. F., & Celsis, P. (2009). Testing for the dual-route cascade reading model in the brain: An fMRI effective connectivity account of an efficient reading style. PLoS ONE, 4(8), Article e6675. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006675
2008
Levy, J., Pernet, C., Treserras, S., Boulanouar, K., Berry, I., Aubry, F., Demonet, J. F., & Celsis, P. (2008). Piecemeal recruitment of left-lateralized brain areas during reading: A spatio-functional account. NeuroImage, 43(3), 581-591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.08.008