Publications

2026

Bell Meir, A., Amihai, L., Toledano, D., Ravreby, I., & Yeshurun, Y. (2026). Better Together? Facial Expressions as a Mechanism Shaping Enjoyment During Shared Experience. Psychological Science.
Amihai, L., Shahav, S., Kligman, T., & Yeshurun, Y. (2026). Blinking mimicry predicts preference. Acta Psychologica, 267, 107001.
Amihai, L., Maer, S., Toledano, D., Yovel, G., & Yeshurun, Y. (2026). Deliberate Facial Mimicry As a Skill That Predicts Emotion Recognition Performance. Affective Science, 1–19.
Lev, Y., Ravreby, I., Katz, C., & Yeshurun, Y. (2026). Your Words Matter: The Effect of Lexical Entrainment on Abused Children’s Testimonies. International Journal on Child Maltreatment, 1–18.
Boiman, G., Ohad, T., Zvi, Y., Katabi, N., & Yeshurun, Y. (2026). Changes in political attitudes are associated with changes in neural responses to political content. Communications Psychology.

Zvi, Y., Kerem, N., & Yeshurun, Y. (2025). You Are What You Sync: Neural Synchronization Predicts Religious Affiliation. bioRxiv, 2025-12.
Amihai, L., Sharvit, E., Man, H., Hanein, Y., & Yeshurun, Y. (2025). Facial mimicry predicts preference. Communications Psychology, 3(1), 176.
Ohad, T., Zvi, Y., & Yeshurun, Y. (2025). Default mode network synchrony reflects shared understanding. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 64, 101540.
Ravreby, I., Navon, M., Pinhas, E., Lerer, J., Bar-Anan, Y., & Yeshurun, Y. (2025). The many faces of mimicry depend on the social context. Emotion.
Braun, G., Yeshurun, Y., & Shetreet, E. (2025). Shared disbelief and shared belief: Belief and disbelief as drivers of interpersonal neural synchronization during narrative processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(23), e2422396122.

Kobo, O., Yeshurun, Y., & Schonberg, T. (2024). Reward-related regions play a role in natural story comprehension. iScience, 27(6).

Ohad, T., & Yeshurun, Y. (2023). Neural synchronization as a function of engagement with the narrative. NeuroImage, 276, 120215.
Tikochinski, R., Goldstein, A., Yeshurun, Y., Hasson, U., & Reichart, R. (2023). Perspective changes in human listeners are aligned with the contextual transformation of the word embedding space. Cerebral Cortex.
Katabi, N., Simon, H., Yakim, S., Ravreby, I., Ohad, T., & Yeshurun, Y. (2023). Deeper than you think: Partisanship-dependent brain responses in early sensory and motor brain regions. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(6), 1027–1037.

Ravreby, I., Shilat, Y., & Yeshurun, Y. (2022). Liking as a balance between synchronization, complexity and novelty. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1–12.

Amram, R., Ravreby, I., Trainin, N., & Yeshurun, Y. (2021). Fear of being near: Fear supersedes sociability when interacting amid a pandemic. Personality and Individual Differences.
Trainin, N., & Yeshurun, Y. (2021). Reading the mind with a mask? Improvement in reading the mind in the eyes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emotion.
Nastase, S. A., Liu, Y.-F., Hillman, H., Zadbood, A., Hasenfratz, L., Keshavarzian, N., Chen, J., Honey, C. J., Yeshurun, Y., Regev, M., Nguyen, M., Chang, C. H. C., Baldassano, C., Lositsky, O., Simony, E., Chow, M. A., Leong, Y. C., Brooks, P. P., Micciche, E., Choe, G., Goldstein, A., Vanderwal, T., Halchenko, Y. O., Norman, K. A., & Hasson, U. (2021). The “Narratives” fMRI dataset for evaluating models of naturalistic language comprehension. Scientific Data, 8, 250.
Yeshurun, Y., Nguyen, M., & Hasson, U. (2021). The default mode network: where the idiosyncratic self meets the shared social world. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.

Yeshurun, Y., Nguyen, M., & Hasson, U. (2017). Amplification of local changes along the timescale processing hierarchy. PNAS, 114(35), 9475–9480.
Yeshurun, Y., Swanson, S., Simony, E., Chen, J., Honey, C. H., Lazaridi, C., & Hasson, U. (2017). Same story, different story: Neural representation of frameworks for understanding. Psychological Science, 28(3), 307–319.
Simony, E., Honey, C. H., Chen, J., Lositsky, O., Yeshurun, Y., Wiesel, A., & Hasson, U. (2016). Dynamic reconfiguration of the default mode network during narrative comprehension. Nature Communications, 7, 12141.
Chen, P., Chen, J., Yeshurun, Y., Hasson, U., Haxby, J., & Ramadge, P. (2015). A reduced-dimension fMRI shared response model. NIPS Proceedings, 28.
Gelstein, S.*, Yeshurun, Y.*, Rozenkrantz, L., Shushan, S., Frumin, I., Roth, Y., & Sobel, N. (2011). Human tears contain a chemosignal. Science, 331, 226–230. (*Equal contribution)
Yeshurun, Y., & Sobel, N. (2010). An odor is not worth a thousand words: From multidimensional odors to unidimensional odor objects. Annual Review of Psychology, 61, 219–241.
Yeshurun, Y., Lapid, H., Dudai, Y., & Sobel, N. (2009). The privileged brain representation of first olfactory associations. Current Biology, 19, 1869–1874.
Yeshurun, Y., Dudai, Y., & Sobel, N. (2008). Working memory across nostrils. Behavioral Neuroscience, 122(5), 1031–1037.