Publications
Marton-Alper, I. Z., Sobeh, A., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. The effects of individual moral inclinations on group moral conformity (2022). Current Research in Behavioral Sciences, 3, 100078.
Saporta, N., Peled-Avron, L., Scheele, D., Lieberz, J., Hurlemann, R., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. Touched by Loneliness–How Loneliness Impacts the Response to Observed Human Touch: a tDCS Study (2021). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
Cohen, D., Perry, A., Mayseless, N., Kleinmintz, O., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. Corrigendum to The role of oxytocin in implicit personal space regulation: An fMRI study [Psychoneuroendocrinology 91 (2018) 206-215] (2021). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 105608-105608.
Kanterman, A., Nevat, M., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. Inclusion motivation: Measuring the drive to be included in real time and how it is affected by loneliness (2021). Emotion.
Gamliel, H. N., Nevat, M., Probolovski, H. G., Karklinsky, M., Han, S., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. Inter-group conflict affects inter-brain synchrony during synchronized movements (2021). NeuroImage, 245, 118661.
Saporta, N., Scheele, D., Lieberz, J., Stuhr-Wulff, F., Hurlemann, R., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. Opposing Association of Situational and Chronic Loneliness with Interpersonal Distance (2021). Brain Sciences, 11(9), 1135.
Elheja, R. A., Palgi, Y., Feldman, R., Zagoory-Sharon, O., Keisari, S., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. The Role of Oxytocin in Regulating Loneliness in Old Age (2021). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 105413.
Lieberz, J., Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Saporta, N., Esser, T., Kuskova, E., Stoffel-Wagner, B., ... & Scheele, D. Loneliness and the social brain: how perceived social isolation impairs human interactions (2021). bioRxiv.
Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., & Eisenberger, N. I. Getting in touch: a neural model of comforting touch (2021). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
Kozakevich Arbel, E., Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., & Hertz, U. Adaptive Empathy: Empathic response selection as a dynamic, feedback-based learning process (2021). Frontiers in psychiatry, 1248.
Levi-Shachar, O., Gvirts, H. Z., Goldwin, Y., Bloch, Y., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Boyle, D., & Maoz, H. The association between symptom severity and theory of mind impairment in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (2021). Psychiatry research, 303, 114092. Advance online publication.
Ivancovsky, T., Shamay‐Tsoory, S., Lee, J., Morio, H., & Kurman, J. A Multifaceted Approach to Measure Creativity across Cultures: The Role of the Centrality of Context in Divergent Thinking Tasks (2021). The Journal of Creative Behavior.
Haim-Nachum, S., Sopp, M. R., Michael, T., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Levy-Gigi, E. No distance is too far between friends: Associations of comfortable interpersonal distance with PTSD and anxiety symptoms in traumatized individuals (2021). European Psychiatry, 64(S1), S449-S449.
Franklin-Gillette, S., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. An Interbrain Approach for Understanding Empathy: The Contribution of Empathy to Interpersonal Emotion Regulation (2021). In The Neural Basis of Mentalizing (pp. 567-578). Springer, Cham.
Haim-Nachum, S., Sopp, M. R., Michael, T., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Levy-Gigi, E. No distance is too far between friends: associations of comfortable interpersonal distance with PTSD and anxiety symptoms in Israeli firefighters (2021). European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1), 1899480.
Han, X., Zhou, S., Fahoum, N., Wu, T., Gao, T., Shamay-Tsoory, S., ... & Han, S. Cognitive and neural bases of decision-making causing civilian casualties during intergroup conflict (2021). Nature Human Behaviour, 1-12.
Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. Brains that Fire Together Wire Together: Interbrain Plasticity Underlies Learning in Social Interactions (2021). The Neuroscientist, 1073858421996682.
Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., & Levy-Gigi, E. You Name It: Interpersonal Affect Labeling Diminishes Distress in Romantic Couples (2021). Behavior Therapy, 52(2), 455-464.
Sahi, R. S., Dieffenbach, M. C., Gan, S., Lee, M., Hazlett, L. I., Burns, S. M., ... & Eisenberger, N. I. The comfort in touch: Immediate and lasting effects of handholding on emotional pain (2021). PloS one, 16(2), e0246753.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Goldstein, P., Dolev-Amit, T., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. Oxytocin synchrony between patients and therapists as a mechanism underlying effective psychotherapy for depression (2021). Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 89(1), 49.
Marton-Alper, I. Z., Gvirts-Provolovski, H. Z., Nevat, M., Karklinsky, M., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. Herding in human groups is related to high autistic traits (2020). Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-15.
Dinstein, I., Arazi, A., Golan, H. M., Koller, J., Elliott, E., Gozes, I., ... & Meiri, G. The National Autism Database of Israel: a resource for studying autism risk factors, biomarkers, outcome measures, and treatment efficacy (2020). Journal of Molecular Neuroscience, 70(9), 1303-1312.
Naor, N., Rohr, C., Schaare, L. H., Limbachia, C., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Okon-Singer, H. The neural networks underlying reappraisal of empathy for pain (2020). Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(7), 733-744.
Zilcha-Mano, S., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Dolev-Amit, T., Zagoory-Sharon, O., & Feldman, R. Oxytocin as a biomarker of the formation of therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy and counseling psychology (2020). Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67(4), 523.
Nafcha, O., Morshed-Sakran, A., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Gabay, S. The effect of co-actor group membership on the social inhibition of return effect (2020). Acta Psychologica, 208, 103119.
Peled-Avron, L., Abu-Akel, A., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. Exogenous effects of oxytocin in five psychiatric disorders: a systematic review, meta-analyses and a personalized approach through the lens of the social salience hypothesis (2020). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 114, 70-95.
Rubinsten, O., Korem, N., Perry, A., Goldberg, M., & Shamay‐Tsoory, S. Different neural activations for an approaching friend versus stranger: Linking personal space to numerical cognition (2020). Brain and behavior, 10(6), e01613.
Korisky, A., Eisenberger, N. I., Nevat, M., Weissman-Fogel, I., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. A dual-brain approach for understanding the neuralmechanisms that underlie the comforting effects of social touch (2020). cortex, 127, 333-346.
Egito, J. H., Nevat, M., Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., & Osório, A. A. C. Oxytocin increases the social salience of the outgroup in potential threat contexts (2020). Hormones and behavior, 122, 104733.
Nafcha, O., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Gabay, S. The sociality of social inhibition of return (2020). Cognition, 195, 104108.
Levi-Shachar, O., Gvirts, H. Z., Goldwin, Y., Bloch, Y., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Zagoory-Sharon, O., ... & Maoz, H. The effect of methylphenidate on social cognition and oxytocin in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (2020). Neuropsychopharmacology, 45(2), 367-373.
Kodesh, E., Sirkis-Gork, A., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Mankovsky-Arnold, T., & Weissman-Fogel, I. Pain Sensitivity And Psychological Variables Affect Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS): 1183 May 30 11: 00 AM-11: 15 AM (2019). Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 51(6S), 310.
Oren, C., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. Women’s Body Odor during Ovulation Improves Social Perception in Single Men (2019). Chemical senses, 44(9), 653-662.
Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., & Mendelsohn, A. Real-life neuroscience: an ecological approach to brain and behavior research (2019). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(5), 841-859.
Oren C, Peled-Avron L, Shamay-Tsoory SG. A scent of romance: Human putative pheromone affects men's sexual cognition (2019). Social cognitive and affective neuroscience.
Reiss PT, Gvirts HZ, Bennet R, Kanterman A, Fahoum N, Shamay-Tsoory SG. A Time-Varying Measure of Dyadic Synchrony for Three-Dimensional Motion (2019). Multivariate behavioral research.
Kleinmintz, O. M., Ivancovsky, T., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. The two-fold model of creativity: the neural underpinnings of the generation and evaluation of creative ideas (2019). Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 27, 131-138.
Uzefovsky F, Bethlehem RA, Shamay-Tsoory S, Ruigrok A, Holt R, Spencer M, Chura L, Warrier V, Chakrabarti B, Bullmore E, Suckling J. The oxytocin receptor gene predicts brain activity during an emotion recognition task in autism (2019). Molecular autism.
Josef L, Goldstein P, Mayseless N, Ayalon L, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The oxytocinergic system mediates synchronized interpersonal movement during dance (2019). Scientific reports.
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Saporta N, Marton-Alper IZ, Gvirts HZ. Herding brains: a core neural mechanism for social alignment (2019). Trends in cognitive sciences.
Ivancovsky, T., Shamay-Tsoory, S., Lee, J., Morio, H., & Kurman, J. A dual process model of generation and evaluation: A theoretical framework to examine cross-cultural differences in the creative process (2019). Personality and Individual Differences, 139, 60-68.
Banner A, Gabay S, Shamay-Tsoory S. Androstadienone, a putative chemosignal of dominance, increases gaze avoidance among men with high social anxiety (2019). Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Oren C, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Women's fertility cues affect cooperative behavior: Evidence for the role of the human putative chemosignal estratetraenol (2019). Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Rossetto F, Castelli I, Baglio F, Massaro D, Alberoni M, Nemni R, Shamay-Tsoory S, Marchetti A. Cognitive and Affective Theory of Mind in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Parkinson’s Disease: Preliminary Evidence from the Italian Version of the Yoni Task (2018). Developmental neuropsychology.
Cavicchio F, Dachkovsky S, Leemor L, Shamay-Tsoory S, Sandler W. Compositionality in the language of emotion (2018). PloS one.
Ivancovsky T, Kleinmintz O, Lee J, Kurman J, Shamay‐Tsoory SG. The neural underpinnings of cross‐cultural differences in creativity (2018). Human brain mapping.
Banner A, Shamay-Tsoory S. Effects of androstadienone on dominance perception in males with low and high social anxiety (2018). Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Peled-Avron L, Glasner L, Gvirts HZ, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The role of the inferior frontal gyrus in vicarious social touch: a transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) study (2018). Developmental cognitive neuroscience.
Shamay-Tsoory S, Lamm C. The neuroscience of empathy–from past to present and future (2018). Neuropsychologia.
Ivancovsky T, Kurman J, Morio H, Shamay-Tsoory S. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) targeting the left inferior frontal gyrus: Effects on creativity across cultures (2019). Social neuroscience.
Kisler LB, Gurion I, Granovsky Y, Sinai A, Sprecher E, Shamay-Tsoory S, Weissman-Fogel I. Can a single pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation targeted to the motor cortex interrupt pain processing? (2018). PloS one.
Cohen D, Perry A, Mayseless N, Kleinmintz O, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The role of oxytocin in implicit personal space regulation: An fMRI study (2018). Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Zilcha-Mano S, Porat Y, Dolev T, Shamay-Tsoory S. Oxytocin as a neurobiological marker of ruptures in the working alliance (2018 ). Psychotherapy and psychosomatics.
Goldstein P, Weissman-Fogel I, Dumas G, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Brain-to-brain coupling during handholding is associated with pain reduction (2018). Proceedings of the national academy of sciences.
Banner A, Frumin I, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Androstadienone, a chemosignal found in human sweat, increases individualistic behavior and decreases cooperative responses in men (2018). Chemical senses.
Cohen D, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Oxytocin regulates social approach (2018). Social neuroscience.
Naor N, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Sheppes G, Okon-Singer H. The impact of empathy and reappraisal on emotional intensity recognition (2018). Cognition and Emotion.
Kleinmintz OM, Abecasis D, Tauber A, Geva A, Chistyakov AV, Kreinin I, Klein E, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Participation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in human originality (2018). Brain Structure and Function.
Oren C, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Preliminary evidence of olfactory signals of women’s fertility increasing social avoidance behavior towards women in pair-bonded men (2017). Scientific reports.
Goldstein P, Weissman-Fogel I, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The role of touch in regulating inter-partner physiological coupling during empathy for pain (2017). Scientific reports.
Peled-Avron L, Goldstein P, Yellinek S, Weissman-Fogel I, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Empathy during consoling touch is modulated by mu-rhythm: an EEG study (2017). Neuropsychologia.
Kisler LB, Weissman-Fogel I, Sinai A, Sprecher E, Chistyakov AV, Shamay-Tsoory S, Moscovitz N, Granovsky Y. Bi-phasic activation of the primary motor cortex by pain and its relation to pain-evoked potentials - an exploratory study (2017). Behavioural Brain Research.
Peled-Avron L, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Don't touch me! autistic traits modulate early and late ERP components during visual perception of social touch (2017). Autism Research.
Cohen D, Perry A, Gilam G, Mayseless N, Gonen T, Hendler T, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The role of oxytocin in modulating interpersonal space: A pharmacological fMRI study (2017). Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Palgi S, Klein E, Shamay-Tsoory S. The role of oxytocin in empathy in PTSD (2017). Psychol Trauma.
Levy-Gigi E, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Help me if you can: Evaluating the effectiveness of interpersonal compared to intrapersonal emotion regulation in reducing distress. (2016). J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry.
Kisler LB, Granovsky Y, Sinai A, Sprecher E, Shamay-Tsoory S, Weissman-Fogel I. Sex dimorphism in a mediatory role of the posterior midcingulate cortex in the association between anxiety and pain sensitivity.(2016). Exp Brain Res.
Gvirts HZ, Mayseless N, Segev A, Lewis DY, Feffer K, Barnea Y, Bloch Y, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Novelty-seeking trait predicts the effect of methylphenidate on creativity.(2016). J Psychopharmacol.
Gvirts HZ, Mayseless N, Segev A, Lewis DY, Feffer K, Barnea Y, Bloch Y, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Novelty-seeking trait predicts the effect of methylphenidate on creativity.(2016). J Psychopharmacol.
Goldstein P, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Yellinek S, Weissman-Fogel I. Empathy Predicts an Experimental Pain Reduction During Touch. (2016). J Pain.
Gabay Y, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Goldfarb L. Cognitive and emotional empathy in typical and impaired readers and its relationship to reading competence. (2016). J Clin Exp Neuropsychol.
Krystal JH, Abi-Dargham A, Akbarian S, Arnsten AF, Barch DM, Bearden CE, Braff DL, Brown ES, Bullmore ET, Carlezon WA Jr, Carter CS, Cook EH Jr, Daskalakis ZJ, DiLeone RJ, Duman RS, Grace AA, Hariri AR, Harrison PJ, Hiroi N, Kenny PJ, Kleinman JE, Krystal AD, Lewis DA, Lipska BK, Marder SR, Mason GF, Mathalon DH, McClung CA, McDougle CJ, McIntosh AM, McMahon FJ, Mirnics K, Monteggia LM, Narendran R, Nestler EJ, Neumeister A, O'Donovan MC, Öngür D, Pariante CM, Paulus MP, Pearlson G, Phillips ML, Pine DS, Pizzagalli DA, Pletnikov MV, Ragland JD, Rapoport JL, Ressler KJ, Russo SJ, Sanacora G, Sawa A, Schatzberg AF, Shaham Y, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Sklar P, State MW, Stein MB, Strakowski SM, Taylor SF, Turecki G, Turetsky BI, Weissman MM, Zachariou V, Zarate CA Jr, Zubieta JK Constance E. Lieber, Theodore R. Stanley, and the Enduring Impact of Philanthropy on Psychiatry Research.(2016). Biol Psychiatry.
Segev A, Gvirts HZ, Strouse K, Mayseless N, Gelbard H, Lewis YD, Barnea Y, Feffer K, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Bloch Y. A possible effect of methylphenidate on state anxiety: A single dose, placebo controlled, crossover study in a control group. (2016). Psychiatry Res.
de la Osa N, Granero R, Domenech JM, Shamay-Tsoory S, Ezpeleta L. Cognitive and affective components of Theory of Mind in preschoolers with oppositional defiance disorder: Clinical evidence. (2016). Psychiatry Res.
Peled-Avron L, Levy-Gigi E, Richter-Levin G, Korem N, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The role of empathy in the neural responses to observed human social touch. (2016). Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci.
Ne'eman R, Perach-Barzilay N, Fischer-Shofty M, Atias A, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Intranasal administration of oxytocin increases human aggressive behavior. (2016). Horm Behav.
Peled-Avron L, Perry A, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The effect of oxytocin on the anthropomorphism of touch. (2016). Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Shamay-Tsoory S, Young LJ. Understanding the Oxytocin System and Its Relevance to Psychiatry. (2016). Biol Psychiatry.
Palgi S, Klein E, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Oxytocin improves compassion toward women among patients with PTSD. (2016). Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Ma Y, Shamay-Tsoory S, Han S, Zink CF. Oxytocin and Social Adaptation: Insights from Neuroimaging Studies of Healthy and Clinical Populations.(2016). Trends Cogn Sci.
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Abu-Akel A. The Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin.(2016). Biol Psychiatry.
Mayseless N, Eran A, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Generating original ideas: The neural underpinning of originality. (2015). Neuroimage.
Abu-Akel A, Fischer-Shofty M, Levkovitz Y, Decety J, Shamay-Tsoory S. Oxytocin and empathy to pain in schizophrenia: a reply. (2015). Psychol Med.
Adler N, Dvash J, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Empathic Embarrassment Accuracy in Autism Spectrum Disorder. (2015). Autism Res.
Perry A, Levy-Gigi E, Richter-Levin G, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Interpersonal distance and social anxiety in autistic spectrum disorders: A behavioral and ERP study.(2015). Soc Neurosci.
Mayseless N, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Enhancing verbal creativity: modulating creativity by altering the balance between right and left inferior frontal gyrus with tDCS. (2015). Neuroscience.
Mayseless N, Aharon-Peretz J, Shamay-Tsoory S. Unleashing creativity: The role of left temporoparietal regions in evaluating and inhibiting the generation of creative ideas. (2014). Neuropsychologia.
Abu-Akel A, Palgi S, Klein E, Decety J, Shamay-Tsoory S. Oxytocin increases empathy to pain when adopting the other- but not the self-perspective. (2015). Soc Neurosci.
Abu-Akel A, Fischer-Shofty M, Levkovitz Y, Decety J, Shamay-Tsoory S. The role of oxytocin in empathy to the pain of conflictual out-group members among patients with schizophrenia.(2014). Psychol Med.
Kleinmintz OM, Goldstein P, Mayseless N, Abecasis D, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Expertise in musical improvisation and creativity: the mediation of idea evaluation. (2014). PLoS One.
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Ahronberg-Kirschenbaum D, Bauminger-Zviely N. There is no joy like malicious joy: schadenfreude in young children. (2014). PLoS One.
Uzefovsky F, Shalev I, Israel S, Edelman S, Raz Y, Perach-Barzilay N, Mankuta D, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Knafo A, Ebstein RP. The dopamine D4 receptor gene shows a gender-sensitive association with cognitive empathy: evidence from two independent samples. (2014). Emotion.
Palgi S, Klein E, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Intranasal administration of oxytocin increases compassion toward women. (2015). Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci.
Dvash J, Ben-Zèev A, Noga A, Shamay-Tsoory S. The road not taken: social vs. private comparisons in Asperger׳s syndrome and high functioning autism. (2014). Psychiatry Res.
Perry A, Mankuta D, Shamay-Tsoory SG. OT promotes closer interpersonal distance among highly empathic individuals. (2015). Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci.
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Abu-Akel A, Palgi S, Sulieman R, Fischer-Shofty M, Levkovitz Y, Decety J. Giving peace a chance: oxytocin increases empathy to pain in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (2013). Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Perry D, Walder K, Hendler T, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The gender you are and the gender you like: sexual preference and empathic neural responses. (2013). Brain Res.
Mayseless N, Uzefovsky F, Shalev I, Ebstein RP, Shamay-Tsoory SG The association between creativity and 7R polymorphism in the dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4). (2013). Front Hum Neurosci.
Perry A, Aviezer H, Goldstein P, Palgi S, Klein E, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Face or body? Oxytocin improves perception of emotions from facial expressions in incongruent emotional body context. (2013). Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Shamay-Tsoory SG. Dynamic functional integration of distinct neural empathy systems. (2014) Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci.
Perry A, Mankuta D, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Oxytocin promotes closer interpersonal distance among highly empathic individuals. (2014). Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci.
De Dreu CK, Baas M, Roskes M, Sligte DJ, Ebstein RP, Chew SH, Tong T, Jiang Y, Mayseless N, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Oxytonergic circuitry sustains and enables creative cognition in humans (2013). Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci.
Maoz H, Tsviban L, Gvirts HZ, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Levkovitz Y, Watemberg N, Bloch Y. Stimulants improve theory of mind in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. (2013). J Psychopharmacol.
Gonzalez-Liencres C, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Brüne M. Towards a neuroscience of empathy: Ontogeny, phylogeny, brain mechanisms, context and psychopathology. (2013).Neurosci Biobehav Rev.
Arueti M, Perach-Barzilay N, Tsoory MM, Berger B, Getter N, Shamay-Tsoory SG. When Two Become One: The Role of Oxytocin in Interpersonal Coordination and Cooperation. (2013). J Cogn Neurosci.
Fischer-Shofty M, Brüne M, Ebert A, Shefet D, Levkovitz Y, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Improving social perception in schizophrenia: the role of oxytocin. (2013). Schizophr Res.
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Suleiman R, Aharon-Peretz J, Gohary R, Hirschberger G. Sensitivity to fairness and intentions of others in the ultimatum game in patients with ventromedial prefontal lesions. (2013). J Int Neuropsychol Soc.
Gvirts HZ, Harari H, Braw Y, Shefet D, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Levkovitz Y. Executive functioning among patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and their relatives. (2013). J Affect Disord.
Perach-Barzilay N, Tauber A, Klein E, Chistyakov A, Ne'eman R, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Asymmetry in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and aggressive behavior: a continuous theta-burst magnetic stimulation study. (2013). Soc Neurosci.
Fischer-Shofty M, Levkovitz Y, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Oxytocin facilitates accurate perception of competition in men and kinship in women. (2013). Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci.
Perry D, Hendler T, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Can we share the joy of others? Empathic neural responses to distress vs joy. (2013).Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci.
Tibi-Elhanany Y, Shamay-Tsoory SG. Social cognition in social anxiety: first evidence for increased empathic abilities. (2013). Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci.
Genizi J, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Shahar E, Yaniv S, Aharon-Perez J. Impaired social behavior in children with benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes. (2013). J Child Neurol.
Abu-Akel A, Shamay-Tsoory S. Neuroanatomical and neurochemical bases of theory of mind. (2013). Neuropsychologia.
Fisher T, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Eran A, Aharon-Peretz J. Characterization of recovery and neuropsychological consequences of orbitofrontal lesion: A case study. (2013). Neurocase.
Lev-Ran S, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Zangen A, Levkovitz Y. Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex impairs theory of mind learning (2011). Eur Psychiatry (in press)
Shamay-Tsoory SG. The neural bases for empathy (2011). Neuroscientist 17(1):18-24
Perry D, Hendler T, & Shamay-Tsoory SG. Projecting memories: the role of the hippocampus in emotional mentalizing (2011). Neuroimage 54(2):1669-1676
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Adler N, Aharon-Peretz J, Perry D, Mayseless N. The origins of originality: the neural bases of creative thinking and originality (2011). Neuropsychologia 49(2):178-185
Modinos G, Renken R, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Ormel J, Aleman A. Neurobiological correlates of theory of mind in psychosis proneness (2010). Neuropsychologia 48(13):3715-3724
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Gev E, Aharon-Peretz J, Adler N. Brain asymmetry in emotional processing in Asperger syndrome (2010). Cognitive Behavioral Neurology 23(2):74-84
Adler, N, Nadler B, Eviatar Z, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The relationship between theory of mind and autobiographical memory in high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome (2010). Psychiatry Research 178(1):214-216
Dvash J, Gilam G, Ben Zeev A, Hendler T, Shamay-Tsoory SG. The envious brain: The neural basis of social comparison (2010). Human Brain Mapping 31(11):1741-1750
Harari H, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Ravid M, Levkovitz Y. Double dissociation between cognitive and affective empathy in borderline personality disorder (2010). Psychiatry Research 175(3):277-279.
Yechiam E, Arshavsky O, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Yaniv S, Aharon J. Adapted to explore: reinforcement learning in Autistic Spectrum Conditions (2010). Brain and Cognition 72(2):317-24
Fischer-Shofty M, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Harari H, Levkovitz Y. The effect of intranasal administration of oxytocin on fear recognition (2010).Neuropsychologia 48(1):179-84
Kalbe E, Schlegel M, Sack AT, Nowak DA, Dafotakis M, Bangard C, Brand M, Shamay-Tsoory S, Onur OA, Kessler J. Dissociating cognitive from affective theory of mind: a TMS study (2010). Cortex 46(6):769-80
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Harari H, Aharon-Peretz J, Levkovitz Y. The role of the orbitofrontal cortex in affective theory of mind deficits in criminal offenders with psychopathic tendencies (2010). Cortex 46(5):668-77
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Fischer M, Dvash J, Harari H, Perach-Bloom N, Levkovitz Y. Intranasal administration of oxytocin increases envy and schadenfreude (2009). Biological Psychiatry 66(9):864-70
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Harari H, Szepsenwol O, Levkovitz Y. Neuropsychological Evidence of Impaired Cognitive Empathy in Euthymic Bipolar Disorder (2009). Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 21(1):59-67
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Aharon-Peretz J, Perry D. Two systems for empathy: a double dissociation between emotional and cognitive empathy in inferior frontal gyrus versus ventromedial prefrontal lesions (2009). Brain 132(Pt 3):617-27
Shur S, Shamay-Tsoory SG, Levkovitz Y. Integration of emotional and cognitive aspects of theory of mind in schizophrenia and its relation to prefrontal neurocognitive performance (2008). Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 13(6):472-90
Shamay-Tsoory SG, Lavidor M, Aharon-Peretz J. Social learning modulates the lateralization of emotional valence (2008). Brain and Cognition 67(3):280-91
Shamay-Tsoory SG. Recognition of 'Fortune of Others' Emotions in Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism (2008). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 38(8):1451-61
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