Position:

Associate Professor

Contact Information:

DLevy2@paloaltou.edu

Other Positions:

Director, Memory Abilities and Processes (MAP) Lab

Programs:

Master's, Ph.D

Education:

PhD in Cognitive Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
MA in Biblical Studies, Yeshiva University
BA in Jewish Education, Yeshiva University

Biography:

Daniel A. Levy, Ph.D., is a cognitive neuroscientist. He investigates the processes and brain substrates of human memory and attention, how brain damage and neurological illness affect those cognitive abilities, and how they might be improved by physiological and behavioral interventions. He is also concerned with questions at the nexus of psychology and philosophy, such as free will, punishment, and personal identity. He previously served as associate professor, academic director of the international program, and Dean at the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel, and recently was a visiting associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley.

Levy, who was born and grew up in New York City, originally studied education and biblical literature, and after moving to Israel in 1980, taught Jewish studies and worked in educational tourism. At age 40, motivated by philosophical curiosity, he switched gears and began to study the relationship between mind and brain. In 2002 he completed a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Shlomo Bentin, and then did a post-doctoral fellowship at UC San Diego and the San Diego VA Hospital with Prof. Larry R. Squire.

The Memory Abilities and Processes Lab under Prof. Levy's direction explores the fundamental mechanisms of human memory, in a broad range of contexts, with the goal of better understanding how memories are made, maintained or changed, and retrieved. The lab is also interested in developing memory process-based applications to improve the efficacy of psychological interventions, and to support the memory skills of healthy older adults and individuals with neuropsychological challenges.

Areas of Interest:

Memory, Attention, Neuropsychology, Neurophysiology, Neuroimaging

Selected Publications:

Batashvili, M., Dado, O., Edery, D., Kane, N., Xue, G., & Levy, D. A. (in press). Texture and visual memory span capacities are dissociable. Acta Psychologica.

Peleg, O., Soret, R., Charras, P., Mirelman, A., Peysakhovich, V., Maidan, I., & Levy, D. A. (in press). Getting oriented: Redefining attention deficits in Parkinson's Disease. Neuropsychology.

Singer, A., Darchi, S., Levy, D. A., & Sadeh, T. (2024). Intentional forgetting needs intentional remembering. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(3), 827–836.

Shtoots, L., Nadler, A., Partouche, R., Sharir, R., Rothstein, A., Shati, L., & Levy, D. A. (2024). Frontal midline theta transcranial alternating current stimulation enhances early consolidation of episodic memory. npj Science of Learning, 9, 8.

Rozengurt, R., Kuznietsov, I., Kachynska, T., Kozachuk, N., Abramchuk, O., Zhuravlov, O., Mendelsohn, A., & Levy, D. A. (2023). Theta EEG neurofeedback promotes early consolidation of real life-like episodic memory. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 23(6), 1473-1481.

Ben-Zvi Feldman, S., Soroker, N., & Levy, D. A. (2023). Lesion-behavior mapping indicates a strategic role for parietal substrates of associative memory. Cortex, 167, 148-166.

Shi, L., Liu, C., Peng, X., Cao, Y., Levy, D. A., & Xue, G. (2023). The neural representations underlying asymmetric cross-modal sequence prediction. Human Brain Mapping, 44(6), 2418-2435.

Sheaffer, R., & Levy, D. A. (2022). Serial position effects in delayed recognition and the spacing account of negative recency in long-term list memory. Memory & Cognition, 50, 1683–1693.

Batashvili, M., Sheaffer, R., Katz, M., Doron, D., Kempler, N., & Levy, D. A. (2022). Still elusive: Behavioural reconsolidation interference not observed in a within-subjects design. npj Science of Learning, 7, 26.

Levy, D. A. (2022). Optimizing the social utility of judicial punishment: An evolutionary biology and neuroscience perspective. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16, 967090.