Uri Hasson

Uri Hasson is a distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at Princeton University. He was raised in Jerusalem and earned his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Hebrew University. Dr. Hasson obtained his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the Weizmann Institute in Israel and later served as a postdoctoral fellow at New York University before joining Princeton University. His research primarily focuses on the mechanisms by which the brain processes real-world information and interacts with the environment. He is particularly interested in face-to-face communication and in humans’ natural language processing abilities. In recent years, Dr. Hasson’s work has expanded to include large language models as a computational framework for modeling the neural foundations of natural language processes. Additionally, he explores how deep learning methods can be applied to examine the development of language in children as it occurs in their home environments.