Eitan Hemed, PhD

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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Psychology department at the University of Haifa, interested in how humans learn to move and control their motor actions.

I am also a postdoctoral fellow of the Data Science Research Center at the University of Haifa.

Research themes

I used behavioral experiments to test how different statistical properties of action-effect feedback reinforce independent levels of action-selection (e.g., this paper). I was mentored by Prof. Baruch Eitam.

In my current, postdoctoral research i am leading an attempt to study how infants learn to move voluntarily, mainly through studying early reaching behavior. To do so i am using pose-estimation methods to track infants’ movements from videos captured during free play (e.g., this poster). In this project i continue to collaborate with Prof. Baruch Eitam, and also work with Prof. Hagit Hel-Or and Dr. Sagi Jaffe-Dax.