Moshe Bar (neuroscientist)

Moshe Bar
Moshe Bar
Born	1964; Dimona, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Education	Ben-Gurion University; The Weizmann Institute of Science; University of Southern California; Harvard University;
	Scientific career
Fields	Cognitive neuroscience
Institutions	Bar-Ilan University; Harvard Medical School;

Moshe Bar (born 1964) is an Israeli cognitive neuroscientist. He is a professor at Bar-Ilan University. He was previously head of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University and before that director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Bar's research focuses on various aspects of brain function, including memory, foresight, mental load, mind-wandering, mood, and creativity. Bar has also contributed to the development of conscious cities, which takes into account the effects of urban design on mental health.

He has published over 80 research articles, edited two scientific books and published the popular science book Mindwandering.

Biography

In 2022 Bar published the popular science book Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity.^[5]

Bar, M. (2004). "Visual objects in context". Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 5: 617–629. doi:10.1038/nrn1476.
Bar, M.; Kassam, K.; Ghuman, A.; Boshyan, J.; Dale, A.; Hämäläinen, M.; Marinkovic, K.; Schacter, D.L.; Rosen, B.; Halgren, E. (2006). "Top-down facilitation of visual recognition". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (2): 449–54. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507062103. PMC 1326160.
Bar, M. (2007). "The Proactive Brain: Using analogies and associations to generate predictions". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 11 (7): 280–289. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2007.05.005.

Bar, M., ed. (2011). Predictions in the Brain: Using Our Past to Generate a Future. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195395518.
Bar, M.; Bubic, A. (2013). "Top-down Effects in Visual Perception". In Ochsner, K.; Kosslyn, S. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. The Oxford Handbook Series. Oxford University Press. pp. 60–73. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988693.013.0004. ISBN 9780190629878.
Kveraga, K.; Bar, M. (2014). Scene Vision: Making Sense of What We See. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262319898.
Bar, M. (2022). Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity. Hachette Go. ISBN 9780306925306.^[5]