Last updated: January 2021
Positions
Associate Scientist, Computational Psychiatry Unit, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York
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2019
Post-doctoral Fellow, Computational Psychiatry Unit, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York
Education
2014-2018
Ph.D., Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University
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2017-2018
Visiting Scholar in Dr. Paul Glimcher’s lab, New York University
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2010-2013
M.A., School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Advisor: Dr. Roy Mukamel
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2008-2012
The Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, Tel Aviv University
Softwares
PSYCHOPY
PAVLOVIA
MATLAB
SPM
BRAINVOYAGER
STATA
Languages
HEBREW native
RUSSIAN native
ENGLISH fluent
ITALIAN elementary
Scholarships & Awards
Trainee Professional Development Award, The Society for Neuroscience (2017)
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Travel Fellowship, The National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel (2017)
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Travel Award, Sagol School of Neuroscience (2017)
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Alpha Mentor Scholarship, The Unit for Science Oriented Youth, Tel Aviv University (2016)
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4-Year Full Scholarship, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University (2014-2018)
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Award of Excellence, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University (2013)
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Award of Excellence, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University (2010)
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4-Year Full Scholarship, The Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, Tel Aviv University (2008-2012)
Publications
Anastasia Shuster & Dino Levy, “Contribution of self- and other-regarding motives to (dis)honesty” (2020) Scientific Reports LINK
Philip Parnamets*, Anastasia Shuster*, Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel, “A value-based framework for understanding cooperation” (2020) Current Directions in Psychological Science) LINK
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Anastasia Shuster & Dino Levy, “Common sense in choice: The effect of sensory modality on neural value representations” (2018) eNeuro LINK
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Maytal Shabat-Simon*, Anastasia Shuster*, Tal Sela & Dino Levy, “Objective physiological measurements but not subjective reports moderate the effect of hunger on choice behavior” (2018) Frontiers in Psychology LINK
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Manuscripts in progress
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Anastasia Shuster*, Madeline O’Brien*, Yi Luo, Matthew Heflin, Dongil Chung, Soojung Na, Ofer Perl, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Vincenzo Fiore & Xiaosi Gu, “Emotional Adaptation During A Crisis: Decline in Anxiety and Depression After the Initial Weeks of COVID-19 in the US” (under review, Translational Psychiatry) LINK
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Vincenzo G Fiore, Nicholas DeFelice, Benjamin S Glicksberg, Ofer Perl, Anastasia Shuster, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Madeline O'Brien, M. Andrea Pisauro, Dongil Chung, Xiaosi Gu, “Containment of future waves of COVID-19: simulating the impact of different policies and testing capacities for contact tracing, testing, and isolation” (under review) LINK
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Anastasia Shuster, Lilah Inzelberg, Ori Ossmy, Liz Izakson, Yael Hanein & Dino Levy, “Lie to my face: EMG study of facial expressions associated with deception” (submitted) LINK
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Yi Luo, Anastasia Shuster, Dongil Chung, Madeline O’Brien, Matt Heflin, Vincenzo Fiore, Ofer Perl, Kaustubh Kulkarni, Soojung Na & Xiaosi Gu, “Dissociable social perception and altruistic choices during the first wave of COVID-19 in the United States” (in preparation)
Anastasia Shuster, Matthew Heflin, Soojung Na, Vincenzo Fiore, Terry Lohrenz, Read Montague, Xiaosi Gu, “The big short: People’s brains compute, but ignore both gain and loss outcomes from negative markets” (in preparation)
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* - shared first authorship
Oral Presentations
Depression, Anxiety and Neuroscience Seminar, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA (2020)
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Cognitive Psychology colloquium, Tel Aviv University, Israel (2019)
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Center for Affective Neuroscience, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA (2019)
Departmental Seminar, Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University (2018)
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Yale Neuroeconomics forum, New Haven, USA (2018)
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Eating and Weight Disorders forum, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA (2018)
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Anastasia Shuster, Ryan Webb, Dino Levy and & Paul Glimcher, “The Neural Representation of Money and Prices”. Talk given at the Consumer Neuroscience symposium, Berlin, Germany (2016)
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Anastasia Shuster & Dino Levy, “Effects of sensory modality on value”. Talk given at the annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Neuroscience, Eilat, Israel (2016)
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Guest lecture at Psychophysiology class, Seminar Hakkibuzim, Tel Aviv, Israel (2015)
Poster Presentations
Anastasia Shuster, Madeline O’Brien, Soojung Na, Vincenzo Fiore, Xiaosi Gu, "To Be Honest: Modelling the Impact of Social Norms and Antisocial Traits on Dishonesty"
Society for Biological Psychiatry, virtual meeting (2020)
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Anastasia Shuster, Matthew Heflin, Soojung Na, Vincenzo Fiore, Terry Lohrenz, Read Montague, Xiaosi Gu, “The big short: people’s brains compute, but ignore monetary gains by successful short-selling”
Social and Affective Neuroscience, Miami, USA (2019)
Anastasia Shuster*, Lilah Inzelberg*, Ori Ossmy, Liz Izakson, Yael Hanein & Dino Levy, “Lie to my face: EMG study of facial expressions associated with deception”
Society for Neuroeconomics, Philadelphia, USA (2018)
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Anastasia Shuster & Dino Levy, “A behavioral and Neural Study of the Motivations for Deception”
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, USA (2018)
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Anastasia Shuster & Dino Levy, “A behavioral and Neural Study of the Motivations for Deception”
Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA (2017)
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Anastasia Shuster & Dino Levy, “A behavioral and Neural Study of the Motivations for Deception”
Society for Neuroeconomics, Toronto, Canada (2017)
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Anastasia Shuster, Ryan Webb, Dino Levy & Paul Glimcher, “The Neural Representation of Money and Prices”
Society for Neuroeconomics, Toronto, Canada (2017)
Anastasia Shuster & Dino Levy, “A Behavioral and Neural exploration of Deception”
Society for Neuroeconomics, Berlin, Germany (2016)
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Anastasia Shuster, Ryan Webb, Dino Levy & Paul Glimcher, “The Neural Representation of Money and Prices”
Israeli Society for Neuroscience, Eilat, Israel (2015)
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Anastasia Shuster, Zafrit Lewin & Dino Levy, “Common sense in choice: Effects of modality on value”
Society for Neuroeconomics, Miami, USA (2014)
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Anastasia Shuster & Roy Mukamel, “Sensitivity of the dorsal premotor cortex to rate of executed and heard sounds”
Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA (2013)
Service
Volunteer Instructor, Common Ground project to educate teens about gender (2016)
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Co-organizer, “What will we do when we grow up”, a workshop on post-doctoral opportunities abroad, Sagol School of Neuroscience (2015)
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Membership
Society for Social & Affective Neuroscience (2018), Society for Social Neuroscience (2013, 2017), Society for Neuroeconomics (2014-2018), Society for Neuroscience (2013, 2017), Israeli Society for Neuroscience (2013-2016), Society for Cognitive Neuroscience (2017), Organization for Human Brain Mapping (2016)
Academic Experience
2014
Research Assistant, Neuroeconomics Lab, Tel Aviv University, Supervisor: Dr. Dino Levy
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2012-2014
Tutor, The Unit for Science Oriented Youth, Tel Aviv University
Professional Experience
Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging, Trento, Italy (2016)
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Brainvoyager Course, ELSC Neuroimaging Unit, Jerusalem, Israel (2015)
QA Engineer, PoccaDot Mobile Software Development (2013-2014)
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QA Engineer of online education tools, Time to Know (2010-2011)
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Sergeant, Behavioral Sciences Unit, Israel Defense Forces (2004-2006)