Daphna Shohamy is an associate professor in the Psychology department at Columbia University. Her area of interest is the cognitive neuroscience of learning, memory and decision making. She adopts an integrative approach that draws broadly on neuroscience to make predictions about cognition. Predictions are tested in behavioral and neuroimaging studies in healthy individuals, and in patients with isolated damage to specific brain systems. 

Yaron is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. His research interests are: Talmudic and early Christian literatures, classics and archaeology; encounter between Jews and Graeco-Roman culture.