Itamar Jalon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute working in the Hasson Lab and in the Music Cognition Lab. Itamar is broadly interested in leveraging deep learning models for the study of social and higher-order cognitive processes in naturalistic settings. This includes processes such as meaning-making in naturalistic social interactions, emotion, self- and other-perception, spontaneous thought or creativity. In his current research, Itamar uses large language models to model naturalistic human speech and ECoG recordings. Prior to joining the Hasson Lab, Itamar earned his PhD (pending approval) in psychology from Tel Aviv University, where he studied computational representations of autobiographical emotions. He has also been involved in research in the neuroscience of pain, creativity, neuromodulation, and other interventions in psychiatry.