Professor Daphna Joel

Daphna Joel is a professor ofโ€ฏneuroscience and psychology at Tel-Aviv University. In the pastโ€ฏdecade, she has been studying questions related to brain, sex and gender, usingโ€ฏvarious analytical methods to analyzeโ€ฏdiverse datasets โ€” fromโ€ฏlarge collections of brain scans to information obtained withโ€ฏself-report questionnaires. In a series of papers, she postulatedโ€ฏandโ€ฏtested the โ€œmosaicโ€ hypothesis. She is also the author of Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of theโ€ฏMaleโ€ฏand Female Brain (2019, Little Brown, N.Y.; Albin Michel, Paris). See this link for moreโ€ฏdetails and her CV.ย 

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