Uri Hasson grew up in Jerusalem. As an undergrad, he studied philosophy and cognitive sciences at the Hebrew University. He completed his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and was a postdoctoral fellow at NYU before moving to Princeton. He is currently a Professor in the Psychology Department and the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. His research program aimed to understand how the brain processes real-life information and interacts with the environment, focusing on human face-to-face communication and natural language processing.