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Jack H. Skirball Chair Professor in Brain Research

Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

The focus of the Leon Deouell’s Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is on the interface between automatic, non-conscious stages of information processing in the brain and conscious perception and action. This interest stems from observations and empirical studies of stroke patients mainly with right hemisphere damage and unilateral neglect, who lose the ability to attend and respond to the part of space opposite their lesion. To investigate what types of structures and processes need to be intact to support the transition from background processing to conscious awareness of events in the environment, we use performance measures, eye movements, electrophysiology (EEG and intracranial ECOG) and functional MRI. The participants in our studies are young adults (students), patients, and age matched controls. Currently, our studies focus on the how regularity affects the processing of incoming stimuli, why we sometimes miss information that we see in free viewing (using eye-fixation-related-potentials), and how visual information is represented in the brain beyond the first moment of recognition.

Ruoyi Cao

PhD Student

Carmel Auerbach

PhD Student

Chen Gueta

PhD Student

Gal Vishne

PhD Student

Naomi Revel

Reasearch Assistant

Gal Chen

PhD Student

Noa Guttman

Dan Beniamini

PhD student

Tal Golan

Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg

Tamar Regev

Talia Shrem

Shani Shalgi

Nofya Zinger

Liad Mudrik

Ido Amihai

Edden Gerber

Deborah Marciano

Assaf Breska

Alon Keren

Deborah Marciano

Tamar Regev

David Eckert, Christoph Reichert, Christian G. Bien, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Robert T. Knight, Leon Y. Deouell & Stefan Dürschmid

Distinct interacting cortical networks for stimulus-response and repetition-suppression

Communications Biology 5, 909 (2022)

Ruoyi Cao, Yoni Pertzov, Zaifeng Gao, Mowei Shen, Leon Y Deouell

Maintenance of Bound or Independent Features in Visual Working Memory is Task-dependent

bioRxiv (2021)

Marta I Garrido, Leon Y Deouell

Unilateral neglect within the predictive processing framework

Brain Communications 3 (3), fcab193 (2021)

Nathalie klein Selle, Chen Gueta, Yuval Harpaz, Leon Y Deouell, Gershon Ben-Shakhar

Brain-based concealed memory detection is driven mainly by orientation to salient items

cortex 136, 41-55 (2021)

Tamar I Regev, Geffen Markusfeld, Leon Y Deouell, Israel Nelken

Context sensitivity across multiple time scales with a flexible frequency bandwidth

Cerebral Cortex 32 (1), 158-175 (2022)

Gal Vishne, Edden M Gerber, Robert T Knight, Leon Y Deouell

Representation of sustained visual experience by time-invariant distributed neural patterns

bioRxiv (2022)

Liad Mudrik, Leon Y. Deouell

Neuroscientific Evidence for Processing Without Awareness

Annual Review of Neuroscience 45, 403-423 (2022)

Auerbach-Asch, C.R., Bein, O. & Deouell, L.Y.

Face Selective Neural Activity: Comparisons Between Fixed and Free Viewing

Brain Topogr (2020)

Elvira Pirondini, Nurit Goldshuv-Ezra, Nofya Zinger, Juliane Britz, Nachum Soroker, Leon Y. Deouell, Dimitri Van De Ville

Resting-state EEG topographies: Reliable and sensitive signatures of unilateral spatial neglect

NeuroImage: Clinical Volume 26, 2020, 102237 (2020)

Furstenberg A, Dewar CD, Sompolinsky H, Knight RT, Deouell LY

Effect of Aging on Change of Intention

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 13:264 (2019)

Regev, TI, Nelken I, Deouell LY.

Evidence for Linear but Not Helical Automatic Representation of Pitch in the Human Auditory System.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Early Access p.1-17 (2019)

Erel H, Ronen T, Freedman G, Deouell LY, Levy DA.

Preserved left and upper visual field advantages in older adults’ orienting of attention

Experimental Gerontology (2019)

Kam JWY, Griffin S, Shen A, Patel S, Hinrichs H, Heinze HJ, Deouell LY, Knight RT.

Systematic comparison between a wireless EEG system with dry electrodes and a wired EEG system with wet electrodes

Neuroimage; 184:119-129 (2019)

Marciano-Romm D., Bentin, S. Deouell, L.Y.

Alternative outcomes create biased expectations regarding the received outcome: evidence from event-related potentials

Neuropsychologia, 13, 126-139 (2018)

S. Dürschmid, C. Reichert, H. Hinrichs, H.-J. Heinze, H. E. Kirsch, R. T. Knight and L. Y. Deouell (In Press).

Direct Evidence for Prediction Signals in Frontal Cortex Independent of Prediction Error

Cerebral Cortex (2018)

Regev TI, Winawer J, Gerber EM, Knight RT, Deouell LY

Human posterior parietal cortex responds to visual stimuli as early as peristriate occipital cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience, 48:3567-3582 (2018)

Sklar A., Deouell, L.Y., Hassin, R.

Integration despite Fractionation: Continuous Flash Suppression

Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 956-957. (2018)

Shrem, T., Murray, MM, Deouell, L.Y.

Auditory-visual integration modulates location-specific repetition suppression of auditory responses

Psychophysiology, 54, 1663-1675 (2017)

Breska, A., Deouell, L.Y.

Dance to the rhythm, cautiously: Isolating unique indicators of oscillatory entrainment

PLOS Biology, 15(9), e2003534 (2017)

Shrem, T., Deouell, L.Y.

Hierarchies of Attention and Experimental Designs: Effects of Spatial and Intermodal Attention Revisited

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(1), 203-219 (2017)

Golan, T., Davidesco, I., Meshulam, M., Groppe, D. M., Megevand, P., Yeagle, E. M., Goldfinger, M. S., Harel, M., Melloni, L., Schroeder, C. E., Deouell, L. Y.

Increasing suppression of saccade-related transients along the human visual hierarchy

eLife, 6. (2017)

Breska, A., Deouell, L.Y.

Neural Mechanisms of Rhythm-based Temporal Prediction: Delta Phase-locking Reflects Temporal Predictability but not Rhythmic Entrainment

PLOS Biology. 15(2): e2001665 (2017)

Gerber, E. M.,Golan,T., Knight, R. T., Deouell, L. Y.

Persistent neural activity encoding real-time presence of visual stimuli decays along the ventral stream

Neuroimage, 161, 67-79 (2017)

Pfeiffer, T., Heinze, N., Frysch, R., Deouell, L.Y., Schoenfeld, M.A., Knight, R.T., and Rose, G.

Extracting duration information in a picture category decoding task using hidden Markov Models

J Neural Eng 13, 026010 (2016)

Dürschmid S., Edwards E., Reichert, C., Dewar, C., Hinrichs, H., Heinze H-J., Kirsch, H.E., Dalal, S.S., Deouell, L.Y., Knight, R.T.

Hierarchy of prediction errors for auditory events in human temporal and frontal cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 113, 6755-60 (2016)

Golan, T., Davidesco, I., Meshulam, M., Groppe, D. M., Mégevand, P., Yeagle, E. M., Goldfinger, M. S., Harel, M., Melloni, L., Schroeder, C. E. Deouell, L. Y., Mehta, A. D., Malach, R.

Human Intracranial recordings link suppressed transients rather than ‘filling-in’ to perceptual continuity across blinks

eLife, 5, e17243 (2016)

Deouell L.Y, Grill-Spector K., Malach R., Murray M.M., Rossion B.

Introduction to the special issue on functional selectivity in perceptual and cognitive systems – a tribute to Shlomo Bentin (1946-2012)

Neuropsychologia, 83, 1-4 (2016)

Deouell, L.Y

Microsaccades mediate a bottom-up mechanism for cross frequency coupling in early visual cortex. (Commentary on Lowet et al.)

European Journal of Neuroscience, 43, 1284-5 (2016)

Gerber, E. M., Sadeh, B., Ward, A., Knight, R. T., & Deouell, L. Y.

Non-Sinusoidal Activity Can Produce Cross-Frequency Coupling in Cortical Signals in the Absence of Functional Interaction between Neural Sources

Plos One, 11(12), e0167351 (2016)

Marciano-Romm D., Romm A., Bourgeois-Gironde S., Deouell L.Y.

The Alternative Omen Effect: Illusory negative correlation between the outcomes of choice options

Cognition,.146, 324-338 (2016)

Harel, A., Groen, II, Kravitz, D. J., Deouell, L. Y.

The Temporal Dynamics of Scene Processing: A Multifaceted EEG Investigation

eNeuro, 3(5) (2016)

Breska, A., Deouell, L.Y.

When synchronizing to rhythms is not a good thing: Modulations of preparatory and post-target neural activity when shifting attention away from on-beat times of a distracting rhythm

Journal of Neuroscience, 36(27), 7154-7166 (2016)

Furstenberg, A., Breska, A., Sompolinsky, H., & Deouell, L. Y.

Evidence of Change of Intention in Picking Situations

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27, 2133-46 (2015)

Breska, A, Deouell, L.Y.

Automatic bias of temporal expectations following temporally regular input independently of high-level temporal expectation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26, 1555-71 (2014)

Shrem, T., and Deouell, L.Y.

Frequency-dependent auditory space representation in the human planum temporale

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8 (2014)

Fuhrmann-Alpert, G., Manor, R., Shpanier, A., Deouell, L.Y., Geva, A.

Spatio-Temporal Representations of Rapid Visual Target Detection: A Single Trial EEG Classification Algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME), 61, 2290-303 (2014)

Mudrik, L., Shalgi, S., Lamy, D., and Deouell, L.Y.

Synchronous contextual irregularities affect early scene processing: Replication and extension

Neuropsychologia 56, 447-458 (2014)

Bonato, M., Deouell, L. Y.

Hemispatial neglect: Computer-based testing allows more sensitive quantification of attentional disorders and recovery and might lead to better evaluation of rehabilitation

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7: 162 (2013)

Oren, N., Soroker, N. and Deouell, L.Y.

Immediate effects of exposure to positive and negative emotional stimuli on visual search characteristics in patients with unilateral neglect

Neuropsychologia; 51(13):2729-39 (2013)

Shalgi, S. and Deouell, L. Y.

Is there any electrophysiological evidence for subliminal error processing?

Front Neurosci. 7: 150. (2013)

Shalgi, S., Deouell, L.Y.

Is any awareness necessary for an Ne?

Front Hum Neurosci. 6: 124 (2012)

Schechtman, E., Shrem, T., Deouell, L.Y.

Spatial Localization of Auditory Stimuli in Human Auditory Cortex is Based on Both Head-independent and Head-centered Coordinate Systems

J Neurosci. 32(39):13501-9 (2012)

Ido Amihai, Leon Deouell, and Shlomo Bentin

Conscious awareness is necessary for processing race and gender information from faces

Conscious Cogn. 2011 Jun; 20(2): 269–279 (2011)

Ramot M, Wilf M, Goldberg H, Weiss T, Deouell LY, Malach R.

Coupling between spontaneous (resting state) fMRI fluctuations and human oculo-motor activity

Neuroimage. 2011 Sep 1;58(1):213-25 (2011)

Haroush K, Deouell LY, Hochstein S.

Hearing While Blinking: Multisensory Attentional Blink Revisited

J Neurosci. 2011 Jan 19;31(3):922-7 (2011)

Mudrik L, Breska A, Lamy D, Deouell LY.

Integration without awareness: expanding the limits of unconscious processing

Psychol Sci. 2011 Jun;22(6):764-70 (2011)

Amihai I, Deouell LY, Bentin S.

Neural adaptation is related to face repetition irrespective of identity: a reappraisal of the N170 effect

Exp Brain Res. 2011 Mar;209(2):193-204 (2011)

Yuval-Greenberg S, Deouell LY.

Scalp-Recorded Induced Gamma-Band Responses to Auditory Stimulation and Its Correlations with Saccadic Muscle-Activity

Brain Topogr. 2011 Mar;24(1):30-9 (2011)

Mudrik L, Deouell LY, Lamy D.

Scene congruency biases Binocular Rivalry

Conscious Cogn. 2011 Sep;20(3):756-67 (2011)

Mudrik L, Lamy D, Deouell LY.

ERP evidence for context congruity effects during simultaneous object–scene processing

Neuropsychologia, Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 507-517 (2010)

A postdoctoral position is available at the Human Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (HCNL) under the supervision of Prof. Leon Deouell. Our lab investigates perceptual and occasionally also decision making processes and their relation to conscious awareness. What determines whether an event is consciously available or not? What is the difference between processing with and without conscious awareness? We aim to investigate these questions using experimental psychology while employing multiple brain imaging modalities, especially EEG combined with simultaneous eye tracking, intracranial ECOG, and fMRI. The successful candidate will join a recently funded project trying to bridge the signals acquired using these different modalities.

Requirements: Candidates must hold a PhD degree in the field of cognitive neuroscience or a related discipline and have prior experience in human electrophysiology (EEG/MEG/ECOG).

Experience with fMRI is an advantage. Candidates should be driven and able to work independently yet enjoy the collaborative spirit of the lab. Candidates should be proficient in English.

Further details: Possible start of employment: immediate For more information, please contact:
leon.deouell@mail.huji.ac.il