Israel Nelken
Professor
Milton z"l and Brindell Gottlieb Chair in Brain Science
Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology
Honors
1985 The A. Heller prize for excellence in Research Thesis
1991 Fullbright fellowship
1994 The Bergmann Memorial Research Grant (concurrently with BSF grant No. 93-00057)
1999 Research prize of the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School.
2000 Bernard Katz Lecturer for the year 2000
2008 Michael Bruno prize, administered by Yad-Hanadiv foundation
2015 Rector prize for excellence in research and teaching
2016 The Michael Landau prize for the Sciences and Research
Recent publications
- Immunohistological and Ultrastructural Study of the Inflammatory Response to Perforated Polyimide Cortical Implants: Mechanisms Underlying Deterioration of Electrophysiological Recording Quality, Front Neurosci. 2020 Aug 31;14:926. (2020)
- Single-neuron representation of learned complex sounds in the auditory cortex, Nat Commun. 2020 Aug 31;11(1):4361. (2020)
- Stimulus-specific adaptation to behaviorally-relevant sounds in awake rats, PLoS ONE 15(3): e0221541 (2020)
- Synaptic Recruitment Enhances Gap Termination Responses in Auditory Cortex, Cerebral Cortex Volume 30, Issue 8, August 2020, Pages 4465–4480 (2020)
- Value-complexity tradeoff explains mouse navigational learning, PLoS Comput Biol. 16(12):e1008497 (2020)
- 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)
- Multiple Timescales Account for Adaptive Responses across Sensory Cortices, Journal of Neuroscience 39 (50) 10019-10033 (2019)
- Tau impairs neural circuits, dominating amyloid-β effects, in Alzheimer models in vivo., Nat Neurosci 22, 57–64 (2019)
- Acoustic calibration in an echoic environment., Journal of Neuroscience Methods Volume 309, Pages 60-70 (2018)
- Acoustic recordings data from an echoic environment and a toolkit for its analysis, Data Brief. 21:1451-1457 (2018)
Lab Members
Alumni
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Alon Fishbach | |
| Amit Yaron | amityar@gmail.com |
| Ayelet Shapira | ayelet.h.s@gmail.com |
| Dana Barniv | danabarniv@gmail.com |
| Eyal Wigderson | eyal.wigderson@mail.huji.ac.il |
| Flora Antunes | |
| Gal Chechik | |
| Itai Hershenhoren | itai.hersh@mail.huji.ac.il |
| Leila Khouri | leyla.khouri@gmail.com |
| Liora Las | lioralas@gmail.com |
| Livia de Hoz | livia.dehoz@charite.de |
| Mor Nahum | mor.nahum@mail.huji.ac.il |
| Nachum Ulanovsky | Nachum.Ulanovsky@weizmann.ac.il |
| Nadav Amir | nadav.amir2@mail.huji.ac.il |
| Nevo Taaseh | |
| Omer Bar-Yosef | |
| Roi Kliper | r.kliper@gmail.com |
| Tohar Sion Yarden | toharyar@gmail.com |
| Yael Bitterman | yael.bitterman@fmi.ch |
| Yaron Rotman | yarotman@gmail.com |
Contact information
E-mail: israel.nelken@mail.huji.ac.il
Phone: +972-2-6584229
Fax: +972-2-6586077
Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building
North Wing, 2nd Floor, Room 1207
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401 Israel