Israel Nelken
Professor
Milton and Brindell Gottlieb Chair in Brain Sciences
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
2019
- Evidence for Linear but Not Helical Automatic Representation of Pitch in the Human Auditory System.Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Early Access p.1-17
- Tau impairs neural circuits, dominating amyloid-β effects, in Alzheimer models in vivo.Nature Neuroscience, volume 22, pages 57–64
2018
- The claustrum supports resilience to distractionCurrent Biology, Volume 28, Issue 17, 10 September 2018, Pages 2752-2762
- Acoustic calibration in an echoic environment.Journal of Neuroscience Methods Volume 309, Pages 60-70
- Blocking c-Fos Expression Reveals the Role of Auditory Cortex Plasticity in Sound Frequency Discrimination Learning.Cerebral Cortex, Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 1645–1655
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
