Israel Nelken

Professor

The Milton and Brindell Gottlieb Chair

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

Huang SH, Shmoel N, Jankowski MM, Erez H, Sharon A, Abu-Salah W, Nelken I, Weiss A, Spira ME.
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)
Wang M, Liao X, Li R, Liang S, Ding R, Li J, Zhang J, He W, Liu K, Pan J, Zhao Z, Li T, Zhang K, Li X, Lyu J, Zhou Z, Varga Z, Mi Y, Zhou Y, Yan J, Zeng S, Liu JK, Konnerth A, Nelken I, Jia H, Chen X.
Single-neuron representation of learned complex sounds in the auditory cortex, Nat Commun. 2020 Aug 31;11(1):4361. (2020)
Yaron A, Jankowski MM, Badrieh R, Nelken I
Stimulus-specific adaptation to behaviorally-relevant sounds in awake rats, PLoS ONE 15(3): e0221541 (2020)
Bshara Awwad, Maciej M Jankowski, Israel Nelken
Synaptic Recruitment Enhances Gap Termination Responses in Auditory Cortex, Cerebral Cortex Volume 30, Issue 8, August 2020, Pages 4465–4480 (2020)
Amir N, Suliman-Lavie R, Tal M, Shifman S, Tishby N, Nelken I.
Value-complexity tradeoff explains mouse navigational learning, PLoS Comput Biol. 16(12):e1008497 (2020)
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)
Busche, M A, Wegmann S, Dujardin S, Commins C, Schiantarelli J, Klickstein N, Kamath TV, Carlson GA, Nelken I, Hyman BT.
Tau impairs neural circuits, dominating amyloid-β effects, in Alzheimer models in vivo., Nat Neurosci 22, 57–64 (2019)
Kazakov, A, Nelken I.
Acoustic calibration in an echoic environment., Journal of Neuroscience Methods Volume 309, Pages 60-70 (2018)
Kazakov A, Jankowski MM, Nelken I.
Acoustic recordings data from an echoic environment and a toolkit for its analysis, Data Brief. 21:1451-1457 (2018)
de Hoz, L, Gierej D, Lioudyno V, Jaworski J, Blazejczyk M, Cruces-Solís H, Beroun A, Lebitko T, Nikolaev T, Knapska E, Nelken I, Kaczmarek L.
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 (2018)

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Alumni

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Alumni

Name	Email
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