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

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
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.
Nature Neuroscience, volume 22, pages 57–64

2018

Polterovich A, Jankowski MM, Nelken I. Deviance sensitivity in the auditory cortex of freely moving rats
PLoS One. 13(6):e0197678
Atlan G, Terem A, Peretz-Rivlin N, Sehrawat K, Gonzales BJ, Pozner G, Tasaka G-i, Goll Y, Refaeli R, Zviran O, Lim BK, Groysman M, Goshen I, Mizrahi A, Nelken I, Citri A, The claustrum supports resilience to distraction
Current Biology, Volume 28, Issue 17, 10 September 2018, Pages 2752-2762
Kazakov, A, Nelken I. Acoustic calibration in an echoic environment.
Journal of Neuroscience Methods Volume 309, Pages 60-70
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
Kazakov A, Jankowski MM, Nelken I. Acoustic recordings data from an echoic environment and a toolkit for its analysis
Data Brief. 21:1451-1457

2017

Yarden TS, Nelken I. Stimulus-specific adaptation in a recurrent network model of primary auditory cortex
PLoS Comput Biol. 3(3):e1005437
Keskin AD, Kekuš M, Adelsberger H, Neumann U, Shimshek DR, Song B, Zott B, Peng T, Förstl H, Staufenbiel M, Nelken I, Sakmann B, Konnerth A, Busche M A. BACE inhibition-dependent repair of Alzheimer's pathophysiology
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 114(32):8631-8636
Li J, Liao X, Zhang J, Wang M, Yang N, Zhang J, Lv G, Li H, Lu J, Ding R, Li X, Guang Y, Yang Z, Qin H, Jin W, Zhang K, He C, Jia H, Zeng S, Hu Z, Nelken I, Chen X. Primary Auditory Cortex is Required for Anticipatory Motor Response
Cereb Cortex; 27(6):3254-3271

2016

Jonathan Rubin, Nahum Ulinovsky, Israel Nelken and Naftali Tishby The Representation of Prediction Error in Auditory Cortex
PLoS Comput Biol 12(8) e1005058

2014

Adi Mizrahi, Amos Shalev, Israel Nelken Single neuron and population coding of natural sounds in auditory cortex
Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 24:103-110

2013

Rothschild G, Cohen L, Mizrahi A, Nelken I. Elevated correlations in neuronal ensembles of mouse auditory cortex following parturition
J Neurosci. 2013 Jul 31;33(31):12851-61

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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