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

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)
Polterovich A, Jankowski MM, Nelken I.
Deviance sensitivity in the auditory cortex of freely moving rats, PLoS One. 13(6):e0197678 (2018)
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 (2018)
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 (2017)
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 (2017)
Yarden TS, Nelken I.
Stimulus-specific adaptation in a recurrent network model of primary auditory cortex, PLoS Comput Biol. 3(3):e1005437 (2017)

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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