My lab focuses on understanding the computations performed by neuronal circuits in the primate brain and how these computations drive higher cognitive behaviors. Specifically, we aim to uncover the neuronal mechanisms in the primate hippocampus that enable navigation through both physical and social spaces. To achieve this, we use wireless neural loggers to record neuronal activity and behavior in social animals as they freely navigate these environments. Our approach centers on studying the neural correlates of natural behaviors.
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Neurophysiology of cognitive processes
D. B. Omer, L. Las, N. Ulanovsky
Nat Neurosci 26, 285–294 (2022)
Guy Oren, Aner Shapira, Reuven Lifshitz, Ehud Vinepinsky, Roni Cohen, Tomer Fried, Guy P. Hadad, David Omer
Science (2024)
Fekete T, Omer DB, O'Hashi K, Grinvald A, van Leeuwen C, Shriki O
NeuroImage, Volume 183, Pages 919-933 (2018)
Omer DB, Fekete T, Ulchin Y, Hildesheim R, Grinvald A
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 1291–1304 (2018)
Omer DB, Maimon SR, Las L, Ulanovsky N
Science, Vol. 359, Issue 6372, pp. 218-224 (2018)
Omer DB, Hildesheim R, Grinvald A
NeuroImage, Volume 82, Pages 237-251 (2013)
Muir DR, Costa NMAD, Girardin CC, Naaman S, Omer DB, Ruesch E, Grinvald A, Douglas RJ
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 21, Issue 10, Pages 2244–2260 (2011)
Fekete T, Pitowsky I, Grinvald A, Omer DB
Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Volume 27, Issue 2, pp 211–227 (2009)
Fekete T, Omer DB, Naaman S, Grinvald A
Journal of Neuroscience Methods Volume 178, Issue 1, Pages 31-39 (2009)
Reidl J, Starke J, Omer DB, Grinvald A, Spors H
NeuroImage, Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 94-108 (2007)
Vanzetta I, Slovin H, Omer DB, Grinvald A
Neuron, Volume 42, Issue 5, Pages 843-854 (2004)
Open positions for outstanding, highly motivated postdocs, graduate and master students who are fascinated and interested in systems neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and/or computational neuroscience. Positions are available for each of the following two projects:
(1) Neural basis of social cognition in the hippocampus.
(2) Spatial Navigation – neural basis of spatial navigation in freely behaving animals.
(1) Neural basis of social cognition in the hippocampus.
(2) Spatial Navigation – neural basis of spatial navigation in freely behaving animals.
מרכז דוידסון - מכון ויצמן: "תאי המוח של הניווט החברתי"
Ynet: "אני והחבר'ה: כיצד המוח ממפה את המרחב החברתי"
Nature: "‘Bat-nav’ reveals how the brain tracks other animals"
Scientific American: "The Brain’s Marauder’s Map"
Nature Reviews Neuroscience: "An 'other' kind of place cell"
Current Biology: "Social Spaces: Place Cells Represent the Locations of Others"
Ynet: "אני והחבר'ה: כיצד המוח ממפה את המרחב החברתי"
Nature: "‘Bat-nav’ reveals how the brain tracks other animals"
Scientific American: "The Brain’s Marauder’s Map"
Nature Reviews Neuroscience: "An 'other' kind of place cell"
Current Biology: "Social Spaces: Place Cells Represent the Locations of Others"
David Omer
Assistant Professor
Email: david.omer@mail.huji.ac.il
Phone: +972-2-5494712
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 3. Room 2311, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 3. Room 2311, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
Neurophysiology of cognitive processes
My lab focuses on understanding the computations performed by neuronal circuits in the primate brain and how these computations drive higher cognitive behaviors. Specifically, we aim to uncover the neuronal mechanisms in the primate hippocampus that enable navigation through both physical and social spaces. To achieve this, we use wireless neural loggers to record neuronal activity and behavior in social animals as they freely navigate these environments. Our approach centers on studying the neural correlates of natural behaviors.
S Bashari, MM Jankowski, I Nelken
bioRxiv (2025)
J Niediek, MM Jankowski, A Polterovich, A Kazakov, I Nelken
bioRxiv (2024)
Gilday D. O., Praegel B., Maor I., Cohen T., Nelken I., Mizrahi A.
PLoS Computational Biology (2023)
Yarden. T., Mizrahi. A., Nelken I.
Journal of Neuroscience. (2022)
Rajendran VG, Tsdaka Y, Keung TY, Schnupp JWH, Nelken I.
iScience, in press (2023)
Polterovich, A., Jankowski, M.M., Niediek, J., Kazakov, A., Nelken, I.
bioRxiv (2024)
Maciej M. Jankowski , Mousa Karayanni, Mor Harpaz, Ana Polterovich , Israel Nelken
bioRxiv (2023)
Kenneth W. Latimer, Dylan Barbera, Michael Sokoletsky, Bshara Awwad, Yonatan Katz, Israel Nelken, Ilan Lampl, Adriene L. Fairhall, Nicholas J. Priebe
The Journal of Neuroscience (2020)
Maciej M. Jankowski, Ana Polterovich, Alex Kazakov, Johannes Niediek, Israel Nelken
BMC Biology (2023)
Bshara Awwad, Maciej M. Jankowski, Ana Polterovich, Sapir Bashari, Israel Nelken
Current Biology (2023)
Oren Amsalem, James King, Michael Reimann, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Eilif Muller, Henry Markram, Israel Nelken, Idan Segev
bioRxiv (2020)
Atlan G. Terem A. Peretz-Rivlin N., Sehrawat, K. Gonzales, B., Goll Y., Pozner G., Tasaka G., Goll Y., Rafaeli R., Zviran O., Lim B., Groysman M., Goshen I, Mizrahi A., Nelken I., Citri A.
Current Biology (2018)
Mizrahi A., Shalev A. Nelken I.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2014)
Rothschild G, Cohen L, Mizrahi A, Nelken I.
J Neurosci. (2013)
Nadav Amir, Naftali Tishby, Israel Nelken
PLOS Computational Biology, e1010398 (2022)
Mousa Karayanni & Israel Nelken
Journal of Computational Neuroscience volume 50, pages139–143 (2022)
Lior Madmoni, Shir Tibor, Israel Nelken, Boaz Rafaely
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 29, 2037-2047 (2021)
Nadav Amir, Reut Suliman-Lavie, Maayan Tal, Sagiv Shifman, Naftali Tishby, Israel Nelken
PLOS Computational Biology 16(12): e1008497 (2020)
Carsten H. Tischbirek, Takahiro Noda, Manabu Tohmi, Antje Birkner, Israel Nelken, Arthur Konnerth
Cell Reports 27 (5), 1319-1326. e5 (2019)
Huang,Shun-Ho, Shmoel,Nava, Jankowski, Maciej M., Erez, Hadas, Sharon,Aviv, Abu-Salah,Wesal, Nelken,Israel, Weiss,Aryeh, Spira,Micha E.
Frontiers in neuroscience 14, 926 (2020)
Meng Wang, Xiang Liao, Ruijie Li, Shanshan Liang, Ran Ding, Jingcheng Li, Jianxiong Zhang, Wenjing He, Ke Liu, Junxia Pan, Zhikai Zhao, Tong Li, Kuan Zhang, Xingyi Li, Jing Lyu, Zhenqiao Zhou, Zsuzsanna Varga, Yuanyuan Mi, Yi Zhou, Junan Yan, Shaoqun Zeng, Jian K. Liu, Arthur Konnerth, Israel Nelken, Hongbo Jia & Xiaowei Chen
Nature Communications 11 (1), 1-14 (2020)
Israel Nelken
Current Opinion in Physiology 18, 37-41 (2020)
Israel Nelken
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (2017)
Itai Hershenhoren, Israel Nelken
Cerebral Cortex 27 (11), 5130-5143 (2016)
Alainde Cheveigné, Israel Nelken
Neuron 102 (2), 280-293 (2019)
Eban E., Rothschild G., Mizrahi A., Nelken I., Elidan G.
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (2013)
Tamar I Regev, Geffen Markusfeld, Leon Y Deouell, Israel Nelken
Cerebral Cortex 32 (1), 158-175 (2022)
Rothschild G, Nelken I, Mizrahi A.
Nat Neurosci. 2010 Mar;13(3):353-60. (2010)
Mor Harpaz, Maciej M. Jankowski, Leila Khouri, Israel Nelken
Progress in Neurobiology, Volume 202, 102049, ISSN 0301-0082 (2021)
Bshara Awwad, Maciej M Jankowski, Israel Nelken
Cerebral Cortex Volume 30, Issue 8, August 2020, Pages 4465–4480 (2020)
Regev, TI, Nelken I, Deouell LY.
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.
Nat Neurosci (2019)
Kazakov, A, Nelken I.
Journal of Neuroscience Methods Volume 309, Pages 60-70 (2018)
Kazakov A, Jankowski MM, Nelken I.
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.
Cerebral Cortex, Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 1645–1655 (2018)
Polterovich A, Jankowski MM, Nelken I.
PLoS One. 13(6):e0197678 (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.
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.
Cereb Cortex; 27(6):3254-3271 (2017)
Yarden TS, Nelken I.
PLoS Comput Biol. 3(3):e1005437 (2017)
Grimm, S, Escera C, Nelken I.
Biological Psychology Volume 116, Pages 23-27 (2016)
Wigderson, E, Nelken I, Yarom Y.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 113(29): 8308–8313 (2016)
Jonathan Rubin, Nahum Ulinovsky, Israel Nelken and Naftali Tishby
PLoS Comput Biol 12(8) e1005058 (2016)
Barniv D, Nelken I.
PLoS One. 2015 Dec 15;10(12):e0144788. (2015)
Slomowitz E, Styr B, Vertkin I, Milshtein-Parush H, Nelken I, Slutsky M, Slutsky I.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04378 (2015)
Busche MA, Kekuš M, Adelsberger H, Noda T, Förstl H, Nelken I, Konnerth A.
Nat Neurosci. 2015 Nov;18(11):1623-30. (2015)
Nelken I.
Biol Cybern. 2014 Oct;108(5):655-63. (2014)
Moshitch D, Nelken I.
Cereb Cortex. 2016 Feb;26(2):656-68. (2014)
Xu X, Yu X, He J, Nelken I.
Front Neural Circuits. 2014 Jul 30;8:89. (2014)
Nelken I, Bizley J, Shamma SA, Wang X.
J Neurosci. 2014 Nov 12;34(46):15135-8. (2014)
Israel Nelken, Jennifer Bizley, Shihab A. Shamma, and Xiaoqin Wang
J Neurosci. 2014 Nov 12; 34(46): 15135–15138. (2014)
de Hoz L, Nelken I.
PLoS One. 2014 Mar 14;9(3):e91676. (2014)
Itai Hershenhoren, Nevo Taaseh, Flora M. Antunes and Israel Nelken
Journal of Neuroscience 26 February 2014, 34 (9) 3303-3319. (2014)
Grodzinsky Y., Nelken I.
Science. 2014 Feb 28;343(6174):978-9. (2014)
Moshitch D, Nelken I.
J Neurosci Methods. 2014 Mar 30;225:13-28. (2014)
Nelken I, Yaron A, Polterovich A, Hershenhoren I.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2013;787:411-8. (2013)
Chechik G, Nelken I.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Nov 13;109(46):18968-73. (2012)
Nelken I.
Int J Psychophysiol. 2012 Feb;83(2):253-5. (2012)
Yaron A, Hershenhoren I, Nelken I.
Neuron. 2012 Nov 8;76(3):603-15. (2012)
Grienberger C, Adelsberger H, Stroh A, Milos RI, Garaschuk O, Schierloh A, Nelken I, Konnerth A.
J Physiol. 2012 Feb 15;590(4):899-918. (2012)
Zohar O, Shackleton TM, Nelken I, Palmer AR, Shamir M.
J Neurosci. 2011 Jun 22;31(25):9192-204. (2011)
Chen X, Leischner U, Rochefort NL, Nelken I, Konnerth A.
Nature. 2011 Jun 26;475(7357):501-5. (2011)
Israel Nelken
Front Hum Neurosci. 2011; 5: 106. (2011)
Taaseh N, Yaron A, Nelken I.
PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23369. (2011)
Asadollahi A, Endler F, Nelken I, Wagner H.
Eur J Neurosci. 2010 Aug;32(4):606-18. (2010)
Nahum M, Nelken I, Ahissar M.
Vision Res. 2010 Feb 22;50(4):391-401. (2010)
Antunes FM, Nelken I, Covey E, Malmierca MS.
PLoS One. 2010 Nov 19;5(11):e14071. (2010)
Winkler I, Denham SL, Nelken I.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2009 Dec;13(12):532-40. (2009)
Merav Ahissar , Mor Nahum , Israel Nelken and Shaul Hochstein
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences (2009)
Andrew J King, Israel Nelken
Nature Neuroscience volume 12, pages 698–701 (2009) (2009)
Parush N, Arkadir D, Nevet A, Morris G, Tishby N, Nelken I, Bergman H.
J Neurophysiol. 2008 Dec;100(6):3244-52. (2008)
Las L, Shapira AH, Nelken I.
J Neurosci. 2008 Apr 2;28(14):3657-67. (2008)
Nahum M, Nelken I, Ahissar M.
PLoS Biol. 2008 May 20;6(5):e126. (2008)
Israel Nelken and Omer Bar-Yosef
Front Neurosci. 2008 Jul; 2(1): 107–113. (2008)
Nelken I, Bizley JK, Nodal FR, Ahmed B, King AJ, Schnupp JW.
J Neurophysiol. 2008 Apr;99(4):1928-41. (2008)
Gordon N, Shackleton TM, Palmer AR, Nelken I.
J Neurosci Methods. 2008 Apr 30;169(2):391-404. (2008)
Yuval-Greenberg S, Tomer O, Keren AS, Nelken I, Deouell LY.
Neuron. 2008 May 8;58(3):429-41. (2008)
Y. Bitterman, R. Mukamel, R. Malach, I. Fried & I. Nelken
Nature volume 451, pages 197–201 (10 January 2008) (2008)
Nelken I, Chechik G.
Hear Res. 2007 Jul;229(1-2):94-105. (2007)
Israel Nelken, Nachum Ulanovsky
Journal of Psychophysiology 21(3-4):214-223 (2007)
Bizley JK, Nodal FR, Bajo VM, Nelken I, King AJ.
Cereb Cortex. 2007 Sep;17(9):2172-89. (2007)
Alex Loebel, Israel Nelken, and Misha Tsodyks
Front Neurosci. 2007 Nov; 1(1): 197–209. (2007)
Omer Bar-Yosef and Israel Nelken
Front Comput Neurosci. 2007; 1: 3. (2007)
Israel Nelken, Merav Ahissar
IOS Press (2006)
Chechik G, Anderson MJ, Bar-Yosef O, Young ED, Tishby N, Nelken I.
Neuron. 2006 Aug 3;51(3):359-68. (2006)
Moshitch D, Las L, Ulanovsky N, Bar-Yosef O, Nelken I.
J Neurophysiol. 2006 Jun;95(6):3756-69. (2006)
Nelken I, Chechik G, Mrsic-Flogel TD, King AJ, Schnupp JW.
J Comput Neurosci. 2005 Oct;19(2):199-221. (2005)
Bizley JK, Nodal FR, Nelken I, King AJ.
Cereb Cortex. 2005 Oct;15(10):1637-53. (2005)
Liora Las, Edward A. Stern and Israel Nelken
Journal of Neuroscience 9 February 2005, 25 (6) 1503-1513; (2005)
Griffiths TD, Warren JD, Scott SK, Nelken I, King AJ.
Trends Neurosci. 2004 Apr;27(4):181-5. (2004)
Nelken I, Bizley JK, Nodal FR, Ahmed B, Schnupp JW, King AJ.
J Neurophysiol. 2004 Oct;92(4):2574-88. (2004)
Nachum Ulanovsky, Liora Las, Dina Farkas and Israel Nelken
Journal of Neuroscience 17 November 2004, 24 (46) 10440-10453; (2004)
Nelken I.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2004 Aug;14(4):474-80. (2004)
Fishbach A, Yeshurun Y, Nelken I.
J Neurophysiol. 2003 Dec;90(6):3663-78. (2003)
Israel Nelken, Alon FishbachLiora LasNachum UlanovskyDina Farkas
Biological Cybernetics November 2003, Volume 89, Issue 5, pp 397–406 (2003)
Ulanovsky N, Las L, Nelken I.
Nat Neurosci. 2003 Apr;6(4):391-8. (2003)
A postdoctoral position is available in the field of auditory perception under the supervision of Prof. Israel Nelken. Click here for more information.
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
2021 Humboldt research prize
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
2021 Humboldt research prize
Israel Nelken
Professor
Phone: +972-2-6584229
Fax: +972-2-6586077
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 2, Room 1207, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 2, Room 1207, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401