The focus of the Leon Deouell’s Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is on the interface between automatic, non-conscious stages of information processing in the brain and conscious perception and action. This interest stems from observations and empirical studies of stroke patients mainly with right hemisphere damage and unilateral neglect, who lose the ability to attend and respond to the part of space opposite their lesion. To investigate what types of structures and processes need to be intact to support the transition from background processing to conscious awareness of events in the environment, we use performance measures, eye movements, electrophysiology (EEG and intracranial ECOG) and functional MRI. The participants in our studies are young adults (students), patients, and age matched controls. Currently, our studies focus on the how regularity affects the processing of incoming stimuli, why we sometimes miss information that we see in free viewing (using eye-fixation-related-potentials), and how visual information is represented in the brain beyond the first moment of recognition.
Professor Leon Y. Deouell Lab
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Professor Leon Y. Deouell
Professor and Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 1, Room 1101, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
The focus of the Leon Deouell’s Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is on the interface between automatic, non-conscious stages of information processing in the brain and conscious perception and action. This interest stems from observations and empirical studies of stroke patients mainly with right hemisphere damage and unilateral neglect, who lose the ability to attend and respond to the part of space opposite their lesion. To investigate what types of structures and processes need to be intact to support the transition from background processing to conscious awareness of events in the environment, we use performance measures, eye movements, electrophysiology (EEG and intracranial ECOG) and functional MRI. The participants in our studies are young adults (students), patients, and age matched controls. Currently, our studies focus on the how regularity affects the processing of incoming stimuli, why we sometimes miss information that we see in free viewing (using eye-fixation-related-potentials), and how visual information is represented in the brain beyond the first moment of recognition.
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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
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 2, Room 1207, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
