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

Phone: +972-2-5881739
Address: 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
Jack H. Skirball Chair Professor in Brain Research
Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

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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Avaro, V., Taha, E., Shapira, S., Kuehn, G., Hummel, T., Mizrahi, A., Calegari F.

bioRxiv (2025)

Haimson, B., Preminger, T., Rayi, P.R., Sagi, H., Binshtok, A. and Mizrahi, A

bioRxiv (2025)

Praegel B, Chen F, Dym A, Lavi-Rudel A, Druckmann S and Mizrahi A.

eLife  (2025)

Haimson B, Mizrahi A.

Trends in Neurosciences. (2025)

Haimson, B., Gilday, O.D., Lavi-Rudel, A., Sagi, H., Lottem, E., Mizrahi, A.

Sci Adv. (2024)

Licht T, Yunerman M, Maor I, Lawabny N, Oz Rokach R, Shiff I, Mizrahi A, Rokni D.

Curr Biol. (2023)

Shani-Narkiss H., Beniaguev D., Segev I., Mizrahi A.

Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2023)

Haimson B, Mizrahi A.

Hear Res. (2023)

Gilday D. O., Praegel B., Maor I., Cohen T., Nelken I., Mizrahi A.

PLoS Computational Biology (2023)

Gilday D. O., Mizrahi A.

Journal of Neuroscience (2023)

Tasaka G., Maggi C., Taha E., Mizrahi A.

Journal of Comparative Neurology (2023)

Yarden. T., Mizrahi. A., Nelken I.

Journal of Neuroscience. (2022)

Yatziv S., Yudco O., Vaso K., Mizrahi. A., Devor M.

J Neurosci Res. (2021)

Feigin L., Tasaka G., Maor I., Mizrahi. A.

Society for Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience. (2021)

Cohen-Kashi M., Tsivourakis E., Kushinsky D., Apelblat D., Shtiglitz S., Zohar E. Sokoletsky M., Tasaka G., Mizrahi A., Lampl I., Spiegel I.

Neuron (2021)

Kudryavitskaya E., Marom E., Pash D., Mizrahi. A.

Current Biology (2021)

Clayton K.K., Williamson R.S., Watanabe Y., Hancock K.E., Tasaka G., Mizrahi A., Hackett T., Polley D.B.

Current Biology. (2021)

Shani Narkiss H., Vingrad A., Landau I.D., Tasaka G., Yayun N., Terlestky S., Groysman M., Maor I., Sompolinsky H., and Mizrahi. A

Nature Communications (2020)

Gilad A., Maor I. Mizrahi. A.

eLife (2020)

Mizrahi A. Vinograd A.

Elsevier (2020)

Tasaka G., Feigin L., Maor I., Groysman M., Denardo L., Schiavo J., Froemke R., Luo L., Mizrahi A.

Neuron.  (2020)

Dudai D., Yayon N., Lerner V., Tasaka G., Deitcher Y., Niederhoffe N., Mizrahi A., Soreq H., London M.

PLoS Biology (2020)

Maor, I., Ziv, R., Feigin, L., Elyada Y., Sompolinski H., Mizrahi A.

Frontiers in Neural Circuits  (2020)

Dudai A, Yayon N, Lerner V, Tasaka Gi, Deitcher Y, et al.

PLoS Biology (2020)

Kudryavitskaya E., Marom E., Pash D., and Mizrahi A.

Current Biology (2020)

Clayton K.K., Williamson R.S., Watanabe Y., Hancock K.E., Tasaka G., Mizrahi A., Hackett T.,Polley D.B.

Current Biology (2020)

Vinograd.A., Tasaka G., Kreines L., Weiss Y., Mizrahi. A .

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy (2019)

Witkowski E.D., Gao Y., Gavsyuk A.F., Maor I., Dewalt G.J., Eldred W.D., Mizrahi A., Davison I.G.

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience (2019)

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)

Tasaka, G-ichi, Guenthner CJ, Shalev A, Gilday O, Luo L, Mizrahi A.

Nat Commun (2018)

Mizrahi A.

Trends in Neurosciences  (2018)

Tasaka, G. I., Guenthner, C. J., Shalev, A., Gilday, O., Luo, L., & Mizrahi, A.

Nat Commun 9, 871 (2018)

Reshef R, Kudryavitskaya E, Shani-Narkiss H, Isaacson B. Rimmerman N, Mizrahi A., And Yirmiya R.

eLife (2017)

Vinograd.A, Livneh.Y, Mizrahi A.

Journal of Neuroscience (2017)

Vinograd A, Shlomai Y., Stern M., Mukherjee D., Gao Y., Citri A., Davison I., Mizrahi A.

Cell Reports (2017)

Elyada Y., Mizrahi A.

Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2015)

Rothschild G, Mizrahi A.

Annu Rev Neurosci. (2015)

Cohen L., Mizrahi A.

Journal of Neuroscience 35.4 : 1806-1815 (2015)

Adam Y., Livneh Y., Miyamichi K, Groysman M., Luo L., Mizrahi A.

Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2014)

Livneh Y., Adam Y. Mizrahi A.

Neuron (2014)

Mizrahi A., Shalev A. Nelken I.

Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2014)

Miyamichi K, Shlomai-Fuchs Y, Shu M, Weissbourd BC, Luo L, Mizrahi A.

Neuron (2013)

Rothschild G, Cohen L, Mizrahi A, Nelken I.

J Neurosci.  (2013)

Cohen L, Koffman N, Meiri H, Yarom Y, Lampl I, Mizrahi A.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, (2013)

Eban E., Rothschild G., Mizrahi A., Nelken I., Elidan G.

Artificial Intelligence and Statistics  (2013)

Kopel H, Schechtman E, Groysman M, Mizrahi A.

J Neurosci. (2012)

Livneh, Y, Mizrahi A.

Nature Neuroscience (2011)

Cohen, L, Rothschild G, Mizrahi A.

Neuron (2011)

Livneh, Y, Mizrahi A.

The Journal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 519, Issue 11, Pages 2212-2224 (2011)

Livneh, Y, Mizrahi A.

Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 3:17 (2010)

Rothschild G, Nelken I, Mizrahi A.

Nat Neurosci. 2010 Mar;13(3):353-60. (2010)

Adam, Y, Mizrahi A.

Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 134-140 (2010)

Licht, T, Eavri R, Goshen I, Shlomai Y, Mizrahi A, Keshet E.

Development, 137: 261-271 (2010)

Livneh, Y, Feinstein N, Klein M, Mizrahi A.

Journal of Neuroscience, 29 (1) 86-97 (2009)

Kopel, H, Meshulam M, Mizrahi A.

Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Volume 182, Issue 2, Pages 189-194 (2009)

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Further details:
For more information, please contact: Adi Mizrahi: mizrahi.adi@mail.huji.ac.il
Honors:
Eric Roland Professor in Brain Sciences

Adi Mizrahi

Professor

Phone: +972-2-6585163
Lab Phone: +972-2-6585163
Office Phone: +972-2-6586460
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 2, Room 1204, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401

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