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Prof. Naftali Tishby passes away at the age of 68
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Ruth & Stan Flinkman Family Endowment Fund Chair in Brain Research

Tishby's Lab

NEWS

The 2019 IBT Award in Mathematical Neuroscience – THANKS!

Our Information Bottleneck Theory of Deep Learning has recently been noticed – at last!

See the Quanta-Magazine article on our work and my June 2017 Berlin Deep Learning Workshop talk which triggered it.

A longer talk given at Yandex, Moscow, October 10, 2017.

Recent & popular talks

ACDL, Siena, July 2019
MPI, Gottingen, July 2019
ISIT, Paris, July 2019
CBMM, Italy, June 2019
Gatsby triCenter meeting, London, June 2019
IPAM, Geometry of Big Data, UCLA, May 2019
Columbia University Economics, May 2019
IMVC, Tel-Aviv, April 2019
CERN, Geneva, ML for HEP, April 2019
BrainTech, Tel-Aviv, March 2019
ICERM, Brown University, February 2019
Deep Learning & the Brain, ELSC, Jerusalem, January 2019
Directions in Theoretical Physics, Edinburgh, January 2019
Statistical Physics and Machine Learning: A 30 Year Perspectives, APS Physics Next Workshop, October 2018
Part I of a Mini-Course on The Information Theory of Deep Learning, ICTP, Trieste, November 2018
Part II of a Mini-Course on The Information Theory of Deep Learning, ICTP, Trieste, November 2018
Part III of a Mini-Course on The Information Theory of Deep Learning, ICTP, Trieste, November 2018
“What Makes Us Human: From Genes to Machines”, June 6, 2018, Jerusalem.
A Talk at the Israel Academy of Science, June 6, 2018, Jerusalem
Interview on the future of Artificial Intelligence, The AI Summit, Berlin, June 2018.
Interview at SISSA , Trieste, Italy, before my physics colloquium, May 2018.
Perimeter Institute Physics Colloquium, Waterloo, Canada, April 2018.
S tanford CSE Colloquium, April 4, 2018.
Simons Institute, Berkeley, Public talk, April 9, 2018.
Simons Institute, Berkeley, “Brain & Computation program”, March 2018.
Human creativity, Music & Deep Learning, BIU, Nov. 29, 2017.
The Synergy between Information and Control
שבוע אמנות ומוח 2016 דוד גרוסמן ופרופ’ נפתלי תשבי בדיאלוג על מוח, מחשבה, דמיון ויצירה

My Current Lab:

Selected Research Projects

We work at the interface between computer science, physics, and biology which provides some of the most challenging problems in today’s science and technology. We focus on organizing computational principles that govern information processing in biology, at all levels. To this end, we employ and develop methods that stem from statistical physics, information theory and computational learning theory, to analyze biological data and develop biologically inspired algorithms that can account for the observed performance of biological systems. We hope to find simple yet powerful computational mechanisms that may characterize evolved and adaptive systems, from the molecular level to the whole computational brain and interacting populations. An example is the Information Bottleneck method that provides a general principle for extracting relevant structure in multivariate data, characterizes complex processes, and suggests a general approach for understanding optimal adaptive biological behavior

Zaslavsky N, Kemp C, Tishby N, Regier T.

Communicative need in colour naming

Cogn Neuropsychol. (2020)

Levi-Aharoni, H., & Tishby, N.

The value–complexity trade-off for reinforcement learning based braincomputer interfaces

Journal of Neural Engineering (2020)

Jonathan Rubin, Nahum Ulinovsky, Israel Nelken and Naftali Tishby

The Representation of Prediction Error in Auditory Cortex

PLoS Comput Biol 12(8) e1005058 (2016)

Nori Jacoby, Naftali Tishby, and Dmitri Tymoczko

An Information Theoretic Approach to Chord Categorization and Functional Harmony

Journal of New Music Research Volume 44, 2015 - Issue 3 (2015)

Nori Jacoby, Peter E. Keller, Bruno H. Repp, Naftali Tishby, Merav Ahissar

Lower bound on the accuracy of parameter estimation methods for linear sensorimotor synchronization models : quantifying the problem and suggesting a solution

Timing & Time Perception, Volume 3: Issue 1-2 (2015)

Nori Jacoby, Naftali Tishby, Bruno H. Repp, Merav Ahissar and Peter E. Keller

Parameter Estimation of Linear Sensorimotor Synchronization Models: Phase Correction, Period Correction, and Ensemble Synchronization

Timing & Time Perception, Volume 3: Issue 1-2 (2015)

S. Sabato, N. Srebro and N. Tishby

Distribution-Dependent Sample Complexity of Large Margin Learning

Journal of Machine Learning Research, 14(Jul):2119-2149 (2013)

Amir Globerson, Eran Stark, Eilon Vaadia, and Naftali Tishby

The minimum information principle and its application to neural code analysis

PNAS March 3, 2009 106 (9) 3490-3495; (2009)

Chechik G, Anderson MJ, Bar-Yosef O, Young ED, Tishby N, Nelken I.

Reduction of information redundancy in the ascending auditory pathway

Neuron. 2006 Aug 3;51(3):359-68. (2006)

Israel Nelken, Nachum Ulanovsky, Liora Las, Omer Bar-Yosef, Michael Anderson, Gal Chechik, Naftali Tishby, Eric D. Young

Transformation of stimulus representation in the ascending auditory system

Auditory Signal Processing pp 264-273 (2003)

Schneidmann E., Segev I., and Tishby N.

Information capacity and robustness of stochastic neuron models

Advances in neural information processing systems · February 2000 (2000)

Abeles M, Bergman H, Gat I, Meilijson I, Seidemann E, Tishby N, Vaadia E.

Cortical activity flips among quasi-stationary states

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 Sep 12;92(19):8616-20. (1995)

Seung HS, Sompolinsky H, Tishby N.

Statistical mechanics of learning from examples

Phys. Rev. A 45, 6056 – Published 1 April 1992 (1992)

H. Sompolinsky, N. Tishby, and H. S. Seung

Learning from examples in large neural networks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 1683 – Published 24 September 1990 (1990)

H. Sompolinsky and N. Tishby

Learning in a Two-Layer Neural Network of Edge Detectors

Europhysics Letters 13, 567 (1990)

In memoriam: Naftali Tishby

Professor

https://naftali-tishby.mystrikingly.com

Prof. Naftali Tishby passes away at the age of 68
Read More

Ruth & Stan Flinkman Family Endowment Fund Chair in Brain Research

Tishby's Lab

NEWS

The 2019 IBT Award in Mathematical Neuroscience – THANKS!

Our Information Bottleneck Theory of Deep Learning has recently been noticed – at last!

See the Quanta-Magazine article on our work and my June 2017 Berlin Deep Learning Workshop talk which triggered it.

A longer talk given at Yandex, Moscow, October 10, 2017.

Recent & popular talks

My Current Lab:

Selected Research Projects

People

Dina Moshitch

Lab Manager

Lital Summer

Lab administrative officer

Samira Souffi

Post Doc

Mousa Karayanni

PhD Student

Sapir Bashari

Ph.D. Student

Nimrod Agassi

M.Sc. Student

Alon Dotan

B.Sc. Student

Ana Polterovich

Alex Kazakov

Moran Aharoni

Kamini Sehrawat

Arthur Berrou

Maciej Jankowski

Johannes Niediek

Ori Brook

Yael Bitterman

Itai Hershenhoren

Yehuda Albeck

Bshara Awwad

Jonathan Rubin

Dina Farkas

Flora Antunes

Eyal Wigderson

Dana Barniv

Ayelet Shapira

Amit Yaron

Alon Fishbach

Tohar Sion Yarden

Shahar Mendelssohn

Mor Harpaz

Tamar Regev

Leila Khouri

Liora Las

Livia de Hoz

Mor Nahum

Nachum Ulanovsky

Nevo Taaseh

Omer Bar-Yosef

Roi Kliper

Gal Chechik

Yaron Rotman

Nadav Amir

Gideon Rothschild

Publications

S Bashari, MM Jankowski, I Nelken

The representation of regularity and randomness in auditory cortex of awake rats

bioRxiv (2025)

J Niediek, MM Jankowski, A Polterovich, A Kazakov, I Nelken

Insular cortex encodes task alignment

bioRxiv (2024)

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

Surround suppression in mouse auditory cortex underlies auditory edge detection

PLoS Computational Biology (2023)

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

Context-Dependent Inhibitory Control of Stimulus-Specific Adaptation

Journal of Neuroscience. (2022)

Rajendran VG, Tsdaka Y, Keung TY, Schnupp JWH, Nelken I.

Rats synchronize predictively to metronomes

iScience, in press (2023)

Polterovich, A., Jankowski, M.M., Niediek, J., Kazakov, A., Nelken, I.

bioRxiv (2024)

Sehrawat, K., Nelken, I.

Sound preferences in mice are sex-dependent

bioRxiv (2024)

Maciej M. Jankowski , Mousa Karayanni, Mor Harpaz, Ana Polterovich , Israel Nelken

A Rapid Anterior Auditory Processing Stream Through the Insulo-Parietal Auditory Field in the Rat

bioRxiv (2023)

Kenneth W. Latimer, Dylan Barbera, Michael Sokoletsky, Bshara Awwad, Yonatan Katz, Israel Nelken, Ilan Lampl, Adriene L. Fairhall, Nicholas J. Priebe

Multiple Timescales Account for Adaptive Responses across Sensory Cortices

The Journal of Neuroscience (2020)

Maciej M. Jankowski, Ana Polterovich, Alex Kazakov, Johannes Niediek, Israel Nelken

An automated, low-latency environment for studying the neural basis of behavior in freely moving rats

BMC Biology (2023)

Bshara Awwad, Maciej M. Jankowski, Ana Polterovich, Sapir Bashari, Israel Nelken

Extensive representation of sensory deviance in the responses to auditory gaps in unanesthetized rats

Current Biology (2023)

Oren Amsalem, James King, Michael Reimann, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Eilif Muller, Henry Markram, Israel Nelken, Idan Segev

Dense Computer Replica of Cortical Microcircuits Unravels Cellular Underpinnings of Auditory Surprise Response

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.

The claustrum supports resilience to distraction

Current Biology (2018)

Mizrahi A., Shalev A. Nelken I.

Single neuron and population coding of natural sounds in auditory cortex

Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2014)

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

Elevated correlations in neuronal ensembles of mouse auditory cortex following parturition

J Neurosci. (2013)

Nadav Amir, Naftali Tishby, Israel Nelken

A simple model of the attentional blink and its modulation by mental training

PLOS Computational Biology, e1010398 (2022)

Mousa Karayanni & Israel Nelken

Extrinsic rewards, intrinsic rewards, and non-optimal behavior

Journal of Computational Neuroscience volume 50, pages139–143 (2022)

Lior Madmoni, Shir Tibor, Israel Nelken, Boaz Rafaely

The Effect of Partial Time-Frequency Masking of the Direct Sound on the Perception of Reverberant Speech

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

Value-complexity tradeoff explains mouse navigational learning

PLOS Computational Biology 16(12): e1008497 (2020)

Carsten H. Tischbirek, Takahiro Noda, Manabu Tohmi, Antje Birkner, Israel Nelken, Arthur Konnerth

In Vivo Functional Mapping of a Cortical Column at Single-Neuron Resolution

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.

Immunohistological and Ultrastructural Study of the Inflammatory Response to Perforated Polyimide Cortical Implants: Mechanisms Underlying Deterioration of Electrophysiological Recording Quality

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

Single-neuron representation of learned complex sounds in the auditory cortex

Nature Communications 11 (1), 1-14 (2020)

Israel Nelken

From neurons to behavior: the view from auditory cortex

Current Opinion in Physiology 18, 37-41 (2020)

Israel Nelken

Neural Population Coding of Natural Sounds in Non-flying Mammals

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (2017)

Itai Hershenhoren, Israel Nelken

Detection of Tones Masked by Fluctuating Noise in Rat Auditory Cortex

Cerebral Cortex 27 (11), 5130-5143 (2016)

Alainde Cheveigné, Israel Nelken

Filters: When, Why, and How (Not) to Use Them

Neuron 102 (2), 280-293 (2019)

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

Dynamic copula networks for modeling real-valued time series

Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (2013)

Tamar I Regev, Geffen Markusfeld, Leon Y Deouell, Israel Nelken

Context sensitivity across multiple time scales with a flexible frequency bandwidth

Cerebral Cortex 32 (1), 158-175 (2022)

Rothschild G, Nelken I, Mizrahi A.

Functional organization and population dynamics in the mouse primary auditory cortex

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

Mor Harpaz, Maciej M. Jankowski, Leila Khouri, Israel Nelken

Emergence of abstract sound representations in the ascending auditory system

Progress in Neurobiology, Volume 202, 102049, ISSN 0301-0082 (2021)

Bshara Awwad, Maciej M Jankowski, Israel Nelken

Synaptic Recruitment Enhances Gap Termination Responses in Auditory Cortex

Cerebral Cortex Volume 30, Issue 8, August 2020, Pages 4465–4480 (2020)

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 (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)

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)

Grimm, S, Escera C, Nelken I.

Early indices of deviance detection in humans and animal models.

Biological Psychology Volume 116, Pages 23-27 (2016)

Wigderson, E, Nelken I, Yarom Y.

Early multisensory integration of self and source motion in the auditory system.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 113(29): 8308–8313 (2016)

Jonathan Rubin, Nahum Ulinovsky, Israel Nelken and Naftali Tishby

The Representation of Prediction Error in Auditory Cortex

PLoS Comput Biol 12(8) e1005058 (2016)

Barniv D, Nelken I.

Auditory Streaming as an Online Classification Process with Evidence Accumulation

PLoS One. 2015 Dec 15;10(12):e0144788. (2015)

Khouri L, Nelken I.

Detecting the unexpected

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2015 Dec;35:142-7. (2015)

Slomowitz E, Styr B, Vertkin I, Milshtein-Parush H, Nelken I, Slutsky M, Slutsky I.

Interplay between population firing stability and single neuron dynamics in hippocampal networks

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.04378 (2015)

Busche MA, Kekuš M, Adelsberger H, Noda T, Förstl H, Nelken I, Konnerth A.

Rescue of long-range circuit dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease models

Nat Neurosci. 2015 Nov;18(11):1623-30. (2015)

Nelken I.

Stimulus-specific adaptation and deviance detection in the auditory system: experiments and models

Biol Cybern. 2014 Oct;108(5):655-63. (2014)

Moshitch D, Nelken I.

The Representation of Interaural Time Differences in High-Frequency Auditory Cortex

Cereb Cortex. 2016 Feb;26(2):656-68. (2014)

Xu X, Yu X, He J, Nelken I.

Across-ear stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory cortex

Front Neural Circuits. 2014 Jul 30;8:89. (2014)

Nelken I, Bizley J, Shamma SA, Wang X.

Auditory cortical processing in real-world listening: the auditory system going real

J Neurosci. 2014 Nov 12;34(46):15135-8. (2014)

Israel Nelken, Jennifer Bizley, Shihab A. Shamma, and Xiaoqin Wang

Auditory cortical processing in real-world listening: the auditory system going real

J Neurosci. 2014 Nov 12; 34(46): 15135–15138. (2014)

de Hoz L, Nelken I.

Frequency tuning in the behaving mouse: different bandwidths for discrimination and generalization

PLoS One. 2014 Mar 14;9(3):e91676. (2014)

Itai Hershenhoren, Nevo Taaseh, Flora M. Antunes and Israel Nelken

Intracellular correlates of stimulus-specific adaptation

Journal of Neuroscience 26 February 2014, 34 (9) 3303-3319. (2014)

Grodzinsky Y., Nelken I.

The neural code that makes us human

Science. 2014 Feb 28;343(6174):978-9. (2014)

Moshitch D, Nelken I.

Using Tweedie distributions for fitting spike count data

J Neurosci Methods. 2014 Mar 30;225:13-28. (2014)

Nelken I, de Cheveigné A.

An ear for statistics

Nat Neurosci. 2013 Apr;16(4):381-2. (2013)

Nelken I, Yaron A, Polterovich A, Hershenhoren I.

Stimulus-specific adaptation beyond pure tones

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2013;787:411-8. (2013)

Eitan Globerson, and Israel Nelken

The neuro-pianist

Front Syst Neurosci. 2013; 7: 35. (2013)

Chechik G, Nelken I.

Auditory abstraction from spectro-temporal features to coding auditory entities

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Nov 13;109(46):18968-73. (2012)

Nelken I.

Predictive information processing in the brain: the neural perspective

Int J Psychophysiol. 2012 Feb;83(2):253-5. (2012)

Yaron A, Hershenhoren I, Nelken I.

Sensitivity to Complex Statistical Regularities in Rat Auditory Cortex

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.

Sound-evoked network calcium transients in mouse auditory cortex in vivo

J Physiol. 2012 Feb 15;590(4):899-918. (2012)

Zohar O, Shackleton TM, Nelken I, Palmer AR, Shamir M.

First spike latency code for interaural phase difference discrimination in the guinea pig inferior colliculus

J Neurosci. 2011 Jun 22;31(25):9192-204. (2011)

Chen X, Leischner U, Rochefort NL, Nelken I, Konnerth A.

Functional mapping of single spines in cortical neurons in vivo

Nature. 2011 Jun 26;475(7357):501-5. (2011)

Israel Nelken

Music and the auditory brain: where is the connection?

Front Hum Neurosci. 2011; 5: 106. (2011)

Taaseh N, Yaron A, Nelken I.

Stimulus-specific adaptation and deviance detection in the rat auditory cortex

PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23369. (2011)

Asadollahi A, Endler F, Nelken I, Wagner H.

Neural correlates of binaural masking level difference in the inferior colliculus of the barn owl (Tyto alba)

Eur J Neurosci. 2010 Aug;32(4):606-18. (2010)

Nahum M, Nelken I, Ahissar M.

Stimulus uncertainty and perceptual learning: similar principles govern auditory and visual learning

Vision Res. 2010 Feb 22;50(4):391-401. (2010)

Antunes FM, Nelken I, Covey E, Malmierca MS.

Stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory thalamus of the anesthetized rat

PLoS One. 2010 Nov 19;5(11):e14071. (2010)

Nelken I.

Inhibitory plasticity in auditory cortex

Neuron. 2009 Jun 11;62(5):605-7. (2009)

Winkler I, Denham SL, Nelken I.

Modeling the auditory scene: predictive regularity representations and perceptual objects

Trends Cogn Sci. 2009 Dec;13(12):532-40. (2009)

Merav Ahissar , Mor Nahum , Israel Nelken and Shaul Hochstein

Reverse hierarchies and sensory learning

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences (2009)

Andrew J King, Israel Nelken

Unraveling the principles of auditory cortical processing: can we learn from the visual system?

Nature Neuroscience volume 12, pages 698–701 (2009) (2009)

Parush N, Arkadir D, Nevet A, Morris G, Tishby N, Nelken I, Bergman H.

Encoding by response duration in the basal ganglia

J Neurophysiol. 2008 Dec;100(6):3244-52. (2008)

Las L, Shapira AH, Nelken I.

Functional gradients of auditory sensitivity along the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat

J Neurosci. 2008 Apr 2;28(14):3657-67. (2008)

Nahum M, Nelken I, Ahissar M.

Low-level information and high-level perception: the case of speech in noise

PLoS Biol. 2008 May 20;6(5):e126. (2008)

Israel Nelken and Omer Bar-Yosef

Neurons and objects: the case of auditory cortex

Front Neurosci. 2008 Jul; 2(1): 107–113. (2008)

Nelken I, Bizley JK, Nodal FR, Ahmed B, King AJ, Schnupp JW.

Responses of auditory cortex to complex stimuli: functional organization revealed using intrinsic optical signals

J Neurophysiol. 2008 Apr;99(4):1928-41. (2008)

Gordon N, Shackleton TM, Palmer AR, Nelken I.

Responses of neurons in the inferior colliculus to binaural disparities: Insights from the use of Fisher information and mutual information

J Neurosci Methods. 2008 Apr 30;169(2):391-404. (2008)

Yuval-Greenberg S, Tomer O, Keren AS, Nelken I, Deouell LY.

Transient induced gamma-band response in EEG as a manifestation of miniature saccades

Neuron. 2008 May 8;58(3):429-41. (2008)

Y. Bitterman, R. Mukamel, R. Malach, I. Fried & I. Nelken

Ultra-fine frequency tuning revealed in single neurons of human auditory cortex

Nature volume 451, pages 197–201 (10 January 2008) (2008)

Nelken I, Chechik G.

Information theory in auditory research

Hear Res. 2007 Jul;229(1-2):94-105. (2007)

Israel Nelken, Nachum Ulanovsky

Mismatch negativity and stimulus-specific adaptation in animal models

Journal of Psychophysiology 21(3-4):214-223 (2007)

Bizley JK, Nodal FR, Bajo VM, Nelken I, King AJ.

Physiological and anatomical evidence for multisensory interactions in auditory cortex

Cereb Cortex. 2007 Sep;17(9):2172-89. (2007)

Alex Loebel, Israel Nelken, and Misha Tsodyks

Processing of sounds by population spikes in a model of primary auditory cortex

Front Neurosci. 2007 Nov; 1(1): 197–209. (2007)

Omer Bar-Yosef and Israel Nelken

The Effects of Background Noise on the Neural Responses to Natural Sounds in Cat Primary Auditory Cortex

Front Comput Neurosci. 2007; 1: 3. (2007)

Israel Nelken, Merav Ahissar

High-Level and Low-Level Processing in the Auditory System: The Role of Primary Auditory Cortex

IOS Press (2006)

Chechik G, Anderson MJ, Bar-Yosef O, Young ED, Tishby N, Nelken I.

Reduction of information redundancy in the ascending auditory pathway

Neuron. 2006 Aug 3;51(3):359-68. (2006)

Moshitch D, Las L, Ulanovsky N, Bar-Yosef O, Nelken I.

Responses of neurons in primary auditory cortex (A1) to pure tones in the halothane-anesthetized cat

J Neurophysiol. 2006 Jun;95(6):3756-69. (2006)

Nelken I, Chechik G, Mrsic-Flogel TD, King AJ, Schnupp JW.

Encoding stimulus information by spike numbers and mean response time in primary auditory cortex

J Comput Neurosci. 2005 Oct;19(2):199-221. (2005)

Bizley JK, Nodal FR, Nelken I, King AJ.

Functional Organization of Ferret Auditory Cortex

Cereb Cortex. 2005 Oct;15(10):1637-53. (2005)

Liora Las, Edward A. Stern and Israel Nelken

Representation of tone in fluctuating maskers in the ascending auditory system

Journal of Neuroscience 9 February 2005, 25 (6) 1503-1513; (2005)

Griffiths TD, Warren JD, Scott SK, Nelken I, King AJ.

Cortical processing of complex sound: a way forward?

Trends Neurosci. 2004 Apr;27(4):181-5. (2004)

Nelken I, Bizley JK, Nodal FR, Ahmed B, Schnupp JW, King AJ.

Large-scale organization of ferret auditory cortex revealed using continuous acquisition of intrinsic optical signals

J Neurophysiol. 2004 Oct;92(4):2574-88. (2004)

Nachum Ulanovsky, Liora Las, Dina Farkas and Israel Nelken

Multiple time scales of adaptation in auditory cortex neurons

Journal of Neuroscience 17 November 2004, 24 (46) 10440-10453; (2004)

Nelken I.

Processing of complex stimuli and natural scenes in the auditory cortex

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2004 Aug;14(4):474-80. (2004)

Fishbach A, Yeshurun Y, Nelken I.

Neural model for physiological responses to frequency and amplitude transitions uncovers topographical order in the auditory cortex

J Neurophysiol. 2003 Dec;90(6):3663-78. (2003)

Israel Nelken, Alon FishbachLiora LasNachum UlanovskyDina Farkas

Primary auditory cortex of cats: feature detection or something else?

Biological Cybernetics November 2003, Volume 89, Issue 5, pp 397–406 (2003)

Ulanovsky N, Las L, Nelken I.

Processing of low-probability sounds by cortical neurons

Nat Neurosci. 2003 Apr;6(4):391-8. (2003)

Open Positions

A postdoctoral position is available in the field of auditory perception under the supervision of Prof. Israel Nelken. Click here for more information.

Additional 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

Israel Nelken

Professor

Email: israel.nelken@mail.huji.ac.il

Phone: +972-2-6584229

Fax: +972-2-6586077

Israel Nelken

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