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David and Inez Myers Chair in Neural Computation (SB)
Loewenstein's lab

We are an interdisciplinary laboratory, interested in computational neuroscience and computational cognition. Research in the lab in recent years has primarily revolved around the neural mechanisms and computational principles underlying different types of learning. However, we are easily distracted and study whatever question we find interesting.

Tomer Barak

PhD Student

Mousa Karayanni

PhD Student

David Shoresh

PhD Student

Tsahi Asher

MSc Student

David Hansel

Visiting Professor

Shir Shapira

Lab Manager

Silviya Tommasin

Victor Pedrosa

Gianluigi Mongillo

Erez Wolfson

Chanan Shteingart

Noam Saadon-Grosman

Ofri Raviv

Tal Neiman

Lior Lebovich

Lior Fox

Lotem Elber-Dorozko

Ohad Dan

Galit Agmon

Uri Yanover

Dana Shulman

Eran Marom

Yinnon Dolev

Yoni Lavi

Neta Ravid

David Ungarish

Matan Sorek

Assif Ziv

Paymon Ashourian

Dror Cohen

Tal Neiman

Ohad Asulin

Galit Agmon

Yinnon Dolev

Eran Marom

Ofri Raviv

Hanan Shteingart

Uri Yanover

Daniel Schwartz

Ohad Assulin

Dror Cohen

Yoni Lavi

Neta Ravid

Matan Sorek

David Ungarish

Assif Ziv

Yonatan Loewenstein

Robustness of learning that is based on covariance-driven synaptic plasticity

PLoS Computational Biology (2008)

Yonatan Loewenstein, Séverine Mahon, Paul Chadderton, Kazuo Kitamura, Haim Sompolinsky, Yosef Yarom, Michael Häusser

Bistability of cerebellar Purkinje cells modulated by sensory stimulation

Nature neuroscience (2005)

T Barak, Y Loewenstein

Two pathways to resolve relational inconsistencies

Scientific Reports (2025)

D Shoresh, Y Loewenstein

Subject Matter Expertise vs Professional Management in Collective Sequential Decision Making

arXiv (2025)

Saadon-Grosman, N., Asher, T., & Loewenstein, Y.

On the geometry of somatosensory representations in the Cortex

NeuroImage (2025)

Noda, T., Kienle, E., Eppler, J. - B., Aschauer, D. F., Kaschube, M., Loewenstein, Y., & Rumpel, S.

Homeostasis of a representational map in the neocortex

Nature Neuroscience (2025)

Lebovich, Lior, Lea Kaplan, David Hansel, and Yonatan Loewenstein

Stability and robustness of idiosyncratic choice bias

communications Psychology (2025)

Fox, L., Loewenstein, Y.

Is there Value in Reinforcement Learning?

arXiv (2025)

Dan, O., Plonsky, O. & Loewenstein, Y.

Behavior engineering using quantitative reinforcement learning models

Nature Communications (2025)

D Shoresh, Y Loewenstein

Modeling the Centaur: Human-Machine Synergy in Sequential Decision Making

arXiv (2024)

T Barak, Y Loewenstein

Untrained neural networks can demonstrate memorization-independent abstract reasoning

Scientific Reports (2024)

T Barak, Y Loewenstein

Is it me, or is A larger than B: Uncovering the determinants of relational cognitive dissonance resolution

arXiv (2024)

Z Liu, R Reiner, Y Loewenstein, E Lottem

Value Modulation of Self-Defeating Impulsivity

Biological Psychiatry (2024)

Barak, T., & Loewenstein, Y.

Investigating learning-independent abstract reasoning in artificial neural networks

arXiv (2024)

Lebovich, L., Alisch, T., Redhead, E. S., Parker, M. O., Loewenstein, Y., Couzin, I. D., & de Bivort, B. L.

Spatiotemporal dynamics of locomotor decisions in Drosophila melanogaster

bioRxiv (2024)

Lebovich, L., Kaplan, L., Hansel, D., & Loewenstein, Y.

Idiosyncratic choice bias and feedback-induced bias differ in their long-term dynamics

bioRxiv (2024)

E. J. Wolfson, T. Fekete, Y. Loewenstein & O. Shriki

Multi-scale entropy assessment of magnetoencephalography signals in schizophrenia

Scientific Reports (2024)

Fox, L., Dan, O., & Loewenstein, Y.

On the computational principles underlying human exploration

PsyArXiv (2023)

Elber-Dorozko, L., & Loewenstein, Y.

Do Retinal Neurons Also Represent Somatosensory Inputs? On Why Neuronal Responses Are Not Sufficient to Determine What Neurons Do

Cognitive Science (2023)

Shulman, D., Dubnov, S., Zorbaz, T., Madrer, N., Paldor, I., Bennett, D. A., Seshadri, S., Elliott J. Mufson, Greenberg, D. S., Loewenstein, Y., Soreq, H.

Sex-specific declines in cholinergic-targeting tRNA fragments in the nucleus accumbens in Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19, 11, Pp. 5159-5172 (2023)

Shental, N., Loewenstein Y..

Computational Models in Cognition

lamda openu books (2023)

Barak, T., & Loewenstein, Y.

Zero-Episode Few-Shot Contrastive Predictive Coding: Solving intelligence tests without prior training

arXiv (2022)

Barak, T., & Loewenstein, Y.

Naive Few-Shot Learning: Uncovering the fluid intelligence of machines

arXiv (2022)

Johannes P.-H. Seiler, Ohad Dan, Oliver Tüscher, Yonatan Loewenstein, Simon Rumpel

Experienced entropy drives choice behavior in a boring decision-making task

Scientific Reports, 12, Pp. 3162 (2022)

Agmon, G., Loewenstein, Y., & Grodzinsky, Y. .

Negative Sentences Exhibit a Sustained Effect in Delayed Verification Tasks

Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, And Cognition, 48, 1, Pp. 122-141 (2022)

Lebovich, L., Yunerman, M., Scaiewicz, V., Loewenstein, Y., & Rokni, D.

Paradoxical relationship between speed and accuracy in olfactory figure-background segregation

Plos Computational Biology, 17, 12, Pp. e1009674 (2021)

Refaeli, R., Doron, A., Benmelech‐Chovav, A., Groysman, M., Kreisel, T., Loewenstein, Y., & Goshen, I. .

Features of hippocampal astrocytic domains and their spatial relation to excitatory and inhibitory neurons

Glia, Volume 69, Issue 10, Pp. 2378-2390 (2021)

Loewenstein, Y., Raviv, O., & Ahissar, M. .

Dissecting the Roles of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning in Perceptual Discrimination Judgments

Journal of Neuroscience JN-RM-0757-20 (2021)

Castello-Waldow, T. P., Weston, G., Ulivi, A. F., Chenani, A., Loewenstein, Y., Chen, A., & Attardo, A. .

Hippocampal neurons with stable excitatory connectivity become part of neuronal representations

PLoS Biol 18(11): e3000928 (2020)

Fox, L., Dan, O., Elber-Dorozko, L., & Loewenstein, Y. .

Exploration: from machines to humans

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 35, 2020, Pages 104-111, ISSN 2352-1546 (2020)

Saadon-Grosman, N., Arzy, S., & Loewenstein, Y. .

Hierarchical cortical gradients in somatosensory processing

NeuroImage Volume 222, 2020, 117257 (2020)

Grodzinsky, Y., Jaichenco, V., Deschamps, I., Sanchez, M. E., Fuchs, M., Pieperhoff, P., Loewenstein, Y., Amunts K. .

NEGATION AND THE BRAIN: Experiments in health and in focal brain disease, and their theoretical implications

Oxford University Press (2020)

Saadon-Grosman, N., Loewenstein, Y., & Arzy, S. .

The “creatures” of the human cortical somatosensory system

Brain Communications Volume 2, Issue 1, fcaa003 (2020)

Lebovich, L., Darshan, R., Lavi, Y., Hansel, D., & Loewenstein, Y. .

Idiosyncratic choice bias naturally emerges from intrinsic stochasticity in neuronal dynamics

Nature Human Behaviour (2019)

Grodzinsky Y, Deschamps I, Pieperhoff P, Iannilli F, Agmon G, Loewenstein Y, Amunts K

Logical negation mapped onto the brain

Brain Structure and Function (2019)

Gonzales BJ, Mukherjee D, Ashwal-Fluss R, Loewenstein Y, Citri A

Subregion-specific rules govern the distribution of neuronal immediate-early gene induction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)

Dan, O., & Loewenstein, Y. .

From choice architecture to choice engineering

Nature Communications, volume 10, Article number: 2808 (2019)

Agmon, G., Loewenstein, Y., & Grodzinsky, Y. .

Measuring the cognitive cost of downward monotonicity by controlling for negative polarity

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 36. (2019)

Iigaya, K., Ahmadian, Y., Sugrue, L. P., Corrado, G. S., Loewenstein, Y., Newsome, W. T., & Fusi, S. .

Deviation from the matching law reflects an optimal strategy involving learning over multiple timescales

Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 1466 (2019)

Elber-Dorozko, L. and Loewenstein, Y.,

Striatal action-value neurons reconsidered

eLife 7: e34248. (2018)

Fox, L. Choshen, L., and Loewenstein, Y.,

DORA the explorer: directed outreaching reinforcement action-selection

Proc. ICLR (2018)

Mongillo G, Rumpel S, Loewenstein Y

Inhibitory connectivity defines the realm of excitatory plasticity

Nature Neuroscience, 21, 1463–1470 (2018)

Mongillo G, Loewenstein Y.

Neuroscience: Formation of a Percept in the Rat Cortex

Curr Biol. 2017 Jun 5;27(11):R423-R425. (2017)

Mongillo, G., Rumpel, S. and Loewenstein Y.

Intrinsic volatility of synaptic connections – a challenge to the synaptic trace theory of memory

Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2017)

Murakami M, Shteingart H, Loewenstein Y, Mainen ZF.

Distinct Sources of Deterministic and Stochastic Components of Action Timing Decisions in Rodent Frontal Cortex

Neuron. May 17;94(4):908-919.e7. (2017)

Dan, O., Hochner-Celnikier, D., Solinca, A. and Loewenstein, Y.

Association of Catastrophic Neonatal Outcomes With Increased Rate of Subsequent Cesarean Deliveries

Obstetrics and Gynecology (2017)

Sagi Jaffe-Dax, Ofri Raviv, Yonatan Loewenstein, Merav Ahissar

A Computational Model of Dyslexics’ Perceptual Difficulties as Impaired Inference of Sound Statistics

(2017)

Shteingart H, Loewenstein Y.

Heterogeneous Suppression of Sequential Effects in Random Sequence Generation, but Not in Operant Learning

PLoS One. 2016 Aug 18;11(8):e0157643. (2016)

Deschamps I, Agmon G, Loewenstein Y, Grodzinsky Y.

The processing of polar quantifiers, and numerosity perception

Cognition. 2015 Oct;143:115-28. (2015)

Shteingart H., Loewenstein Y.

The Effect of Sample Size and Cognitive Strategy on Probability Estimation Bias

Decison, 04/2015, Volume 2, Issue 2, p.107-117 (2015)

Loewenstein Y, Yanover U, Rumpel S.

Predicting the Dynamics of Network Connectivity in the Neocortex

J Neurosci. 2015 Sep 9;35(36):12535-44. (2015)

Jaffe-Dax S, Raviv O, Jacoby N, Loewenstein Y, Ahissar M.

A Computational Model of Implicit Memory Captures Dyslexics’ Perceptual Deficits

J Neurosci. 2015 Sep 2;35(35):12116-26. (2015)

Gianluigi Mongillo, Hanan Shteingart, and Yonatan Loewenstein

The Misbehavior of Reinforcement Learning

Proceedings of the IEEE, 04/2014, Volume 102, Issue 4, p.528-541 (2014)

Neiman, T., & Loewenstein, Y. .

Spatial Generalization in Operant Learning: Lessons from Professional Basketball

PLoS Comput Biol. 2014 May; 10(5): e1003623. (2014)

Shteingart H, Loewenstein Y.

Reinforcement learning and human behavior

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2014 Apr;25:93-8. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.12.004. (2014)

Ofri Raviv, Itay Lieder, Yonatan Loewenstein, and Merav Ahissar

Contradictory Behavioral Biases Result from the Influence of Past Stimuli on Perception

PLoS Comput Biol. 2014 Dec; 10(12): e1003948. (2014)

Shteingart H, Neiman T, Loewenstein Y.

The Role of First Impression in Operant Learning

J Exp Psychol Gen. 2013 May;142(2):476-88. (2013)

Sorek M, Balaban NQ, Loewenstein Y.

Stochasticity, bistability and the wisdom of crowds: a model for associative learning in genetic regulatory networks

PLoS Comput Biol. 2013;9(8):e1003179. (2013)

Tal Neiman and Yonatan Loewenstein

Covariance-Based Synaptic Plasticity in an Attractor Network Model Accounts for Fast Adaptation in Free Operant Learning

Journal of Neuroscience 23 January 2013, 33 (4) 1521-1534; (2013)

O Raviv, I Lieder, Y Loewenstein, M Ahissar

Contradictory behavioral biases result from the influence of past stimuli on perception

PLoS Computational Biology (2014)

Laquitaine S, Piron C, Abellanas D, Loewenstein Y, Boraud T.

Complex Population Response of Dorsal Putamen Neurons Predicts the Ability to Learn

PLoS One. 2013 Nov 14;8(11):e80683. (2013)

Gianluigi Mongillo, Hanan Shteingart, Yonatan Loewenstein

Race against the machine

Proceedings of the IEEE (2014)

Leshem Choshen, Lior Fox, Zohar Aizenbud, Omri Abend

On the Weaknesses of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2020)

Shomrat T, Graindorge N, Bellanger C, Fiorito G, Loewenstein Y, Hochner B.

Alternative Sites of Synaptic Plasticity in Two Homologous “Fan-out Fan-in” Learning and Memory Networks

Curr Biol. 2011 Nov 8;21(21):1773-82. (2011)

Ashourian P, Loewenstein Y.

Bayesian inference underlies the contraction bias in delayed comparison tasks

PLoS One. 2011 May 12;6(5):e19551. (2011)

Loewenstein Y, Kuras A, Rumpel S.

Multiplicative dynamics underlie the emergence of the log-normal distribution of spine sizes in the neocortex in vivo

J Neurosci. 2011 Jun 29;31(26):9481-8. (2011)

Yonatan Loewenstein

Synaptic theory of replicator-like melioration

Front Comput Neurosci. 2010; 4: 17. (2010)

Jeffrey P. Gavornik, Marshall G. Hussain Shuler, Yonatan Loewenstein, Mark F. Bear, and Harel Z. Shouval

Learning reward timing in cortex through reward dependent expression of synaptic plasticity

PNAS April 21, 2009 106 (16) 6826-6831; (2009)

Loewenstein Y, Prelec D, Seung HS.

Operant matching as a Nash equilibrium of an intertemporal game

Neural Comput. 2009 Oct;21(10):2755-73. (2009)

Loewenstein Y.

Robustness of learning that is based on covariance-driven synaptic plasticity

PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 Mar 7;4(3):e1000007. (2008)

Yonatan Loewenstein and H. Sebastian Seung

Operant matching is a generic outcome of synaptic plasticity based on the covariance between reward and neural activity

PNAS October 10, 2006 103 (41) 15224-15229; (2006)

Yonatan Loewenstein, Séverine Mahon, Paul Chadderton, Kazuo Kitamura, Haim Sompolinsky, Yosef Yarom & Michael Häusser

Purkinje cells in awake behaving animals operate in stable upstate membrane potential

Nature Neurosciencevolume 9, page461 (2006)

Yonatan Loewenstein; Séverine Mahon; Paul Chadderton; Kazuo Kitamura; Haim Sompolinsky; Yosef Yarom; Michael Häusser

Bistability of cerebellar Purkinje cells modulated by sensory stimulation

Nature Neuroscience, Volume 8, p.202–211 (2005)

Häusser M, Raman IM, Otis T, Smith SL, Nelson A, du Lac S, Loewenstein Y, Mahon S, Pennartz C, Cohen I, Yarom Y.

The beat goes on: spontaneous firing in mammalian neuronal microcircuits

J Neurosci. 2004 Oct 20;24(42):9215-9. (2004)

Loewenstein Y.

Ph.D. Thesis: The Olivo-cerebellar System: Dynamical Processes and Computational Principles

(2003)

Yonatan Loewenstein; Haim Sompolinsky

Temporal integration by calcium dynamics in a model neuron

Nat Neurosci. 2003 Sep;6(9):961-7. (2003)

Loewenstein Y.

A possible role of olivary gap-junctions in the generation of physiological and pathological tremors

Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7(2):129-31. (2002)

Yonatan Loewenstein; Haim Sompolinsky

Oscillations by symmetry breaking in homogeneous networks with electrical coupling

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2002 May;65(5 Pt 1):051926 (2002)

Loewenstein Y, Yarom Y, Sompolinsky H.

The generation of oscillations in networks of electrically coupled cells

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jul 3;98(14):8095-100 (2001)

Ofri Raviv , Merav Ahissar, Yonatan Loewenstein

How Recent History Affects Perception: The Normative Approach and Its Heuristic Approximation

PLoS Computational Biology 8(10):e1002731 (2012)

Tal Neiman, Yonatan Loewenstein

Reinforcement learning in professional basketball players

Nature Communications volume 2, Article number: 569 (2011)

Yonatan Loewenstein

Robustness of learning that is based on covariance-driven synaptic plasticity

PLoS Computational Biology (2008)

Yonatan Loewenstein, H Sebastian Seung

Operant matching is a generic outcome of synaptic plasticity based on the covariance between reward and neural activity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2006)

Martijn Schonewille, Sara Khosrovani, Beerend HJ Winkelman, Freek E Hoebeek, Marcel TG De Jeu, Inger M Larsen, J Van der Burg, Matthew T Schmolesky, Maarten A Frens, Chris I De Zeeuw

Purkinje cells in awake behaving animals operate at the upstate membrane potential

Nature neuroscience (2006)

Y Loewenstein, HS Seung

Stochastic choice and operant matching in a neuronal model

REVIEWS IN THE NEUROSCIENCES (2005)

Michael Häusser, Indira M Raman, Thomas Otis, Spencer L Smith, Alexandra Nelson, Sascha Du Lac, Yonatan Loewenstein, Séverine Mahon, Cyriel Pennartz, Ivan Cohen, Yosef Yarom

The beat goes on: spontaneous firing in mammalian neuronal microcircuits

Journal of Neuroscience (2004)

Y Loewenstein, H Sompolinsky

Temporal integration by calcium dynamics in a model neuron

Nature neuroscience (2003)

Y Loewenstein, H Sompolinsky

Oscillations by symmetry breaking in homogeneous networks with electrical coupling

Physical Review (2002)

Y Loewenstein

A possible role of olivary gap-junctions in the generation of physiological and pathological tremors

Molecular psychiatry (2001)

Y Loewenstein, Y Yarom, H Sompolinsky

The generation of oscillations in networks of electrically coupled cells

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2001)

Yonatan Loewenstein

Professor

Email: yonatan@huji.ac.il

Phone: +972-2-6585996

Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 1, Room 2101, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew of University Jerusalem, 9190401

https://loewenstein.huji.ac.il

David and Inez Myers Chair in Neural Computation (SB)
Loewenstein's lab

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