Yosef Grodzinsky Lab

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Neurolinguistics Lab

We study the neural bases of linguistic and logical knowledge and processing. Linguistic knowledge (about how phonemes combines into morphemes and words, which in turn combine into complex meanings) is characterized by Linguistic Theory; logical knowledge is characterized by natural logic; processing ability stems from the implementation of this knowledge bases in cognitive structures that are supported by neural mechanisms. Our lab studies the intricate relation between these, that results in that rich ability that we humans have – the ability to express ourselves freely, and understands others who do so. We try to get a glimpse of the linguistic brain in health as well as in brain disease.

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Yosef Grodzinsky

Professor

Email: yosef.grodzinsky@mail.huji.ac.il
Phone: +972-2-6584496
Mobile: +972-52-5848514
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Yosef Grodzinsky
@Ygrodzinsky
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 3, Room 1302A, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
https://www.grodzinskylab.com
Neurolinguistics Lab

We study the neural bases of linguistic and logical knowledge and processing. Linguistic knowledge (about how phonemes combines into morphemes and words, which in turn combine into complex meanings) is characterized by Linguistic Theory; logical knowledge is characterized by natural logic; processing ability stems from the implementation of this knowledge bases in cognitive structures that are supported by neural mechanisms. Our lab studies the intricate relation between these, that results in that rich ability that we humans have – the ability to express ourselves freely, and understands others who do so. We try to get a glimpse of the linguistic brain in health as well as in brain disease.

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Meirav Givon
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Elham Taha
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Baruch Haimson
Post Doc
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Benne Praegel
Post Doc
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Amichai Lavi-Rudel
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Adria Dym
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Hadar Sagi
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Tamar Preminger
Tamar Preminger
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Yair Leibowitz
Yair Leibowitz
Undergraduate Student
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Noam Ashkenazi
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Shahar Paltiel
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Naftali Leibovitz
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Ami Shalev
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Yoav Adam
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Yoav Livneh
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Yael Shlomai
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Ido Maor
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Amit Vinograd
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Ronen Eavry
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Lior Cohen
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Hadas Lapid
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Yishai Elyada
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Elena Kudryavitslaya
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Omri Gilday
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Claudia Maggi
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Hagit Kopel
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Rachel Nissim
Ariel Gilad
Ariel Gilad
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Gen-ichi Tasaka
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Gideon Rothschild
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Maya Groysman PhD
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Natan Gold
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Talia Singer
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Libi Feigin
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Haran Shani Narkiss
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Itamar Landau
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Shachar Moskovich
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Gilead Raday
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Avaro, V., Taha, E., Shapira, S., Kuehn, G., Hummel, T., Mizrahi, A., Calegari F.

Olfactory Training Enhances Adult Neurogenesis of the Olfactory Epithelium Improving Odor Discriminability of the Olfactory Bulb

bioRxiv (2025)

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

Prolactin Shapes Cortical Plasticity in Fathers

bioRxiv (2025)

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

Age and Learning Shapes Sound Representations in Auditory Cortex During Adolescence

eLife  (2025)

Haimson B, Mizrahi A.

Integrating innate and learned behavior through brain circuits

Trends in Neurosciences. (2025)

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

Single neuron responses to perceptual difficulty in the mouse auditory cortex

Sci Adv. (2024)

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

Adaptive olfactory circuitry restores function despite severe olfactory bulb degeneration

Curr Biol. (2023)

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

Stability and flexibility of odor representations in the mouse olfactory bulb

Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2023)

Haimson B, Mizrahi A.

Plasticity in auditory cortex during parenthood

Hear Res. (2023)

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)

Gilday D. O., Mizrahi A.

Learning Induced Odor Modulation of Neuronal Activity in Auditory Cortex

Journal of Neuroscience (2023)

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

The local and long-range input landscape of inhibitory neurons in mouse auditory cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology (2023)

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

Context-Dependent Inhibitory Control of Stimulus-Specific Adaptation

Journal of Neuroscience. (2022)

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

Anesthesia in mice activates discrete populations of neurons throughout the brain

J Neurosci Res. (2021)

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

Sparse Coding in Temporal Association Cortex Improves Complex Sound Discriminability

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.

NDNF interneurons in layer 1 gain-modulate whole cortical columns according to an animal’s behavioral state

Neuron (2021)

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

Flexible categorization in the mouse olfactory bulb

Current Biology (2021)

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

Auditory Corticothalamic Neurons Are Recruited by Motor Preparatory Inputs

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

Adult Born Neurons Improve Odor Coding by Mitral Cells

Nature Communications (2020)

Gilad A., Maor I. Mizrahi. A.

Learning-related population dynamics in the auditory thalamus

eLife (2020)

Mizrahi A. Vinograd A.

Synaptogenesis in the Adult CNS-Olfactory system

Elsevier (2020)

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

The temporal association cortex is involved in auditory driven maternal plasticity

Neuron.  (2020)

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

Functional characterization of cortical ChAT/VIP interneurons and their effect on the circuit in vivo.

PLoS Biology (2020)

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

Neural correlates of learning pure tones versus natural sounds in the auditory cortex

Frontiers in Neural Circuits  (2020)

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

Barrel cortex VIP/ChAT interneurons suppress sensory responses in vivo

PLoS Biology (2020)

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

Flexible Representations of Odour Categories in the Mouse Olfactory Bulb

Current Biology (2020)

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

Motor corollary discharge activates layer six circuits in the auditory cortex

Current Biology (2020)

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

The Pre-synaptic Landscape of Mitral/Tufted Cells of the Main Olfactory Bulb

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.

Rapid Changes in Synaptic Strength After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

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.

The claustrum supports resilience to distraction

Current Biology (2018)

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

Genetic tagging of active neurons in auditory cortex reveals maternal plasticity of coding ultrasonic vocalizations

Nat Commun (2018)

Mizrahi A.

The Hard and Soft Wired Nature of the Olfactory Map

Trends in Neurosciences  (2018)

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

Maternal plasticity of coding ultrasonic vocalizations in the auditory cortex revealed by genetic tagging of active neurons

Nat Commun 9, 871 (2018)

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

The role of microglia and their CX3CR1 signaling in adult neurogenesis in the olfactory bulb

eLife (2017)

Vinograd.A, Livneh.Y, Mizrahi A.

History-dependent odor processing in the mouse olfactory bulb

Journal of Neuroscience (2017)

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

Functional Plasticity of Odor Representations during Motherhood

Cell Reports (2017)

Maor I., Shalev A., Mizrahi A.

Distinct Spatiotemporal Response Properties of Excitatory Versus Inhibitory Neurons in the Mouse Auditory Cortex

Cereb Cortex (2016)

Elyada Y., Mizrahi A.

Becoming a mother – circuit plasticity underlying maternal behavior

Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2015)

Rothschild G, Mizrahi A.

Global Order and Local Disorder in Brain Maps

Annu Rev Neurosci. (2015)

Cohen L., Mizrahi A.

Plasticity during motherhood: changes in excitatory and inhibitory layer 2/3 neurons in auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience 35.4 : 1806-1815 (2015)

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

Functional transformations of odor inputs in the mouse olfactory bulb

Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2014)

Livneh Y., Adam Y. Mizrahi A.

Odor Processing by Adult-Born Neurons

Neuron (2014)

Mizrahi A., Shalev A. Nelken I.

Single neuron and population coding of natural sounds in auditory cortex

Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2014)

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

Dissecting Local Circuits: Parvalbumin Interneurons Underlie Broad Feedback Control of Olfactory Bulb Output

Neuron (2013)

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

Elevated correlations in neuronal ensembles of mouse auditory cortex following parturition

J Neurosci.  (2013)

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

Time lapse electrical recordings of single neurons from the mouse neocortex

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, (2013)

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

Dynamic copula networks for modeling real-valued time series

Artificial Intelligence and Statistics  (2013)

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

Enhanced synaptic integration of adult-born neurons in the olfactory bulb of lactating mothers

J Neurosci. (2012)

Livneh, Y, Mizrahi A.

Experience-dependent plasticity of mature adult-born neurons

Nature Neuroscience (2011)

Cohen, L, Rothschild G, Mizrahi A.

Multisensory Integration of Natural Odors and Sounds in the Auditory Cortex

Neuron (2011)

Adam, Y., & Mizrahi, A.

Long term imaging reveals dynamic changes in the neuronal composition of the glomerular layer

Journal of Neuroscience (2011)

Livneh, Y, Mizrahi A.

Long‐term changes in the morphology and synaptic distributions of adult‐born neurons

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

Livneh, Y, Mizrahi A.

A time for atlases and atlases for time

Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 3:17 (2010)

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)

Adam, Y, Mizrahi A.

Circuit formation and maintenance—perspectives from the mammalian olfactory bulb

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

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

VEGF is required for dendritogenesis of newly born olfactory bulb interneurons

Development, 137: 261-271 (2010)

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

Sensory Input Enhances Synaptogenesis of Adult-Born Neurons

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

Kopel, H, Meshulam M, Mizrahi A.

Three-dimensional distribution patterns of newborn neurons in the adult olfactory bulb

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

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

Professor

Email: mizrahi.adi@mail.huji.ac.il
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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