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| Israel NelkenSummaryAffiliation: The Hebrew University Country: Israel Publications
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Responses of neurons in the inferior colliculus to binaural disparities: insights from the use of Fisher information and mutual informationNoam Gordon
Department of Neurobiology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
J Neurosci Methods 169:391-404. 2008....- Encoding stimulus information by spike numbers and mean response time in primary auditory cortexIsrael Nelken
Department of Neurobiology and The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
J Comput Neurosci 19:199-221. 2005.... - Primary auditory cortex of cats: feature detection or something else?Israel Nelken
Department of Physiology, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University, 12272, 91120, Jerusalem, Israel
Biol Cybern 89:397-406. 2003.... - Large-scale organization of ferret auditory cortex revealed using continuous acquisition of intrinsic optical signalsIsrael Nelken
Dept of Neurobiology, The Alexander Silberman Institute for Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
J Neurophysiol 92:2574-88. 2004..Although responsive to pure tones, these areas exhibit less tonotopic order than the primary fields... - Processing of complex stimuli and natural scenes in the auditory cortexIsrael Nelken
Department of Neurobiology, The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computations, Givat Ram 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
Curr Opin Neurobiol 14:474-80. 2004..Evidence with converging implications suggests that the neuronal activity in primary auditory cortex represents sounds in terms of auditory objects rather than in terms of invariant acoustic features... - Responses of auditory cortex to complex stimuli: functional organization revealed using intrinsic optical signalsIsrael Nelken
Department of Neurobiology, Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
J Neurophysiol 99:1928-41. 2008.... - Representation of tone in fluctuating maskers in the ascending auditory systemLiora Las
Department of Neurobiology, Edmund Safra Campus, Givat Ram, and Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
J Neurosci 25:1503-13. 2005.... - Responses of neurons in primary auditory cortex (A1) to pure tones in the halothane-anesthetized catDina Moshitch
Department of Neurobiology, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University, Edmund Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
J Neurophysiol 95:3756-69. 2006..Furthermore, A1 units maintain sensory information in their activity not only throughout sound presentation but also for hundreds of milliseconds after stimulus offset, thus possibly playing a role in sensory memory... - Functional gradients of auditory sensitivity along the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the catLiora Las
Department of Neurobiology, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
J Neurosci 28:3657-67. 2008..We conclude that in cats, pAES contains a secondary auditory cortical field which is specialized for spatial processing, in particular for the representation of frontal space... - Multiple time scales of adaptation in auditory cortex neuronsNachum Ulanovsky
Department of Neurobiology, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
J Neurosci 24:10440-53. 2004..This SSA might play a role in stream segregation and in binding of auditory objects over many time scales, a property that is crucial for processing of natural auditory scenes in cats and of speech and music in humans... - Processing of low-probability sounds by cortical neuronsNachum Ulanovsky
Department of Physiology, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Box 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
Nat Neurosci 6:391-8. 2003..Our results thus indicate that A1 neurons, in addition to processing the acoustic features of sounds, may also be involved in sensory memory and novelty detection... - Functional organization and population dynamics in the mouse primary auditory cortexGideon Rothschild
Department of Neurobiology, Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Nat Neurosci 13:353-60. 2010..Our findings may account for apparent discrepancies between ordered large-scale organization and local heterogeneity... - Reduction of information redundancy in the ascending auditory pathwayGal Chechik
Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Neuron 51:359-68. 2006..IC redundancy was largely related to frequency selectivity. Redundancy reduction may be a generic organization principle of neural systems, allowing for easier readout of the identity of complex stimuli in A1 relative to IC... - Encoding by response duration in the basal gangliaNaama Parush
Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Department of Physiology, Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
J Neurophysiol 100:3244-52. 2008..Thus response duration is not simply correlated with the discharge rate and can provide additional information to the target structures of the BG... - Stimulus uncertainty and perceptual learning: similar principles govern auditory and visual learningMor Nahum
Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Vision Res 50:391-401. 2010..In both modalities, the effects of variability on learning can be explained by the introduction of obstructions to a search mechanism going down along the sensory processing hierarchy, as suggested by the Reverse Hierarchy Theory... - Information theory in auditory researchIsrael Nelken
Department of Neurobiology and The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Hear Res 229:94-105. 2007..Second, it discusses those aspects of the MI that makes its calculation difficult. The goal of this paper is to clarify when and how information theory can be used informatively and reliably in auditory neuroscience... - Processing of complex sounds in the auditory systemIsrael Nelken
Department of Neurobiology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation ICNC, Hebrew University, Safra Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Curr Opin Neurobiol 18:413-7. 2008..A1 is clearly much more than a 'whiteboard' of acoustic information-neurons in A1 have complex response properties, showing sensitivity to both low-level and high-level features of sounds... - Responses of neurons in cat primary auditory cortex to bird chirps: effects of temporal and spectral contextOmer Bar-Yosef
Department of Physiology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
J Neurosci 22:8619-32. 2002..These results illustrate the sensitivity of neurons in AI to small perturbations of their acoustic input. In particular, they pose a challenge to models based on linear summation of energy within a spectrotemporal receptive field... - Reverse hierarchies and sensory learningMerav Ahissar
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905, Israel
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:285-99. 2009.... - Transient induced gamma-band response in EEG as a manifestation of miniature saccadesShlomit Yuval-Greenberg
Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91905, Israel
Neuron 58:429-41. 2008..Thus, whereas neuronal gamma-band oscillations were shown conclusively with other methods, the broadband transient iGBR recorded by scalp EEG reflects properties of miniature saccade dynamics rather than neuronal oscillations... - Stimulus-specific adaptation and deviance detection in the rat auditory cortexNevo Taaseh
Department of Neurobiology, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
PLoS ONE 6:e23369. 2011..Thus, the response to a deviant is at least partially due to the change it represents relative to the regularity set by the standard tone, indicating the presence of true deviance detection in rat auditory cortex... - Inhibitory plasticity in auditory cortexIsrael Nelken
Department of Neurobiology, The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Edmond Safra Campus Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Neuron 62:605-7. 2009..demonstrate the important role that increased inhibition may play in shaping cortical responses to behaviorally relevant stimuli... - Low-level information and high-level perception: the case of speech in noiseMor Nahum
Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
PLoS Biol 6:e126. 2008..Only auditory RHT could account for the full pattern of the results, suggesting that similar defaults and tradeoffs underlie the relations between hierarchical processing and perception in the visual and auditory modalities... - Neurons and objects: the case of auditory cortexIsrael Nelken
Department of Neurobiology, The Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, Edmund Safra Campus, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Front Neurosci 2:107-13. 2008.... - Auditory processing deficits in reading disabled adultsSygal Amitay
Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
J Assoc Res Otolaryngol 3:302-20. 2002.... - Functional organization of ferret auditory cortexJennifer K Bizley
University Laboratory of Physiology, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK
Cereb Cortex 15:1637-53. 2005..The presence of both tonotopic and non-tonotopic auditory cortical fields indicates that the organization of ferret auditory cortex is comparable to that seen in other mammals... - Cortical processing of complex sound: a way forward?Timothy D Griffiths
Department of Psychology, University College London, London WC1H 0AP, UK
Trends Neurosci 27:181-5. 2004..There is a crucial need for better understanding of the anatomy of the auditory cortex in different species and for comparative studies that will underpin both approaches... - Neural model for physiological responses to frequency and amplitude transitions uncovers topographical order in the auditory cortexAlon Fishbach
Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
J Neurophysiol 90:3663-78. 2003..These results suggest a possible ordered organization of a simple rotatable spectrotemporal receptive field in the mammalian AI... - Physiological and anatomical evidence for multisensory interactions in auditory cortexJennifer K Bizley
Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK
Cereb Cortex 17:2172-89. 2007..These data indicate that multisensory convergence and integration are features common to all auditory cortical areas but are especially prevalent in higher areas...