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Overview

Amir Amedi is a researcher affiliated with Reichman University in Israel, specializing primarily in neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields within cognitive neuroscience, with a notable emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, automotive engineering, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including tactile and sensory interactions, visual perception and processing mechanisms, multisensory perception and integration, neural dynamics and brain function, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, face recognition and perception, and spatial cognition and navigation.

Amir Amedi has contributed to numerous scientific publications across various journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • PLoS ONE
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Amir Amedi include:

  • "Decoding Natural Sounds in Early "Visual" Cortex of Congenitally Blind Individuals" (2020, Current Biology)
  • "Are critical periods reversible in the adult brain? Insights on cortical specializations based on sensory deprivation studies" (2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
  • "Effects of training and using an audio-tactile sensory substitution device on speech-in-noise understanding" (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • "Activation of human visual area V6 during egocentric navigation with and without visual experience" (2023, Current Biology)
  • "Core knowledge of geometry can develop independently of visual experience" (2021, Cognition)

Amir Amedi collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Benedetta Heimler
  • Amber Maimon
  • Or Yizhar
  • Katarzyna Cieśla
  • Tomasz Wolak

Best Publications

  • The plastic human brain cortex.

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Amir Amedi;Felipe Fregni;Lotfi B. Merabet

  • Visuo-haptic object-related activation in the ventral visual pathway

    Amir Amedi;Rafael Malach;Talma Hendler;Sharon Peled

  • Spontaneous Fluctuations in Posterior α-Band EEG Activity Reflect Variability in Excitability of Human Visual Areas

    Vincenzo Romei;Verena Brodbeck;Christoph Michel;Amir Amedi;Amir Amedi

  • Early 'visual' cortex activation correlates with superior verbal memory performance in the blind

    Amir Amedi;Amir Amedi;Noa Raz;Pazit Pianka;Rafael Malach

  • Shape conveyed by visual-to-auditory sensory substitution activates the lateral occipital complex.

    Amir Amedi;William M Stern;Joan A Camprodon;Felix Bermpohl;Felix Bermpohl

  • Convergence of Visual and Tactile Shape Processing in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex

    Amir Amedi;Gilad Jacobson;Talma Hendler;Rafael Malach

  • Functional imaging of human crossmodal identification and object recognition.

    A Amedi;K von Kriegstein;N M van Atteveldt;M S Beauchamp

  • A Ventral Visual Stream Reading Center Independent of Visual Experience

    Lior Reich;Marcin Szwed;Laurent Cohen;Laurent Cohen;Amir Amedi

  • Reading with sounds: sensory substitution selectively activates the visual word form area in the blind.

    Ella Striem-Amit;Laurent Cohen;Laurent Cohen;Stanislas Dehaene;Amir Amedi

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the occipital pole interferes with verbal processing in blind subjects

    Amir Amedi;Agnes Floel;Agnes Floel;Stefan Knecht;Ehud Zohary

  • Negative BOLD differentiates visual imagery and perception.

    Amir Amedi;Rafael Malach;Alvaro Pascual-Leone

  • Multisensory Processes: A Balancing Act across the Lifespan.

    Micah M. Murray;David J. Lewkowicz;Amir Amedi;Mark T. Wallace

  • Origins of the specialization for letters and numbers in ventral occipitotemporal cortex.

    Thomas Hannagan;Thomas Hannagan;Amir Amedi;Laurent Cohen;Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz

  • Sensory substitution: closing the gap between basic research and widespread practical visual rehabilitation.

    Shachar Maidenbaum;Sami Abboud;Amir Amedi

  • EyeMusic: Introducing a "visual" colorful experience for the blind using auditory sensory substitution.

    Sami Abboud;Shlomi Hanassy;Shelly Levy-Tzedek;Shachar Maidenbaum

  • What blindness can tell us about seeing again: merging neuroplasticity and neuroprostheses

    Lotfi B. Merabet;Joseph F. Rizzo;Amir Amedi;David C. Somers

  • Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles

    Ella Striem-Amit;Ella Striem-Amit;Smadar Ovadia-Caro;Alfonso Caramazza;Daniel S. Margulies;Daniel S. Margulies

  • A Putative Model of Multisensory Object Representation

    Simon A Lacey;Noa Tal;Amir Amedi;Krish Sathian

  • Combined activation and deactivation of visual cortex during tactile sensory processing

    Lotfi B. Merabet;Jascha D. Swisher;Stephanie A. McMains;Mark A. Halko

  • The large-Scale Organization of “Visual” Streams Emerges Without Visual Experience

    Ella Striem-Amit;Ornella Dakwar;Lior Reich;Amir Amedi

Frequent Co-Authors

Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University
Lotfi B. Merabet
Lotfi B. Merabet Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Felix Bermpohl
Felix Bermpohl Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Ehud Zohary
Ehud Zohary Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rafael Malach
Rafael Malach Weizmann Institute of Science
Maurice Ptito
Maurice Ptito University of Montreal
Georg Northoff
Georg Northoff University of Ottawa
Felipe Fregni
Felipe Fregni Harvard University
Gregor Thut
Gregor Thut Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene Collège de France

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