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Dov Sagi is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and has a research focus primarily within the field of Neuroscience. Their work spans across cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, statistical and nonlinear physics, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and epidemiology.

Their research topics cover several areas including visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, neural and behavioral psychology studies, multisensory perception and integration, stochastic dynamics and bifurcation, color science and applications, and ophthalmology and visual impairment studies.

They have published in various scholarly journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Vision Research
  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Communications Biology

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Dov Sagi are:

  • "Perceptual bias is reduced with longer reaction times during visual discrimination," published in 2020 in Communications Biology
  • "Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications," published in 2023 in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • "A decision-time account of individual variability in context-dependent orientation estimation," published in 2020 in Vision Research
  • "Generalization in perceptual learning across stimuli and tasks," published in 2024 in Scientific Reports
  • "Motion-Induced Blindness as a Noisy Excitable System," published in 2022 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Dov Sagi has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Uri Polat
  • Ron Dekel
  • Maria Lev
  • Mikhail Katkov
  • Noya Meital-Kfir

Best Publications

  • Where practice makes perfect in texture discrimination: evidence for primary visual cortex plasticity

    Avi Karni;Dov Sagi

  • Dependence on REM sleep of overnight improvement of a perceptual skill

    Avi Karni;David Tanne;Barton S. Rubenstein;Jean J. M. Askenasy

  • The time course of learning a visual skill

    Avi Karni;Dov Sagi

  • Gabor filters as texture discriminator

    I. Fogel;D. Sagi

  • Lateral interactions between spatial channels: suppression and facilitation revealed by lateral masking experiments.

    Uri Polat;Dov Sagi

  • "Where" and "what" in vision.

    Dov Sagi;Bela Julesz

  • The architecture of perceptual spatial interactions.

    Uri Polat;Dov Sagi

  • Improving vision in adult amblyopia by perceptual learning

    Uri Polat;Tova Ma-Naim;Michael Belkin;Dov Sagi

  • Perceptual learning in Vision Research

    Dov Sagi

  • Motion-induced blindness in normal observers

    Yoram S. Bonneh;Alexander Cooperman;Dov Sagi

  • Common mechanisms of visual imagery and perception

    Alumit Ishai;Dov Sagi

  • Vision outside the focus of attention

    Jochen Braun;Dov Sagi

  • Spatial interactions in human vision: from near to far via experience-dependent cascades of connections.

    Uri Polat;Dov Sagi

  • Perceptual learning: learning to see.

    Dov Sagi;David Tanne

  • Detection versus discrimination of visual orientation.

    Dov Sagi;Bela Julesz

  • Short-range limitation on detection of feature differences.

    Dov Sagi;Bela Julesz

  • Isolating Excitatory and Inhibitory Nonlinear Spatial Interactions Involved in Contrast Detection

    Barbara Zenger;Dov Sagi

  • Context-enabled learning in the human visual system.

    Yael Adini;Dov Sagi;Misha Tsodyks

  • Common mechanisms of human perceptual and motor learning

    Nitzan Censor;Dov Sagi;Leonardo G. Cohen

  • Configuration influence on crowding.

    Tomer Livne;Dov Sagi

  • Parallel and serial processes in motion detection

    Miri Dick;Shimon Ullman;Dov Sagi

  • Excitatory-inhibitory network in the visual cortex: psychophysical evidence.

    Yael Adini;Dov Sagi;Misha Tsodyks

  • Visual attention and perceptual grouping.

    Mercedes Barchilon Ben-Av;Dov Sagi;Jochen Braun

  • Lateral interactions between targets and flankers in low-level vision depend on attention to the flankers.

    Elliot Freeman;Dov Sagi;Jon Driver

  • A link between perceptual learning, adaptation and sleep

    Nitzan Censor;Avi Karni;Dov Sagi

Frequent Co-Authors

Misha Tsodyks
Misha Tsodyks Weizmann Institute of Science
David J. Heeger
David J. Heeger New York University
Tobias H. Donner
Tobias H. Donner Universität Hamburg
Nachum Soroker
Nachum Soroker Tel Aviv University
Amos Arieli
Amos Arieli Weizmann Institute of Science
Marlene Behrmann
Marlene Behrmann Carnegie Mellon University
Marius Usher
Marius Usher Tel Aviv University
Zhong-Lin Lu
Zhong-Lin Lu New York University Shanghai
Takeo Watanabe
Takeo Watanabe Brown University
Shaul Hochstein
Shaul Hochstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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