2026 Israel Nelken: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	65	3107	2839	20	18	163	15778

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Overview

Israel Nelken is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on the field of neuroscience, with significant work in cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, sensory systems, signal processing, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's research broadly covers topics related to neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and music perception, memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neural engineering, hearing, cochlea, tinnitus, genetics, multisensory perception and integration, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Some of their recent papers include:

Single-neuron representation of learned complex sounds in the auditory cortex (2020, Nature Communications)
Emergence of abstract sound representations in the ascending auditory system (2021, Progress in Neurobiology)
Extensive representation of sensory deviance in the responses to auditory gaps in unanesthetized rats (2023, Current Biology)
Stimulus-specific adaptation to behaviorally-relevant sounds in awake rats (2020, PLoS ONE)
Surround suppression in mouse auditory cortex underlies auditory edge detection (2023, PLoS Computational Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Israel Nelken include:

Maciej M. Jankowski (13 publications)
Ana Polterovich (8 publications)
Alex Kazakov (5 publications)
Johannes Niediek (5 publications)
Mor Harpaz (3 publications)

Their work has been published most often in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 11 publications
PLoS Computational Biology with 3 publications
Cerebral Cortex with 2 publications
Nature Communications with 1 publication
Progress in Neurobiology with 1 publication

Best Publications

Processing of low-probability sounds by cortical neurons

Nachum Ulanovsky;Liora Las;Israel Nelken

1185
Citations
Transient Induced Gamma-Band Response in EEG as a Manifestation of Miniature Saccades

Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg;Orr Tomer;Alon S. Keren;Israel Nelken;Israel Nelken

900
Citations
Multiple Time Scales of Adaptation in Auditory Cortex Neurons

Nachum Ulanovsky;Liora Las;Dina Farkas;Israel Nelken

820
Citations
Modeling the auditory scene: predictive regularity representations and perceptual objects

István Winkler;István Winkler;Susan L. Denham;Israel Nelken

640
Citations
Auditory Neuroscience: Making Sense of Sound

Jan Schnupp;Israel Nelken;Andrew J. King

481
Citations
Functional mapping of single spines in cortical neurons in vivo

Xiaowei Chen;Ulrich Leischner;Nathalie L. Rochefort;Israel Nelken

462
Citations
Functional organization and population dynamics in the mouse primary auditory cortex

Gideon Rothschild;Israel Nelken;Israel Nelken;Adi Mizrahi;Adi Mizrahi

448
Citations
Tau impairs neural circuits, dominating amyloid-β effects, in Alzheimer models in vivo

Marc Aurel Busche;Susanne Wegmann;Susanne Wegmann;Simon Dujardin;Caitlin Commins

441
Citations
Physiological and anatomical evidence for multisensory interactions in auditory cortex.

Jennifer K. Bizley;Fernando R. Nodal;Victoria M. Bajo;Israel Nelken

412
Citations
Responses of auditory-cortex neurons to structural features of natural sounds

Israel Nelken;Yaron Rotman;Omer Bar Yosef

410
Citations
Reverse hierarchies and sensory learning

Merav Ahissar;Mor Nahum;Israel Nelken;Shaul Hochstein

347
Citations
Reduction of Information Redundancy in the Ascending Auditory Pathway

Gal Chechik;Michael J. Anderson;Omer Bar-Yosef;Eric D. Young

289
Citations
Processing of complex stimuli and natural scenes in the auditory cortex

Israel Nelken

287
Citations
Stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory thalamus of the anesthetized rat.

Flora M. Antunes;Israel Nelken;Ellen Covey;Manuel S. Malmierca

268
Citations
Stimulus-Specific Adaptation and Deviance Detection in the Rat Auditory Cortex

Nevo Taaseh;Amit Yaron;Israel Nelken;Israel Nelken

266
Citations
Functional Organization of Ferret Auditory Cortex

Jennifer K. Bizley;Fernando R. Nodal;Israel Nelken;Andrew J. King

250
Citations
Filters: When, Why, and How (Not) to Use Them.

Alain de Cheveigné;Alain de Cheveigné;Alain de Cheveigné;Israel Nelken

250
Citations
Auditory processing deficits in reading disabled adults.

Sygal Amitay;Meray Ahissar;Israel Nelken

233
Citations
Rescue of long-range circuit dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease models

Marc Aurel Busche;Marc Aurel Busche;Maja Kekuš;Helmuth Adelsberger;Takahiro Noda

232
Citations
Ultra-fine frequency tuning revealed in single neurons of human auditory cortex.

Y. Bitterman;R. Mukamel;R. Malach;I. Fried;I. Fried

218
Citations
Primary auditory cortex of cats: feature detection or something else?

Israel Nelken;Alon Fishbach;Liora Las;Nachum Ulanovsky

213
Citations