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Overview

Opher Donchin is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research focuses primarily on the field of neuroscience, with particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and related subfields such as social psychology, nature and landscape conservation, biomedical engineering, and cell biology.

The main topics of research addressed by Donchin include:

  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders

Donchin has contributed to a range of publications, often collaborating with several frequent co-authors such as Ronen Segev, Maarten A. Frens, Svetlana Volotsky, Rick van der Vliet, and Ehud Vinepinsky. These collaborations have resulted in various academic papers and studies across multiple journals.

Frequent publication venues for Donchin include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Scientific Reports
  • eLife
  • The Cerebellum

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Donchin include:

  • Methods matter: Your measures of explicit and implicit processes in visuomotor adaptation affect your results (2020) - European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Representation of edges, head direction, and swimming kinematics in the brain of freely-navigating fish (2020) - Scientific Reports
  • Mini-review: The Role of the Cerebellum in Visuomotor Adaptation (2021) - The Cerebellum
  • A Revised Computational Neuroanatomy for Motor Control (2020) - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Measures of explicit and implicit in motor learning: what we know and what we don't (2021) - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Best Publications

  • Quantifying Generalization from Trial-by-Trial Behavior of Adaptive Systems that Learn with Basis Functions: Theory and Experiments in Human Motor Control

    Opher Donchin;Joseph T. Francis;Reza Shadmehr

  • Learned dynamics of reaching movements generalize from dominant to nondominant arm

    Sarah E. Criscimagna-Hemminger;Opher Donchin;Michael S. Gazzaniga;Reza Shadmehr

  • Motor adaptation as a process of reoptimization.

    Jun Izawa;Tushar Rane;Opher Donchin;Reza Shadmehr

  • Primary motor cortex is involved in bimanual coordination

    O. Donchin;A. Gribova;O. Steinberg;H. Bergman

  • Adaptation to visuomotor rotation and force field perturbation is correlated to different brain areas in patients with cerebellar degeneration.

    K. Rabe;O. Livne;E. R. Gizewski;V. Aurich

  • Cerebellar regions involved in adaptation to force field and visuomotor perturbation.

    Opher Donchin;Opher Donchin;Klaus F. Rabe;Jörn Diedrichsen;Jörn Diedrichsen;Níall Lally

  • A Real-Time State Predictor in Motor Control: Study of Saccadic Eye Movements during Unseen Reaching Movements

    Gregory Ariff;Opher Donchin;Thrishantha Nanayakkara;Reza Shadmehr

  • Behavioural and neural basis of anomalous motor learning in children with autism

    Mollie K. Marko;Deana Crocetti;Thomas Hulst;Opher Donchin

  • Mechanisms influencing acquisition and recall of motor memories.

    Opher Donchin;Lumy Sawaki;Ghangadar Madupu;Leonardo G. Cohen

  • Acquisition of internal models of motor tasks in children with autism

    Jennifer C. Gidley Larson;Jennifer C. Gidley Larson;Amy J. Bastian;Opher Donchin;Opher Donchin;Reza Shadmehr

  • A Gain-Field Encoding of Limb Position and Velocity in the Internal Model of Arm Dynamics

    Eun Jung Hwang;Opher Donchin;Maurice A Smith;Reza Shadmehr

  • Neural interactions between motor cortical hemispheres during bimanual and unimanual arm movements

    S. Cardoso de Oliveira;A. Gribova;O. Donchin;H. Bergman

  • Impact of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on neuronal functions

    Suman Das;Suman Das;Suman Das;Peter Holland;Peter Holland;Maarten A. Frens;Opher Donchin;Opher Donchin

  • Single-Unit Activity Related to Bimanual Arm Movements in the Primary and Supplementary Motor Cortices

    O. Donchin;A. Gribova;O. Steinberg;A. R. Mitz

  • Behavioral effects of lipopolysaccharide in rats: involvement of endogenous opioids.

    Raz Yirmiya;Haim Rosen;Opher Donchin;Haim Ovadia

  • Awareness of sensorimotor adaptation to visual rotations of different size.

    Susen Werner;Bernice C. van Aken;Thomas Hulst;Maarten A. Frens

  • Interleukin-1 inhibits sexual behavior in female but not in male rats.

    R. Yirmiya;R. Avitsur;O. Donchin;E. Cohen

  • Neuronal populations in primary motor cortex encode bimanual arm movements

    O. Steinberg;O. Donchin;A. Gribova;S. Cardoso De Oliveira

  • Current advances in lesion-symptom mapping of the human cerebellum

    D Timmann;J Konczak;Winfried Ilg;O Donchin

  • Pop-out in visual search of moving targets in the archer fish.

    Mor Ben-Tov;Opher Donchin;Ohad Ben-Shahar;Ronen Segev

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten A. Frens
Maarten A. Frens Erasmus University Rotterdam
Dagmar Timmann
Dagmar Timmann University of Duisburg-Essen
Reza Shadmehr
Reza Shadmehr Johns Hopkins University
Eilon Vaadia
Eilon Vaadia Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hagai Bergman
Hagai Bergman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Joseph Glicksohn
Joseph Glicksohn Bar-Ilan University
Raz Yirmiya
Raz Yirmiya Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Stewart H. Mostofsky
Stewart H. Mostofsky Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Chris I. De Zeeuw
Chris I. De Zeeuw Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jörn Diedrichsen
Jörn Diedrichsen University of Western Ontario

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