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2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
84
Citations
38550
World Ranking
1367
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Rafael Malach is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and is primarily focused on research within the field of neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience. Their contributions also extend to experimental and cognitive psychology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, computer vision and pattern recognition, and epidemiology.

Their work addresses several key topics including neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, visual perception and processing mechanisms, face recognition and perception, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Rafael Malach has published extensively in various scholarly venues. Frequent publication places include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Vision, Nature Communications, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Some of the recent research papers authored or co-authored by Rafael Malach include:

  • Global waves synchronize the brain's functional systems with fluctuating arousal, 2021, Science Advances
  • A consensus statement on detection of hippocampal sharp wave ripples and differentiation from other fast oscillations, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Hippocampal ripples and their coordinated dialogue with the default mode network during recent and remote recollection, 2021, Neuron
  • Tests for consciousness in humans and beyond, 2024, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • The surprising role of the default mode network in naturalistic perception, 2021, Communications Biology

Their frequent collaborators include Yitzhak Norman, Rotem Broday-Dvir, Erez Simony, Michal Harel, and Talia Brandman.

Best Publications

  • Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision

    Uri Hasson;Yuval Nir;Ifat Levy;Ifat Levy;Galit Fuhrmann

  • Object-related activity revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging in human occipital cortex.

    R. Malach;J. B. Reppas;R. R. Benson;K. K. Kwong

  • Functional analysis of human MT and related visual cortical areas using magnetic resonance imaging

    R. B. H. Tootell;J. B. Reppas;K. K. Kwong;R. Malach

  • THE HUMAN VISUAL CORTEX

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Rafael Malach

  • Differential Processing of Objects under Various Viewing Conditions in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Shimon Edelman;Galia Avidan

  • fMR-adaptation: a tool for studying the functional properties of human cortical neurons.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Rafael Malach

  • Coupling Between Neuronal Firing, Field Potentials, and fMRI in Human Auditory Cortex

    Roy Mukamel;Hagar Gelbard;Amos Arieli;Uri Hasson

  • Center-periphery organization of human object areas.

    Ifat Levy;Uri Hasson;Galia Avidan;Galia Avidan;Talma Hendler;Talma Hendler

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

    Amir Amedi;Rafael Malach;Talma Hendler;Sharon Peled

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

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

  • Visual motion aftereffect in human cortical area MT revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Roger B. H. Tootell;John B. Reppas;Anders M. Dale;Rodney B. Look

  • Relationship between intrinsic connections and functional architecture revealed by optical imaging and in vivo targeted biocytin injections in primate striate cortex

    R Malach;Y Amir;M Harel;A Grinvald

  • When the Brain Loses Its Self: Prefrontal Inactivation during Sensorimotor Processing

    Ilan I. Goldberg;Michal Harel;Rafael Malach

  • The dynamics of object-selective activation correlate with recognition performance in humans.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Talma Hendler;Rafael Malach

  • Eccentricity bias as an organizing principle for human high-order object areas

    Uri Hasson;If At Levy;If At Levy;Marlene Behrmann;Talma Hendler;Talma Hendler

  • Reliability of cortical activity during natural stimulation

    Uri Hasson;Rafael Malach;David J. Heeger

  • A sequence of object-processing stages revealed by fMRI in the human occipital lobe.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Talma Hendler;Shimon Edelman

  • Coupling between neuronal firing rate, gamma LFP, and BOLD fMRI is related to interneuronal correlations.

    Yuval Nir;Lior Fisch;Roy Mukamel;Hagar Gelbard-Sagiv

  • Internally Generated Reactivation of Single Neurons in Human Hippocampus During Free Recall

    Hagar Gelbard-Sagiv;Roy Mukamel;Michal Harel;Rafael Malach

  • The topography of high-order human object areas

    Rafael Malach;Ifat Levy;Uri Hasson

  • Object-related activity revealed byfunctional magnetic resonance imaging inhumanoccipital cortex

    R. Malach;J. B. Reppas;R. R. Benson;K. K. Kwong

Frequent Co-Authors

Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Itzhak Fried
Itzhak Fried University of California, Los Angeles
Uri Hasson
Uri Hasson Princeton University
Yuval Nir
Yuval Nir Tel Aviv University
Charles E. Schroeder
Charles E. Schroeder Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Kalanit Grill-Spector
Kalanit Grill-Spector Stanford University
Ehud Zohary
Ehud Zohary Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Leon Y. Deouell
Leon Y. Deouell Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Amos Arieli
Amos Arieli Weizmann Institute of Science
Shlomo Bentin
Shlomo Bentin Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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