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Overview

Shimon Edelman is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research primarily in the field of neuroscience. Their body of work spans several specialized areas, including cognitive neuroscience, safety research, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and molecular biology. The scientist's research topics emphasize neural dynamics and brain function, ethics and social impacts of AI, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, face recognition and perception, as well as neuroethics, human enhancement, and biomedical innovations.

Edelman has published multiple papers that have appeared in diverse academic venues. Recent publications include:

  • "A possible evolutionary function of phenomenal conscious experience of pain," 2021, Neuroscience of Consciousness
  • "Dynamical Emergence Theory (DET): A Computational Account of Phenomenal Consciousness," 2020, Minds and Machines
  • "Parental speech to typical and atypical populations: a study on linguistic partial repetition," 2020, Language Sciences
  • "Verbal behavior without syntactic structures: beyond Skinner and Chomsky," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Polarize, catalyze, and stabilize: how a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment," 2023, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Their frequent publication venues reflect a consistent presence in both traditional and interdisciplinary journals, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
  • Neuroscience of Consciousness
  • Minds and Machines
  • Language Sciences

Edelman has also authored at least one book published by The MIT Press titled Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths (2020).

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Roy Moyal
  • Victor Vikram Odouard
  • D. M. Smirnova
  • Oren Kolodny
  • Tomer Fekete

Best Publications

  • A network that learns to recognize three-dimensional objects.

    T. Poggio;S. Edelman

  • Psychophysical support for a two-dimensional view interpolation theory of object recognition

    Heinrich H. Bulthoff;Shimon Edelman

  • Representation and recognition in vision

    Shimon Edelman

  • Fast Perceptual Learning in Visual Hyperacuity

    Tomaso Poggio;Manfred Fahle;Shimon Edelman

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

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

  • Orientation dependence in the recognition of familiar and novel views of three-dimensional objects.

    Shimon Edelman;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

  • Representation is representation of similarities.

    Shimon Edelman

  • How Are Three-Deminsional Objects Represented in the Brain?

    Heinrich H. Buelthoff;Shimon Y. Edelman;Michael J. Tarr

  • Cue-invariant activation in object-related areas of the human occipital lobe.

    Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tamar Kushnir;Shimon Edelman;Yacov Itzchak

  • Unsupervised Learning of Natural Languages

    Zach Solan;David Horn;Eytan Ruppin;Shimon Edelman

  • Long-term learning in vernier acuity: Effects of stimulus orientation, range and of feedback

    Manfred Fahle;Shimon Edelman

  • Fast Perceptual Learning in Hyperacuity

    M. Fahle;S. Edelman;T. Poggio

  • Acoustic sequences in non-human animals: a tutorial review and prospectus.

    Arik Kershenbaum;Arik Kershenbaum;Daniel T. Blumstein;Marie A. Roch;Çağlar Akçay

  • Toward direct visualization of the internal shape representation space by fMRI

    Shimon Edelman;Kalanit Grill-Spector;Tammar Kushnir;Rafael Malach

  • Representation, Similarity, and the Chorus of Prototypes

    S. Edelman

  • Similarity-based Word Sense Disambiguation

    Yael Karov;Shimon Edelman

  • A model of handwriting.

    Shimon Edelman;Tamar Flash

  • A self-organizing multiple-view representation of 3D objects

    Daphna Weinshall;Shimon Edelman;Heinrich H. Bülthoff

  • Computational theories of object recognition.

    Shimon Edelman

  • Stimulus-specific effects in face recognition over changes in viewpoint

    Alice J O'Toole;Shimon Edelman;Heinrich H Bülthoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan Intrator
Nathan Intrator Tel Aviv University
Heinrich H. Bülthoff
Heinrich H. Bülthoff Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Eytan Ruppin
Eytan Ruppin National Institutes of Health
Rafael Malach
Rafael Malach Weizmann Institute of Science
Daphna Weinshall
Daphna Weinshall Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kalanit Grill-Spector
Kalanit Grill-Spector Stanford University
Manfred Fahle
Manfred Fahle University of Bremen
Yair Weiss
Yair Weiss Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University

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