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36
Citations
10930
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8893
National Ranking
70

Overview

Yuval Nir is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has concentrated research efforts in the field of Neuroscience, particularly within several specialized subfields. Their primary areas of study include Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, with additional work in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Neurology.

The scientist's research topics prominently cover Neural dynamics and brain function, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, and Sleep and related disorders.

Yuval Nir has contributed extensively to scholarly publications, with notable papers including:

  • Locus coeruleus norepinephrine activity mediates sensory-evoked awakenings from sleep, 2020, Science Advances
  • Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Humans Induces Pupil Dilation and Attenuates Alpha Oscillations, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Augmenting hippocampal-prefrontal neuronal synchrony during sleep enhances memory consolidation in humans, 2023, Nature Neuroscience
  • Parp1 promotes sleep, which enhances DNA repair in neurons, 2021, Molecular Cell
  • Reduced neural feedback signaling despite robust neuron and gamma auditory responses during human sleep, 2022, Nature Neuroscience

The frequent co-authors working alongside Yuval Nir include Itzhak Fried, Amit Marmelshtein, Noa Matosevich, Noa Regev, and Aaron J. Krom. These collaborations span a significant proportion of their published work.

Yuval Nir's research findings have appeared repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Neuroscience, Nature Neuroscience, Current Biology, and Science Advances. The concentration of publications in these venues highlights a focus on neuroscience-related disciplines and topics.

Best Publications

  • Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision

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

  • Regional Slow Waves and Spindles in Human Sleep

    Yuval Nir;Richard J. Staba;Thomas Andrillon;Thomas Andrillon;Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy

  • Local sleep in awake rats

    Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy;Umberto Olcese;Umberto Olcese;Erin C. Hanlon;Yuval Nir

  • Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology.

    Yuval Nir;Giulio Tononi

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

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

  • Sleep Spindles in Humans: Insights from Intracranial EEG and Unit Recordings

    Thomas Andrillon;Yuval Nir;Richard J. Staba;Fabio Ferrarelli

  • Interhemispheric correlations of slow spontaneous neuronal fluctuations revealed in human sensory cortex

    Yuval Nir;Roy Mukamel;Ilan Dinstein;Eran Privman

  • Extrinsic and Intrinsic Systems in the Posterior Cortex of the Human Brain Revealed during Natural Sensory Stimulation

    Yulia Golland;Shlomo Bentin;Hagar Gelbard;Yoav Benjamini

  • Neural “Ignition”: Enhanced Activation Linked to Perceptual Awareness in Human Ventral Stream Visual Cortex

    Lior Fisch;Eran Privman;Michal Ramot;Michal Harel

  • Syntactic structure building in the anterior temporal lobe during natural story listening

    Jonathan Brennan;Yuval Nir;Uri Hasson;Rafael Malach

  • Widespread functional connectivity and fMRI fluctuations in human visual cortex in the absence of visual stimulation

    Yuval Nir;Uri Hasson;Ifat Levy;Yehezkel Yeshurun

  • Locus coeruleus norepinephrine activity mediates sensory-evoked awakenings from sleep.

    Hanna Hayat;Noa Regev;Noa Matosevich;Anna C Sales

  • Selective neuronal lapses precede human cognitive lapses following sleep deprivation

    Yuval Nir;Thomas Andrillon;Amit Marmelshtein;Nanthia Suthana

  • Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Humans Induces Pupil Dilation and Attenuates Alpha Oscillations.

    Omer Sharon;Firas Fahoum;Firas Fahoum;Yuval Nir;Yuval Nir

  • Identifying the default-mode component in spatial IC analyses of patients with disorders of consciousness.

    Andrea Soddu;Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse;Mohamed Ali Bahri;Marie-Aurelie Bruno

  • Single-neuron activity and eye movements during human REM sleep and awake vision

    Thomas Andrillon;Yuval Nir;Chiara Cirelli;Giulio Tononi

  • Auditory Responses and Stimulus-Specific Adaptation in Rat Auditory Cortex are Preserved Across NREM and REM Sleep

    Yuval Nir;Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy;Chiara Cirelli;Matthew I. Banks

  • Noradrenaline Modulates Visual Perception and Late Visually Evoked Activity.

    Hagar Gelbard-Sagiv;Efrat Magidov;Haggai Sharon;Haggai Sharon;Talma Hendler;Talma Hendler

  • Augmenting hippocampal–prefrontal neuronal synchrony during sleep enhances memory consolidation in humans

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  • Reduced neural feedback signaling despite robust neuron and gamma auditory responses during human sleep

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  • Sleep disrupts high-level speech parsing despite significant basic auditory processing

    Shiri Makov;Omer Sharon;Nai Ding;Michal Ben-Shachar

  • Enhanced category tuning revealed by intracranial electroencephalograms in high-order human visual areas.

    Eran Privman;Yuval Nir;Uri Kramer;Svetlana Kipervasser

Frequent Co-Authors

Itzhak Fried
Itzhak Fried University of California, Los Angeles
Rafael Malach
Rafael Malach Weizmann Institute of Science
Giulio Tononi
Giulio Tononi University of Wisconsin–Madison
Chiara Cirelli
Chiara Cirelli University of Wisconsin–Madison
Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy
Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy University of Oxford
Mélanie Boly
Mélanie Boly University of Wisconsin–Madison
Steven Laureys
Steven Laureys University of Liège
Andrea Soddu
Andrea Soddu University of Western Ontario
Quentin Noirhomme
Quentin Noirhomme University of Liège
Michele Papa
Michele Papa University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

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