Prof. Rafael Malach Morris and Barbara Levinson Professor of Brain Research

Selected Publications

• Salomon R, Bleich-Cohen M, Hahamy-Dubossarsky A, Dinstien I, Weizman R, Poyurovsky M, Kupchik M, Kotler M, Hendler T, Malach R. (2011) Global functional connectivity deficits in schizophrenia depend on behavioral state. J Neurosci. 2011 Sep 7;31(36):12972-81. [PDF]
• Hesselmann G, Hebart M, Malach R. (2011) Differential BOLD activity associated with subjective and objective reports during "blindsight" in normal observers. J Neurosci. 2011 Sep 7;31(36):12936-44. [PDF]
• Ramot M, Wilf M, Goldberg H, Weiss T, Deouell LY, Malach R. (2011) Coupling between spontaneous (resting state) fMRI fluctuations and human oculo-motor activity. Neuroimage. 2011 Sep 1;58(1):213-25. [PDF]
• Dinstein I, Pierce K, Eyler L, Solso S, Malach R, Behrmann M, Courchesne E. (2011) Disrupted neural synchronization in toddlers with autism. Neuron. 2011 Jun 23;70(6):1218-25. [PDF]
• Hesselmann G, Malach R. (2011) The Link between fMRI-BOLD Activation and Perceptual Awareness Is "Stream-Invariant" in the Human Visual System. Cereb Cortex. 2011 Apr 22. [PDF]
• Soddu A, Vanhaudenhuyse A, Bahri MA, Bruno MA, Boly M, Demertzi A, Tshibanda JF, Phillips C, Stanziano M, Ovadia-Caro S, Nir Y, Maquet P, Papa M, Malach R, Laureys S, Noirhomme Q. (2011) Identifying the default-mode component in spatial IC analyses of patients with disorders of consciousness. Hum Brain Mapp. 2011 Apr 11.[PDF]
• Preminger S, Harmelech T, Malach R. (2011) Stimulus-free thoughts induce differential activation in the human default network. Neuroimage. 2011 Jan 15;54(2):1692-702. [PDF]
• Mukamel R, Nir Y, Harel M, Arieli A, Malach R, Fried I. (2011) Invariance of firing rate and field potential dynamics to stimulus modulation rate in human auditory cortex. Hum. Brain Mapp. 2011 Aug;32(8):1181-93. [PDF]
• Privman E, Fisch L, Neufeld MY, Kramer U, Kipervasser S, Andelman F, Yeshurun Y, Fried I, Malach R. (2011) Antagonistic relationship between gamma power and visual evoked potentials revealed in human visual cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2011 Mar;21(3):616-24. [PDF]
• Brennan J, Nir Y, Hasson U, Malach R, Heeger DJ, Pylkkänen L. (2010) Syntactic structure building in the anterior temporal lobe during natural story listening. Brain Lang. 2010 May 14. [PDF]
• Amedi A, Raz N, Azulay H, Malach R, Zohary E. (2010) Cortical activity during tactile exploration of objects in blind and sighted humans. Restor. Neurol. Neurosci. 2010;28(2):143-56. [PDF]
• Paz R, Gelbard-Sagiv H, Mukamel R, Harel M, Malach R, Fried I. (2010) A neural substrate in the human hippocampus for linking successive events. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A. 2010 Mar 30;107(13):6046-51. [PDF]
• Harel A, Gilaie-Dotan S, Malach R, Bentin S. (2010) Top-down engagement modulates the neural expressions of visual expertise. Cereb Cortex. 2010 Oct;20(10):2304-18. [PDF]
• Gilaie-Dotan S, Gelbard-Sagiv H, Malach R. (2010) Perceptual shape sensitivity to upright and inverted faces is reflected in neuronal adaptation. Neuroimage. 2010 Apr 1;50(2):383-95. [PDF]
• Hasson U, Malach R, Heeger DJ. (2010) Reliability of cortical activity during natural stimulation. Trends Cogn. Sci. 2010 Jan;14(1):40-8. [PDF]
• Fisch L, Privman E, Ramot M, Harel M, Nir Y, Kipervasser S, Andelman F, Neufeld MY, Kramer U, Fried I, Malach R. (2009) Neural "ignition": enhanced activation linked to perceptual awareness in human ventral stream visual cortex. Neuron. 2009 Nov 25;64(4):562-74. [PDF]
• Salomon R, Malach R, Lamy D. (2009) Involvement of the intrinsic/default system in movement-related self recognition. PLoS One. 2009 Oct 21;4(10):e7527. [PDF]
• Soddu A, Boly M, Nir Y, Noirhomme Q, Vanhaudenhuyse A, Demertzi A, Arzi A, Ovadia S, Stanziano M, Papa M, Laureys S, Malach R. (2009) Reaching across the abyss: recent advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging and their potential relevance to disorders of consciousness. Prog. Brain Res. 2009;177:261-74. [PDF]
• S. Gilaie-Dotan, A. Perry, Y. Bonneh, R. Malach and S. Bentin (2009) Seeing with Profoundly Deactivated Mid-level Visual Areas: Non-hierarchical Functioning in the Human Visual Cortex. Cereb. Cortex. 19(7): 1687-703. [PDF]
• H. Gelbard-Sagiv, R. Mukamel, M. Harel, R. Malach and I. Fried (2008) Internally generated reactivation of single neurons in human hippocampus during free recall, Science 322, 96-101. [PDF]
• Y. Nir, R. Mukamel, I. Dinstein, E. Privman, M. Harel, L. Fisch, H. Gelbard-Sagiv, S. Kipervasser, F. Andelman, M. Y Neufeld, U. Kramer, A. Arieli, I. Fried and R. Malach (2008) Interhemispheric correlations of slow spontaneous neuronal fluctuations revealed in human sensory cortex. Nature Neuroscience 9 (11) 1100-1108. [PDF]
• Y. Nir, Y. Dinstein, R. Malach and DJ Heeger (2008) BOLD and spiking activity. Nature Neuroscience 11(5):523-4. [PDF]
• R. Quian Quiroga, R. Mukamel, E.A. Isham, R. Malach and I. Fried (2008), Human single neuron responses at the threshold of conscious recognition. PNAS 105(9):3599-604. [PDF]
• S. Gilaie-Dotan, Y. Nir, and R. Malach (2008) Regionally-specific adaptation dynamics in human object areas. Neuroimage 15;39(4):1926-37. [PDF]
• Y. Lerner, B. Epshtein, S. Ullman and R. Malach. (2008) Class information predicts activation by object fragments in human object areas. J. Cog. Neuroscience 20(7):1189-206. [PDF]
• I. Goldberg, S. Ullman and R. Malach (2008) Neuronal Correlates of "free will" are associated with Regional Specialization in the Human Intrinsic/Default Network. Consciousness and Cognition 17(3):587-601. [PDF]
• Y. Bitterman, R. Mukamel, R. Malach, I. Fried and I Nelken (2008). Ultra-fine frequency tuning revealed in single neurons of human auditory cortex. Nature 451(7175):197-201. [PDF]
• Y. Golland, P. Golland, S. Bentin and R. Malach (2008) Data-driven clustering reveals a fundamental subdivision of the human cortex into two global systems. Neuropsychologia 46:540-553. [PDF]
• LY. Deouell, AS Heller, R. Malach , M. D'Esposito and RT Knight (2007) . Cerebral Responses to Change in Spatial Location of Unattended Sounds. Neuron 20;55(6):985-996. [PDF]
• Malach, R (2007) The measurement problem in human consciousness research. Behavioral Brain Science; 30: 516-517.[PDF]
• R. Heller, Y. Golland , R. Malach and Y. Benjamini (2007) Conjunction group analysis: An alternative to mixed/random effect analysis. Neuroimage 37(4):1178-85. [PDF]
• Y. Nir, L. Fisch, R. Mukamel, H. Gelbard-Sagiv, A. Arieli, I. Fried, and R. , Malach (2007). Coupling between Neuronal Firing Rate, Gamma LFP, and BOLD fMRI Is Related to Interneuronal Correlations. Current Biology 7;17:1275-1285. [PDF]
• E. Privman, Y. Nir, U. Kramer, S. Kipervasser, F. Andelman, M.Y. Neufeld, R. Mukamel, Y. Yeshurun, I. Fried and R. Malach (2007). Enhanced category tuning revealed by iEEG in high order human visual areas. J. Neurosci. 27 (23) 6234-6242. [PDF]
• S. Gilaie-Dotan and R. Malach (2007) Sub-exemplar shape tuning in human face-related areas. Cerebral Cortex 17(2): 325-338. [PDF]
• Y. Golland, S. Bentin, H. Gelbard, Y. Benjamini, R. Heller, Y. Nir, U. Hasson and R. Malach (2007) Extrinsic and Intrinsic systems in the posterior cortex of the human brain revealed during natural sensory stimulation. Cerebral Cortex 17(4) 766-77. [PDF]
• I. Goldberg, M. Harel and R. Malach (2006). When the brain loses its self: prefrontal inactivation during sensory-motor processing. Neuron 50, 329-339. [PDF]
• Y. Nir, U. Hasson, I. Levy, Y. Yeshurun and R. Malach (2006). Widespread functional connectivity and fMRI fluctuations in human visual cortex in the absence of visual stimulation. Neuroimage 30; 1313-1324. [PDF]
• A. Amedi, R. Malach, A. Pasqual-Leone (2005) Negative BOLD differentiates visual imagery and perception. Neuron 8: 48(5):859-72. [PDF]
• R. Mukamel., H. Gelbard, A. Arieli, U. Hasson , I. Fried and R. Malach (2005) Coupling between neuronal firing, field potentials, and FMRI in human auditory cortex. Science 309 (5736):951-954. [PDF]
• G. Avidan, U. Hasson, R. Malach and M. Behrmann (2005) Detailed exploration of face-related processing in congenital prospagnosia: 2. Functional neuroimaging findings. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17 (7):1150-67. [PDF]
• A. Shmuel,, M. Korman, A. Sterkin, M. Harel, S. Ullman, R. Malach and A. Grinvald (2005) Retinotopic axis specificity and selective clustering of feedback projections from V2 to V1 in the owl monkey. J. Neurosci. 25 (8): 2117-31. [PDF]
• I. Levy, U. Hasson and R. Malach (2004) One picture is worth at least a million neurons. Current Biology 14(11), 996- 1001. [PDF]
• R. Mukamel, M. Harel, T. Hendler and R. Malach (2004). Enhanced temporal non-linearities in human object-related occipito-temporal cortex. Cerebral Cortex 14(5), 575-585. [PDF]
• Y. Lerner, M. Harel and R. Malach (2004). Rapid completion effects in human high order visual areas. Neuroimage 21(2), 516-526. [PDF]
• U. Hasson, Y. Nir, I. Levy G. Fuhrman and R. Malach (2004) Intersubject synchronization of cortical activity during natural vision. Science 303, 1634-1640. [PDF]
• I. Levy, U. Hasson, M. Harel and R. Malach (2004) Functional analysis of the periphery effect in human building areas. Human Brain Mapping 22, 15-26. [PDF]
• Y. Lerner, P. Pianka, B. Azmon, H. Leiba, C. Stolovitch, A. Loewenstein, M. Harel, T. Hendler, and R. Malach (2003) Area-specific amblyopic effects in human occipito-temporal object representations. Neuron 40, 1023-1029. [PDF]
• A. Amedi, N. Raz, P. Pianka, R. Malach, and E. Zohary (2003). Early 'visual' cortex activation correlates with superior verbal memory performance in the blind. Nature Neuroscience 6, 758-766. [PDF]
• G. Avidan, I. Levy, T. Hendler, E. Zohary, and R. Malach (2003). Spatial vs. object specific attention in high-order visual areas. Neuroimage 19, 308-318. [PDF]
• U. Hasson, G. Avidan, L. Deouell, S. Bentin, and R. Malach (2003). Face-selective activation in a congenital prosopagnostic subject. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15, 419-431. [PDF]
• U. Hasson, M. Harel, I. Levy, and R. Malach (2003). Large-scale mirror-symmetry organization of human occipito- temporal object areas. Neuron 37, 1027-1041. [PDF]
• T. Hendler, P. Rotshtein, Y. Yeshurun, T. Weizmann, I. Kahn, D. Ben-Bashat, R. Malach, and A. Bleich, (2003). Sensing the invisible: differential sensitivity of visual cortex and amygdala to traumatic context. Neuroimage 19, 587-600. [PDF]
• A. Loewenstein, R Malach, M. Goldstein, I. Leibovitch, A. Barak, E. Baruch, Y. Alster, O. Rafaeli, I. Avni, I., and Y. Yassur, Y. (2003). Replacing the Amsler grid - A new method for monitoring patients with age-related macular degeneration. Ophthalmology 110, 966-970.
• A. Amedi, G. Jacobson, T. Hendler, R. Malach, and E. Zohary, (2002). Convergence of visual and tactile shape processing in the human lateral occipital complex. Cerebral Cortex 12, 1202-1212. [PDF]
• G. Avidan, M. Harel, T. Hendler, D. Ben-Bashat, E. Zohary, and R. Malach, (2002). Contrast sensitivity in human visual areas and its relationship to object recognition. Journal of Neurophysiology 87, 3102-3116. [PDF]
• G. Avidan, U. Hasson, T. Hendler, E. Zohary, and R. Malach. (2002). Analysis of the neuronal selectivity underlying low fMRI signals. Current Biology 12, 964-972. [PDF]
• U. Hasson, I. Levy, M. Behrmann, T. Hendler, and R. Malach, (2002). Eccentricity bias as an organizing principle for human high-order object areas. Neuron 34, 479-490. [PDF]
• Y. Lerner, T. Hendler, and R. Malach, (2002). Object-completion effects in the human lateral occipital complex. Cerebral Cortex 12, 163-177. [PDF]
• S. Gilaie-Dotan, S Ullman, T Kushnir and R Malach (2001). Shape-selective stereo processing in human object-related visual areas. Human Brain Mapping 15(2) 67-79. (cover) [PDF]
• P. Rotstein, R Malach, U Hadar and T Hendler (2001) . Feeling or Features: different sensitivity to emotion in high-order visual cortex and amygdala. Neuron 32(4) 747-757. (cover) [PDF]
• U. Hasson, T Hendler D Ben Bashat and R Malach (2001) Vase or face? A neural correlate of shape-selective grouping processes in the human brain. J. Cog. Neurosci. 136, 744-753. [PDF]
• I. Levy, U. Hasson, G. Avidan, T. Hendler and R. Malach (2001). Center-periphery organization of human object areas. Nature Neuroscience 4 (5) 533-539. (cover) [PDF]
• Y. Lerner, T. Hendler, M. Harel and R. Malach (2001). A Hierarchical Axis of Object Processing Stages in the Human Visual Cortex. Cerebral Cortex 11:287-297. (cover) [PDF]
• A. Amedi, R. Malach, T. Hendler, S. Peled and E. Zohary (2001). Visuo-haptic object-related activation in the ventral visual pathway. Nature Neuroscience 4(3):324-330. [PDF]
• K. Grill-Spector, T. Kushnir, T. Hendler and R .Malach (2000). The dynamics of object-selective activation correlate with recognition performance in humans. Nature Neurosci. 3(8):837-43. [PDF]
• K. Grill-Spector, T. Kushnir, G. Avidan S. Edelman, Y. Itzchak and R. Malach (1999). Differential processing of objects under various viewing conditions in the human Lateral Occipital Complex. Neuron 24,187-203.[PDF]
• S. Edelman, K. Grill-Spector, T. Kushnir, and R. Malach (1998). Towards direct visualization of the internal shape space by fMRI. Psychobiology (special issue on Cognitive Neuroscience of Object Representation and Recognition) 26 (4),309-321.
• K. Grill-Spector, T. Kushnir, T. Hendler, S. Edelman, Y. Itzchak and R. Malach (1998). A sequence of early object processing stages revealed by fMRI in the human occipital lobe. Human Brain Mapping 6(4), 316-328. [PDF]
• K. Grill-Spector, T. Kushnir, S. Edelman, Y. Itzchak and R. Malach. (1998). Cue-invariant activation in object-related areas of the human occipital lobe. Neuron 21(1), 191-202. (cover in Vis. Res.) [PDF]
• R. Malach, T.D. Schirman, M. Harel, R.B.H Tootell and D. Malonek (1997). Organization of intrinsic connections in owl monkey area MT. Cereb. Cortex. 7, 386-393.
• R. Malach, J.B. Reppas, R. Benson, K.K. Kwong, H. Jiang, WA. Kennedy , P.J. Ledden, T.J Brady, B.R. Rosen, and R.B.H. Tootell (1995). Object-related activity revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging in human occipital cortex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A 92:8135-8139. [PDF]
• R.B.H. Tootell , J.B. Reppas, K.K. Kwong, R. Malach, R.T. Born, T.J. Brady, B.R. Rosen, and J.W. Belliveau (1995). Functional analysis of human MT and related visual cortical areas using magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurosci. 15:3215-3230.
• R.B.H. Tootell, J.B. Reppas, A.M. Dale, R.B. Look, M.I. Sereno, R. Malach, T.J. Brady and B.R. Rosen (1995). Visual motion aftereffect in human cortical area MT revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Nature 375:139-141.
• R Eilam , R Malach and M Segal (1994). Selective elimination of hypothalamic neurons by grafted hypertension- inducing neural tissue. J Neurosci. 14:4891-4902.
• R Malach, RBH Tootell and D Malonek (1994). Relationship between orientation domains, cytochrome oxidase stripes, and intrinsic horizontal connections in squirrel monkey area V2. Cereb. Cortex 4:151-165.
• Y Amir, M Harel and R Malach (1993). Cortical hierarchy reflected in the organization of intrinsic connections in Macaque monkey visual cortex. J Comp. Neurol. 334:19-46.
• D Ankaoua and R Malach (1993). Evidence for plasticity of intrinsic horizontal connections in area 17 of the rat. Isr. J Med. Sci. 29:555-569.
• R Malach , Y Amir, M Harel and A Grinvald (1993). Relationship between intrinsic connections and functional architecture revealed by optical imaging and in vivo targeted biocytin injections in primate striate cortex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A 90:10469-10473.v
• G Kenan-Vaknin , GE Ouaknine, N Razon and R Malach (1992). Organization of layers II-III connections in human visual cortex revealed by in vitro injections of biocytin. Brain Res. 594:339-342.
• G Kenan-Vaknin, R Malach and M Segal (1992). Excitatory inputs to layer V pyramidal cells of rat primary visual cortex revealed by acetylcholine activation. Brain Res. 574:147-156.
• G Kenan-Vaknin, H Katz and R Malach (1992). Golgi-like staining of visual cortex cells obtained by extracellular biocytin application in vitro. Brain Res. 571:338-341.
• R Malach (1992). Dendritic sampling across processing streams in monkey striate cortex. J Comp. Neurol. 315:303-312.
• R Eilam, R Malach, F Bergmann and M Segal (1991). Hypertension induced by hypothalamic transplantation from genetically hypertensive to normotensive rats. J Neurosci. 11:401-411.
• T Paperna and R Malach (1991). Patterns of sensory intermodality relationships in the cerebral cortex of the rat. J Comp. Neurol. 308:432-456.
• J Dymshitz , R Malach, S Amir and R Simantov (1990). Factors regulating the expression of acetylcholinesterase-containing neurons in striatal cultures: effects of chemical depolarization. Brain Res. 532:131-139.
• R Avidor, R Eilam, R Malach and I Gozes (1989). VIP-mRNA is increased in hypertensive rats. Brain Res 503:304-307.
RL Holtzman, R Malach and I Gozes (1989). Disruption of the optic pathway during development affects vasoactive intestinal peptide mRNA expression. New Biol. 1:215-221.
• R Malach and RC Van Sluyters (1989). Strabismus does not prevent recovery from monocular deprivation: a challenge for simple Hebbian models of synaptic modification. Vis. Neurosci. 3:267-273.
• R Malach (1989). Patterns of connections in rat visual cortex. J Neurosci. 9:3741-3752.
• R Malach (1988). In vivo visualization of callosal pathways: a novel approach to the study of cortical organization. J Neurosci. Methods 25:225-238.
• J Olavarria, R Malach and RC Van Sluyters (1987). Development of visual callosal connections in neonatally enucleated rats. J Comp. Neurol. 260:321-348.
• R Malach and AM Graybiel (1986). Mosaic architecture of the somatic sensory-recipient sector of the cat's striatum. J Neurosci. 6:3436-3458.
• R Malach, NP Strong and RC Van Sluyters(1984). Horizontal optokinetic nystagmus in the cat: effects of long-term monocular deprivation. Brain Res. 315:193-205.
• R Malach, R Ebert and RC Van Sluyters (1984). Recovery from effects of brief monocular deprivation in the kitten. J Neurophysiol. 51:538-551.
• J Olavarria, R Malach and RC Van Sluyters (1984). Retino-pretectal projections in monocularly deprived cats. Brain Res. 314:141-145.
• NP Strong, R Malach, P Lee and RC Van Sluyters (1984). Horizontal optokinetic nystagmus in the cat: recovery from cortical lesions. Brain Res. 315:179-192.

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