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Publications over the last twelve years

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2023
The effect of weight loss following 18 months of lifestyle intervention on brain age assessed with resting-state functional connectivity

Gidon Levakov, Alon Kaplan, Anat Yaskolka Meir, Ehud Rinott, Gal Tsaban, Hila Zelicha, Matthias Blüher, Uta Ceglarek, Michael Stumvoll, Ilan Shelef, Galia Avidan, Iris Shai
Elife 12, e83604



Weaker face recognition in adults with autism arises from perceptually based alterations

Marissa Hartston, Galia Avidan, Yoni Pertzov, Bat‐Sheva Hadad
Autism Research

2022

Bidirectional and parallel relationships in macaque face circuit revealed by fMRI and causal pharmacological inactivation
Ning Liu, Marlene Behrmann, Janita N Turchi, Galia Avidan, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Leslie G Ungerleider 

Nature communications 13 (1), 6787

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Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure
Erez Freud, Daniela Di Giammarino, Andreja Stajduhar, R Shayna Rosenbaum, Galia Avidan, Tzvi Ganel

Psychological Science, 33(10), 1635–1650

Face masks disrupt holistic processing and face perception in school-age children

Andreja Stajduhar, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan, R Shayna Rosenbaum, Erez Freud

Cognitive research: principles and implications 7 (1), 1-10

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The effect of a high-polyphenol Mediterranean diet (Green-MED) combined with physical activity on age-related brain atrophy: the Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled …

Alon Kaplan, Hila Zelicha, Anat Yaskolka Meir, Ehud Rinott, Gal Tsaban, Gidon Levakov, Ofer Prager, Moti Salti, Yoram Yovell, Jonathan Ofer, Sebastian Huhn, Frauke Beyer, Veronica Witte, Arno Villringer, Nachshon Meiran, Tamar B Emesh, Peter Kovacs, Martin von Bergen, Uta Ceglarek, Matthias Blüher, Michael Stumvoll, Frank B Hu, Meir J Stampfer, Alon Friedman, Ilan Shelef, Galia Avidan, Iris Shai
The American journal of clinical nutrition 115 (5), 1270-1281

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The Compositionality of Facial Expressions

Carmel Sofer, Ron Dotsch, Dan Vilenchik, Galia Avidan

Perception 51 (3), 172-186

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Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny

Marlene Behrmann, Galia Avidan

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

 

Fine-scale dynamics of functional connectivity in the face processing network during movie watching

Gidon Levakov, Olaf Sporns, Galia Avidan

bioRxiv

2021

Modular community structure of the face network supports face recognition

Gidon Levakov, Olaf Sporns, Galia Avidan

Cerebral Cortex

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Mapping individual differences across brain network structure to function and behavior with connectome embedding

Gidon Levakov, Joshua Faskowitz, Galia Avidan, Olaf Sporns

Neuroimage 242, 118469

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When better is worse: Better face recognizers are more susceptible to the effect of face masks

Andreja Stajduhar, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan, R Shayna Rosenbaum, Erez Freud

Journal of Vision 21 (9), 2820-2820

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Spatial integration in normal face processing and its breakdown in congenital prosopagnosia

Galia Avidan, Marlene Behrmann

Ann. Rev. Vis. Sci 7

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Neural correlates of future weight loss reveal a possible role for brain-gastric interactions

Gidon Levakov, Alon Kaplan, Anat Yaskolka Meir, Ehud Rinott, Gal Tsaban, Hila Zelicha, Nachshon Meiran, Ilan Shelef, Iris Shai, Galia Avidan

Neuroimage 224, 117403

2020

The COVID-19 pandemic masks the way people perceive faces

Erez Freud, Andreja Stajduhar, R Shayna Rosenbaum, Galia Avidan, Tzvi Ganel

Scientific reports 10 (1), 1-8

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Regression to the mean enhances perceptual resolutions of face identification

Tal Lulav-Bash, Galia Avidan, Nahal Binur, Bat-Sheva Hadad

Journal of Vision 20 (11), 1177-1177

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From a deep learning model back to the brain—Identifying regional predictors and their relation to aging

Gidon Levakov, Gideon Rosenthal, Ilan Shelef, Tammy Riklin Raviv, Galia Avidan

Human brain mapping 41 (12), 3235-3252

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Rapid forgetting of faces in congenital prosopagnosia

Yoni Pertzov, Dana Krill, Nilly Weiss, Keren Lesinger, Galia Avidan
Cortex 129, 119-132

2019

Minimal recognizable configurations elicit category-selective responses in higher order visual cortex

Yael Holzinger, Shimon Ullman, Daniel Harari, Marlene Behrmann, Galia Avidan

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 31 (9), 1354-1367

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Emotional cues differently modulate visual processing of faces and objects.

Elite Mardo, Sivan Schwartz, Galia Avidan, Bat-Sheva Hadad

Emotion 19 (4), 573

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Emotion Algebra reveals that sequences of facial expressions have meaning beyond their discrete constituents

Carmel Sofer, Dan Vilenchik, Ron Dotsch, Galia Avidan

PsyArXiv

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From a deep learning model back to the brain-inferring morphological markers and their relation to aging

Gidon Levakov, Gideon Rosenthal, Tammy Riklin Raviv, Ilan Shelef, Galia Avidan

bioRxiv, 803742

2018

Adults’ Markers of Face Processing Are Present at Age 6 and Are Interconnected Along Development

Elite Mardo, Galia Avidan, Bat-Sheva Hadad

Perception 47 (10-11), 1002-1028

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Minimal Recognizable Configurations (MIRCs) elicit category selective responses in high order visual cortex

Galia Avidan, Yael Holzinger, Shimon Ullman, Marlene Behrmann

Journal of Vision 18 (10), 407-407

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Emotion Algebra reveals the richness of meanings of facial expressions

Carmel Sofer, Dan Vilenchik, Ron Dotsch, Galia Avidan

Journal of Vision 18 (10), 193-193

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Holistic face representation is highly orientation-specific

Gideon Rosenthal, Gidon Levakov, Galia Avidan

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 25 (4), 1351-1357

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The rapid forgetting of faces

Dana Krill, Galia Avidan, Yoni Pertzov

Frontiers in psychology 9, 1319

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Mapping higher-order relations between brain structure and function with embedded vector representations of connectomes

Gideon Rosenthal, František Váša, Alessandra Griffa, Patric Hagmann, Enrico Amico, Joaquín Goñi, Galia Avidan, Olaf Sporns

Nature communications 9 (1), 1-12

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Visual aversive learning compromises sensory discrimination

Lee Shalev, Rony Paz, Galia Avidan

Journal of Neuroscience 38 (11), 2766-2779

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A possible neuronal account for the behavioural heterogeneity in congenital prosopagnosia

Gideon Rosenthal, Galia Avidan

Cognitive Neuropsychology 35 (1-2), 74-77

2017

Stimulus dependent dynamic reorganization of the human face processing network

Gideon Rosenthal, Olaf Sporns, Galia Avidan

Cerebral Cortex 27 (10), 4823-4834

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The effects of emotional cues on visual perception and the special case of faces

Batsheva Hadad, Elite Mardo, Galia Avidan

Journal of Vision 17 (10), 911-911

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Altered topology of neural circuits in congenital prosopagnosia

Gideon Rosenthal, Michal Tanzer, Erez Simony, Uri Hasson, Marlene Behrmann, Galia Avidan

Elife 6, e25069

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Three-dimensional representations of objects in dorsal cortex are dissociable from those in ventral cortex

Erez Freud, Tzvi Ganel, Ilan Shelef, Maxim D Hammer, Galia Avidan, Marlene Behrmann

Cerebral Cortex 27 (1), 422-434

2016

Facial identity encoding, face space structure and neural-based image reconstruction in congenital prosopagnosia.

Dan Nemrodov, Adrian Nestor, Galia Avidan, David Plaut, Marlene Behrmann

Journal of Vision 16 (12), 1234-1234

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Phasic alertness enhances processing of face and non-face stimuli in congenital prosopagnosia

Michal Tanzer, Noam Weinbach, Elite Mardo, Avishai Henik, Galia Avidan

Neuropsychologia 89, 299-308

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Neural mechanisms of face perception, their emergence over development, and their breakdown

Marlene Behrmann, K Suzanne Scherf, Galia Avidan

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 7 (4), 247-263

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Functional dissociation between action and perception of object shape in developmental visual object agnosia

Erez Freud, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan

Cortex 76, 17-27

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Visual expertise for horses in a case of congenital prosopagnosia

Nilly Weiss, Elite Mardo, Galia Avidan

Neuropsychologia 83, 63-75

2015

Impossible expectations: fMRI adaptation in the lateral occipital complex (LOC) is modulated by the statistical regularities of 3D structural information

Erez Freud, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan

NeuroImage 122, 188-194

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Effects of configural processing on the perceptual spatial resolution for face features

Gal Namdar, Galia Avidan, Tzvi Ganel

Cortex 72, 115-123

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Developing Behavioural Tools for Characterizing Normal and Abnormal Face Perception in 6-14 Years Old Children

Elite Mardo, Bat Sheva Hadad, Galia Avidan

Journal of Vision 15 (12), 1201-1201

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Intact implicit representation of object 3D structure in object agnosia

Erez Freud, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan, Marlene Behrmann

Journal of Vision 15 (12), 1099-1099

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Sensitivity to object impossibility in the human visual cortex: evidence from functional connectivity

Erez Freud, Gideon Rosenthal, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 27 (5), 1029-1043

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Evidence for similar early but not late representation of possible and impossible objects

Erez Freud, Bat-Sheva Hadad, Galia Avidan, Tzvi Ganel

Frontiers in Psychology 6, 94

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The highs and lows of object impossibility: effects of spatial frequency on holistic processing of impossible objects

Erez Freud, Galia Avidan, Tzvi Ganel

Psychonomic bulletin & review 22 (1), 297-306

2014

Project PAVE (Personality And Vision Experimentation): role of personal and interpersonal resilience in the perception of emotional facial expression

Michal Tanzer, Golan Shahar, Galia Avidan

Frontiers in human neuroscience 8, 602
 

Structural and functional impairment of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia

Galia Avidan, Michal Tanzer, Marlene Behrmann

Journal of Vision 14 (10), 1453-1453

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Configural and featural facial information: integrality in normal face processing, separability in prosopagnosia

Ruth Kimchi, Marlene Behrmann, Galia Avidan, Rama Amishav

Journal of Vision 14 (10), 206-206

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Structural properties of white matter circuits necessary for face perception

Suzy Scherf, Marlene Behrmann, Cibu Thomas, Galia Avidan, Dan Elbich

Journal of Vision 14 (10), 1464-1464

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Characterizing the" ups" and" downs" of functional connectivity patterns using face perception as a model domain

Gideon Rosenthal, Erez Freud, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE 53, S108-S108

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The neural signature of spatial uncertainty

Erez Freud, Gideon Rosenthal, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE 53, S47-S47

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Visual aversive learning increases generalization

Lilach Shalev, Rony Paz, Galia Avidan

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE 53, S113-S113

 

Phasic alertness enhances holistic face perception in congenital prosopagnosia

Michal Tanzer, Noam Weinbach, Elite Mardo, Avishai Henik, 
Galia Avidan

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE 53, S121-S121

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Impairment of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia

Galia Avidan, Marlene Behrmann

Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite 6 (2), 236-257

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Selective dissociation between core and extended regions of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia

Galia Avidan, Michal Tanzer, Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Ning Liu, Leslie G Ungerleider, Marlene Behrmann

Cerebral cortex 24 (6), 1565-1578

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Holistic face perception

Marlene Behrmann, Jennifer J Richler, Galia Avidan, Ruth Kimchi

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Project PAVE: role of personal and interpersonal resilience in the perception of emotional facial expression

Michal Tanzer, Golan Shahar, Galia Avidan

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8

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Visual expertise in the absence of holistic processing in congenital prosopagnosia

Nilly Weiss, Elite Mardo, Galia Avidan

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience 53, S130

2013

Holistic processing of impossible objects: Evidence from Garner’s speeded-classification task

Erez Freud, Galia Avidan, Tzvi Ganel

Vision Research 93, 10-18

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Impaired holistic processing in congenital prosopagnosia and its possible amelioration

Michal Tanzer, Noam Weinbach, Erez Freud, Tzvi Ganel, Avishai Henik, Galia Avidan

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience 51, S121-S121

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Evidence for similar early but not late representation of possible and impossible objects

Erez Freud, Bat Sheva Hadad, Galia Avidan, Tzvi Ganel

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE 51 (SUPPL 1), 42-42

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Does social support protect against recognition of angry facial expressions following failure?

Michal Tanzer, Galia Avidan, Golan Shahar

Cognition & Emotion 27 (7), 1335-1344

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General holistic impairment in congenital prosopagnosia: Evidence from Garner's speeded-classification task

Michal Tanzer, Erez Freud, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avida

Cognitive Neuropsychology 30 (6), 429-445

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Remapping of the environment without corollary discharges: Evidence from scene-based IOR

Shai Gabay, Yoni Pertzov, Noga Cohen, Galia Avidan, Avishai Henik

Journal of Vision 13 (8), 22-22

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A smile worthy of your cognition: general self-efficacious individuals recognize and remember happy faces

Michal Tanzer, Golan Shahar, Galia Avidan

Journal of social and clinical psychology 32 (1), 1

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Representation of possible and impossible objects in the human visual cortex: Evidence from fMRI adaptation

Erez Freud, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan

NeuroImage 64, 685-692

2012

Functional dissociation between perception and action is evident early in life

Bat‐Sheva Hadad, Galia Avidan, Tzvi Ganel

Developmental Science 15 (5), 653-658

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Perceptual separability of featural and configural information in congenital prosopagnosia

Ruth Kimchi, Marlene Behrmann, Galia Avidan, Rama Amishav

Cognitive Neuropsychology 29 (5-6), 447-463

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