PUBLICATIONS


ARTICLES (number of citations, according to Google Scholar, is indicated in red)

1) Ishai, A., Sagi, D. (1995). Common Mechanisms of Visual Imagery and Perception. Science 268, 1772-1774. (138) (pdf)

2) Ishai, A., Sagi, D. (1997). Visual Imagery Facilitates Visual Perception: Psychophysical Evidence. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 9:4, 476-489.(37) (pdf)

3) Ishai, A., . Sagi, D. (1997). Visual Imagery:  Effects of Short- and Long-Term Memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 9:6, 734-742. (24) (pdf)

4) Ishai, A., Ungerleider, L.G., Martin, A., Schouten, J.L., Haxby, J.V. (1999). Distributed Representation of Objects in the Human Ventral Visual Pathway.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 96:16, 9379-9384. (580) (pdf )

5) Ishai, A., Ungerleider, L.G., Martin, A., Haxby, J.V. (2000). The Representation of Objects in the Human Occipital and Temporal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 12:2, 35-51.(230) (pdf)

6) Ishai, A., Ungerleider, L.G., Haxby, J.V. (2000). Distributed Neural Systems for the Generation of Visual Images. Neuron 28:3, 979-990. (313) (pdf)

7) Haxby, J.V., Gobbini, M.I., Furey, M.L., Ishai, A., Schouten J.L., Pietrini, P. (2001). Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects In Ventral Temporal Cortex. Science 293, 2425-2430. (1214) (pdf)

8) Ishai, A., Haxby, J.V., Ungerleider, L.G. (2002). Visual Imagery of Famous Faces: Effects of Memory and Attention Revealed by fMRI. NeuroImage 17:4, 1729-1741. (168) (pdf)

9) Ishai, A., Pessoa, L., Bikle, P.C., Ungerleider L.G. (2004). Repetition Suppression of Faces is Modulated by Emotion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 101:26, 9827-9832. (129) (pdf)

10) Mechelli, A., Price, C.J., Friston, K.J., Ishai, A. (2004). Where bottom-up meets top-down: neuronal interactions during perception and imagery. Cerebral Cortex 14, 1256-1265. (176) (pdf)

11) Schmidt, C.F., Boesiger, P., Ishai, A.(2005).Comparison of fMRI activation measured with Gradient- and Spin-Echo EPI during visual perception.NeuroImage 26, 852-859.(14) (pdf)

12) Ishai, A., Schmidt, C.F., Boesiger, P. (2005). Face perception is mediated by a distributed cortical network. Brain Research Bulletin 67, 87-93. (168) (pdf)

13) Kranz, F., Ishai, A .(2006). Face perception is modulated by sexual preference.Current Biology 16, 63-68. (112) (pdf)

14) Yago, E., Ishai, A .(2006). Recognition memory is modulated by visual similarity.  NeuroImage 31, 807-817. (20) (pdf)

15) Ishai, A., Bikle, P.C., Ungerleider L.G. (2006). Temporal dynamics of face repetition suppression. Brain Research Bulletin 70, 289-295. (25) (pdf)

16) Ishai, A., Yago, E. (2006). Recognition memory of newly learned faces. Brain Research Bulletin 71, 167-173. (13) (pdf)

17) Ishai, A. (2007). Sex, beauty and the orbitofrontalcortex.  International Journal of Psychophysiology 63, 181-185. (75) (pdf)

18) Ishai, A., Fairhall, S.L., Pepperell, R. (2007). Perception, memory and aesthetics of indeterminate art. Brain Research Bulletin 73, 319-324. (20) (pdf)

19) Fairhall, S.L., Ishai, A. (2007). Effective connectivity within the distributed cortical network for face perception.  Cerebral Cortex 17, 2400-2406. (134) (pdf)

20) Bar M., Aminoff E, Ishai, A. (2008). Famous faces activate contextual associations in the parahippocampal cortex. Cerebral Cortex 18, 1233-1238. (30) (pdf)

21) Wiesmann, M., Ishai, A. (2008). Recollection- and familiarity-based memory decisions reflect memory strength. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2: 1 doi:10.3389/neuro.06.001.2008 (11) (pdf)

22) Fairhall, S.L., Ishai, A. (2008). Neural correlates of object indeterminacy in art compositions. Consciousness and Cognition 17, 923-932. (12) (pdf)

23) Wiesmann, M., Ishai, A. (2010). Training Facilitates Object Recognition in Cubist Paintings. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 4: 1 doi:10.3389/neuro.09.011.2010 (4) (pdf)

24) Wiesmann, M., Ishai, A. (2010). Expertise Reduces Neural Cost but does not Modulate Repetition Suppression. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-9. (pdf)

25) Kaul, C., Rees, G., Ishai, A. (2011). The gender of face stimuli is represented in multiple regions in the human brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4: 238, 1-12. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00238. (2) (pdf)

REVIEWS & BOOK CHAPTERS

1) Ishai, A.(1996). Reality and Imagination. Galileo, an Israeli magazine for Science and Ecology, issue 14.

2) Ishai, A., Sagi, D. (1998). Visual Imagery and Visual Perception: The Role of Memory and Conscious Awareness. In: Toward a Science of Consciousness II. Editors: S. Hameroff, A. Kaszniak and A. Scott.
321- 328. MIT Press.

3) Haxby, J.V., Ishai, A., Chao, L., Ungerleider, L.G., Martin, A.(2000). Object Form Topology in the Ventral Temporal Lobe. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4, 3-4.
(49) (pdf)

4) Ishai, A. (2002). Streams of Consciousness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14:6, 832-833. (2) (pdf)

5) Ishai, A. (2003). On Representation and Reproducibility. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15:7, 946-947. (3) (pdf)

6) Möhler H., Ishai, A. (2006) Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Imaging. In: Imaging in Biomedical Research. CHIMIA 60, 805-814. (pdf)

7) Van Horn, J.D., Ishai, A. (2007). Mapping the human brain: insights from fMRI data sharing.Neuroinformatics 5, 146-153. (10) (pdf)

8) Ishai, A. (2008). Let's face it: It's a cortical network.NeuroImage 40, 415-419. (71) (pdf)

9) Ishai, A. (2009). Retrieving pictures from long-term memory. In: Neuroimaging of Human Memory. Linking cognitive process to neural systems. Editors: F. Roesler; C. Ranganath, B. Roeder, RH. Kluwe. Oxford University Press. (pdf)

10) Ishai, A. (2010). Art and the Brain. Galileo 137, 20-25. (pdf)

11) Ishai, A. (2010). Seeing faces and objects with the "mind's eye" Archives Italiennes de Biologie 148, 1-9. (4) (pdf)

12) Ishai, A. (2010). Seeing with the "mind's eye": top-down, bottom-up and conscious awareness. F1000 Biology Reports 2:34. (1) (pdf) .

13) Ishai, A. (2011). A cortical network for face perception. In: New Frontiers in Social Cognitive Neuroscience. Editors: R. Kawashima, M. Sugiura, T. Tsukiura. 73-81. Tohoku University Press, Sendai. (pdf)

14) Ishai, A. (2011). Art Compositions Elicit Distributed Activation in the Human Brain. In: Aesthetic Science: Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience, A. P. Shimamura and S. E. Palmer (Eds.), Oxford University Press: New York. 337-355. (pdf)






Alumit Ishai, PhD

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Department of Neuroradiology

University of Zurich

Raemistrasse 66

8001 Zurich, Switzerland

 

Phone: +41 44 635 34 40

Fax:     +41 44 635 34 49

Email:    alumit.ishai @ uzh.ch