Publications Derived from the Project
The Limits of Shape Recognition
following Late Emergence from Blindness
Ayelet McKyton,Ravid Doron, Itay Ben-Zion, and Ehud Zohary
Current Biology (2015) Volume 25, Issue 18, Pages 2373-2378
Size constancy following long-term visual deprivation
Elena Andres, Ayelet McKyton, Itay Ben-Zion, and Ehud Zohary.
Current Biology (2017) Volume 27, Issue 14, Pages R696–R697
Lack of automatic imitation in the newly sighted
Ayelet McKyton, Itay Ben-Zion, and Ehud Zohary
Psychological Science (2018), Volume 29, Pages 304-310
Learning to perceive shape from temporal intergration following late emergence from blindness
Tanya Orlov, Maayan Raveh, Ayelet McKyton, Itay Ben-Zion, and Ehud Zohary.
Current Biology (2021) Volume 31, Issue 14, Pages 3162–3167
Development of multimodal intergration following prolonged early-onset visual deprivation
Irene Senna, Elena Andres, Ayelet McKyton, Itay Ben-Zion, Ehud Zohary, and Marc Ernst
Current Biology (2021) Volume 31, Issue 21, Pages 4889-4895
Recalibrating vision-for-action requires years after sight restoration from congenital cataracts.
Elife (2022) Irene Senne, Sophia Piller, Itay Ben-Zion, Marc O Ernst
Gaze following requires early visual experience
Ehud Zohary, Dani Harari, Shimon Ullman, Itay Ben-Zion, Ravid Doron, Yuval Porat, Sara Attias, Asael Sklar, and Ayelet McKyton, .
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci USA (2022) Volume 119, e2117184119
Previous Key Publications
Prof. Ehud Zohary
Neuronal plasticity that undelies improvement in perceptual performance
Zohary, E., Celebrini S, Britten K.H and Newsome, W.T Science (1994) 263: 1289-1292.
Correlated neuronal discharge rate and its implications for psychophysical performance.
Zohary, E., Shadlen, M.N. and Newsome, W.T Nature (1994) 370: 140- 143.
Visuo-haptic object-related activation in the ventral visual pathway.
Amedi, A. Hendler, T., Peled, S., Malach, R. and Zohary, E. Nature Neuroscience (2001)4: 324-330.
Early ‘visual’ cortex activation correlates with superior verbal-memory performance in the blind.
Amedi A, Raz N, Pianka P, Malach R and Zohary E Nature Neuroscience. (2003) 6: 758-766.
Dissociation between ventral and dorsal fMRI activation during object and action recognition.
Shmuelof L and Zohary E Neuron (2005) 47: 457-470.
Superior serial memory in the blind: a case of
cognitive compensatory adjustment
Raz N, Striem E, Pundak G, Orlov T, Zohary E Current Biology. (2007) 17:1129-33.
Mirror-image representation of action in the
anterior parietal cortex
Shmuelof L, Zohary E Nature Neuroscience (2008) 11:1267-9.
Prof. Uri Polat
Lateral interactions between spatial channels: suppression and facilitation revealed by lateral masking experiments.
Polat U., Sagi D. Vision Res (1993) 33: 993-999.
Collinear stimuli regulate visual responses depending on the cell's contrast threshold.
Polat U., Mizobe, K., Kasamatsu, T., Norcia A.M. Nature (1998) , 391: 580-584.
Improving vision in adult amblyopia by perceptual learning.
Polat, U., Ma-Naim, T., Belkin, M., & Sagi, D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004)
Treatment of children with amblyopia by perceptual learning.
Polat U., Ma-Naim T., Spirer A. Vision Res (2009) 49: 2599-2603.
Training-induced recovery of low-level vision followed by midlevel perceptual improvements in developmental object and face agnosia
Lev M, Gilaie-Dotan S, Gotthilf-Nezri, D, Yehezkel O, Brooks, JL., Perry A, Bentin S, Bonneh Y and Polat U. Dev. Sci. (2014) 1-14
Development of global visual processing: From the retina to the perceptive field
Doron R, Lev M, Wygnanski Jaffe T, Moroz I, and Polat U. PLoS one (2020) 2020; 15: e0238246
Dr. Itay Ben Zion
Surgical Results in the Management of Advanced Primary Congenital Glaucoma in a Rural Pediatric Population
Itay Ben-Zion, Oren Tomkins, Daniel B. Moore, Eugene M. Helveston Ophthalmology. (2011)
Outcomes of Pediatric Cataract Surgery Under Local
Anesthesia in a Rural Setting
Oren Tomkins-Netzer, Daniel B Moore, Zebiba Eshete, Hanna J Garzozi and Itay
Ben-Zion. Arch Ophthalmol. (2011)
Traumatic pediatric cataract in southern
Ethiopia—results of 49 cases
Michael Kinori, MD, Oren Tomkins-Netzer, MD, Tamara Wygnanski-Jaffe, MD, and
Itay Ben-Zion, MD J AAPOS. (2013)
Prevalence of xerophthalmia among
malnourished children in rural Ethiopia
Daniel B. Moore, Wogen Shirefaw, Oren Tomkins-Netzer,
Zebiba Eshete, Hila Netzer-Tomkins & Itay Ben-Zion Int Ophthalmol.(2013)
The impact of late-treated pediatric cataract on intraocular pressure
Itay Ben-Zion, Daphna Prat Int Opthalmol. (2021)