I have completed a PhD in Tel-Aviv University (School of Psychological Sciences) under the supervision of Prof. Galit Yovel. During consecutive years, I conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Geraint Rees (University College London, UK), Prof. Moshe Bar (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Prof. Lionel Naccache (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière, Paris, France). In 2017 I joined Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Center as a faculty member.
I have completed a PhD in Tel-Aviv University (School of Psychological Sciences) under the supervision of Prof. Galit Yovel. During consecutive years, I conducted postdoctoral research with Prof. Geraint Rees (University College London, UK), Prof. Moshe Bar (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Prof. Lionel Naccache (Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière, Paris, France). In 2017 I joined Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Center as a faculty member.
Gonda Multidisciplinary
Brain Center
Bar-Ilan University
Baranes L, Shimoni H, Axelrod V (2024) Demographic and heredity correlates of day-dreaming propensity: insights from the behavioral data of the human Connectome Project Young Adult dataset. Current Psychology 43:28674-28684. Current Psychology
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Shimoni H, Axelrod V (2024) Elucidating the difference between mind-wandering and day-dreaming terms. Scientific Reports 14:11598
Mizrahi T, Axelrod V (2023) Naturalistic auditory stimuli with fNIRS prefrontal cortex imaging: A potential paradigm for disorder of consciousness diagnostics (a study with healthy participants). Neuropsychologia 187:108604
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Axelrod V, Rozier C, Sohier E, Lehongre K, Adam C, Lambrecq V, Navarro V, Naccache L (2023) Intracranial study in humans: Neural spectral changes during watching comedy movie of Charlie Chaplin. Neuropsychologia 185:108558.
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Mizrahi T, Axelrod V (2023) Similarity in activity and laterality patterns in the angular gyrus during autobiographical memory retrieval and self-referential processing. Brain Struct Funct 228:219–238.
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Axelrod V, Rozier C, Lehongre K, Adam C, Lambrecq V, Navarro V, Naccache L (2022) Neural modulations in the auditory cortex during internal and external attention tasks: A single-patient intracranial recording study. Cortex 157:211-230.
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Somech, N., Mizrahi, T., Caspi, Y., Axelrod, V., (2022). fNIRS imaging of the prefrontal cortex during a naturalistic comedy movie. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 1486.
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Axelrod V, Rozier C, Malkinson TS, Lehongre K, Adam C, Lambrecq V, Navarro V, Naccache L (2022) Face-selective multi-unit activity in the proximity of the FFA modulated by facial expression stimuli. Neuropsychologia ​
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Hermann B, Sangaré A, ... Axelrod V, ... Naccache L (2021) Importance, limits and caveats of the use of 'disorders of consciousness' to theorize consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness.
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Schwartz R, Rozier C, Malkinson TS, Lehongre K, Adam C, Lambrecq V, Navarro V, Naccache L, Axelrod V (2021) Comparing stimulus-evoked and spontaneous response of the face-selective multi-units in the human posterior fusiform gyrus. Neuroscience of Consciousness link
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Marron TR, Berant E, Axelrod V*, Faust M* (2020) Spontaneous cognition and its relationship to human creativity: a functional connectivity study involving a chain free association task. Neuroimage (* equal senior authorship)
Axelrod V, Rozier C, Malkinson TS, Lehongre K, Adam C, Lambrecq V, Navarro V, Naccache L (2019) Face-selective neurons in the vicinity of the human fusiform face area. Neurology 92:197-198. (download)
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Axelrod V, Zhu X, Qiu J (2018) Transcranial stimulation of the frontal lobes increases propensity of mind-wandering without changing meta-awareness. Scientific Reports 8:15975.
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Axelrod V, Rees G, Bar M (2017) The default network and the combination of cognitive processes that mediate self-generated thought. Nature Human Behavior 1:896-910.
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Axelrod V, Schwarzkopf DS, Gilaie-Dotan S, Rees G (2017) Perceptual similarity and the neural correlates of geometrical illusions in human brain structure. Scientific Reports 7:39968.
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Axelrod V (2016) On the domain-specificity of the visual and non-visual face-selective regions. Eur J Neurosci 44:2049-2063
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Axelrod, V., Rees, G., Lavidor, M., & Bar, M. (2015). Increasing propensity to mind wander with transcranial direct current stimulation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(11), 3314-3319
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Axelrod, V., Bar, M., Rees, G., & Yovel, G. (2015). Neural correlates of subliminal language processing. Cerebral Cortex, 25(8), 2160-2169
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Axelrod V, Bar M, Rees G (2015) Exploring the unconscious using faces. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 19:35-45
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Axelrod, V., & Yovel, G. (2015). Successful decoding of famous faces in the Fusiform Face Area. Plos One, 10(2), e0117126
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Axelrod, V., & Teodorescu, A. R. (2015). Commentary: When the brain takes a break: a model-based analysis of mind wandering. Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 9(83)
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Axelrod V, (2014) Minimizing bugs in cognitive neuroscience programming, Frontiers in Psychology, 5
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Axelrod V, Rees G (2014) Conscious awareness is required for holistic face processing. Consciousness
and Cognition 27:233-245
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Axelrod, V., & Yovel, G. (2013). The challenge of localizing the anterior temporal face area: A possible solution. Neuroimage, 81(0), 371-380
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Axelrod, V., & Yovel, G. (2012). Hierarchical Processing of Face Viewpoint in Human Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(7), 2442-2452
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Axelrod, V., & Yovel, G. (2011). Nonpreferred Stimuli Modify the Representation of Faces in the Fusiform Face Area. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(3), 746-756
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Axelrod, V., & Yovel, G. (2010). External facial features modify the representation of internal facial features in the fusiform face area. Neuroimage, 52(2), 720-725
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Axelrod, V. (2010). The Fusiform Face Area: In Quest of Holistic Face Processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(26), 8699-8701
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