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• Personal Details Name Avidan, Galia Date and place of birth February 11th 1972, Email: [email protected]; [email protected] URL for website: http://avidangalia.wix.com/visual-perception

• Education B.Sc. 1992 -1995 Tel-Aviv University – Life Sciences M.Sc. 2000 Hebrew University, The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (direct doctoral program) Ph.D. 1995-2002 Hebrew University, The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (direct doctoral program). Name of advisors: Prof. Ehud Zohary and Prof. Rafael Malach. Title of thesis: Influences of Extra-Retinal Information on Visual Object Recognition: fMRI Study. • Employment History 08/2018-presnt Visiting scholar, Princeton Institute, Princeton, NJ. 2018-present Full Professor, tenured; Department of , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 2014-2017 Associate Professor, tenured; Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 2010-2014 Senior Lecturer, tenured; Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 2006- 2010 Lecturer; Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. 2005-2006 Postdoctoral research fellow; Clinical applications of fMRI (Advisor: Dr. Talma Hendler). Functional Brain Imaging Unit, Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel and Physiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2005-2006 Courtesy faculty appointment; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA. 2002-2005 Postdoctoral research fellow; Functional imaging of face and object recognition processes in neuropsychological patients (Advisor: Prof. Marlene Behrmann). Department of Psychology and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA. 1994-1995 Research assistant; Department of Neurobiochemistry, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

• Main research interests and methodologies My scientific discipline is , and my research focuses on the psychological and neural properties of the human visual system. My work is designed to elucidate the brain mechanisms giving rise to perception of faces, objects and complex scenes and in turn, to visually guided behavior. I adopt an integrative multidisciplinary approach by combining behavioral, computational, eye tracking and imaging techniques (structural and functional MRI) and by studying healthy individuals as well as individuals with neuropsychological deficits affecting visual perception and cognition.

• Professional Activities (a) Positions in academic administration (departmental, faculty and university) 2016-2018 Chair of the Department for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, BGU 2014-2015 Member of resources committee, Psychology Department, BGU Galia Avidan page 2

2014 Head of the M.A. program in the Department for Brain and Cognitive Sciences. 2011-2013 Head of the Neuroscience track, Psychology department and Cognitive Science program, BGU 2011-2013 Head of the teaching committee, Psychology Department, BGU 2010-Present Member of the steering committee of the joint Brain Imaging Center (BIRC) of BGU and Soroka Medical Center 2010 –2013 Member of the steering committee of the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, BGU 2009-2010 Member of the teaching committee, Psychology Department, BGU 2009-2013 Member of committee for graduate students in the Cognitive Science program, BGU

(b) Professional functions outside universities/institutions 2014-2017 Member of the program committee of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting (the biggest and most prominent international Neuroscience organization and meeting). 2016, 2017 Member of professional reviewing committees, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Binational Science Foundation (BSF) 2013 Member of the academic reviewing committee for the Israeli Presidential excellence scholarship for brain research for excelling Ph.D. students. 2013 Member of the academic reviewing committee for the Israeli Presidential excellence prize for brain research given during the Presidential Conference - Facing Tomorrow. 2011, 2012 Member of professional reviewing committees, Psychobiology, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Binational Science Foundation (BSF)

(c) Significant professional consulting N/A

(d) Editor: Guest editor: 2017 - Special Issue on Person Perception for the journal Visual Cognition (with Profs. Galit Yovel and Alice O'Toole)

(e) Ad-hoc reviewer Peer reviewed journals: Journal of Neuroscience; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; Cerebral Cortex; European Journal of Neuroscience; Neuropsychologia; Cognitive Neuropsychology; NeuroImage; Brain; Brain Research; Perception, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; PlosOne; Neuropsychological Rehabilitation; Journal of Vision; Proceedings of the Royal Society B.; Nature Communication; Nature Neuroscience; Neuron; Current Biology

Grant agencies: Israel Science Foundation (ISF), The National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel (NIPI), The German Israeli Foundation (GIF), National Science Foundation (NSF), Binational Science Foundation (BSF), Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO, Belgium)

(f) Membership in professional/scientific societies 2011-present Member of the INS (International Neuropsychological Symposium, members are nominated by invitation only and there are 124 members worldwide and only 3 Israeli members) 2018 Vision Science Society 1998-present Society for Neuroscience 1998-present Israeli Society for Neuroscience

• Educational activities (a) Courses BGU Galia Avidan page 3

Functional Neuroanatomy (graduate level) Neuropsychology (graduate level) Cognitive neuroimaging (graduate level) High level vision (graduate level) Physiological Psychology (undergraduate level) Representation and information processing in the visual system (undergraduate level) Introduction to neuroimaging (undergraduate level)

Princeton University High level vision (undergraduate level) Face perception seminar (undergraduate level)

(b) Research students Postdoc 2012 Dr. Bat Sheva Hadad, BGU, currently a faculty member in the Education Department at Haifa University. 2016 Dr. Michal Tanzer 2018 Dr. Carmel Sofer, currently a faculty member in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Department at Ben Gurion University of the Negev 2020 (expected) Dr. Nilly Weiss

Ph.D. Graduates: 2010 Dr. Yoni Pertzov, (joint student with Prof. Ehud Zohary, Hebrew University), currently a faculty member in the Psychology Department at the Hebrew university. 2015 Dr. Michal Tanzer (joint student with Prof. Golan Shahar, BGU) 2015 Dr. Erez Freud (joint student with Prof. Tzvi Ganel, BGU). Currently a faculty member in the Psychology Department at York University, Canada. 2017 Dr. Rotem Saar (joint student with Prof. Alon Friedman); recipient of the Negev scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students, BGU. 2017 Dr. Lee Shalev (joint student with Dr. Rony Paz, Weizmann Institute); recipient of the Negev scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students, BGU. 2018 Dr. Nilly Weiss; recipient of the Negev scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students, BGU. 2018 Dr. Gideon Rosenthal (joint student with Prof. Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, USA) recipient of the Negev scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students, BGU 2019 (expected) Keren Lesinger (joint student with Dr. Ilan Dinstein, BGU) recipient of a faculty scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students, 2020 (expected) Maayan Menahem (joint student with Prof. Golan Shahar), recipient of a faculty scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students. 2020 (expected) Alon Kaplan, joint student with Prof. Iris Shai BGU 2022 (expected) Gideon Levakov, (joint student with Prof. Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, USA) recipient of the Negev scholarship for excellent Ph.D. students, BGU 2023 (expected) Tal Lulav-Bash (joint student with Dr. Bat-Sheva Hadad). BGU

M.A. Graduates: 2009 Dalia Sztejnworcel (joint student with Dr. Tzvi Ganel and Prof. Golan Shahar) BGU. 2011 Shani Velman (joint student with Dr. Tzvi Ganel) BGU. 2011 Keren Yona (joint student with Dr. Tzvi Ganel) BGU. 2012 Udi Barki (joint student with Prof. Golan Shahar) BGU 2013 Ido Pelleg (joint student with Dr. Bat-Sheva Hadad) BGU. 2013 Shiran Oren (joint student with Dr. Bat-Sheva Hadad), BGU 2016 Dana Caspi BGU. 2016 Elite Mardo (joint student with Dr. Bat-Sheva Hadad). Haifa U Galia Avidan page 4

2018 Yael Holzinger, BGU 2018 Gideon Levakov, (joint student with Prof. Iris Shai), BGU

• Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships (a) Honors, Citation Awards (including during studies) 2011 Toronto Prize for excellence in research from Ben-Gurion University. 2006 Alon Fellowship for young investigators from the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel. 2000 Aharon Katzir student travel fellowship for study in the Life Sciences. 1999 Wolf Foundation research scholarship for excelling Ph.D. students. 1995-2001 academic scholarship from the interdisciplinary doctoral program in "Computation and Information Processing in the Brain", Hebrew University. 2019 Awarded the Rivka Carmi Chair in Ben Gurion University for the Advancement of Women’s Leadership in Academia in the Field of Neuropsychology 2019-2020 Awarded the Stanley Kelley Jr. visiting professorship award at Princeton University

• Main collaborations Prof. Tzvi Ganel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Face and object recognition. Prof. Golan Shahar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. The relation between face perception and personality variables. Dr. Bat-Sheva Hadad, Education Department, University of Haifa, Israel. Developmental aspects of face processing. Prof. Marlene Behrmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Congenital prosopagnosia, face perception. Prof. Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, USA. Complex network analysis of brain imaging data Prof. Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute, Israel. Basic visual elements underlying visual recognition. Prof. Uri Hasson, Princeton University, USA. Inter-subject correlation in the face system Prof. Ilan Shelef, Soroka University Medical Center and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Deep learning models for inferring morphological markers and their relation to aging and brain pathology Dr. Tammy Raviv-Riklin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Deep learning models for inferring morphological markers and their relation to aging and brain pathology Prof. Carmel Sofer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Models for automatic comprehension and interpretation of facial expression sequences.

 Scientific publications

H-index 29, 4,024 citations in total; 3,847 citations (excluding self-citations), average number of citations per item: 59.91 (source ISI, May 2020).

(a) Chapters in collective volumes – 1. Malach R, Avidan G, Lerner Y, Hasson H, Levy I (2004). The Cartogarphy of Human Visual Object Areas, Chapter 9, pp 195-204, In: Attention and Performance, XX

2. Behrmann, M, Avidan G, Thomas C, Humphreys K (2009). Congenital and acquired prosopagnosia: flip sides of the same coin?. Perceptual Expertise: Bridging Brain and Behavior, Editors: Daniel Bub, Michael J. Tarr and Isabel Gauthier. Oxford University Press.

3. Avidan G, Thomas C, Behrmann M (2009). An integrative approach towards understanding the psychological and neural basis of congenital prosopagnosia. "Cortical Mechanisms of Vision"; (ed. M Jenkin & L Harris), Cambridge University Press.

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4. Behrmann M, Avidan G, Thomas C, and Nishimura M, (2011) Impairments in face perception. A book chapter for the Handbook of Face Perception (ed. A. J. Calder, G. Rhodes, M. H. Johnson & J. V. Haxby), Oxford University Press.

5. Behrmann M., Richler J.J., Avidan G. & Kimchi R. (2015) Holistic face perception. In Oxford Handbook of Perceptual Organization (ed. J. Wagemans) Oxford University Press, New York.

(b) Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientific journals - running numbers (source: ISI2, September 2019) 1. NardiS N, AvidanS G, DailyS D, Zilkah-FalbS R, and BarzilaiPI A. (1997). Biochemical and temporal analysis of events associated with apoptosis induced by lowering the extracellular potassium concentration in mouse cerebellar granule neurons. J Neurochem 68(2):750-759. (Citations: 75; IF=3.808 ; Q1 , 53 of 267)

2. Grill-SpectorS K, KushnirC T, EdelmanC S, AvidanS G, ItzchakC Y, and MalachPI R. (1999). Differential processing of objects under various viewing conditions in the human lateral occipital complex. Neuron, 24:187-203. (Citations: 843; IF=16.319; Q1 Neurosciences, 7 of 267)

3. LevyS I, HassonS U, AvidanS G, HendlerC T, and MalachPI R. (2001). Center-periphery organization of human object areas. Nat Neurosci 4(5):533-9. (Citations: 398; IF=21.403; Q1 Neurosciences, 2 of 267)

4. AvidanPD G, and BehrmannPI M (2002). Correlation between the fMRI BOLD signal and perception. Neuron (commentary) 34:1-3. (Citations: 2; IF=16.319; Q1 Neurosciences, 7 of 267)

5. AvidanS G, HassonS U, HendlerC T, ZoharyPI E, and MalachPI R (2002). Analysis of the neuronal selectivity underlying low fMRI signals. Current Biology 12:964-972. (Citations: 82; IF=10.09 ; Q1 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 20 of 298)

6. AvidanS G, HarelT M, HendlerC T, Ben-BashatC D, ZoharyPI E, and MalachPI R (2002). Contrast sensitivity in human visual areas and its relationship to object recognition. Journal of Neurophysiology 87:3102-3116. (Citations: 143; IF=2.7 ; Q2 Physiology, 34 of 81)

7. HassonS U, AvidanS G, DeouellPD LY, BentinPI S, MalachPI R (2003). Face-selective activation in a congenital prosopagnosic subject. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15(3):419- 431. (Citations: 95; IF=3.682; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 18 of 88 )

8. AvidanS G, LevyS I, HendlerC T, ZoharyPI E, and MalachPI R (2003). Spatial vs. object specific attention in high-order visual areas. Neuroimage 19:308-318. (Citations: 25; IF=6.918 ; Q1 Neurosciences, 36 of 267)

9. BehrmannPI M, AvidanPD G (2005). Congenital prosopagnosia: face-blind from birth. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 9(4): 180-187. (Citations: 222; IF=23.872 ; Q1 Neurosciences, 5 of 267)

10. BehrmannPI M, AvidanPD G, MarottaPD J, KimchiC R (2005). Detailed exploration of face- related processing in congenital prosopagnosia: 1. Behavioral findings. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17:1130-1149 (Citations: 151 ; IF=3.682; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 18 of 88)

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11. BehrmannPI M, AvidanPD G, LeonardT GL, KimchiC R, LunaC B, HumphreysPD K, MinshewC N (2006). Configural processing in autism and its relationship to face processing. Neuropsychologia 44(1):110-129. (Citations: 175; IF=3.424; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 21 of 88)

12. AvidanPD G, HassonS U, MalachC R, and BehrmannPI M (2005). Detailed exploration of face- related processing in congenital prosopagnosia: 2. Functional neuroimaging findings. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17:1150-1167. (Citations: 154; IF=3.424; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 21 of 88)

13. Siman-TovPD T, MendelsonS A, Schonberg S T, AvidanPD G, Podlipsk PD I, Pessoa PD L, Gadoth C N, Ungerleider C LG, and Hendler PI T (2007). Bihemispheric leftward bias in a visuospatial attention related network, Journal of Neuroscience 27(42):11271-11278 (Citations: 84; IF=6.485 ; Q1 category: Neurosciences, 29 of 267)

14. HumphreysPD K, AvidanPD G, BehrmannPI M, (2007). A detailed investigation of facial expression processing in acquired and congenital prosopagnosia. Experimental Brain Research, 176, 2, 356-373. (Citations: 90; IF=2.033 ; Q4 Neurosciences, 216 of 267)

15. BehrmannPI M, AvidanPD G, GaoPD F, BlackC SE (2007). Structural Imaging Reveals Anatomical Alterations in Inferotemporal Cortex in Congenital Prosopagnosia. Cerebral Cortex, 17(10):2354-2363 (Citations: 99; IF=6.149 ; Q1 neurosciences, 45 of 267)

16. RosenbergS K, LieblingS R, AvidanPD G, PerryS D, Siman-TovPD T, AndelmanC F, RamC Z, FriedC I, HendlerPI T. (2008) Language related reorganization in adult brain with slow growing glioma: fMRI prospective case-study. Neurocase 14(6):456-73. (Citations=14; IF=1.214 ; Q4 Psychology, 66 of 77)

17. ThomasS, C., MoyaS, L., AvidanC, G., HumphreysPD, K., JungC, K.J., PetersonC, M. and BehrmannPI, M. (2008). Reduction in white matter connectivity, revealed by DTI, may account for age-related changes in face perception, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(2): 268-284. (Citations=78; IF=4.593; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 9 of 85)

18. AvidanPI G, BehrmannPI M, (2008). Implicit familiarity processing in congenital prosopagnosia. Journal of Neuropsychology: special issue about face processing, 2(1): 141-164. (Citations=30; IF=2.918 ; Q2 Psychology, Experimental, 29 of 88)

19. HumphreysPD K, HassonPD U, AvidanC G, MinshewC N, BehrmannPI M. (2008) Cortical patterns of category-selective activation for faces, places and objects in adults with autism. Autism Research. 1(1):52-63. (Citations=58; 3.955 ; Q1 Psychology, Developmental, 12 of 74)

20. HassonPD U, AvidanC G, GelbardS H, MinshewC N, VallinesS I, Harel T M and Behrmann PI M. (2009) Shared and Idiosyncratic Activation Patterns in Autism Revealed Under Continuous Real-Life Conditions. Autism Research. 2(4):220-31. (Citations=60; IF=3.955 ; Q1 Psychology, Developmental, 12 of 74)

21. Pertzov, YS., AvidanPI, G., and ZoharyPI, E. (2009). Accumulation of visual information across multiple fixations. Journal of Vision 9, 1-12. (Citations=2; IF= 2.533 ; Q2 Opthalmology 28 of 59)

22. PertzovS, Y., ZoharyPI, E., and AvidanPI, G. (2009). Implicitly perceived objects attract gaze during later free viewing Journal of Vision 9, 1-12. (Citations=4; IF= 2.805 ; IF= 2.739 ; Q2 Opthalmology 18 of 56)

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23. ThomasS C, AvidanC G, HumphreysPD K., JungC K.J. and BehrmannPI M. (2009). Reduced structural connectivity in ventral visual cortex in congenital prosopagnosia. Nature Neuroscience 12, 29-31. (Citations=185; IF=21.403; Q1 Neurosciences, 2 of 267) 24. AvidanPI, G., and BehrmannPI, M. (2009). Functional MRI reveals compromised neural integrity of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia. Current Biology 19, 1146- 1150. (Citations=89; IF=10.09 ; Q1 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 20 of 298)

25. JungPI KJ, PengS H, ZhaoS T, AvidanC G., BehrmannC M (2010). Recovery of signal loss due to an in-plane susceptibility gradient in the gradient echo EPI through acquisition of extended phase-encoding lines. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 28(6):777-83 (Citations=3; IF=2.349; Q3 Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging, 66 of 129)

26. PertzovS, Y., ZoharyPI, E., and AvidanPI G. (2010). Rapid formation of spatiotopic representations as revealed by inhibition of return. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(26), 8882-7. (Citations=44; IF=6.485 ; Q1 category: Neurosciences, 29 of 267)

27. PertzovS, Y., AvidanPI, G., and ZoharyPI, E. (2011). Multiple reference frames for saccadic planning in the human parietal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 31(3), 1059-1068. (Citations=46; IF=6.485 ; Q1 category: Neurosciences, 29 of 267)

28. ScherfPD, K.S., LunaC, B, AvidanC, G., & BehrmannPI, M. (2011). What precedes which: Developmental neural tuning in face- and place-related cortex. Cerebral Corte, Cerebral Cortex 21(9):1963-80. (Citations=42; IF=6.149 ; Q1 neurosciences, 45 of 267)

29. AvidanPI G, TanzerS M, BehrmannPI M, (2011). Impaired holistic processing in congenital prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia 49(9), 2541-2552. (Citations=119; IF=3.424; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 21 of 88)

30. TanzerS M, ShaharPI G, AvidanPI G (2013). A smile worthy of your cognition: self- efficacious individuals recognize and remember happy faces. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 32(1), 1-16 (Citations=2; IF=1.903; Q4 Psychology, Social, 59 of 63)

31. HadadPD B, AvidanPI G, GanelPI T (2012). Functional dissociation between perception and action is evident early in life. Developmental Science 15(5), 653-658 (Citations=6; IF=4.884; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 5 of 88 )

32. KimchiPI, R., BehrmannPI, M., and AvidanC, G., AmishavS, R (2012). Perceptual separability of featural and configural information in congenital prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 29: 5-6, 447-463. (Citations=24; IF 1.796 Q2 Psychology, Experimental, 40 of 88)

33. GabayS S, PertzovS Y, CohenS N, AvidanPI G and HenikPI (2013). Remapping of the environment without corollary discharges: evidence from scene based IOR. Journal of Vision, in press. (Citations=2 ; IF= 2.533 ; IF= 2.739 ; Q2 Opthalmology 28 of 59)

34. FreudS E, GanelPI T, Avidan PI G (2013). Representation of possible and impossible objects in the human visual cortex: evidence from fMRI adaptation. NeuroImage, 64, 685-692 (Citations=13; IF=6.797 ; Q1 Neurosciences, 36 of 267)

35. FreudS E, AvidanPI G, GanelPI T (2013). Holistic processing of impossible objects: Evidence from Garner's speeded-classification task. Vision Research, 9, 10-18. Galia Avidan page 8

(Citations=8 ; IF= 2.236 ; Q2 Ophthalmology, 26 of 59)

36. Tanzer M, Avidan G, Shahar G (2013) Does perceived social support protect against perceiving angry facial expressions following failure? Cognition and Emotion, In press (Citations=3; IF=3.153; Q2 Psychology, Experimental, 33 of 88)

37. AvidanPI G, TanzerS M, Hadj-BouzianePD F, LiuS N, UngerleiderC LG, and BehrmannPI M (2014) Selective dissociation between core and extended regions of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia. Cerebral Cortex. 24(6):1565-78 (Citations=92; IF=6.149 ; Q1 neurosciences, 45 of 267)

38. TanzerS, M., FreudS, E., GanelPI, T., and AvidanPI, G. (2013). General holistic impairment in congenital prosopagnosia: Evidence from Garner's speeded-classification task, Cognitive Neuropsychology 30(6):429-45. (Citations=13; IF 1.955 Q2 Psychology, Experimental, 40 of 88)

39. AvidanPI, G., and BehrmannPI, M. (2014). Structural and functional impairment of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia. Frontiers in Bioscience, 6,236-57. (Citations=2; IF=3.29; Q1 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, specific journal ranking not available in ISI)

40. TanzerS M, ShaharPI G, AvidanPI G (2014). Project PAVE (Personality And Vision Experimentation): Role of personal and interpersonal resilience in the perception of emotional facial expression. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 602. (doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00602) (Citations=0; IF=3.964; Q2, Psychology, 21 of 77)

41. FreudS E, AvidanPI, G, GanelPI, T (2015). The highs and lows of object impossibility: Effects of spatial frequency on holistic processing of impossible objects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(1), 297-306. doi:10.3758/s13423-014-0678-2 (Citations=6; IF=3.78; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 9 of 88)

42. FreudS E, RosenthalS, G, GanelPI, T, AvidanPI, G. (2015). Sensitivity to object spatial- layout in the human visual cortex: Evidence from functional connectivity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(5), 1029-1043. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00753 (Citations=9; IF=3.682; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 18 of 88)

43. FreudS, E., GanelPI, T., ShelefC, I., HammerC, M. D., AvidanPI, G., & BehrmannPI, M. (2015). Three-dimensional representations of objects in dorsal cortex are dissociable from those in ventral cortex. Cereb Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhv229 (Citations=13; IF=6.149 ; Q1 neurosciences, 45 of 267)

44. FreudS, E., HadadS, B. S., AvidanPI, G., & GanelPI, T. (2015). Evidence for similar early but not late representation of possible and impossible objects. Front Psychol, 6, 94. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00094 (Citations=3; IF=2.885; Q2 Psychology, Multidisciplinary , 40 of 137)

45. FreudS, E., GanelPI, T., & AvidanPI, G. (2015). Impossible expectations: fMRI adaptation in the lateral occipital complex (LOC) is modulated by the statistical regularities of 3D structural information. Neuroimage, 122, 188-194. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.07.085 (Citations=6; IF=6.918 ; Q1 Neurosciences, 36 of 256)

46. NamdarS, G., AvidanPI, G., & GanelPI, T. (2015). Effects of configural processing on the perceptual spatial resolution for face features. Cortex, 72, 115-123. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.04.007 (Citations=5; IF=4.716; Q1 Behavioral Sciences 5 of 53)

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47. FreudPI, E., GanelPI, T., AvidanPI, G., & Gilaie-DotanC, S. (2016). Functional dissociation between action and perception of object shape in developmental visual object agnosia. Cortex, 76, 17-27. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2015.12.006 (Citations=2; IF=4.716; Q1 Behavioral Sciences 5 of 53)

48. BehrmannPI, M., ScherfPI, K. S., & AvidanPI, G. (2016). Neural mechanisms of face perception, their emergence over development, and their breakdown. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Cognitive Science, 7(4), 247-263. doi:10.1002/wcs.1388 (Citations=5; IF= 3.408; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 16 of 88)

49. TanzerS, M., WeinbachS, N., MardoS, E., HenikPI, A., & AvidanPI, G. (2016). Phasic alertness enhances global processing in congenital prosopagnosia Neuropsychologia, 89 299-308. (Citations=7; IF=3.424; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 21 of 88)

50. WeissS, N., MardoS, E., & AvidanPI, G. (2016). Visual expertise for horses in a case of congenital prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 83, 63-75. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.07.028 (Citations=7; IF=3.673; Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 18 of 85)

51. YovelPI, G., AvidanPI, G, O’Toole PI, A. J. (2017). Editorial. Visual Cognition, 25, 413- 415 Special Issue (Citations=0; IF=1.626; Q4 Psychology, Experimental, 81 of 88)

52. RosenthalS, G., SpornsPI, O., & AvidanPI, G. (2017). Stimulus Dependent Dynamic Reorganization of the Human Face Processing Network. Cereb Cortex. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhw279 (Citations=5; IF=6.149 ; Q1 neurosciences, 45 of 256)

53. RosenthalS, G, TanzerS, M., SimonyC, E., HassonC, U., BehrmannPI, M., AvidanPI G. (2017). Altered topology of neural circuits in congenital prosopagnosia. eLife, 6 10.7554/eLife.25069 (Citations=10; IF=8.523; Q1 biology, 4 of 87)

54. RosenthalS G, LevakovS G, AvidanPI G. (2018). Holistic face representation is highly orientation-specific. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1381-x (Citations=1; IF=3.78; Q1 Psychology Experimental, 9 of 88)

55. Shalev LS, Paz RPI, Avidan GPI (2018) Aversive learning compromises visual discrimination and widens generalization. Journal of Neuroscience. 14;38(11):2766-2779. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0889-17 (Citations=4; IF=6.485 ; Q1 Neurosciences, 29 of 267)

56. MardoS, E., SchwartzS, S, AvidanPI, G, HadadPI B. (2018) Emotional cues differently modulate visual processing of faces and objects, Emotion, in press (Citations=0; IF= 3.251; Q1 Psychology, experimental 17 of 88)

57. RosenthalS, G., VášaC, F., GriffaC, A., HagmannC, P., AvidanPI, G., SpornsPI, O. (2018). Mapping higher-order relations between brain structure and function with embedded vector representations of connectomes. Nature Communication, 5;9(1):2178. doi: 10.1038/s41467- 018-04614-w. (Citations=2; IF= 13.811; Q1 Multidisciplinary science, 5 of 69)

58. Rosenthal, G. and AvidanPI, G. (2018). A possible neuronal account for the behavioural heterogeneity in congenital prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology. 35:1-2, 74-77, DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2017.1417248 (commentary) (Citations=1; IF 1.955 Q2 Psychology, Experimental, 40 of 88)

59. KrillS, D., AvidanPI, G., Pertzov, YPI. (2018) Rapid forgetting of faces. Frontiers in Psychology. In press. Galia Avidan page 10

(Citations=0; IF=2.871 Q2 Psychology, Multidisciplinary, 40 of 137)

60. MardoS, E., HadadPI B, AvidanPI, G. (2018) Adults’ markers of face processing are present at age 6 and are interconnected along development. Perception. In press (Citations=1; IF=1.34 Q3 Psychology, Experimental, 62 of 88)

61. HoltzingerS, Y., UllmanPI, S., BehrmannPI, M., AvidanPI, G. (2019), Minimal Recognizable Configurations (MIRCs) elicit category selective responses in high order visual areas Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. In press (Citations=0; IF=3.682 Q1 Psychology, Experimental, 18 of 88)

62. PertzovPI, Y., KrillS, D., WeissS, N., LesingerS, K., & AvidanPI, G. (2020). Rapid forgetting of faces in congenital prosopagnosia. Cortex, In press. (Citations=0; IF=4.275 Q1 Behavioral Sciences, 5 of 53)

63. LevakovS, G., RosenthalS, G., ShelefPI, I., RavivPI, T. R., & AvidanPI, G. (2020). From a deep learning model back to the brain-Identifying regional predictors and their relation to aging. Hum Brain Mapp. doi:10.1002/hbm.25011 (Citations=0; IF=4.554 Q1 Neurosciences, 61 of 267).

• Lectures and Presentations at Meetings and Invited Seminars not Followed by Published Proceedings

(a) Invited plenary lectures at conferences/meetings 2005 The 2nd Benoziyo Symposium on Neurological Diseases, Weizmann Institute of Science. 2005 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA. 2005 Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. 2005 Perceptual Expertise Network (PEN) 10th meeting; Pittsburgh, PA, USA. 2006 Changing Your Mind: Workshop on the Integration of Perception, Cognition and Action. International Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation sponsored by the Hebrew University Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation. 2007 Cortical mechanism of vision (CVR) conference, York University, Toronto Canada. 2010 International workshop on “Selection and control mechanisms in perception and action”. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 2011 The International Neuropsychological Symposium (INS), Mondsee, Austria 2015 Person Perception International Meeting, Jerusalem, Israel 2015 Brainy Days international meeting in Jerusalem organized by the Hebrew University 2015 Person Perception workshop at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena Germany. 2018 Eyes to the stars feet on the ground: Career development in visual Neurosciences workshop at Hebrew University.

(b) Presentation of papers at conferences/meetings (oral or poster, this list is for the past 10 years) 2009 Avidan G, Thomas C, Behrmann M. A multi-modal approach to understanding the neural basis of congenital prosopagnosia. The 39th annual SFN meeting, Chicago, Ill. Galia Avidan page 11

2009 Pertzov, Y, Avidan, G, & Zohary, E. Spatiotopic representations in the human cortex – Behavioral and neural evidence. 18th Annual meeting of the Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN), Eilat, Israel 2010 Avidan G, Ungerleider L, Hadj-Bouziane F, Liu N, Behrmann M. Resting-state functional connectivity within the face processing network of normal and congenitally prosopagnosic individuals The 40th annual SFN meeting, San-Diego, CA. 2010 Pertzov Y, Zohary E. & Avidan, G. Rapid formation of spatiotopic representations as revealed by inhibition of return. Vision Sciences Society (VSS) 10th conference, Naples FL 2010 Behrmann M, Ungerleider L, Hadj-Bouziane F, Liu N, Avidan G. Resting-state functional connectivity within the face processing network of normal and congenitally prosopagnosic individuals Vision Sciences Society (VSS) 10th conference, Naples FL 2012 Tanzer M, Weinbach N, Freud E, Ganel T, Henik A, Avidan G. Impaired holistic processing in congenital prosopagnosia and it’s possible amelioration. 21st annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Neuroscience (ISFN), Eilat , Israel 2012 Freud E, Hadad B, Avidan G, Ganel T. Evidence for similar early but not late representation of possible and impossible objects. 21st annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Neuroscience (ISFN), Eilat , Israel 2012 Avidan G, Tanzer M, Hadj-Bouziane F, Liu N, Ungerleider L, Behrmann M. Selective dissociation between core and extended regions of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia" The annual meeting of the society for neuroscience, New-Orleans, LA 2012 Freud E, Avidan G, Ganel T. Holistic representations of impossible objects. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples FL. 2013 Rosenthal G, Freud E, Ganel T, Avidan G. Characterizing the "ups" and "downs" of functional connectivity patterns using face perception as a model domain. Cell Symposia: The Networked Brain, SFN satellite meeting, San-Diego, CA, USA. 2013 Freud E, Rosenthal G, Ganel T, Avidan G. The neural signature of spatial uncertainty. Cell Symposia: The Networked Brain, SFN satellite meeting, San- Diego, CA, USA. 2013 Behrmann M, Avidan G, Nestor. A Multivariate pattern analysis of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia. The annual SFN meeting, San- Diego, CA, USA. 2013 Kimchi R, Behermann M, Avidan G, Amishav R. Configural and featural information in faces: integrality in normal face processing, separability in congenital prosopagnosia. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Toronto, Canada. 2014 Avidan G, Rosenthal R, Tanzer M, Behrmann M. Structural and functional impairment of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia. Talk given in a symposium entitled “Beyond the FFA: The role of the ventral anterior temporal lobe in face processing” Visual Science Society (VSS) meeting, Tampa, FL, USA. 2014 Rosenthal G., Tanzer M., Hasson U., Simony E., Behrmann M., Avidan G. Mapping the topology of the face processing network in congenital prosopagnosia. The annual SFN meeting, Washington D.C, USA. 2015 Freud E, Avidan G, Ganel T, Behrmann M. Independent object 3D structure representations in the dorsal cortex: Evidence from visual agnosia. The annual SFN meeting, Chicago IL, USA. 2016 Weiss N, Avidan G. Recruitment of face-selective brain regions for objects of expertise in a case of Congenital Prosopagnosia. The annual SFN meeting, San- Diego, CA, USA. 2016 Shalev L, Paz R, Avidan G. Behavioral and neuronal outcome of generalization following visual aversive learning. The annual SFN meeting, San-Diego, CA, USA. Galia Avidan page 12

2016 Rosenthal G, Sporns O, Avidan G. Stimulus based dynamic organization of the face network. The annual SFN meeting, San-Diego, CA, USA. 2017 Weiss N, Avidan G. Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying visual expertise. Annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology (ISCOP), Acre, Israel. 2017 Lesigner K, Rosenthal G, Dinstein I, Avidan G. Dynamics of the development and specialization of the visual system in infants, children, and adults. Annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology (ISCOP), Acre, Israel.

2017 Mardo E, Avidan G, Hadad B.S. The effects of emotional cues on visual perception and the special case of faces. Annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology (ISCOP), Acre, Israel. 2017 Lesigner K, Rosenthal G, Dinstein I, Avidan G. Dynamics of the development and specialization of the visual system in infants, children, and adults. The annual meeting of the society for neuroscience, Washington DC. 2017 Weiss N, Avidan G. Behavioral mechanisms underlying visual expertise and their relation to face perception. The annual meeting of the society for neuroscience, Washington DC. 2018 Avidan G, Holzinger Y, Ullman S, Behrmann M. Minimal Recognizable Configurations (MIRCs) elicit category selective responses in high order visual cortex. Visual Science Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, Florida. 2018 Sofer C, Vilenchik, D, Dotsch, R, Avidan G. Emotion Algebra reveals the richness of meanings of facial expressions. Visual Science Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, Florida. 2019 Levakov, G., Rosenthal, R., Riklin Raviv, R., Shelef, I., Avidan G. From a deep learning model back to the brain - Inferring morphological markers and their relation to aging. Organization of Human Brain Mapping meeting (OHBM), Rome Italy 2019 Levakov, G., Kaplan, A., Yaskolka-Meir, A., Rinott, E., Tsaban, G., Zelicha, G., Meiran, N., Shelef, I., Shai, I., & Avidan, G., Neural correlates of future weight loss reveal a possible role for brain-gastric interactions. Annual meeting of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology (ISCOP), Acre, Israel.

(c) Seminar presentations at universities and institutions 2010 Psychology Department seminar, Hebrew University 2011 Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation seminar, Hebrew University 2011 Psychology Department, Neuroscience colloquium, Tel Aviv University 2013 Psychology Department, Stanford University. 2013 Psychology Department, Cognitive colloquium, Tel Aviv University 2014 Sagol Department of Neurobiology, Haifa University 2014 Department of Medical Neurobiology, Hebrew University 2015 Psychology Department, Cognitive colloquium, Hebrew University 2015 Brain Imaging Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center 2017 Psychology Department, Cognitive colloquium, Tel Aviv University 2017 Psychology Department, University of Haifa 2017 Psychology Department, Princeton University 2017 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University 2018 Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University. 2018 Department of Medical Neurobiology, Hebrew University Medical School 2019 Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute, Columbia University, NYC, USA 2019 Psychology Department, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA 2019 Comparative Medicine Department, Yale University, New Heaven, USA 2019 Neurobiology and Anatomy Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA 2019 NIH, Section on Learning and Plasticity, Washington DC, USA

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• Research Grants 2007 Wolfson Foundation equipment grant for establishing the visual cognition lab at Ben-Gurion University, Avidan G (PI) ($250,000). 2007 The Zlotowski center for Neuroscience at Ben Gurion University, Avidan G (PI) ($15,000). 2008-2009 Young investigator grant from The National Institute for Psychobiology in Israel, Avidan G (PI). Grant title: Organizational principles of human cortical eye fields and their role in visual perception. ($25,000 per year for two years, total: $50,000). 2010-2014 Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Avidan G (PI). Grant title: An integrative approach for understanding the psychological and neural basis of congenital prosopagnosia. ($49,060 per year for 4 years, total: $196,240). 2013-2015 Ministry of Education Avidan, G (PI) Hadad B.S (PI) Development of behavioral diagnostic tools for assessing face recognition difficulties in children. ($28,000 per year for 2 years, total: $56,000). 2014 Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS): Yovel, Ganel, Aviezer and Avidan. Grant provided to organize a workshop entitled: "On faces, bodies and voices: Multimodal mechanisms of person recognition". Conference held in March 2015. 2015 Funding from Amazon (role: PI). Establishing a platform for complex structural and functional MRI data analyses on Amazon cloud ($10,000). 2015-2020 Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (role: PI). Grant title: A large- scale network approach to understanding the neural basis of face representation. ($75,000 per year for 5 years, total: $375,000). 2016-2019 Ministry of Health Role: co-PI; (together with Iris Shai; PI; Nachshon Meiran: Ilan Shelef; co-PIs). Effects of dietary polyphenols on microRNA expression toward halting the regression of the aging brain and cardiometabolic health; 2- year RCT and 4-year follow-up ($48,000 per year for 4 years; total: $192,000). 2016-2019 Ministry of Defense (MAFAT) (role:PI, with Prof. Carmel Sofer), Models for automatic comprehension and interpretation of facial expression sequences (approved for 2 years, pending renewal for a third year; total $135,000). 2017 Internal funding for interdisciplinary research in Ben Gurion University of the Negev (PI, together with Iris Shai). Dynamic plasticity changes in functional and structural brain networks following a two-year intervention of diet and exercise and its relation to changes in cognitive executive functions ($15,000 for one year). 2018-2019 Ben Gurion University of the Negev ABC robotics initiative (PI, together with Tal Oron-Gilad industrial engineering and Carmel Sofer, Psychology). Drivers interaction with driverless cars: What can facial information tell about driver’s readiness to ‘take-over requests’ in autonomous vehicles ($ 12,500 per year; grant is pending renewal for additional 2 years). 2018 Internal funding for interdisciplinary research in Ben Gurion University of the Negev (PI, together with Prof. Ilan Shelef). Developing a clinical tool for inferring brain morphological markers for aging and neurodegenerative processes using deep learning ($26,000 for one year). 2018-2022 Binational Science Foundation (BSF) (PI, together with Prof. Olaf Sprons, Indiana University). Connectome embeddings and its application for face recognition ($47,250 for 4 years; total 189,000).

Books and articles to be published

Papers in preparation 1. Avidan, G., Behrmann M. Impaired face representation at the network level in congenital prosopagnosia (Annual Review of Vision Science– invited review) 2. Levakov, G., Rosenthal, G. Riklin-Raviv T, Shelef I, Avidan, G. DeepMRI: From structural brain imaging to physiology Galia Avidan page 14

3. Lesigner, K., Rosenthal, G., Dinstein I., Avidan, G. The development and specialization of the visual system from infancy to adulthood. 4. Sofer, C, Vilenchik, D, Dotsch, R, Avidan G. Sequences of emotional facial expressions have meaning beyond their discrete constituents 5. Weiss, N., Avidan G., Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying visual expertise. 6. Levakov, G., Kaplan, A., Yaskolka-Meir, A., Rinott, E., Tsaban, G., Zelicha, G., Meiran, N., Shelef, I., Shai, I., & Avidan, G., Neural correlates of future weight loss reveal a possible role for brain-gastric interactions. 7. Levakov, G., Rosenthal, R., Riklin Raviv, R., Shelef, I., Avidan G. From a deep learning model back to the brain - Inferring morphological markers and their relation to aging

Papers submitted for publication (indicate journal) 1. Pertzov, Y., Krill, D., Weiss, N., Lesinger, K., and Avidan, G. Rapid forgetting of faces in congenital prosopagnosia. (Cortex)

Additional information  Organization of Scientific Meetings  An international workshop held in BGU, May 2016. Title: “Vision: from minds to machines". Role: co-organizer (together with Prof Tzvi Ganel. Prof Ohad Ben-Shachar BGU). Sponsored by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and the ABC robotics initiative in BGU.  An international workshop held in March 2015 in Jerusalem, Israel. Title: “On faces bodies and voices: Multimodal mechanisms of person recognition”. Role: organizer (together with: Dr. Galit Yovel; Dr. Tzvi Ganel; Dr. Hillel Aviezer). Supported by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem (IAS).

 2015 - Guest lecturer in the American Association of BGU (AABGU) event in New York City  2017 - Invited speaker to the EMBO|EMBL Symposium: Neural circuits in the past, present and future May 2017 at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre (ATC) in Heidelberg, Germany (had to decline invitation in last minute due to illness of family member)