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Georgetown University: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

2019-09-01 to present | Assistant Professor (Department of Neuroscience)
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Ella Striem-Amit

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, NA, IL

2014 | PhD
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Ella Striem-Amit

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Variability of Brain Reorganization in Blindness

2023-04-01 to 2028-01-31 | Grant
National Eye Institute (Bethesda, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: R01EY034515
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Works (37)

Unraveling the impact of congenital deafness on individual brain organization

eLife
2025-03-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Lenia Amaral; Xiaosha Wang; Yanchao Bi; Ella Striem-Amit
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Unraveling the impact of congenital deafness on individual brain organization

eLife
2025-03-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Lenia Amaral; Xiaosha Wang; Yanchao Bi; Ella Striem-Amit
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Unraveling the impact of congenital deafness on individual brain organization

2025-02-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Lénia Amaral; Wang Xiaosha; Bi Yanchao; Striem-Amit Ella
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The brain dynamics of congenitally blind people seeing faces and letters via sound

2025-01-23 | Preprint
Contributors: Pawel J. Matusz; Lior Reich; Louise A. Stolz; Chrysa Retsa; David A. Tovar; Ella Striem-Amit; Elena Aggius-Vella; Amir Amedi; Micah M. Murray
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Tool-use brain representations are independent of the acting body part and motor experience

2025-01-22 | Preprint
Contributors: Florencia Martinez-Addiego; Yuqi Liu; Kyungji Moon; Elizabeth Shytle; Lénia Amaral; Caroline O'Brien; Sriparna Sen; Maximilian Riesenhuber; Jody C Culham; Ella R Striem-Amit
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Can individual differences explain brain plasticity in blindness?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit
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Unraveling the impact of congenital deafness on individual brain organization

2024-10-23 | Preprint
Contributors: Lénia Amaral; Xiaosha Wang; Yanchao Bi; Ella Striem-Amit
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Longitudinal stability of individual brain plasticity patterns in blindness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-08-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Lénia Amaral; Peyton Thomas; Amir Amedi; Ella Striem-Amit
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Unraveling the impact of congenital deafness on individual brain organization

2024-02-04 | Preprint
Contributors: Lénia Amaral; Wang Xiaosha; Bi Yanchao; Striem-Amit Ella
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Longitudinal stability of individual brain plasticity patterns in blindness

2023-11-06 | Preprint
Contributors: Lénia Amaral; Peyton Thomas; Amir Amedi; Ella Striem-Amit
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The merits and future of data deep-dives for cognitive neuroscience.

Neuropsychologia
2022-10 | Journal article
Contributors: M R; Striem-Amit E
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Are reaching and grasping effector-independent? Similarities and differences in reaching and grasping kinematics between the hand and foot

Experimental Brain Research
2022-04-15 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0014-4819
Part of ISSN: 1432-1106
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The role of visual experience in brain inter-individual variability

2021-08-17 | Other
Contributors: Sriparna Sen; Ningcong Tong; Xiaoying Wang; Yanchao Bi; Ella Striem-Amit
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Evidence for an effector-independent action system from people born without hands

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2020-11-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Yuqi Liu; Gilles Vannuscorps; Alfonso Caramazza; Ella Striem-Amit
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Publisher Correction: Creative exploration as a scale-invariant search on a meaning landscape

Nature Communications
2020-02-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Yuval Hart; Hagar Goldberg; Ella Striem-Amit; Avraham E. Mayo; Lior Noy; Uri Alon
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Large-Scale Organization of the Hand Action Observation Network in Individuals Born Without Hands

Cerebral Cortex
2019-07-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1047-3211
Part of ISSN: 1460-2199
Contributors: Gilles Vannuscorps; Moritz F Wurm; Ella Striem-Amit; Alfonso Caramazza
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Creative exploration as a scale-invariant search on a meaning landscape

Nature Communications
2018-12-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Yuval Hart; Hagar Goldberg; Ella Striem-Amit; Avraham E. Mayo; Lior Noy; Uri Alon
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Neural representation of visual concepts in people born blind

Nature Communications
2018-12-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Xiaoying Wang; Yanchao Bi; Alfonso Caramazza
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Plasticity based on compensatory effector use in the association but not primary sensorimotor cortex of people born without hands

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2018-07-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Gilles Vannuscorps; Alfonso Caramazza
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Large-scale organization of the hand action observation network in individuals born without hands

2018-04-22 | Other
Contributors: Gilles Vannuscorps; Moritz Wurm; Ella Striem-Amit; Alfonso Caramazza
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How do blind people represent rainbows? Disentangling components of conceptual representations

2018-03-22 | Other
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Xiaoying Wang; Yanchao Bi; Alfonso Caramazza
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Limitations of compensatory plasticity: the organization of the primary sensorimotor cortex in foot-using bilateral upper limb dysplasics

2017-09-19 | Preprint
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Gilles Vannuscorps; Alfonso Caramazza
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Brain Plasticity: When the Feet and Mouth Replace the Hand

Current Biology
2017-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit
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Sensorimotor-independent development of hands and tools selectivity in the visual cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2017-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Gilles Vannuscorps; Alfonso Caramazza
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Topographical functional connectivity patterns exist in the congenitally, prelingually deaf

Sci. Rep.
2016-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Jorge Almeida; Mario Belledonne; Quanjing Chen; Yuxing Fang; Zaizhu Han; Alfonso Caramazza; Yanchao Bi
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Origins of task-specific sensory-independent organization in the visual and auditory brain: neuroscience evidence, open questions and clinical implications

Current Opinion in Neurobiology
2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Benedetta Heimler; Ella Striem-Amit; Amir Amedi
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Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles

Brain
2015-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Smadar Ovadia-Caro; Alfonso Caramazza; Daniel S. Margulies; Arno Villringer; Amir Amedi
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Visual Cortex Extrastriate Body-Selective Area Activation in Congenitally Blind People “Seeing” by Using Sounds

Current Biology
2014-03 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.cub.2014.02.010

Part of ISSN:

0960-9822

Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Amir Amedi
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Reading with Sounds: Sensory Substitution Selectively Activates the Visual Word Form Area in the Blind

Neuron
2012-11 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1016/j.neuron.2012.08.026

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0896-6273

Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Laurent Cohen; Stanislas Dehaene; Amir Amedi
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‘Visual’ Acuity of the Congenitally Blind Using Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution

PLoS ONE
2012-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Miriam Guendelman; Amir Amedi; Andrea Serino
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The large-Scale Organization of "Visual" Streams Emerges Without Visual Experience

Cerebral Cortex
2011-09 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1093/cercor/bhr253

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1047-3211

Contributors: E. Striem-Amit; O. Dakwar; L. Reich; A. Amedi
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Neurophysiological Mechanisms Underlying Plastic Changes and Rehabilitation following Sensory Loss in Blindness and Deafness

The Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes
2011-08 | Other
DOI:

10.1201/b11092-27

ISBN:

978-1-4398-1217-4

ISSN:

2154-5723

Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; reja Bubic; Amir Amedi
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Extensive Cochleotopic Mapping of Human Auditory Cortical Fields Obtained with Phase-Encoding fMRI

PLoS ONE
2011-03 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1371/journal.pone.0017832

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1932-6203

Contributors: Ella Striem-Amit; Uri Hertz; Amir Amedi; Hans Op de Beeck
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Large-Scale Brain Plasticity Following Blindness and the Use of Sensory Substitution Devices

Multisensory Object Perception in the Primate Brain
2010 | Other
DOI:

10.1007/978-1-4419-5615-6_18

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978-1-4419-5614-9

Contributors: Andreja Bubic; Ella Striem-Amit; Amir Amedi
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Negative BOLD in Sensory Cortices During Verbal Memory: A Component in Generating Internal Representations?

Brain Topogr
2009-03 | Journal article
DOI:

10.1007/s10548-009-0089-2

Part of ISSN:

0896-0267

Contributors: Haim Azulay; Ella Striem; Amir Amedi
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Superior Serial Memory in the Blind: A Case of Cognitive Compensatory Adjustment

Current Biology
2007-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Noa Raz; Ella Striem; Golan Pundak; Tanya Orlov; Ehud Zohary
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Superior Serial Memory in the Blind: A Case of Cognitive Compensatory Adjustment

Current Biology
2007-06-19 | Journal article
PMID:

17583507

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