Theses
Moran Cerf, Competition and Attention in the human brain, Ph.D thesis, California Institute of Technology ('Caltech'), 2009
Moran Cerf, On the mind-body problem - without the mind, Master's thesis, Tel-Aviv University, 2002 (Hebrew)
Direct recordings from humans brains
Florian Mormann, Julien Dubois, Simon Kornblith, Milica Milosavljevic, Moran Cerf, Matias Ison, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Alexander Kraskov, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Ralph Adolphs, Itzhak Fried, Christof Koch, A category-specific response to anmals in the right human amygdala, Nature Neuroscience, Volume 14, Pages 1247-1249, 2011.
Matias Ison, Florian Mormann, Moran Cerf, Chistof Koch, Itzhak Fried, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Selectivity of pyramidal cells and interneurons in the human medial temporal lobe, Journal of Neurophysiology, Volume 106, Pages 1713-1721, 2011.
Moran Cerf, Nikhil Thiruvengadam, Florian Mormann, Alexander Kraskov, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga, Christof Koch & Itzhak Fried, Online, voluntary control of human temporal lobe neurons, Nature, Volume 467, Issue 7319, Pages 1104-1108, 2010
| Faculty 1000 rating [11] | 'Exceptional' [10] by Phil Corlett and Paul Fletcher, F1000.com/6320961, 2010 |
| 'Recommended' [6] by Niklas Wilming and Peter König, F1000.com/5895957, 2010 | |
| Nature Reviews Neuroscience | Leonie Welberg, See what you want to see, Nature reviews neuroscience, Volume 11, 2010 |
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Moran Cerf, Ralph Adolphs, Itzhak Fried, Neural correlates of emotions regulation in the human brain, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), 2010
Moran Cerf, Nikhil Thiruvengadam, Florian Mormann, Alexander Kraskov, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga, Christof Koch & Itzhak Fried, Projecting thoughts using the decoded activity of single neurons in the human brain, Towards a Science of Consciousness, 2010
Carlos Pedreira, Florian Mormann, Alexander Kraskov, Moran Cerf, Itzhak Fried, Christof Koch, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga, Responses of human medial temporal lobe neurons are modulated by stimulus repetition, Journal of Neurophysiology, Volume 103, Pages 97-107, 2010 (supplementary materials)
Moran Cerf, Nikhil Thiruvengadam, Florian Mormann, Alexander Kraskov, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga, Christof Koch & Itzhak Fried, Visual projection of thoughts from single neurons in humans, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2009 (media coverage)
Florian Mormann, Simon Kornblith, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga, Alexander Kraskov, Moran Cerf, Itzhak Fried, Christof Koch, Latency and Selectivity of Single Neurons Indicate Hierarchical Processing in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe, Journal of Neuroscience., Volume 28, Number 36, Pages 8865-8872, 2008 (supplementary materials)
Florian Mormann, Simon Kornblith, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga, Alexander Kraskov, Moran Cerf, Christof Koch, Itzhak Fried, Single neurons in the human MTL during visual working memory and rapid series visual presentation, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2008
Florian Mormann, Rodrigo Quian-Quiroga, Alexander Kraskov, Moran Cerf, Itzhak Fried, Christof Koch, Dynamics of selective single neurons in the human MTL in a visual working memory task, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2007
Vision
Moran Cerf, Michael MacKay, Christof Koch, Evidence for two distinct mechanisms directing gaze in natural scenes, Journal of Vision, 12(4): 9, 1-12, 2012
Elina Birmingham, Moran Cerf, Ralph Adolphs, Comparing social attention in autism and amygdala lesions: effects of stimulus and task condition', Social Neuroscience, 6(5-6), 420-435, 2011
Birmingham, E., Cerf, M., & Adolphs, R. Comparing social attention in autism and amygdala lesions: effects of stimulus and task condition. Social Neuroscience, 6(5-6), 420-435
Moran Cerf, Michael MacKay, Christof Koch, There's plenty of time at the bottom: the time spent before a saccade is generated is a complex interplay of competing saliency and decision, Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2010
Elina Birmingham, Moran Cerf, Ralph Adolphs, Eye tracking to social scenes: comparisons between amygdala lesions and autism, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), 2010
Moran Cerf, Paxon Frady, Christof Koch, Faces and text attract gaze independent of the task: Experimental data and computer model, Journal of Vision, 9(12):10, 1-15, 2009 (associated fixations dataset and images)
Elina Birmingham, Moran Cerf, Ralph Adolphs, The role of amygdala in orienting attention to eyes within complex social scenes, Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2009
Moran Cerf, Jonathan Harel, Alex Huth, Christof Koch, Decoding what people see from where they look: predicting visual stimuli from scanpaths, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, LNAI 5395, pp. 15-26. L. Paletta and J.K. Tsotso (Eds.) Springer, 2009
Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Frank Schumann, Johannes Vockeroth, Klaus Bartl, Moran Cerf, Jonathan Harel, Erich Schneider, Peter Konig, Distinct roles for eye and head movements in selecting salient image parts during natural exploration, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1137, 2008
Moran Cerf, Paxon Frady, Christof Koch, Subjects’ inability to avoid looking at faces suggests bottom-up attention allocation mechanism for faces, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), 2008
Moran Cerf, Jonathan Harel, Alex Huth, Christof Koch, Decoding what people see from where they look: predicting visual stimuli from scanpaths, The International Workshop on Attention and Performance in Computational Vision (WAPCV), 2008
Moran Cerf, Paxon Frady, Christof Koch, Using semantic content as cues for better scanpath prediction, Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA), Pages 143-146., 2008
Moran Cerf, Jonathan Harel, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Christof Koch, Predicting human gaze using low-level saliency combined with face detection, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vol. 20, Pages 241-248, 2007
Moran Cerf, Dan R. Cleary, Rob J. Peters, Wolfgang Einhaeuser, Christof Koch, Observers are consistent when rating image conspicuity, Vision Research, Volume 47, Issue 27, Pages 3052-3060, 2007
Neuro-economics
Milica Milosavljevic & Moran Cerf, What Matters is Attention not Intention: Insights from Computational Neuroscience of Vision, International Journal of Advertising, Volume 27, Number 3, 2008
Philosophy of science
Moran Cerf, Avshalom C. Elitzur, What is it like to be Beethoven ?, 2005
Patents
Magnetic Breather Pump for delivery of Chemotherapeutic agents into the brain, Filed July, 2008
Automatic Prediction of Human Gaze in Visuals by Localizing High-Level Elements, Provisional patent application CIT-5033-P, filed November 19, 2007