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Omri Raccah

Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale University

omri.raccah@yale.edu

         

Publications


Preprints & under review

Raccah, O., Agarwal, A., Zhu, Y., & Turk-Browne, N. (2026; Revised). Multisensory coding of audiovisual movies in the human hippocampus. BioRxiv

Verosky, N., & Raccah, O. (2026; Under Review). Perspective: Music and the structure of episodic memory.

Raccah, O.*, Chen, P.*, Vo, A.V., Poeppel, D., & Gureckis, M. T. (2025; In Revision). Distinct paths to false memory revealed in hundreds of narrative recollections. PsyArXiv

Xue, A.M., Hsu, S., LaRocque, K.F., Raccah, O., Gonzalez, A., Parvizi, J., & Wagner, A. (2026; Under review). Hippocampal patterns and associative memory: Distinct intracranial EEG temporal encoding patterns support memory. BioRxiv

Cao, W., Raccah, O., Chen, P., Poeppel, D., & Tompary, A. (2025; In Revision). The privileged role of thematic conceptual relations in episodic memory. PsyArXiv


Published papers

Raccah, O.*, Seltenreich M.*, Pelofi, C., Lerdahl, F., & Poeppel, D. (2025). Geometric principles of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing. iScience, 28(11). Link

Raccah, O.*, Chen, P.*, Gureckis, M. T., Poeppel, D., & Vo, A.V. (2024). The ‘Naturalistic Free Recall’ dataset: four stories, hundreds of participants, and high-fidelity transcriptions. Nature Scientific Data, 11(1), 1–9. Link

Salehi, S., Dehaqani, M.R., Schrouff, J., Sava-Segal, C., Raccah, O., & Baek, S. (2024). Spatiotemporal hierarchies of face representation in the human ventral temporal cortex. Nature Scientific Reports, 14(1), 26501. Link

Cao, W., Raccah, O., Chen, P., & Poeppel, D. (2023). Thematic relations outperform taxonomic relations in a cued recall task. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference, 45. Link

Raccah, O., Chen, P., Willke, T., Poeppel, D., & Vo, A.V. (2022). Memory in humans and deep language models: linking hypotheses for model augmentation. NeurIPS Workshop on Memory in Artificial and Real Intelligence. Link

Raccah, O., Doelling, K., Davachi, L., & Poeppel, D. (2022). Acoustic features drive event segmentation in speech. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(9), 1494–1504. Link

Norman, Y., Raccah, O., Liu, S., Parvizi, J., & Malach, R. (2021). Hippocampal ripples and their coordinated dialogue with the default mode network during recent and remote recollection. Neuron, 109(17), 2767–2780. Link

Raccah, O., Block, N., & Fox, K. C.R. (2021). Subjective phenomena elicited by intracranial electrical stimulation challenge a global neuronal workspace hypothesis: A reply to objections raised by Naccache et al. Journal of Neuroscience (eLetter). Link

Raccah, O., Block, N., & Fox, K. C.R. (2021). Does the prefrontal cortex play an essential role in consciousness? Insights from intracranial stimulation of the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(10), 2076–2087. Link

Fox, K. C.R., Shi, L., Baek, S., Raccah, O., Foster, B., Saha, S., Margulies, D., Kucyi, A., & Parvizi, J. (2020). Intrinsic network architecture predicts the effects elicited by intracranial electrical stimulation of the human brain. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(10), 1039–1052. Link

Schrouff, J., Raccah, O., Baek, S. R., Ragaranjan, V., Salehi, S., Mourao-Miranda, J., Helili, Z., Daitch, A., & Parvizi, J. (2020). Fast temporal dynamics and causal relevance of face processing in the human ventral temporal cortex. Nature Communications, 11(1), 656. Link

Kucyi, A., Daitch, A., Raccah, O., Zhao, B., Zhang, C., Esterman, M., Zeineh, M., Halpern, C. H., Zhang, K., Zhang, J., & Parvizi, J. (2020). Electrophysiological dynamics of antagonistic brain networks reflect attentional fluctuations. Nature Communications, 11(1), 325. Link

Raccah, O., Kucyi, A., Daitch, A., & Parvizi, J. (2018). Direct cortical recordings suggest temporal order of task-evoked responses in human dorsal attention and default networks. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(48), 10305–10313. Link

Fox, K. C.R.*, Yih, J.*, Raccah, O., Pendekanti, S., Limbach, L., Maydam, D., & Parvizi, J. (2018). Changes in subjective experience elicited by direct stimulation of the human orbitofrontal cortex. Neurology, 91(16), e1519–e1527. Link


* denotes equal contribution