Leon Deouell is an associate professor at the department of psychology and a member of the Interdisciplinary Center of Neural Computation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. He received his B.M.Sc. in medical sciences in 1988 and and his M.D in 1992 from the Sackler School of Medicine at the Tel Aviv University, and his PhD degree in 2001 at the department of psychology at the Hebrew university. Between 2000-2003 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley. He currently heads the Human Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Hebrew university, concentrating on the interface between conscious and non-conscious perception and the roles of attention and especially spatial representation in conscious awareness. His work involves studies both in healthy humans and those who suffered brain lesions, using various neuroimaging methods.