He earned his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. at The Hebrew University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. Professor Amedi has focused on examining the brain in relation to verbal and visual processing. His laboratory at ELSC investigates sensory substitution as a restorative approach in response to visual impairment. He has demonstrated the role of the brain as “flexible task machine,” and used these original findings to develop sensory substitution devices for the blind, and to help train visually impaired people in their navigational use.