BSF-grantee Dr. Eran Stark StarkLab uncovers how our brains thrive when neuron groups synchronize "spike timing" as a team, challenging old assumptions and shedding new light on neuronal connectivity and brain plasticity. Tel Aviv University 🔗science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Dorsal CA1 silencing degrades tactile short-term memory biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Is the hippocampus necessary for non-spatial short-term memory? We developed an automated tactile task for freely-moving mice and silenced CA1 specifically during the memory phase. Want to know how performance is impacted? Check out our new #preprint: shorturl.at/dpFY7

Happy to publish this last part of my PhD work. Thanks to StarkLab, Shirly Someck, LidorSpivak, Roni, Hadas E. Sloin for a partnership that lasts long after the PhD was done

My best friend and brilliant scientist Amir Levi has published his last PhD paper!!! Check it out

So proud of our alum Amir Levi — now a 2025 Jane Coffin Childs Fellow! 🎉🧠

Science of the day: Head direction neurons usually need a decoder to reveal heading. With these raster plots, the heading is clear from the neurons' spiking activity. Side science: although compared to an internal compass, the HD system isn’t tied to magnetic north #Neuroscience

Science of the day: to find the synaptic gain between two neurons, I use a method developed by LidorSpivak (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35641587/) to de-convolve the auto-correlation from the cross-correlation. Side science: what is your go to method? #Neuroscience #Connectivity