Haim Sompolinsky Lab

ELSC Members

Haim Sompolinsky

Professor Emeritus

Phone: +972-54-8820754
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 2, Room 1201, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
William N. Skirball Chair in Neurophysics, Emeritus

Sompolinsky’s research goal is to uncover the fundamental principles of the organization, the dynamics and the function of the brain, viewing the brain through multiscale lenses, spanning the molecular, the cellular, and the circuit levels. To achieve this goal, Sompolinsky has developed new theoretical approaches to computational neuroscience based on the principles and methods of statistical physics, and physics of dynamical and stochastic systems. This new field, Neurophysics, builds in part on Sompolinsky’s earlier work on critical phenomena, random systems, spin glasses, and chaos. His research areas cover theoretical and computational investigations of cortical dynamics, sensory processing, motor control, neuronal population coding, long and short-term memory, and neural learning. The highlights of his research include theories and models of local cortical circuits, visual cortex, associative memory, statistical mechanics of learning, chaos and excitation-inhibition balance in neuronal networks, principles of neural population codes, statistical mechanics of compressed sensing and sparse coding in neuronal systems, and the Tempotron model of spike time based neural learning. He also studies the neuronal mechanisms of volition and the impact of physics and neuroscience on the foundations of human freedom and agency.

Lectures

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ELSC-Seminars-General
Yasmin Yarden-Rabinowitz
. Cohen-Carmon, D., M. Sorek, V. Lerner, M. S. Divya, M. Nissim-Rafinia, Y. Yarom, and E. Meshorer

Mol Neurobiol (2020)

. Suliman-Lavie R, Title B, Cohen Y, Hamada N, Tal M, Tal N, Monderer-Rothkoff G, Gudmundsdottir B, Gudmundsson KO, Keller JR, Huang GJ, Nagata KI, Yarom Y, Shifman S.

Nat Commun. (2020)

Yaara Lefler, Oren Amsalem, Nora Vrieler, Idan Segev, Yosef Yarom

eLife (2020)

Cohen-Carmon D, Sorek M, Lerner V, Nissim-Rafinia M, Yarom Y, Meshorer E

Molecular Neurobiology (2019)

Nora Vrieler, Sebastian Loyola, Yasmin Yarden-Rabinowitz, Jesse Hoogendorp, Nikolay Medvedev, Tycho M. Hoogland, Chris I. De Zeeuw, Erik De Schutter, Yosef Yarom, Mario Negrello, Ben Torben-Nielsen, Marylka Yoe Uusisaari

Brain Structure and Function, pp 1–19 (2019)

Lefler Y., Amsalem O., Segev I., Yarom Y.

bioRxiv preprint (2018)

Zylbertal, A, Yarom Y, Wagner S.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 37(10):2656-2672. (2017)

Yarden-Rabinowitz Y., Yarom Y.

J Physiol 595.17 (2017) pp 5945–5963 (2017)

Wigderson, E, Nelken I, Yarom Y.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 113(29): 8308–8313 (2016)

Grodzinsky Y., Nelken I.

Science. 2014 Feb 28;343(6174):978-9. (2014)

Anat Yaron-Jakoubovitch, Christof Koch, Idan Segev, and Yosef Yarom

Front Neural Circuits. 7: 116. (2013)

Benjamin Torben-Nielsen , Idan Segev, Yosef Yarom

PLoS Computational Biology, Volume 8 | Issue 7 | e1002580 (2012)

Yaron-Jakoubovitch A., Jacobson G., Koch Ch., Segev I. and Yarom Y.

Front Cell Neurosci. 13;2:3 (2008)

Yonatan Loewenstein, Séverine Mahon, Paul Chadderton, Kazuo Kitamura, Haim Sompolinsky, Yosef Yarom & Michael Häusser

Nature Neurosciencevolume 9, page461 (2006)

Yonatan Loewenstein; Séverine Mahon; Paul Chadderton; Kazuo Kitamura; Haim Sompolinsky; Yosef Yarom; Michael Häusser

Nature Neuroscience, Volume 8, p.202–211 (2005)

Jacobson GA, Diba K, Yaron-Jakoubovitch A, Oz Y, Koch C, Segev I, Yarom Y

J Physiol. 2005 Apr 1; 564(Pt 1): 145–160. (2005)

Häusser M, Raman IM, Otis T, Smith SL, Nelson A, du Lac S, Loewenstein Y, Mahon S, Pennartz C, Cohen I, Yarom Y.

J Neurosci. 2004 Oct 20;24(42):9215-9. (2004)

Loewenstein Y, Yarom Y, Sompolinsky H.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jul 3;98(14):8095-100 (2001)

Rapp M, Yarom Y, Segev I.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Oct 15;93(21):11985-90 (1996)

Yoram Gutfreund, Tamar Flash, Yosef Yarom, Graziano Fiorito, Idan Segev and Binyamin Hochner

Journal of Neuroscience 15 November 1996, 16 (22) 7297-7307 (1996)

Gutfreund Y, Yarom Y, Segev I.

J Physiol. 1995 Mar 15;483 ( Pt 3):621-40. (1995)

Rapp M, Segev I, Yarom Y.

J Physiol. 1994 Jan 1;474(1):101-18. (1994)

Rapp M., Yarom Y., and Segev I.

Neural Computation; Volume: 4 , Issue: 4 , July 1992 (1992)

Nitzan R., Segev I. and Yarom Y.

JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY Vol. 63. No. 2, February 1990. (1990)

At this time there are no available positions in the lab.

Yosef Yarom

Professor Emeritus

Phone: +972-2-6585172
Fax: +972-2-6586296
Address: The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences,
Department of Neurobiology
Edmond J. Safra Campus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 9190401

“Working memory”