David Omer

Assistant Professor

Neurophysiology of cognitive processes

Social behaviors, ranging from coordinated courtship displays, to more complex behaviors such as observational learning and group cooperation, requires neuronal mechanism that support cognitive mapping of physical and social spaces, for self and others. Mechanisms that when disrupted, may underlay some of the devastating human neuropathologies of social behavior. We are interested in understanding the neuronal mechanisms that enable us to navigate in physical and social spaces.

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Recent publications

Omer DB, Zilkha N, Kimchi T
Social Minds Sync Alike, Cell, Volume 178, Issue 2, Pages 272-274 (2019)
Fekete T, Omer DB, O'Hashi K, Grinvald A, van Leeuwen C, Shriki O
Critical dynamics, anesthesia and information integration: Lessons from multi-scale criticality analysis of voltage imaging data, NeuroImage, Volume 183, Pages 919-933 (2018)
Omer DB, Fekete T, Ulchin Y, Hildesheim R, Grinvald A
Dynamic Patterns of Spontaneous Ongoing Activity in the Visual Cortex of Anesthetized and Awake Monkeys are Different, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 1291–1304 (2018)
Omer DB, Maimon SR, Las L, Ulanovsky N
Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus, Science, Vol. 359, Issue 6372, pp. 218-224 (2018)
Omer DB, Hildesheim R, Grinvald A
Temporally-structured acquisition of multidimensional optical imaging data facilitates visualization of elusive cortical representations in the behaving monkey, NeuroImage, Volume 82, Pages 237-251 (2013)
Muir DR, Costa NMAD, Girardin CC, Naaman S, Omer DB, Ruesch E, Grinvald A, Douglas RJ
Embedding of Cortical Representations by the Superficial Patch System, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 21, Issue 10, Pages 2244–2260 (2011)
Fekete T, Pitowsky I, Grinvald A, Omer DB
Arousal increases the representational capacity of cortical tissue, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Volume 27, Issue 2, pp 211–227 (2009)
Fekete T, Omer DB, Naaman S, Grinvald A
Removal of spatial biological artifacts in functional maps by local similarity minimization, Journal of Neuroscience Methods Volume 178, Issue 1, Pages 31-39 (2009)
Reidl J, Starke J, Omer DB, Grinvald A, Spors H
Independent component analysis of high-resolution imaging data identifies distinct functional domains, NeuroImage, Volume 34, Issue 1, Pages 94-108 (2007)
Vanzetta I, Slovin H, Omer DB, Grinvald A
Columnar Resolution of Blood Volume and Oximetry Functional Maps in the Behaving Monkey: Implications for fMRI, Neuron, Volume 42, Issue 5, Pages 843-854 (2004)

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Open Positions

We are looking for bright and highly motivated doctoral and postdoctoral students.

Media

מרכז דוידסון - מכון ויצמן: "תאי המוח של הניווט החברתי"

Ynet: "אני והחבר'ה: כיצד המוח ממפה את המרחב החברתי"

Nature: "‘Bat-nav’ reveals how the brain tracks other animals'

Scientific American: "The Brain’s Marauder’s Map"

Nature Reviews Neuroscience: "An 'other' kind of place cell"

Current Biology: "Social Spaces: Place Cells Represent the Locations of Others"

Contact information

E-mail: david.omer@mail.huji.ac.il

Phone: +972 2 5494712

Address and office location:
Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building
North Wing, 3rd Floor, Room 1304b
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 9190401 Israel