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.

Recent publications

2019

Omer DB, Zilkha N, Kimchi T
Social Minds Sync Alike
Cell, Volume 178, Issue 2, Pages 272-274

2018

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
Omer DB, Maimon SR, Las L, Ulanovsky N
Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus
Science, Vol. 359, Issue 6372, pp. 218-224
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

2013

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

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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

Open Positions

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