Yifat Prut

Professor

Laboratory of Motor Control

Our lab is interested in the operation of the motor system during physiological and pathological states. Our working hypothesis is that local computation within motor sites and interactions between remote sites contribute to the planning and execution of voluntary movements. Consequently, we are studying the descending mechanism(s) through which group of muscles are rapidly recruited for performing motor tasks. We further study the way ascending sensory information shapes motor actions by dictating the timing of these events.

Recent publications

Abdulraheem Nashef, Rea Mitelman, Ran Harel, Mati Joshua, Yifat Prut
Area-specific thalamocortical synchronization underlies the transition from motor planning to execution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (6) e2012658118 (2021)
Nashef A, Cohen O, Harel R, Israel Z, Prut Y
Reversible Block of Cerebellar Outflow Reveals Cortical Circuitry for Motor Coordination, Cell Reports, Volume 27, Issue 9, Pages 2608-2619.e4 (2019)
Nashef A, Rapp H, Nawrot MP, Prut Y
Area-specific processing of cerebellar-thalamo-cortical information in primates, Biological Cybernetics, Volume 112, Issue 1–2, pp 141–152 (2018)
Nashef A, Cohen O, Israel Z, Harel R, Prut Y
Cerebellar Shaping of Motor Cortical Firing Is Correlated with Timing of Motor Actions, Cell report, 3(5):1275-1285 (2018)
Cohen O, Harel R, Aumann TD, Israel Z, Prut Y
Parallel processing of internal and external feedback in the spinocerebellar system of primates, Journal of Neurophysiology, Volume 118, Issue 1, Pages 254-266 (2017)
Yoles-Frenkel M, Avron M, Prut Y
Impact of Auditory Context on Executed Motor Actions, Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 10:1 (2016)
Ruach R, Mitelman R, Sherman E, Cohen O, Prut Y
An assumption-free quantification of neural responses to electrical stimulations, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Volume 254, Pages 10-17 (2015)
Aumann TD, Prut Y
Do sensorimotor β-oscillations maintain muscle synergy representations in primary motor cortex?, Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 77-85 (2015)
Adler A, Katabi S, Finkes I, Prut Y, Bergman H
Different correlation patterns of cholinergic and GABAergic interneurons with striatal projection neurons, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7:47 (2013)
Adler A, Finkes I, Katabi S, Prut Y, Bergman H
Encoding by Synchronization in the Primate Striatum, Journal of Neuroscience, 33 (11) 4854-4866 (2013)
Zinger N, Harel R, Gabler S, Israel Z, Prut Y.
Functional Organization of Information Flow in the Corticospinal Pathway, The Journal of Neuroscience (2013)
Adler A, Katabi S, Finkes I, Israel Z, Prut Y, Bergman H.
Temporal convergence of dynamic cell assemblies in the striato-pallidal network, Journal of Neuroscience, 32 (7) 2473-2484; (2012)
Shalit, U, Zinger N, Joshua M, Prut Y.
Descending Systems Translate Transient Cortical Commands into a Sustained Muscle Activation Signal., Cerebral Cortex, Volume 22, Issue 8, Pages 1904–1914 (2011)
Adler, A, Joshua M, Rivlin-Etzion M, Mitelman R, Marmor O, Prut Y, Bergman H.
Neurons in both pallidal segments change their firing properties similarly prior to closure of the eyes., Journal of neurophysiology. 103(1):346-59 (2010)
Joshua M, Adler A, Prut Y, Vaadia E, Wickens JR, Bergman H.
Synchronization of midbrain dopaminergic neurons is enhanced by rewarding events, Neuron. 62(5):695-704 (2009)
Rivlin-Etzion M, Marmor O, Saban G, Rosin B, Haber SN, Vaadia E, Prut Y, Bergman H.
Low-pass filter properties of basal ganglia cortical muscle loops in the normal and MPTP primate model of parkinsonism, J Neurosci. 2008 Jan 16;28(3):633-49. (2008)
Slovin H, Abeles M, Vaadia E, Haalman I, Prut Y, Bergman H.
Frontal cognitive impairments and saccadic deficits in low-dose MPTP-treated monkeys, J Neurophysiol. 1999 Feb;81(2):858-74. (1999)
Prut Y, Vaadia E, Bergman H, Haalman I, Slovin H, Abeles M.
Spatiotemporal structure of cortical activity: properties and behavioral relevance, J Neurophysiol. 1998 Jun;79(6):2857-74. (1998)
Vaadia E, Haalman I, Abeles M, Bergman H, Prut Y, Slovin H, Aertsen A.
Dynamics of neuronal interactions in monkey cortex in relation to behavioural events, Nature. 1995 Feb 9;373(6514):515-8. (1995)
Nelken I, Prut Y, Vaadia E, Abeles M.
In search of the best stimulus: an optimization procedure for finding efficient stimuli in the cat auditory cortex, Hear Res. 1994 Jan;72(1-2):237-53. (1994)

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Phone: +972-2-6757912
Fax: +972-2-6439736

Address:
Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building, 1st floor, room 2101
Edmond J. Safra Campus, The Hebrew University
Jerusalem, 9190401