Aya Ben Yakov Lab

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Ben Yakov Lab

The building blocks of episodic memory

How is real-life experience transformed into discrete memories, and how are those memories stored and retrieved? We aim to answer these questions using a range of naturalistic stimuli (movies, stopmotion and animation), combining behavioral and brain imaging methods to illuminate the underpinnings of memory formation and organization in healthy individuals.

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Aya Ben Yakov

Assistant Professor

Email: aya.benyakov@mail.huji.ac.il
@aya_benya
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
Ben Yakov Lab

The building blocks of episodic memory

How is real-life experience transformed into discrete memories, and how are those memories stored and retrieved? We aim to answer these questions using a range of naturalistic stimuli (movies, stopmotion and animation), combining behavioral and brain imaging methods to illuminate the underpinnings of memory formation and organization in healthy individuals.

abymemlab.com

Miriam Havin
Miriam Havin
Lab Manager / Undergraduate Researcher
OferPerl
Ofer Perl
Postdoctoral Researcher
BarorShira
Shira Baror
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kevin Champion
Kevin Campion
Ph.D Candidate (University of Cambridge)
nofarhaik
Nofar Haik
Undergraduate researcher
YOTAM FEITELSON
Yotam Feitelson
Undergraduate Researcher
SHAY GRUNWALD
Shay Grunwald
Undergraduate Researcher
MARYANA
Maryana Pozina
Undergraduate Researcher
Ben-Yakov A, Smith V, Henson RN

The limited reach of surprise: Evidence against effects of surprise on memory for preceding elements of an event

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-12 (2021)

Cohen N*, Ben-Yakov A*, Weber J, Edelson M, Paz R, Dudai Y

Prestimulus Activity in the Cingulo-Opercular Network Predicts Memory for Naturalistic Episodic Experience

10.1093/cercor/bhz212 (2020)

Pine AJ, Sadeh N, Ben-Yakov A, Dudai Y, Mendelsohn A (

Knowledge Acquisition is Governed by Striatal Prediction Errors

Nature Communications 9, Article number: 1673 (2018)

Ben-Yakov A, Henson RN

The hippocampal film-editor: sensitivity and specificity to event boundaries in continuous experience

Journal of Neuroscience, 21;38(47):10057-10068 (2018)

Weiss T, Shushan S, Ravia A, Hahamy A, Secundo L, Weissbrod A, Ben-Yakov A, Holtzman Y, Cohen-Atsmoni S, Roth Y, Sobel N

From Nose to Brain: Un-Sensed Electrical Currents Applied in the Nose Alter Activity in Deep Brain Structures

Cerebral Cortex, 26 (11), 4180-4191 (2016)

Ben-Yakov A, Dudai Y, Mayford MR

Memory Retrieval in Mice and Men

Learning & Memory. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. (2015)

Ben-Yakov A, Rubinson M, Dudai Y

Shifting gears in hippocampus: Temporal dissociation between familiarity and novelty signatures in a single event

Journal of Neuroscience, 34(39), 12973-81. (2014)

Cohen N, Pell L, Edelson MG, Ben-Yakov A, Pine A, Dudai Y

Peri-encoding Predictors of Memory Encoding and Consolidation

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 50, 128-142 (2014)

Ben-Yakov A, Eshel N, Dudai Y

Hippocampal immediate post-stimulus activity in the encoding of consecutive naturalistic episodes

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(4), 1255-1263 (2013)

Ben-Yakov A, Honey CJ, Lerner Y, Hasson U

Loss of reliable temporal structure in event-related averaging of naturalistic stimuli

NeuroImage, 63, 501-506 (2012)

Ben-Yakov A, Dudai Y

Constructing realistic engrams: poststimulus activity of hippocampus and dorsal striatum predicts subsequent episodic memory

Journal of Neuroscience 31, 9032-42 (2011)

We are looking for talented and motivated MSc/PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to join us

Media:
https://neurosciencenews.com/hippocampus-segmentation-9976/

https://www.brainpost.co/weekly-brainpost/2018/10/16/the-hippocampus-represents-event-boundaries-during-film-viewing/

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/how-your-brain-is-like-film-editor

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Aya Ben Yakov

Assistant Professor

Email: aya.benyakov@mail.huji.ac.il
@aya_benya
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401

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“Working memory”

New exhibition titled “Working memory” by the artist Alon kedem and in collaboration with ELSC Prof. Leon Deouell. In the picture: Moshe Lion, the mayor of Jerusalem and Prof. Asher Cohen, the president of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.