Yoram Burak Lab

ELSC Members

Computational Neuroscience and Biophysics

Yoram Burak’s group investigates how neural circuits in the brain perform biologically relevant computations, such as: sensory inference, maintenance of short-term memory, and generation of motor output.

The group is part of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, and the Racah Institute of Physics.

For the lab website click HERE

Rachel Cohen

PhD Student

Edward Tananyan

MSc Student

Ido Shachal

Undergraduate Physics and Minor Track in Computational Neuroscience Student

Yuval Marcus

Undergraduate Physics and Mathematics Student

Nadav Ben-Shushan

PhD Student

Georg Chechelnizki

PhD Student

Tal Bruker

MSc Student

Varda Ben-Ami

Budgets Administrator

Haggai Agmon

Peleg Emanuel

Noga Weiss Mosheiff

Nadav Ben-Shushan, Nimrod Shaham, Mati Joshua & Yoram Burak

Fixational drift is driven by diffusive dynamics in central neural circuitry

Nature Communications 13, 1697 (2022) (2022)

Torgeir Waaga, Haggai Agmon, Valentin A. Normand, Anne Nagelhus, Richard J. Gardner, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser, Yoram Burak

Grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues

Neuron (2022)

Agmon H, Burak Y.

A theory of joint attractor dynamics in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex accounts for artificial remapping and grid cell field-to-field variability

Elife (2020)

Mosheiff N., Burak Y.

Velocity coupling of grid modules enables stable embedding of a low dimensional variable in a high dimensional attractor

eLife 2019;8:e48494 (2019)

Rotem, Amit and Gefen, Tuvia and Oviedo-Casado, Santiago and Prior, Javier and Schmitt, Simon and Burak, Yoram and McGuiness, Liam and Jelezko, Fedor and Retzker, Alex

Limits on spectral resolution measurements by quantum probes

Phys. Rev. Lett. (2019)

Ravid Tannenbaum, N, Burak Y.

Theory of nonstationary Hawkes processes

Physical Review E, 96, 062314 (2017)

Shaham N, Burak Y.

Slow diffusive dynamics in a chaotic balanced neural network

PLoS Computational Biology, Volume: 13, Issue: 5, e1005505 (2017)

Ravid-Tannenbaum, N, Burak Y.

Shaping Neural Circuits by High Order Synaptic Interactions

PLoS Computational Biology, Volume: 12, Issue: 8, e1005056 (2016)

Burak Y.

Spatial coding and attractor dynamics of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex

Curr Opin Neurobiol. ;25:169-75. (2014)

Farhan Ali, Timothy M.Otchy, Cengiz Pehlevan, Antoniu L.Fantana, Yoram Burak, Bence P. Ölveczky

The Basal Ganglia Is Necessary for Learning Spectral, but Not Temporal, Features of Birdsong

Neuron Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages 494-506 (2013)

Yoram Burak and Ila R. Fiete

Fundamental limits on persistent activity in networks of noisy neurons

PNAS 109 (43) 17645-17650 (2012)

Yoram Burak; Uri Rokni; Markus Meister; Haim Sompolinsky

Bayesian model of dynamic image stabilization in the visual system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), doi/10.1073/pnas.1006076107 (2010) (2010)

Yoram Burak, Sam Lewallen, Haim Sompolinsky

Stimulus-Dependent Correlations in Threshold-Crossing Spiking Neurons

Neural Computation Volume 21 | Issue 8 | p.2269-2308 (2009)

Yoram Burak, Boris I. Shraiman

Order and Stochastic Dynamics in Drosophila Planar Cell Polarity

PLoS Computational Biology Volume 5 | Issue 12 | e1000628 (2009)

Yoram Burak, Ila R Fiete

Accurate Path Integration in Continuous Attractor Network Models of Grid Cells

PLoS Computational Biology Volume 5 | Issue 2 | e1000291 (2009)

Fiete IR, Burak Y, Brookings T.

What grid cells convey about rat location

J Neurosci. ;28(27):6858-71 (2008)

Kanduc M, Trulsson M, Naji A, Burak Y, Forsman J, Podgornik R.

Weak- and strong-coupling electrostatic interactions between asymmetrically charged planar surfaces

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.;78(6 Pt 1):061105. (2008)

Welinder PE, Burak Y, Fiete IR.

Grid cells: the position code, neural network models of activity, and the problem of learning

Hippocampus;18(12):1283-300. (2008)

Thattai M, Burak Y, Shraiman BI.

The origins of specificity in polyketide synthase protein interactions

PLoS computational biology. 3(9):1827-35 (2007)

Ben-Yaakov D, Burak Y, Andelman D, Safran SA.

Electrostatic interactions of asymmetrically charged membranes

Europhys. Lett., 79, 48002 (2007)

Yoram Burak, Ila Fiete

Do we understand the emergent dynamics of grid cell activity?

Journal of Neuroscience (2006)

Burak Y, Orland H.

Manning condensation in two dimensions

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. 73(1 Pt 1):010501 (2006)

Burak Y.

Effects of Solvent Mediated Interactions on Electrolytes and Related Electrostatic Systems

(2005)

Burak Y, Andelman D, Orland H.

Test-charge theory for the electric double layer

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. 70(1 Pt 2):016102. (2004)

Burak Y, Ariel G, Andelman D.

Competition between condensation of monovalent and multivalent ions in DNA aggregation

urrent Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science. 9:53 (2004)

Burak Y, Ariel G, Andelman D.

Onset of DNA aggregation in presence of monovalent and multivalent counterions

Biophysical journal. 85(4):2100-10. (2003)

Burak Y, Netz RR.

Charge regulation of interacting weak polyelectrolytes

Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 108:4840 (2003)

Burak Y, Andelman D.

Discrete aqueous solvent effects and possible attractive forces

Physical Review E. 62:5296 (2001)

Burak Y, Andelman D.

Hydration interactions: aqueous solvent effects in electric double layers

Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 62(4 Pt B):5296-312 (2000)

Yoram Burak

Professor

Email: yoram.burak at elsc.huji.ac.il

Phone: +972-2-6584523

Yoram Burak

@yoramburak

Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 1, Room 2102, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401

https://www.buraklab.me

Computational Neuroscience and Biophysics

The group is part of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, and the Racah Institute of Physics.

For the lab website click HERE

People

Rachel Cohen

PhD Student

Edward Tananyan

MSc Student

Ido Shachal

Undergraduate Physics and Minor Track in Computational Neuroscience Student

Yuval Marcus

Undergraduate Physics and Mathematics Student

Nadav Ben-Shushan

PhD Student

Georg Chechelnizki

PhD Student

Tal Bruker

MSc Student

Varda Ben-Ami

Budgets Administrator

Haggai Agmon

Peleg Emanuel

Noga Weiss Mosheiff

Publications

Nadav Ben-Shushan, Nimrod Shaham, Mati Joshua & Yoram Burak

Fixational drift is driven by diffusive dynamics in central neural circuitry

Nature Communications 13, 1697 (2022) (2022)

Torgeir Waaga, Haggai Agmon, Valentin A. Normand, Anne Nagelhus, Richard J. Gardner, May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser, Yoram Burak

Grid-cell modules remain coordinated when neural activity is dissociated from external sensory cues

Neuron (2022)

Agmon H, Burak Y.

A theory of joint attractor dynamics in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex accounts for artificial remapping and grid cell field-to-field variability

Elife (2020)

Mosheiff N., Burak Y.

Velocity coupling of grid modules enables stable embedding of a low dimensional variable in a high dimensional attractor

eLife 2019;8:e48494 (2019)

Rotem, Amit and Gefen, Tuvia and Oviedo-Casado, Santiago and Prior, Javier and Schmitt, Simon and Burak, Yoram and McGuiness, Liam and Jelezko, Fedor and Retzker, Alex

Limits on spectral resolution measurements by quantum probes

Phys. Rev. Lett. (2019)

Ravid Tannenbaum, N, Burak Y.

Theory of nonstationary Hawkes processes

Physical Review E, 96, 062314 (2017)

Shaham N, Burak Y.

Slow diffusive dynamics in a chaotic balanced neural network

PLoS Computational Biology, Volume: 13, Issue: 5, e1005505 (2017)

Ravid-Tannenbaum, N, Burak Y.

Shaping Neural Circuits by High Order Synaptic Interactions

PLoS Computational Biology, Volume: 12, Issue: 8, e1005056 (2016)

Burak Y.

Spatial coding and attractor dynamics of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex

Curr Opin Neurobiol. ;25:169-75. (2014)

Farhan Ali, Timothy M.Otchy, Cengiz Pehlevan, Antoniu L.Fantana, Yoram Burak, Bence P. Ölveczky

The Basal Ganglia Is Necessary for Learning Spectral, but Not Temporal, Features of Birdsong

Neuron Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages 494-506 (2013)

Yoram Burak and Ila R. Fiete

Fundamental limits on persistent activity in networks of noisy neurons

PNAS 109 (43) 17645-17650 (2012)

Yoram Burak; Uri Rokni; Markus Meister; Haim Sompolinsky

Bayesian model of dynamic image stabilization in the visual system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), doi/10.1073/pnas.1006076107 (2010) (2010)

Yoram Burak, Sam Lewallen, Haim Sompolinsky

Stimulus-Dependent Correlations in Threshold-Crossing Spiking Neurons

Neural Computation Volume 21 | Issue 8 | p.2269-2308 (2009)

Yoram Burak, Boris I. Shraiman

Order and Stochastic Dynamics in Drosophila Planar Cell Polarity

PLoS Computational Biology Volume 5 | Issue 12 | e1000628 (2009)

Yoram Burak, Ila R Fiete

Accurate Path Integration in Continuous Attractor Network Models of Grid Cells

PLoS Computational Biology Volume 5 | Issue 2 | e1000291 (2009)

Fiete IR, Burak Y, Brookings T.

What grid cells convey about rat location

J Neurosci. ;28(27):6858-71 (2008)

Kanduc M, Trulsson M, Naji A, Burak Y, Forsman J, Podgornik R.

Weak- and strong-coupling electrostatic interactions between asymmetrically charged planar surfaces

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys.;78(6 Pt 1):061105. (2008)

Welinder PE, Burak Y, Fiete IR.

Grid cells: the position code, neural network models of activity, and the problem of learning

Hippocampus;18(12):1283-300. (2008)

Thattai M, Burak Y, Shraiman BI.

The origins of specificity in polyketide synthase protein interactions

PLoS computational biology. 3(9):1827-35 (2007)

Ben-Yaakov D, Burak Y, Andelman D, Safran SA.

Electrostatic interactions of asymmetrically charged membranes

Europhys. Lett., 79, 48002 (2007)

Yoram Burak, Ila Fiete

Do we understand the emergent dynamics of grid cell activity?

Journal of Neuroscience (2006)

Burak Y, Orland H.

Manning condensation in two dimensions

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. 73(1 Pt 1):010501 (2006)

Burak Y.

Effects of Solvent Mediated Interactions on Electrolytes and Related Electrostatic Systems

(2005)

Burak Y, Andelman D, Orland H.

Test-charge theory for the electric double layer

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. 70(1 Pt 2):016102. (2004)

Burak Y, Ariel G, Andelman D.

Competition between condensation of monovalent and multivalent ions in DNA aggregation

urrent Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science. 9:53 (2004)

Burak Y, Ariel G, Andelman D.

Onset of DNA aggregation in presence of monovalent and multivalent counterions

Biophysical journal. 85(4):2100-10. (2003)

Burak Y, Netz RR.

Charge regulation of interacting weak polyelectrolytes

Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 108:4840 (2003)

Burak Y, Andelman D.

Discrete aqueous solvent effects and possible attractive forces

Physical Review E. 62:5296 (2001)

Burak Y, Andelman D.

Hydration interactions: aqueous solvent effects in electric double layers

Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 62(4 Pt B):5296-312 (2000)

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Please see the lab webpage: https://www.buraklab.me

Additional Information

Website:
Lab Website

Racah Institute of Physics

The Gatsby Program in Theoretical Neuroscience at the Hebrew University

Yoram Burak

Professor

Email: yoram.burak at elsc.huji.ac.il

Phone: +972-2-6584523

Yoram Burak

@yoramburak

https://www.buraklab.me