Shir R Maimon

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Sparse-to-dense coding transformation between hippocampal areas CA3 and CA1

https://t.co/zHRS3T5V8m

[Shir R Maimon @ShirRMaimon]

I had the privilege to lead this project – the outcome of a highly fruitful collaboration with @tamir_eliav and an amazing team in the Ulanovsky lab and beyond.

See this thread for details on our results!

[Tamir Eliav @tamir_eliav]

🚨 New paper @Nature ! We asked why two hippocampal areas with very different anatomy, CA3 and CA1, often seem to code space so similarly.

By recording bats flying up to 200 m, we found the difference was hidden by scale!

https://t.co/m6aVLZknOV
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[Shir R Maimon @ShirRMaimon]

Excited to share that our study is now published in Nature!

We found a sparse-to-dense coding transformation in the hippocampus that enables faster learning.
Big thanks to the entire team, especially @tamir_eliav @yahdef, Liora Las and Nachum Ulanovsky
https://t.co/bFt3KZzL19

[Weizmann Institute @WeizmannScience]

Weizmann scientists, led by Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky, travelled to a desert island off the coast of East Africa to record - for the very first time - the brain activity of bats in the wild and to study how their neuronal “compass” helps them navigate >> https://t.co/K7CuFiIDau
@ShirRMaimon @shakedpa @LasLiora @ScienceMagazine

[Shir R Maimon @ShirRMaimon]

Surprising findings from our work on the representation of large environments in the hippocampus of bats - together with @tamir_eliav @yahdef @gilyginosar @tsodyks Liora Las and Nachum Ulanovsky

[Tamir Eliav @tamir_eliav]

Place cells in large environments? Multiscale coding! Read all about it in our new work in @ScienceMagazine
We studied bats flying in a long tunnel and found that single place cells have multiple fields spanning multiple scales! 🦇
https://t.co/fRAwi9mjIm