Yitzhak Norman

PhD, Systems Neuroscience. Postdoctoral researcher at UCSF (@ChangLabUcsf), investigating mechanisms of memory, speech and verbal thoughts in the human brain.

[Tianhao Lei @TH_Alec_Lei]

🎉 Excited to share our new paper in Nature: “Active Dissociation of Intracortical Spiking and High Gamma Activity.” 🧠

Huge thanks to my advisors first: @SlutzkyLab @joshuaiglaser

Paper link: https://t.co/awTJn2uLTf
Here are some digests that walk you through the results 👇🏼

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

Congrats to Patrick and team on this fantastic work, great to see it out!

[ChangLabUCSF @ChangLabUcsf]

New work from our lab showing the human frontal lobe receives fast, low-level speech information in parallel with early speech areas!

https://t.co/GX329SQECB

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context

https://t.co/Vq7nWlggEu

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

Grateful and honored to receive this incredible BWF award! Congratulations to my @JCCFUND1937 fellow awardees, @JuliaRuRogers and @ShiyuXia, and to all the new awardees!

[BWFUND @BWFUND]

BWF is pleased to announce the 2025 recipients of its Career Awards at the Scientific Interface (CASI). https://t.co/DFt2hl3YAI #bwfcasi

[Emily Mackevicius @e_mackevicius]

📢🎡🐦‍⬛I'm looking to hire postdocs to join me on the Collaborative Intelligent Systems project at @BasisOrg, more info here: https://t.co/59bZjNJn8V, please apply 🐦‍⬛🎡📢

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

I’ll be attending SFN in Chicago and presenting a poster on the role of theta oscillation in speech motor control - Monday morning at Board J8. Please drop by if you’re in the area!

[David Omer @DavidOmer_]

🎉Exciting news! Our lab's first paper, "Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates," is now published in @Science! 🐒 Dive into our findings on how marmoset monkeys use vocal labels similar to human names and dialects. Check it out! 1/6
https://t.co/7iHBLByfRW

[ChangLabUCSF @ChangLabUcsf]

Chang lab is at #Cosyne2024!
🗣️Thurs, posters 1 #083: @ItzikNorman neural oscillations during speech production.
💬Fri, posters 2 #131: @asilvaalex1 bilingual speech neural prostheses.
🤖Sat, talk session 9: @shaileeejain modeling single neurons in humans with deep neural nets.

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

Beautiful study on the representation of melody and speech in STG.
Congrats @nsankaran72!

[ChangLabUCSF @ChangLabUcsf]

Excited to share our work characterizing the encoding of melody using direct recordings from the human auditory cortex! Out today in @ScienceAdvances. Led by @nsankaran72 together with mentors @matt_k_leonard, @FrdricTheuniss1 and Eddie Chang https://t.co/eQOt5Z6bQU [1/7]

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

I've been eagerly awaiting the release of this paper! A compelling demonstration of ripple-coupled coactivation of content-selective cells in the human hippocampus during memory formation and retrieval. Fantastic work by @lks_kunz, @neurojosh, and team. Congrats!

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

Congratulations to Matt, Laura and team!!

[ChangLabUCSF @ChangLabUcsf]

We’re excited about our first paper looking at speech encoding in single neurons across the depth of human cortex. Out today in @nature! https://t.co/RyX8gzSwjI [1/6]

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

The results solidify the association between hippocampal ripples and explicit memory processes, and extend their existence and function to pediatric populations.

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

Excited to share our new pre-print, titled:
"Hippocampal ripples linked to declarative memory judgment in children"
https://t.co/uCYPL9853c
This is the first paper from a fantastic collaboration with Dr. Mikael Levy, @MalachLab and Rothschild Foundation Hospital in Paris.

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

Interestingly, this prominent response only manifested when recognition was explicitly probed in an old/new memory test. In contrast, when the same events were presented within a full-length screening, without a memory test context, ripple rates showed no change.

[UCSF Neurosurgery @NeurosurgUCSF]

Out today in @Nature, new research by @ChangLabUcsf has set a new benchmark for a speech neuroprosthesis that can allow people with severe speech paralysis to communicate. https://t.co/fh6g3tRiWs @UCSF @UCSFHealth #ucsfweill

[Stephan Bickel @Steph_Bickel]

Interested in human intracranial EEG to study cognition and epilepsy? Join our research team in NY as a research assistant starting in Sept. or October, 2023. Also open to non-US applicants. Please don't hesitate to DM me with questions. Thank you! (RTs much appreciated)

[Yitzhak Norman @ItzikNorman]

Delighted to have been a part of this fascinating study, now published in @CellReports. It provides a neat explanation for the stability of our visual percepts despite the rapid adaptation in the magnitude of cortical responses. Congratulations to @rotembroday and @MalachLab!

[Rafael Malach Lab @MalachLab]

1/6 What keeps our visual perception stable across sustained time durations, despite a dramatic reduction in neuronal activity?
We are pleased to share our work that has just been published in Cell Reports https://t.co/RR6EC8Fke7 suggesting a plausible answer to this question.

[Stephan Bickel @Steph_Bickel]

Postdoc position available in our human intracranial EEG lab in New York for a newly funded multi-center grant to study slow brain network fluctuations! Please DM me if you’re interested and learn more about this super collaborative project. Thank you for RTs!!

[Yuval Nir 💔 @LabNir]

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How does sleep help memory? we developed closed-loop deep brain stimulation during sleep in human prefrontal cortex w/ timing based on hippocampal activity
TLDR: boosting hippocampus-cortex coordination improves memory
@NatureNeuro | https://t.co/z4Ixoi86sg