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Mixed selectivity coding of sensory and motor social signals in the thalamus of a weakly electric fish by Wallach, Avner, Melanson, Alexandre, Longtin, André, Maler, Leonard

“…High-level neural activity often exhibits mixed selectivity to multivariate signals. How such representations arise and modulate natural behavior is poorly…”
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A time-stamp mechanism may provide temporal information necessary for egocentric to allocentric spatial transformations by Wallach, Avner, Harvey-Girard, Erik, Jun, James Jaeyoon, Longtin, André, Maler, Len

“…Learning the spatial organization of the environment is essential for most animals' survival. This requires the animal to derive allocentric spatial…”
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Predictive whisker kinematics reveal context-dependent sensorimotor strategies by Wallach, Avner, Deutsch, David, Oram, Tess Baker, Ahissar, Ehud

“…Animals actively move their sensory organs in order to acquire sensory information. Some rodents, such as mice and rats, employ cyclic scanning motions of…”
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Dynamics of excitability over extended timescales in cultured cortical neurons by Gal, Asaf, Eytan, Danny, Wallach, Avner, Sandler, Maya, Schiller, Jackie, Marom, Shimon

“…Although neuronal excitability is well understood and accurately modeled over timescales of up to hundreds of milliseconds, it is currently unclear whether…”
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Selective adaptation in networks of heterogeneous populations: model, simulation, and experiment by Wallach, Avner, Eytan, Danny, Marom, Shimon, Meir, Ron

“…Biological systems often change their responsiveness when subject to persistent stimulation, a phenomenon termed adaptation. In neural systems, this process is…”
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Linking active sensing and spatial learning in weakly electric fish by Engelmann, Jacob, Wallach, Avner, Maler, Leonard

“…Weakly electric fish can learn the spatial layout of their environment using only their short-range electric sense. During spatial learning, active sensing…”
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On-going computation of whisking phase by mechanoreceptors by Wallach, Avner, Bagdasarian, Knarik, Ahissar, Ehud

“…Wallach et al . use closed-loop artificial whisking in anesthetized rats to show that vibrissal mechanoreceptors extract phase information from on-going…”
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A generic model for selective adaptation in networks of heterogeneous populations by Wallach, Avner, Eytan, Danny, Marom, Shimon, Meir, Ron

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An internal model for canceling self-generated sensory input in freely behaving electric fish by Wallach, Avner, Sawtell, Nathaniel B

“…Internal models that predict the sensory consequences of motor actions are vital for sensory, motor, and cognitive functions. However, the relationship between…”
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Interactions of Whisking and Touch Signals in the Rat Brainstem by Ebert, Coralie, Bagdasarian, Knarik, Haidarliu, Sebastian, Ahissar, Ehud, Wallach, Avner

“…Perception is an active process, requiring the integration of both proprioceptive and exteroceptive information. In the rat's vibrissal system, a classical…”
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Interactions between network synchrony and the dynamics of neuronal threshold by Wallach, Avner, Marom, Shimon

“…Synchronous activity impacts on a range of functional brain capacities in health and disease. To address the interrelations between cellular level activity and…”
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What Do Sensory Organs Tell the Brain? by Wallach, Avner, Ebara, Satomi, Ahissar, Ehud

“…Understanding how perception emerges depends on the understanding of sensory acquisition by sensory organs. In this issue of Neuron, Severson et al. (2017)…”
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The response clamp: functional characterization of neural systems using closed-loop control by Wallach, Avner

“…The voltage clamp method, pioneered by Hodgkin, Huxley, and Katz, laid the foundations to neurophysiological research. Its core rationale is the use of…”
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Neuronal response clamp by Wallach, Avner, Eytan, Danny, Gal, Asaf, Zrenner, Christoph, Marom, Shimon

“…Responses of individual neurons to ongoing input are highly variable, reflecting complex threshold dynamics. Experimental access to this threshold dynamics is…”
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A generic framework for real-time multi-channel neuronal signal analysis, telemetry control, and sub-millisecond latency feedback generation by Zrenner, Christoph, Eytan, Danny, Wallach, Avner, Thier, Peter, Marom, Shimon

“…Distinct modules of the neural circuitry interact with each other and (through the motor-sensory loop) with the environment, forming a complex dynamic system…”
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Relational Dynamics in Perception: Impacts on Trial-to-trial Variation by Marom, Shimon, Wallach, Avner

“…We show that trial-to-trial variability in sensory detection of a weak visual stimulus is dramatically diminished when rather than presenting a fixed stimulus…”
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Relational Dynamics in Perception: Impacts on trial-to-trial variation by Marom, Shimon, Wallach, Avner

“…Front. Comput. Neurosci. (2011) 5:16 We show that trial-to-trial variability in sensory detection of a weak visual stimulus is dramatically diminished when…”
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Synthetic reverberating activity patterns embedded in networks of cortical neurons by Vardi, Roni, Wallach, Avner, Kopelowitz, Evi, Abeles, Moshe, Marom, Shimon, Kanter, Ido

“…EPL (Europhysics Letters) 97, 66002 (2012) Synthetic reverberating activity patterns are experimentally generated by stimulation of a subset of neurons…”
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Neuronal Response Clamp by Wallach, Avner, Eytan, Danny, Gal, Asaf, Zrenner, Christoph, Meir, Ron, Marom, Shimon

“…Since the first recordings made of evoked action potentials it has become apparent that the responses of individual neurons to ongoing physiologically relevant…”
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