We are recruiting!

My lab at the University of Haifa is looking for new team members to join our research on the links between sensory perception (focus on #smell and human #olfaction) and human memory.

Please help me spread the word

#newPI #academia #neurostuff

When it comes to sensory processing, cortex should not get all the credit... In olfaction, a key challenge is identifying odors regardless of concentration. Our new paper in @natneuro.nature.com shows how the olfactory bulb performs this crucial computation before signals even reach the cortex.

Episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz Nature Human Behaviour - Biba et al. show that episodic memory encoding fluctuates at a theta rhythm of 3–10 Hz.

I am excited to share my first paper, showing that episodic memory formation is theta rhythmic, is now published in Nature Human Behavior! Check it out here: rdcu.be/e6pzS. Thanks to my PI, Katherine Duncan, and to my collaborators for their support on this journey! Stay tuned for iEEG follow up 🧠

This is how your email finds me [Round who-knows-how-many]

Incredible work by a super talented team! Was lucky to witness it from conceptualization to reality (even when pieces didn't always fall into place, that's real science FYI).

Congratulations and kudos @baror-shira.bsky.social , @ayab.bsky.social and team!

Nicotine-related beliefs induce dose-dependent responses in the human brain - Nature Mental Health Instructions about nicotine strength influence smokers’ perception of the nicotine content in electronic cigarettes and are associated with neural responses in the thalamocortical system.

#Throwback!
Two years later, this finding still blows my mind. 🤯
We demonstrated that beliefs about nicotine strength drive dose-dependent signals in the brain, physiologically mimicking the drug itself, even when the actual dose is constant.

Beliefs change biology 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Let’s talk about Sniff Logic (disclaimer: I work here) –
We build tools for measuring oral & nasal airflow with research-grade accuracy

What makes us different?
• Research-grade precision, anywhere
• Sync with EEG, fMRI, etc.
• A fraction of the price of most systems

📢 #Respiration #Neuroscience

The craziest/loveliest part of departing from @ayab.bsky.social 's lab was this jaw dropping clip they made with KlingAI and a *single* photo of me. I guess this is what you get when you mess with masters of naturalistic stimuli 😱

Such a great gift and now the rest of the world can easily extort me

Yesterday was my last day with the @ayab.bsky.social memory lab at ELSC, @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social. After two and a half wonderful years, going away is bittersweet.
I now look forward to starting a new path as a PI @ Haifa University and to forming new hippocampal-mediated memories.

Thank you💛

Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

Thank you Eitan!!

Thanks Orna, and thank you for the nonstop pep talk in dark times :)

Finally, we can never be fully happy until all our brothers and sisters held captive in Gaza are back home.

#BringThemHomeNow

It's been a long road, and a huge, heartfelt thank you goes to my mentors for their years of support and guidance 🩶

Noam Sobel @ WIS

@xiaosigu.bsky.social and Daniela Schiller @ CCP Mount Sinai

Aya Ben Yakov @ ELSC Hebrew U

No website yet, but I think PERL can actually make a good name (I came up with that name before GPTs were around!!!!)

BTW if you want to use PERL for 'Prediction Error'+'Reinforcement Learning' let's talk trademark royalties :)

(I also came up with that one)

Some of the questions that drive us:
*How do idiosyncratic cognitive maps form, with human #olfaction as unique test-case?

*Role of multi-sensory integration in transforming naturalistic experiences into memory?

*Personalized paradigms for studying autobiographical memory disorders e.g. #PTSD

We combine behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools to better understand the principles underlying the perception and encoding of multi-sensory, real-life experiences into #memory.

Time has come to share some exciting news! I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at Haifa University in Spring 2025!

#AcademicTwitter #Neuroscience #NewYear #newPI

Breathing orchestrates synchronization of sleep oscillations in the human hippocampus (!)

By the Zelano lab

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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