Yonatan Loewenstein

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
yonatanl@mit.edu


Contact Details

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT, (mailing address)
77 Massachusettes Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139


Location:

Building 46, room 5065
Office: 617-324-3747
Fax: 617-452-2913



Publications

  • Loewenstein, Y. and Seung, H. S., (2006) Operant matching is a generic outcome of synaptic plasticity based on the covariance between reward and neural activity, PNAS 103(41) 15224-15229

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  • Loewenstein, Y., Mahon, S., Chadderton, P., Kitamura, K., Sompolinsky, H., Yarom, Y. & Hausser, M., (2006) Purkinje cells in awake behaving animals operate at the upstate membrane potential - Reply, Nat Neurosci 9(2) 461

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  • Loewenstein, Y., Mahon, S., Chadderton, P., Kitamura, K., Sompolinsky, H., Yarom, Y. & Hausser, M., (2005) Bistability of cerebellar Purkinje cells modulated by sensory stimulation, Nat Neurosci 8(2) 202-211

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  • Hausser, M., Raman, I.M., Otis, T., Smith, S.L., Nelson, A., Du Lac, S., Loewenstein, Y., Mahon, S., Pennartz, C, Cohen, I. and Yarom, Y. (2004) The beat goes on: Spontaneous firing in mammalian neuronal microcircuits, J Neurosci 24(42): 9215-9219

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  • Loewenstein, Y. and Sompolinsky, H. (2003) Temporal integration by calcium dynamics in a model neuron, Nat Neurosci 6(9) 961-967

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  • Loewenstein, Y. and Sompolinsky, H. (2002) Oscillations by symmetry breaking in homogeneous networks with electrical coupling, Phys Rev E 65(5) art. no. 051926

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  • Loewenstein, Y. (2002) A possible role of olivary gap-junction in the generation of physiological and pathological tremor, Mol Psy, 7 129-131

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  • Loewenstein, Y., Yarom, Y. and, Sompolinsky, H. (2001) The Generation of Oscillations in Networks of Electrically Coupled Cells, PNAS 98 8095-8100

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Ph.D. Thesis (2003): The Olivo-Cerebellar System: Dynamical Processes and Computational Principles

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