The NeuroBat Lab

Publications
A Stable Hippocampal Code in Freely Flying Bats
William A. Liberti III*, Tobias A. Schmid*, Angelo Forli, Madeleine Snyder & Michael M. Yartsev (2022). Nature doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04560-0
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A Unifying Mechanism Governing Inter-Brain Neural Relationship During Social Interactions
Wujie Zhang & Michael M. Yartsev (2022). eLife; 11:e70493
Cortical Representation of Group Social Communication in bats
Maimon C. Rose*, Boaz Styr*, Tobias A. Schmid, Julie E. Elie & Michael M. Yartsev (2021). Science 374 (eaba9548)
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Nonlocal Spatiotemporal Representation in the Hippocampus of Freely Flying Bats
Nicholas M. Dotson & Michael M. Yartsev (2021). Science 373 (6551):242-247
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Daria Genzel & Michael M. Yartsev (2021). Journal of Neuroscience Methods.
A Modular Approach to Vocal Learning: Disentangling the Diversity of a Complex Behavioral Trait
Morgan Wirthlin, Edward F. Chang, Mirjam Knornschild, Leah A. Krubitzer, Claudio V. Mello, Cory T. Miller, Andreas R. Pfenning, Sonja C. Vernes, Ofer Tchernichovski & Michael M. Yartsev (2019). Neuron 104:87-99.
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Long-term and persistent vocal plasticity in adult bats
Daria Genzel, Janki Desai, Elana Paras and Michael M. Yartsev (2019). Nature Comm. 10:3372.
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Correlated Neural Activity Across the Brains of Socially Interacting Bats
Wujie Zhang and Michael M. Yartsev (2019). Cell 178(2):413-428.e22
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Evidence for hormonal control of heart regenerative capacity during endothermy acquisition
Kentaro Hiroshi,... Michael M. Yartsev,... Guo N. Huang (2019). Science 12;364(6436):184-188
Karthik Soman, Srinivasa Chakravarthy and Michael M. Yartsev (2018). Nature Comm. 9(1):4046.
doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06441-5.
Nonoscillatory phase-coding and synchronization in the bat hippocampal formation
Tamir Eliav, Maya Geva-Sagiv, Michael M. Yartsev, Arseny Finkelstein, Alon Rubin, Liora Las, Nachum Ulanovsky. (2018). Cell 175(4):1119-1130
Neuroethology of Bat Navigation
Daria Genzel, Yosef Yovel and Michael M. Yartsev (2018). Current Biology 28(17):R997-R1004
Causal contribution and dynamical encoding in the striatum during evidence accumulation
Michael M. Yartsev*, Timothy D Hanks*, Alice M Yoon, Carlos D Brody (2018). eLife
Pedro M. Rodenas-Cuadrado, Janine Mengede, Laura Baas, Paolo Devanna, Tobias A. Schmid, Michael Yartsev, Uwe Firzlaff and Sonja C.Vernes (2018). Journal of Comparative Neurology 526(8):1235-1266.
The Emperor’s New Wardrobe: Rebalancing Diversity of Animal Models in Neuroscience Research
Michael Yartsev (2017). Science 358, 466-469
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Encoding of head-direction by hippocampal place cells
Alon Rubin, Michael Yartsev & Nachum Ulanovsky (2014). Journal of Neuroscience, 34(3), 1067:1080
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Space Bats: Multi-dimensional spatial representation in the bat
Michael Yartsev (2013). Science 342, 573-574
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Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats
Michael Yartsev & Nachum Ulanovsky (2013). Science 340, 367-372
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Reply to Models of grid cells and theta oscillations
Michael Yartsev, Menno Witter and Nachum Ulanovsky (2012). Nature 488, E2-E3
Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats
Michael Yartsev, Menno Witter and Nachum Ulanovsky (2011). Nature 479, 103-107
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Distinct or gradually-changing spatial and non-spatial representations along the dorsoventral axis of the hippocampus
Michael Yartsev (2010). Journal of Neuroscience 30(23), 7758-7760
Pausing purkinje cells in the cerebellum of the awake cat
Michael Yartsev, Givon-Mayo Ronit, Michael Maller and Opher Donchin (2009).
Front. Syst.Neurosci 3(2), Doi:10.3389/neuro.06.002
Dissociating the effects of past and future on neural encoding of sequences in the hippocampus
Michael Yartsev (2008). Journal of Neuroscience 28(34), 8383-8384