Yonatan Loewenstein Lab

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We are an interdisciplinary laboratory, interested in computational neuroscience and computational cognition. Research in the lab in recent years has primarily revolved around the neural mechanisms and computational principles underlying different types of learning. However, we are easily distracted and study whatever question we find interesting.

Tomer Barak

PhD Student

Mousa Karayanni

PhD Student

David Shoresh

MSc Student

Tsahi Asher

MSc Student

David Hansel

Visiting Professor

Shir Shapira

Lab Manager

Gianluigi Mongillo

Ohad Dan

Uri Yanover

Chanan Shteingart

Ohad Asulin

Tal Neiman

Ofri Raviv

Eran Marom

Yoni Lavi

Matan Sorek

Neta Ravid

David Ungarish

Assif Ziv

Galit Agmon

Yinnon Dolev

Silviya Tommasin

Dror Cohen

Erez Wolfson

Noam Saadon-Grosman

Lior Fox

Paymon Ashourian

Leshem Choshen

Lior Lebovich

Lotem Elber-Dorozko

Dana Shulman

Victor Pedrosa

Noam Shental, Yonatan Loewenstein

Computational Models in Cognition

Lamda - The Open University Books, Pp. 370 (2023)

Dana Shulman, Serafima Dubnov, Tamara Zorbaz, Nimrod Madrer, Iddo Paldor, David A. Bennett, Sudha Seshadri, Elliott J. Mufson, David S. Greenberg, Yonatan Loewenstein, Hermona Soreq

Sex-specific declines in cholinergic-targeting tRNA fragments in the nucleus accumbens in Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer's & Dementia, 19, 11, Pp. 5159-5172 (2023)

Elber-Dorozko, L., & Loewenstein, Y.

Do Retinal Neurons Also Represent Somatosensory Inputs? On Why Neuronal Responses Are Not Sufficient to Determine What Neurons Do

Cognitive Science (2023)

Fox, L., Dan, O., & Loewenstein, Y.

On the computational principles underlying human exploration

PsyArXiv (2023)

Noda, T., Kienle, E., Eppler, J. - B., Aschauer, D. F., Kaschube, M., Loewenstein, Y., & Rumpel, S.

Homeostasis of a representational map in the neocortex

bioRxiv (2023)

Galit Agmon, Yonatan Loewenstein, Yosef Grodzinsky

Negative Sentences Exhibit a Sustained Effect in Delayed Verification Tasks

Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, And Cognition, 48, 1, Pp. 122-141 (2022)

Johannes P.-H. Seiler, Ohad Dan, Oliver Tüscher, Yonatan Loewenstein, Simon Rumpel

Experienced entropy drives choice behavior in a boring decision-making task

Scientific Reports, 12, Pp. 3162 (2022)

Barak, T., & Loewenstein, Y.

Zero-Episode Few-Shot Contrastive Predictive Coding: Solving intelligence tests without prior training

arXiv (2022)

Barak, T., & Loewenstein, Y.

Naive Few-Shot Learning: Uncovering the fluid intelligence of machines

arXiv (2022)

Ron Refaeli, Adi Doron, Aviya Benmelech-Chovav, Maya Groysman, Tirzah Kreisel, Yonatan Loewenstein, Inbal Goshen

Features of hippocampal astrocytic domains and their spatial relation to excitatory and inhibitory neurons

Glia, Volume 69, Issue 10, Pp. 2378-2390 (2021)

Lior Lebovich, Michael Yunerman, Viviana Scaiewicz, Yonatan Loewenstein, Dan Rokni

Paradoxical relationship between speed and accuracy in olfactory figure-background segregation

Plos Computational Biology, 17, 12, Pp. e1009674 (2021)

Yonatan Loewenstein, Ofri Raviv, Merav Ahissar

Dissecting the Roles of Supervised and Unsupervised Learning in Perceptual Discrimination Judgments

Journal of Neuroscience JN-RM-0757-20 (2021)

Yosef Grodzinsky, Virginia Jaichenco, Isabelle Deschamps, Maria Elina Sanchez, Martin Fochs, Peter Pieperhoff, Yonatan Loewenstein, And Katrin Amunts

NEGATION AND THE BRAIN: Experiments in health and in focal brain disease, and their theoretical implications

Oxford University Press (2020)

Noam Saadon-Grosman, Yonatan Loewenstein, Shahar Arzy

The “creatures” of the human cortical somatosensory system

Brain Communications Volume 2, Issue 1, fcaa003 (2020)

Noam Saadon-Grosman, Shahar Arzy, Yonatan Loewenstein

Hierarchical cortical gradients in somatosensory processing

NeuroImage Volume 222, 2020, 117257 (2020)

Leshem Choshen, Lior Fox, Zohar Aizenbud, Omri Abend

On the Weaknesses of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (2020)

Lior Fox, Ohad Dan, Lotem Elber-Dorozko, Yonatan Loewenstein

Exploration: from machines to humans

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Volume 35, 2020, Pages 104-111, ISSN 2352-1546 (2020)

Castello-Waldow TP, Weston G, Ulivi AF, Chenani A, Loewenstein Y, Chen A, et al.

Hippocampal neurons with stable excitatory connectivity become part of neuronal representations

PLoS Biol 18(11): e3000928 (2020)

Ohad Dan & Yonatan Loewenstein

From choice architecture to choice engineering

Nature Communications, volume 10, Article number: 2808 (2019)

Gonzales BJ, Mukherjee D, Ashwal-Fluss R, Loewenstein Y, Citri A

Subregion-specific rules govern the distribution of neuronal immediate-early gene induction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)

Galit Agmon, Yonatan Loewenstein, Yosef Grodzinsky

Measuring the cognitive cost of downward monotonicity by controlling for negative polarity

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 36. (2019)

Grodzinsky Y, Deschamps I, Pieperhoff P, Iannilli F, Agmon G, Loewenstein Y, Amunts K

Logical negation mapped onto the brain

Brain Structure and Function (2019)

Lior Lebovich, Ran Darshan, Yoni Lavi, David Hansel, Yonatan Loewenstein

Idiosyncratic choice bias naturally emerges from intrinsic stochasticity in neuronal dynamics

Nature Human Behaviour (2019)

Kiyohito Iigaya, Yashar Ahmadian, Leo P. Sugrue, Greg S. Corrado, Yonatan Loewenstein, William T. Newsome & Stefano Fusi

Deviation from the matching law reflects an optimal strategy involving learning over multiple timescales

Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 1466 (2019)

Elber-Dorozko, L. and Loewenstein, Y.,

Striatal action-value neurons reconsidered

eLife 7: e34248. (2018)

Mongillo G, Rumpel S, Loewenstein Y

Inhibitory connectivity defines the realm of excitatory plasticity

Nature Neuroscience, 21, 1463–1470 (2018)

Fox, L. Choshen, L., and Loewenstein, Y.,

DORA the explorer: directed outreaching reinforcement action-selection

Proc. ICLR (2018)

Mongillo G, Loewenstein Y.

Neuroscience: Formation of a Percept in the Rat Cortex

Curr Biol. 2017 Jun 5;27(11):R423-R425. (2017)

Sagi Jaffe-Dax, Ofri Raviv, Yonatan Loewenstein, Merav Ahissar

A Computational Model of Dyslexics’ Perceptual Difficulties as Impaired Inference of Sound Statistics

(2017)

Mongillo, G., Rumpel, S. and Loewenstein Y.

Intrinsic volatility of synaptic connections – a challenge to the synaptic trace theory of memory

Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2017)

Murakami M, Shteingart H, Loewenstein Y, Mainen ZF.

Distinct Sources of Deterministic and Stochastic Components of Action Timing Decisions in Rodent Frontal Cortex

Neuron. May 17;94(4):908-919.e7. (2017)

Dan, O., Hochner-Celnikier, D., Solinca, A. and Loewenstein, Y.

Association of Catastrophic Neonatal Outcomes With Increased Rate of Subsequent Cesarean Deliveries

Obstetrics and Gynecology (2017)

Shteingart H, Loewenstein Y.

Heterogeneous Suppression of Sequential Effects in Random Sequence Generation, but Not in Operant Learning

PLoS One. 2016 Aug 18;11(8):e0157643. (2016)

Deschamps I, Agmon G, Loewenstein Y, Grodzinsky Y.

The processing of polar quantifiers, and numerosity perception

Cognition. 2015 Oct;143:115-28. (2015)

Shteingart H., Loewenstein Y.

The Effect of Sample Size and Cognitive Strategy on Probability Estimation Bias

Decison, 04/2015, Volume 2, Issue 2, p.107-117 (2015)

Loewenstein Y, Yanover U, Rumpel S.

Predicting the Dynamics of Network Connectivity in the Neocortex

J Neurosci. 2015 Sep 9;35(36):12535-44. (2015)

Jaffe-Dax S, Raviv O, Jacoby N, Loewenstein Y, Ahissar M.

A Computational Model of Implicit Memory Captures Dyslexics’ Perceptual Deficits

J Neurosci. 2015 Sep 2;35(35):12116-26. (2015)

Gianluigi Mongillo, Hanan Shteingart, and Yonatan Loewenstein

The Misbehavior of Reinforcement Learning

Proceedings of the IEEE, 04/2014, Volume 102, Issue 4, p.528-541 (2014)

Tal Neiman and Yonatan Loewenstein

Spatial Generalization in Operant Learning: Lessons from Professional Basketball

PLoS Comput Biol. 2014 May; 10(5): e1003623. (2014)

Shteingart H, Loewenstein Y.

Reinforcement learning and human behavior

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2014 Apr;25:93-8. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.12.004. (2014)

Ofri Raviv, Itay Lieder, Yonatan Loewenstein, and Merav Ahissar

Contradictory Behavioral Biases Result from the Influence of Past Stimuli on Perception

PLoS Comput Biol. 2014 Dec; 10(12): e1003948. (2014)

Shteingart H, Neiman T, Loewenstein Y.

The Role of First Impression in Operant Learning

J Exp Psychol Gen. 2013 May;142(2):476-88. (2013)

Sorek M, Balaban NQ, Loewenstein Y.

Stochasticity, bistability and the wisdom of crowds: a model for associative learning in genetic regulatory networks

PLoS Comput Biol. 2013;9(8):e1003179. (2013)

Tal Neiman and Yonatan Loewenstein

Covariance-Based Synaptic Plasticity in an Attractor Network Model Accounts for Fast Adaptation in Free Operant Learning

Journal of Neuroscience 23 January 2013, 33 (4) 1521-1534; (2013)

Laquitaine S, Piron C, Abellanas D, Loewenstein Y, Boraud T.

Complex Population Response of Dorsal Putamen Neurons Predicts the Ability to Learn

PLoS One. 2013 Nov 14;8(11):e80683. (2013)

Ofri Raviv , Merav Ahissar, Yonatan Loewenstein

How Recent History Affects Perception: The Normative Approach and Its Heuristic Approximation

PLoS Computational Biology 8(10):e1002731 (2012)

Tal Neiman, Yonatan Loewenstein

Reinforcement learning in professional basketball players

Nature Communications volume 2, Article number: 569 (2011)

Loewenstein Y, Kuras A, Rumpel S.

Multiplicative dynamics underlie the emergence of the log-normal distribution of spine sizes in the neocortex in vivo

J Neurosci. 2011 Jun 29;31(26):9481-8. (2011)

Ashourian P, Loewenstein Y.

Bayesian inference underlies the contraction bias in delayed comparison tasks

PLoS One. 2011 May 12;6(5):e19551. (2011)

Shomrat T, Graindorge N, Bellanger C, Fiorito G, Loewenstein Y, Hochner B.

Alternative Sites of Synaptic Plasticity in Two Homologous “Fan-out Fan-in” Learning and Memory Networks

Curr Biol. 2011 Nov 8;21(21):1773-82. (2011)

Yonatan Loewenstein

Synaptic theory of replicator-like melioration

Front Comput Neurosci. 2010; 4: 17. (2010)

Loewenstein Y, Prelec D, Seung HS.

Operant matching as a Nash equilibrium of an intertemporal game

Neural Comput. 2009 Oct;21(10):2755-73. (2009)

Jeffrey P. Gavornik, Marshall G. Hussain Shuler, Yonatan Loewenstein, Mark F. Bear, and Harel Z. Shouval

Learning reward timing in cortex through reward dependent expression of synaptic plasticity

PNAS April 21, 2009 106 (16) 6826-6831; (2009)

Loewenstein Y.

Robustness of learning that is based on covariance-driven synaptic plasticity

PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 Mar 7;4(3):e1000007. (2008)

Yonatan Loewenstein, Séverine Mahon, Paul Chadderton, Kazuo Kitamura, Haim Sompolinsky, Yosef Yarom & Michael Häusser

Purkinje cells in awake behaving animals operate in stable upstate membrane potential

Nature Neurosciencevolume 9, page461 (2006)

Yonatan Loewenstein and H. Sebastian Seung

Operant matching is a generic outcome of synaptic plasticity based on the covariance between reward and neural activity

PNAS October 10, 2006 103 (41) 15224-15229; (2006)

Yonatan Loewenstein; Séverine Mahon; Paul Chadderton; Kazuo Kitamura; Haim Sompolinsky; Yosef Yarom; Michael Häusser

Bistability of cerebellar Purkinje cells modulated by sensory stimulation

Nature Neuroscience, Volume 8, p.202–211 (2005)

Häusser M, Raman IM, Otis T, Smith SL, Nelson A, du Lac S, Loewenstein Y, Mahon S, Pennartz C, Cohen I, Yarom Y.

The beat goes on: spontaneous firing in mammalian neuronal microcircuits

J Neurosci. 2004 Oct 20;24(42):9215-9. (2004)

Yonatan Loewenstein; Haim Sompolinsky

Temporal integration by calcium dynamics in a model neuron

Nat Neurosci. 2003 Sep;6(9):961-7. (2003)

Loewenstein Y.

Ph.D. Thesis: The Olivo-cerebellar System: Dynamical Processes and Computational Principles

(2003)

Yonatan Loewenstein; Haim Sompolinsky

Oscillations by symmetry breaking in homogeneous networks with electrical coupling

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2002 May;65(5 Pt 1):051926 (2002)

Loewenstein Y.

A possible role of olivary gap-junctions in the generation of physiological and pathological tremors

Mol Psychiatry. 2002;7(2):129-31. (2002)

Loewenstein Y, Yarom Y, Sompolinsky H.

The generation of oscillations in networks of electrically coupled cells

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jul 3;98(14):8095-100 (2001)