Haim Sompolinsky

Professor of Physics



Needed

Research Assistance. more details.
Postdoctoral Positions in Theoretical Neuroscience at the Hebrew University more details.

Courses:

Fall 2010

Physics, Brain, and Free Will - 77902 

 

Neural Networks II - 76909

 

Spring 2011

Statistical Physics of Learning and Memory-77640

 

Previous

Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

The Physics of Movement
Topics in Neurophysics

Classical Electrodynamics-77401

Introduction to Dynamics and Stochastic Processes-76931

Introduction to Analytical and Computational Methods in Brain Sciences-76930

Computational Neuroscience-Harvard (MCB 131)

 



Contact Details

Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences

The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation
The Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel, 91904
haim@fiz.huji.ac.il
 

Location:
Neurophysics Lab
Silberman Building
Room 3-308
Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram
Tel: +972-(0)2-6584563
Fax: +972-(0)2-6584440

Administration:
Ms. Meira Ovadia
meira.ovadia@elsc.huji.ac.il
http://icnc.huji.ac.il
Tel. +972-(0)2-6584898/9


 >> Previous Publications & Book Chapters

 

 Recent Publications

2010

Ran Rubin, Rémi Monasson and Haim Sompolinsky, (2010) Theory of Spike Timing-Based Neural Classifiers PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS,PRL 105, 218102, 19 NOVEMBER 2010, (pdf)

Yoram Burak, Uri Rokni, Markus Meister, and Haim Sompolinsky, (2010) Bayesian model of dynamic image stabilization in the visual system, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), October 2010, doi/10.1073/pnas.1006076107 (pdf) (Supplement)

Kanaka Rajan, L. F. Abbott, Haim Sompolinsky, Stimulus-dependent suppression of chaos in recurrent neural networks, Physical Review E 82, 011903 2010 (pdf)

Surya Ganguli, Haim Sompolinsky, Statistical Mechanics of Compressed Sensing, Physical Review Letters, 104, 188701 (2010) (pdf) (Supplement)

L.F. Abbott and Kanaka Rajan and Haim Sompolinsky, Interactions between Intrinsic and Stimulus Evoked Activity in Recurrent Neural Networks, in Neuronal Variability and Its Functional Significance (Dennis Glanzman and Mingzhou Ding, Eds. Oxford University Press, November 2010)  (pdf)

 

2009

Burak Y, Lewallen S, Sompolinsky H (2009) Stimulus-dependent correlations in threshold-crossing spiking neurons, Neural Computation, 2009 Aug;21 (8):2269-308 (pdf)

Gütig R. and Sompolinsky H., Time-Warp-Invariant Neuronal Processing. PLoS Biology 7 e1000141 (pdf) (Figure S1 TIF) (Table S1 PDF) (Text S1 PDF)

 

2007-2008

Ganguli S., Huh D., Sompolinsky H., 2008. Memory traces in dynamical systems, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 105: 18970 - 18975  December 2, 2008  (pdf) (Supplement)

Ilana B. Witten, Eric I. Knudsen and Haim Sompolinsky. A Hebbian Learning Rule Mediates Asymmetric Plasticity in Aligning Sensory Representations. J Neurophysiol 100: 1067-1079, 2008. (pdf)

Pitkow X., Sompolinsky H., and Meister M. 2007. A neural computation for visual acuity in the presence of eye movements. PLoS Biol. December 2007 | Volume 5 | Issue 12 | e331 (pdf)

Safran M, Flanagin V., Borst A., and Sompolinsky H., 2007. Adaptation and information transmission in fly motion detection. J. Neurophysiol. 98(6):3309-20. (pdf)


2004-2006

Gutig R., Sompolinsky H. The tempotron: a neuron that learns spike timing-based decision. Nature Neuroscience. 9(3):420-428  (2006) (pdf)


Shamir M, Sompolinsky H. Implications of Neuronal Diversity on Population Coding. Neural Computation. 18 (8): 1951-1986 (2006). (pdf)

Leowenstein Y., Mahon S., Chadderton P., Kitamura K., Sompolinsky H., Yarom Y. and Häusser M., Bistability of cerebellar Purkinje cells modulated by sensory stimulation.  Nature Neuroscience 8(2):202-11. (2005) (pdf) (Supplement)

Borst A, Flanagin VL, and Sompolinsky H.  Adaptation without parameter change: dynamic gain control in Reichardt motion detectors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (USA), 102(17):6172-6. (2005) (pdf)

Shamir M. and Sompolinsky H. Nonlinear population codes. Neural Computation 16: 1105-1136. (2004) (pdf)  

Goldberg JA, Rokni U, and Sompolinsky H.  Patterns of ongoing activity and the functional architecture of the primary visual cortex. Neuron, 42: 489-500. (2004) (pdf)

White O., Lee D. and Sompolinsky H. Short term memory in orthogonal neural networks. Physical Review Letters, 9:148102. (2004) (pdf)  

Kang K., Shapely R., and Sompolinsky H.  Information tuning of populations of neurons in primary visual cortex.  Journal of Neuroscience, 24 (15):3726-3735. (2004) (pdf)  


2001-2003

Rokni U., Steinberg O., Vaadia E., and Sompolinsky H. Cortical representation of bimanual movements. Journal ofNeuroscience, 23 (37):11577-11586. (2003) (pdf)

Shriki O., Hansel D. and Sompolinsky H.  Rate models for conductance-based cortical neuronal networks. Neural Computation, 15(8):1809-1841. (2003) (pdf)

Loewenstein Y, and Sompolinsky H., Temporal integration by calcium dynamics in a model neuron. Nature Neuroscience, 6(9): 961-967.(2003) (pdf) (Supplementary information)

Gütig R, Aharonov R, Rotter S, and Sompolinsky H Learning Input Correlations through Nonlinear Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience, 23(9):3697-3714.(2003) (pdf)

Litvak V, Sompolinsky H, Segev I, and Abeles M., On the Transmission of Rate Code in Long Feedforward Networks with Excitatory-Inhibitory Balance Journal of Neuroscience, 23(7):3006-3015. (2003) (pdf)

Kang K., Shelley M. and Sompolinsky H. Mexican hats and pinwheels in visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100: 2848-2853. (2003) (pdf)

Loewenstein Y, and Sompolinsky H Oscillations by symmetry breaking in homogeneous networks with electrical coupling. Physical Review E, 65: 1-11.(2002) (pdf)

Shamir M and Sompolinsky H. Correlation Codes in Neuronal Networks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14.(2001) (ps) (pdf)

Loewenstein Y, Yarom Y and Sompolinsky H. The Generation of Oscillations in Networks of Electrically Coupled Cells. Proceedings of National Academy of Science (USA), Vol. 98, No. 14: 8095-8100.(2001) (pdf)

Rubin J, Lee D, and Sompolinsky H. The Equilibrium Properties of Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Plasticity. Physical Review Letters 86: 364.(2001) (ps) (pdf) (zip)

Sompolinsky H, Yoon H, Kang K, and Shamir M. Population Coding in Neuronal Systems with Correlated Noise. Physical Review E, 64:051904. (2001) (ps) (pdf)

Kang K and Sompolinsky H (2001) Mutual Information of Population Codes and Distance Measures in Probability Space. Physical Review Letters, 86: 4958-4961 (ps) (pdf)

Shriki O., Sompolinsky H. and Lee D.D, (2001) An Information Maximization Approach to Overcomplete and Recurrent Representations. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13, Leen T.K, Dietterich T.G, and Tresp V, Eds. 13:612-618 (ps) (pdf) (zip)

Ahronov-Barki R, Gutig R, Rotter S, Aertsen A, and Sompolinsky H. (2001) The Generalized Synaptic Updating in Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Learning. CNS (ps) (pdf)

     

>> Next Page: Previous Publications & Book Chapters