Our Research
Yoram Burak’s lab investigates how neural circuits in the brain perform biologically relevant computations, such as: maintenance of short term memory, sensory inference, spatial computation, and generation of sequential neural activity.
Lab members apply diverse theoretical and computational tools borrowed from statistical physics, the theory of nonlinear dynamics, information theory, and machine learning — to approach, in a principled way, questions on design principles and mechanisms that underlie computation in the brain.
The lab is part of the Racah Institute of Physics, and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Areas of current interest
Spatial coding and computation in the brain.
Maintenance of short term memory in noisy neural networks.
Spontaneous neural activity.
Fixational eye motion.
Lab News
New paper published in Neuron (April 2025) with Nischal Mainali and Rava Azeredo da Silveira: Link.
Universal statistics of hippocampal place fields across species and dimensionalities.New paper published in Cell Reports (March 2025) with Simone Blanco Malerva, Mirko Pieropan and Rava Azeredo da Silveira: Link.
Random Compressed Coding with Neurons.New preprint posted (January 2025) with Georg Chechelnizki, Nimrod Shaham, and Alon Salhov: Link.
Stabilization of memory on neural manifolds through multiple synaptic time scales.
