Selected Publications

  • Omer DB, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Contextual and pure time coding for self and other in the hippocampus, Nature Neurosci. 26, 285-294 (2023).   PDF  |  Cover

  • Ginosar G, Aljadeff J, Las L, Derdikman D & Ulanovsky N, Are grid cells used for navigation? On local metrics, subjective spaces, and black holes, Neuron 111, 1858-1875 (2023).   PDF

  • Agarwal A, Sarel A, Derdikman D, Ulanovsky N & Gutfreund Y, Spatial coding in the hippocampus and hyperpallium of flying owls, PNAS 120, e2212418120 (2023).   PDF

  • Ginosar G, Karpas ED, Weitzner I & Ulanovsky N, Dissociating two aspects of human 3D spatial perception by studying fighter pilots, Sci. Rep. 13, 11265 (2023).   PDF

  • Jacobsen B, Kleven H, Gatome W, Las L, Ulanovsky N & Witter MP, Organization of projections from the entorhinal cortex to the hippocampal formation of the Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus, Hippocampus 33, 889-905 (2023).   PDF

  • Sarel A, Palgi S, Blum D, Aljadeff J, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding,  Nature 609, 119-127 (2022).   PDF 

  • Ginosar G, Aljadeff J, Burak Y, Sompolinsky H, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Locally ordered representation of 3D space in the entorhinal cortex, Nature 596, 404-409 (2021).   PDF  |  Nature Podcast  |  News&Views: Aronov

  • Eliav T, Maimon SR, Aljadeff J, Tsodyks M, Ginosar G, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Multiscale representation of very large environments in the hippocampus of flying bats, Science 372, eabg4020 (2021).   PDF  |  News&Views: Wood & Dudchenko

  • Ben-Yishay E, Krivoruchko K, Ron S, Ulanovsky N, Derdikman D & Gutfreund Y, Directional tuning in the hippocampal formation of birds, Curr. Biol. 31, 2592-2602 (2021).   PDF   |  News&Views: Apostel & Rose

  • Eliav T, Geva-Sagiv M, Yartsev MM, Finkelstein A, Rubin A, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Nonoscillatory phase coding and synchronization in the bat hippocampal formation, Cell 175, 1119-1130 (2018).   PDF  |  News&Views: Trimper & Colgin  |  News&Views: Bush & Burgess

  • Finkelstein A, Ulanovsky N, Tsodyks M & Aljadeff J. Optimal dynamic coding by mixed-dimensionality neurons in the head-direction system of bats, Nature Commun. 9, 3590 (2018).   PDF

  • Omer DB, Maimon SR, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus, Science 359, 218-224 (2018).   PDF  |  Nature News  |  News&Views: Duvelle & Jeffery

  • Sarel A, Finkelstein A, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Vectorial representation of spatial goals in the hippocampus of bats, Science 355, 176-180 (2017).   PDF  |  News&Views: de Cuthi & Spiers  |  F1000: Moser & Rowland

  • Yovel Y & Ulanovsky N, Bat navigation.  In: “Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, 2nd Ed.”, edited by J. H. Byrne, pp.333-345, Academic Press: Amsterdam (2017).   PDF

  • Geva-Sagiv M, Romani S, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Hippocampal global remapping for different sensory modalities in flying bats, Nature Neurosci. 19, 952-958 (2016).   PDF

  • Finkelstein A, Las L & Ulanovsky N, 3-D maps and compasses in the brain, Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 39, 171-196 (2016).   PDF

  • Rubin J, Ulanovsky N, Nelken I & Tishby N, The representation of prediction error in auditory cortex, PLoS Comput. Biol. 12, e1005058 (2016).   PDF

  • Geva-Sagiv M, Yovel Y, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Spatial cognition in bats and rats: from sensory acquisition to multiscale maps and navigation, Nature Rev. Neurosci. 16, 94-108 (2015).   PDF  |  Key Points

  • Finkelstein A, Derdikman D, Rubin A, Foerster JN, Las L & Ulanovsky N, Three-dimensional head-direction coding in the bat brain, Nature 517, 159-164 (2015).   PDF  |  News&Views: Rowland & Moser

  • Bar NS, Skogestad S, Marcal JM, Ulanovsky N & Yovel Y, A sensori-motor control model of animal flight explains why bats fly differently in light versus dark, PLoS Biol. 13, e1002046 (2015).   PDF

  • Las L & Ulanovsky N, Hippocampal neurophysiology across species.  In: "Space, time and memory in the hippocampal formation", edited by D. Derdikman and J. J. Knierim.  pp. 431-461, Springer: Vienna (2014).   PDF

  • Rubin A, Yartsev MM & Ulanovsky N, Encoding of head direction by hippocampal place cells in bats. J. Neurosci. 34, 1067-1080 (2014).  PDF

  • Yartsev MM & Ulanovsky N, Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats. Science 340, 367-372 (2013).   PDF  |  Supplementary Information

  • Yartsev MM, Witter MP & Ulanovsky N, Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats. Nature 479, 103-107 (2011).   PDF  |  Supplementary Information  |  News&Views: Colgin  |  News&Views: Giocomo & Moser

  • Tsoar A, Nathan R, Bartan Y, Vyssotski AL, Dell'Omo G & Ulanovsky NLarge-scale navigational map in a mammal. PNAS 108, e718-724 (2011).  PDF  |   Supplementary Movie

  • Yovel Y, Falk B, Moss CF & Ulanovsky N, Active control of acoustic field-of-view in a biosonar system. PLoS Biol. 9, e1001150 (2011).  PDF

  • Ulanovsky N, Neuroscience: How is three-dimensional space encoded in the brain? Curr. Biol. 21, R886-888 (2011).  PDF

  • Ulanovsky N & Moss CF, Dynamics of hippocampal spatial representation in echolocating bats. Hippocampus 21, 150-161 (2011).  PDF

  • Yovel Y, Geva-Sagiv M & Ulanovsky N, Click-based echolocation in bats: not so primitive after all. JCP-A 197, 515-530 (2011).  PDF

  • Yovel Y, Falk B, Moss CF & Ulanovsky N, Optimal localization by pointing off axis. Science 327, 701-704 (2010).  PDF  |  Supplementary Movie  |  Science Podcast interview  |  Science Multimedia

  • Ulanovsky N & Moss CF, What the bat's voice tells the bat's brain. PNAS 105, 8491-8498 (2008).  PDF

  • Ulanovsky N & Moss CF, Hippocampal cellular and network activity in freely moving echolocating bats. Nature Neurosci. 10, 224-233 (2007).  PDF  |  Cover image of Nature Neuroscience

  • Ulanovsky N, Fenton MB, Tsoar A & Korine C, Dynamics of jamming avoidance in echolocating bats. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 271, 1467-1475 (2004).  PDF

  • Ulanovsky N, Las L, Farkas D & Nelken I, Multiple time scales of adaptation in auditory cortex neurons. J. Neurosci. 24, 10440-10453 (2004).  PDF  |  This Week In The Journal  |  Correction

  • Ulanovsky N, Las L & Nelken I, Processing of low-probability sounds by cortical neurons. Nature Neurosci. 6, 391-398 (2003).   PDF  |  News & Views