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Michael Yartsev

Assistant Professor, Berkeley Bioengineering & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Verified email at berkeley.edu
Cited by 2148

The emperor's new wardrobe: rebalancing diversity of animal models in neuroscience research

MM Yartsev - Science, 2017 - science.org
… This species was chosen because of the huge size of its giant axon (~1 mm in diameter),
which allowed recording of electrical potentials along most of the axon. The successful …

Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats

MM Yartsev, MP Witter, N Ulanovsky - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Grid cells provide a neural representation of space, by discharging when an animal traverses
through the vertices of a periodic hexagonal grid spanning the environment 1 . Although …

Representation of three-dimensional space in the hippocampus of flying bats

MM Yartsev, N Ulanovsky - Science, 2013 - science.org
Many animals, on air, water, or land, navigate in three-dimensional (3D) environments, yet it
remains unclear how brain circuits encode the animal's 3D position. We recorded single …

[PDF][PDF] A modular approach to vocal learning: disentangling the diversity of a complex behavioral trait

…, SC Vernes, O Tchernichovski, MM Yartsev - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Vocal learning is a behavioral trait in which the social and acoustic environment shapes the
vocal repertoire of individuals. Over the past century, the study of vocal learning has …

Evidence for hormonal control of heart regenerative capacity during endothermy acquisition

…, KA Field, DAM Reeder, M Maden, MM Yartsev… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Tissue regenerative potential displays striking divergence across phylogeny and ontogeny,
but the underlying mechanisms remain enigmatic. Loss of mammalian cardiac regenerative …

Causal contribution and dynamical encoding in the striatum during evidence accumulation

MM Yartsev, TD Hanks, AM Yoon, CD Brody - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
… The experiments described in this manuscript focus on the anterior dorsal striatum of the rat
at stereotaxic coordinates of 1.9 mm anterior and 2.4 mm lateral, relative to bregma. Each rat …

[PDF][PDF] Correlated neural activity across the brains of socially interacting bats

W Zhang, MM Yartsev - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
… The center of craniotomy was positioned over the frontal cortex of the bat at 1.7 mm lateral
to the midline and 12.19 mm anterior to the transverse sinus that runs between the posterior …

A stable hippocampal code in freely flying bats

…, TA Schmid, A Forli, M Snyder, MM Yartsev - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
… A circular craniotomy (1.2 mm diameter) was made through the … 5.8 mm anterior to the
transverse sinus that runs between the posterior part of the cortex and the cerebellum, and 2.8 mm

Cortical representation of group social communication in bats

MC Rose, B Styr, TA Schmid, JE Elie, MM Yartsev - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Many animals live and interact as part of social groups. Social groups
present unique advantages to their members, but also necessitate viable modes of …

[PDF][PDF] Nonoscillatory phase coding and synchronization in the bat hippocampal formation

T Eliav, M Geva-Sagiv, MM Yartsev, A Finkelstein… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Hippocampal theta oscillations were proposed to be important for multiple functions, including
memory and temporal coding of position. However, previous findings from bats have …