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2026

  • Bausch M, Niediek J, Reber TP, Mackay S, Boström J, Elger CE, Mormann F (2026): "Distinct neuronal populations in the human brain combine content and context." Nature 650:690-700. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09910-2

  • Fink, R., Imai, S., Gockel, N. et al., (2026): "PinkyCaMP: an mScarlet-based calcium sensor with enhanced brightness, photostability and multiplexing capabilities." Nat Methods. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-026-03065-2

2025

  • Babl S.S., Kiai A., García-Rosales F., Hechavarria J.C. (2025): "Neuronal activity underlying vocal production in bats." Annals NYAS. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15410

  • Benoit CM, Ganea DA, Paricio-Montesinos R, Esser J, Thome C, Janssen JM, Sattin A, Innocenti SM, Krabbe S, Lüthi A, Fellin T, Engelhardt M, Gründemann J. (2026): "Axon initial segment dynamics during associative fear learning." Nat Neurosci. 2026 Mar;29(3):535-542. doi: 10.1038/s41593-025-02152-5. Epub 2025 Dec 23. PMID: 41436652; PMCID: PMC12971492.

  • Derner, M., L.Chaieb, R.Cox, et al. (2025): “Single-Neuron Responses to Odor-Related Words in the Human Amygdala.” European Journal of Neuroscience 62, no. 9: e70297. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.70297.

  • Favila, N., Capece Marsico, J., Pacheco, C.M. et al. (2025): "Heterogeneous plasticity of amygdala interneurons in associative learning and extinction." Nat Commun 16, 9926. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66122-y

  • Hafed, Z. M., Arrenberg, A. B., Schwarz, C., Benda, J., and Grewe, J. (2025): "Statistical regularities and the sensory consequences of self-action: a multi-species, multi-modal perspective." Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 94: 103087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2025.103087

  • Hoang TH, Manahan-Vaughan D (2025): "Multiplexed detection of nuclear immediate early gene expression reveals hippocampal neuronal subpopulations that engage in the acquisition and updating of spatial experience." Front. Integr. Neurosci. 19:1660536. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2025.1660536

  • Kilteni K, Cullen K, Schneider DM and Schwarz C (2025): "Suppressing Sensation during Action across Species and Sensory Modalities: Predictive and Nonpredictive Mechanisms of Sensory Modulation". J Neurosci 12 November 2025, 45 (46) e1351252025; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1351-25.2025

  • Katzner S, Rose T, Tchumatchenko T, Busse L, (2025): "The Role of Layer 6 Corticothalamic Circuits in Vision: Plasticity, Sensory Processing, and Behavior." Annual Reviews in Vision Science. Vol. 11:243-265  https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-101322-012348

  • Liebe, S., Niediek, J., Pals, M. et al. (2025): "Phase of firing does not reflect temporal order in sequence memory of humans and recurrent neural networks." Nat Neurosci.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01893-7

  • Lo H, Riedel WC, Tantirigama MLS, Schoenherr A, Moreno Velasquez L, Faiss L, Kumar A, Hakus A, Rost BR, Larkum ME, Judkewitz B, Stumpenhorst K, Rivalan M, Winter Y, Russo E, Kelsch W, Schmitz D, Johenning FW. (2025): "Feeding-induced olfactory cortex suppression reduces satiation." Neuron. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.07.020

  • Maravall M, de Hoz L (2025): "Setting the stage for statistical learning? Sensitivity to environmental statistics in early sensory processing" Curr Op in Neurob, 95:103139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2025.103139

2024

  • Baumann, M. P.*, Denninger, A. F.*, & Hafed, Z. M. (2024): "Perisaccadic perceptual mislocalization strength depends on the visual appearance of saccade targets."  Journal of Neurophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00368.2024

  • Beiersdorfer A, Rothermel M, Lohr C. "Human olfaction: odour coding and cross-modal concept representation in single olfactory cortex neurons." Sig Transduct Target Ther 9, 333 (2024). PMID: 39604387

  • Elhabbari K, Sireci S, Rothermel M, Brunert D. (2024): "Olfactory deficits in aging and Alzheimer’s – Spotlight on inhibitory interneurons." Front. Neurosci. 18:1503069. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2024.1503069

  • Kutter EF, Dehnen G, Borger V, Surges R, Nieder A, Mormann F. (2024): "Single-neuron representation of nonsymbolic and symbolic number zero in the human medial temporal lobe." Curr Biol. 34(20):4794-4802.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.08.041

  • Mackay, S., Reber, T.P., Bausch, M. et al. (2024): "Concept and location neurons in the human brain provide the ‘what’ and ‘where’ in memory formation." Nat Commun 15, 7926.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52295-5

2023

  • Kutter, E.F., Dehnen, G., Borger, V. et al. (2023). "Distinct neuronal representation of small and large numbers in the human medial temporal lobe." Nat Hum Behav 7, 1998–2007. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01709-3

2022

  • de Hoz L, Busse L, Hechavarria JC, Groh A and Rothermel M (2022): SPP2411: "Sensing Loops: cortico-subcortical interactions for adaptive sensing". Neuroforum 2022; 28 (4): 249-251. https://doi.org/10.1515/nf-2022-0021

bioRxiv

2026

  • Malevich, T., Baumann, M. P., Yu, Y., & Hafed, Z. M. (2026): "Vision dominates sound in mediating classic cue-induced microsaccadic eye movement modulations in rhesus macaque monkeys". BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.25.678668

  • Malevich, T.*, Yu, Y.*, Baumann, M. P.*, Yu, X., Zhang, T., Yoshida, M.**, Isa, T.**, & Hafed, Z. M.** (2026): "Transient focal inactivation of the primary visual cortex abolishes saccadic inhibition." BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.06.710115

  • Zhang, T.*, Denninger, A. F.*, & Hafed, Z. M. (2026): "A transient signal in foveal superior colliculus neurons for jumpstarting peripheral saccadic orienting." BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.06.716792

2025

  • ​Heimburg  F, Saluti NM, Timm J, Adlakha A, Castelanelli M, Klumpp M, Embray L, Both M, Draguhn A, Kuner T, Groh A (2024): "A tactile discrimination task to study neuronal dynamics in freely-moving mice". bioRxiv 2024.08.24.609326; https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.24.609326​

  • Karkowski K, Kehl MS, Qin Y, Darcher A, Karkowski P, Borger V, Surges R, Hebart MN, Reber TP, Dehaene S, Lakretz Y#, Mormann F#, (2025): "Semantic tuning of single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe." bioRxiv 2025.10.21.682935. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.21.682935

  • López, F. M. & Triesch, J. (2025): "Hierarchical Residuals Exploit Brain-Inspired Compositionality." In Proceedings of the 33rd European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning (ESANN 2025). https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.16003

  • Malevich, T., Baumann, M.P., Hafed, Z.M. (2025): "Vision dominates sound in mediating classic cue-induced microsaccadic eye movement modulations in rhesus macaque monkeys". bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.25.678668

  • Trottenberg, C., Yu, Y., Zhang, T., Baumann, M.P., Malevich, T., Prasad, S. & Hafed, Z.M. (2025): "Much higher covariation with foveation timing by superior colliculus than primary visual cortical neuronal activity". bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.10.664256

  • Gerken F,  Darcher A,  Gonçalves PJ,  Rapp R, Elezi I,  Niediek J,  Kehl MS,  Reber TP,  Liebe S, Macke JH, Mormann F,  Leal-Taixé L, (2025): "Decoding movie content from neuronal population activity in the human medial temporal lobe." bioRXiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.13.598791

2024

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