Dr. Gilad Jacobson
Dr. Gilad Jacobson is a neuroscientist. His research has focused on neuronal networks and the ways in which they create a representation of the sensory world and control behaviour.
After obtaining his BSc in Computer Science and Biology (Etgar excellency program) from the Hebrew University, he completed his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience at the same institute. Between 2009-2015 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, as a Marie Curie Scholarship an EMBO Fellow. He studied sensory encoding and the reliability of sensory representation.
His current research is expanding to Digital Humanities, where he brings computational tools developed in the sciences for addressing a variety of questions in the Humanities, encompassing literature and history.
Selected Publications
Poem Collection
Mellifluence: Poems (Tel Aviv: Keter, 2024). 121 pp.
Articles
Jacobson GA. “The Divergent Poetics of Ruth and Job and their Corresponding Ethics.” European Judaism 2025; 58(1).
Rehani R, Atamna Y, Tiroshi L, Chiu W, Aceves Buendia J, Martins G, Jacobson GA, Goldberg JA. "Activity Patterns in the Neuropil of Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons in Freely Moving Mice Represent their Collective Spiking Dynamics." eNeuro 2019; 6(1).
Lavi K, Jacobson GA, Rosenblum K, Lüthi A. "Acquired Taste Valence Encoding in Cortico-Amygdalar Circuits." Cell Reports 2018; 24(2):278-283.
Jacobson GA, Rupprecht P, Friedrich RW. "Experience-Dependent Plasticity of Odor Representations in the Telencephalon of Zebrafish." Current Biology 2018; 28(1).
Wolff SBE, Gründemann J, Tovote P, Krabbe S, Jacobson GA, Herry C, Ehrlich I, Huang JZ, Friedrich RW, Letzkus JJ, Lüthi A. "Amygdala Interneuron Subtypes Control Fear Learning through Disinhibition." Nature 2014; 509(7501).
Friedrich RW, Jacobson GA, Zhu P. "Circuit Neuroscience in Zebrafish." Current Biology 2010; 20(8): R371-R381.
Jacobson GA, Lev I, Yarom Y, Cohen D. "Invariant Phase Structure of Olivo-Cerebellar Oscillations and its Putative Role in Temporal Pattern Generation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009; 106(9): 3579-3584.
Baumel Y, Jacobson GA, Cohen D. "Implications of Functional Anatomy on DCN Information Processing." Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 2009; 3(14).
Yaron-Jakoubovitch A, Jacobson GA, Koch C, Segev I, Yarom Y. "A Paradoxical Isopotentiality: A Spatially Uniform Noise Spectrum in Neocortical Pyramidal Cells." Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience 2008; 2:3.
Jacobson GA, Rokni D, Yarom Y., "A Model of the Olivo-Cerebellar System as a Temporal Pattern Generator." Trends in Neurosciences 2008; 31(12): 617-625.
Jacobson GA, Diba K, Yaron-Jakoubovitch A, Oz Y, Koch C, Segev I, Yarom Y., "Subthreshold Voltage Noise of Rat Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons." J Physiol 2005; 564.1: 145-160.
Amedi A, Jacobson G, Hendler T, Malach R, Zohary E., "Convergence of Visual and Tactile Shape Processing in the Human Lateral Occipital Complex." Cereb Cortex 2002; 12(11):1202-12.
Jacobson G, Poganiatz I, Nelken I., "Synthesizing Spatially Complex Sound in Virtual Space: An Accurate Offline Algorithm." J Neurosci Methods 2001; 106(1):29-38.