Itai Cohen

The paper shows budgerigar parrots use mixed vocal-gestural neural signals for learned communication, with single neurons representing both song and headbob gestures.

This study investigates shear strain stiffening in cartilage, showing it results from a mechanical phase transition between bending- and stretching-dominated modes, influenced by collagen concentration and compression.

The paper uses a geometry-aware autoencoder to analyze hippocampal activity in mice, revealing a small-world network structure that enables both local fidelity and global searchability in cognitive maps.

This paper shows that indirect steering muscles in Drosophila help stabilize flight by adjusting wing pitch during large perturbations, using a nonlinear control strategy.

This paper investigates how fruit flies achieve roll stability during flight by analyzing wing kinematics and neuromuscular control mechanisms.

The paper investigates the role of the anterior forebrain pathway (AFP) in parrots' vocal learning, finding that its inactivation disrupts the production of learned vocalizations with individual signatures, unlike songbirds.

The paper identifies a songbird VP-LHb-VTA pathway involved in vocal learning, showing that LHb lesions disrupt normal vocal development.

The paper identifies 196 cell types in the Drosophila ventral nerve cord using split-GAL4 and links them to a connectomic dataset for circuit analysis.

The paper shows that inactivating motor cortex in mice reduces the speed of kinematic primitives during a reach task without affecting their direction or complexity.