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Ofer Perl
@oferperl.bsky.social
Assistant professor at the Haifa University, interested in how Humans smell, breathe, remember and recall their world.
Incredible work by a super talented team! Was lucky to witness it from conceptualization to reality (even when pieces didn't always fall into place, that's real science FYI).

Congratulations and kudos @baror-shira.bsky.social , @ayab.bsky.social and team!
Excited to share a new paper spearheaded by the wonderful @baror-shira.bsky.social:
tinyurl.com/bd8xdcum
@erc.europa.eu @nathumbehav.nature.com

We test the link between serial dependence (as an index of continuity) and event boundaries (indexing segmentation). A few key findings in the thread:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02403-w
tinyurl.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:56 PM
#Throwback!
Two years later, this finding still blows my mind. 🤯
We demonstrated that beliefs about nicotine strength drive dose-dependent signals in the brain, physiologically mimicking the drug itself, even when the actual dose is constant.

Beliefs change biology 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Nicotine-related beliefs induce dose-dependent responses in the human brain - Nature Mental Health
Instructions about nicotine strength influence smokers’ perception of the nicotine content in electronic cigarettes and are associated with neural responses in the thalamocortical system.
www.nature.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Let’s talk about Sniff Logic (disclaimer: I work here) –
We build tools for measuring oral & nasal airflow with research-grade accuracy

What makes us different?
• Research-grade precision, anywhere
• Sync with EEG, fMRI, etc.
• A fraction of the price of most systems

📢 #Respiration #Neuroscience
August 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The craziest/loveliest part of departing from @ayab.bsky.social 's lab was this jaw dropping clip they made with KlingAI and a *single* photo of me. I guess this is what you get when you mess with masters of naturalistic stimuli 😱

Such a great gift and now the rest of the world can easily extort me
March 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Yesterday was my last day with the @ayab.bsky.social memory lab at ELSC, @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social. After two and a half wonderful years, going away is bittersweet.
I now look forward to starting a new path as a PI @ Haifa University and to forming new hippocampal-mediated memories.

Thank you💛
March 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by Ofer Perl
It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com
Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…
www.online-tribute.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Thank you Eitan!!
December 19, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Thanks Orna, and thank you for the nonstop pep talk in dark times :)
December 19, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Finally, we can never be fully happy until all our brothers and sisters held captive in Gaza are back home.

#BringThemHomeNow
December 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
It's been a long road, and a huge, heartfelt thank you goes to my mentors for their years of support and guidance 🩶

Noam Sobel @ WIS

@xiaosigu.bsky.social and Daniela Schiller @ CCP Mount Sinai

Aya Ben Yakov @ ELSC Hebrew U
December 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
No website yet, but I think PERL can actually make a good name (I came up with that name before GPTs were around!!!!)

BTW if you want to use PERL for 'Prediction Error'+'Reinforcement Learning' let's talk trademark royalties :)

(I also came up with that one)
December 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Some of the questions that drive us:
*How do idiosyncratic cognitive maps form, with human #olfaction as unique test-case?

*Role of multi-sensory integration in transforming naturalistic experiences into memory?

*Personalized paradigms for studying autobiographical memory disorders e.g. #PTSD
December 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
We combine behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools to better understand the principles underlying the perception and encoding of multi-sensory, real-life experiences into #memory.
December 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
December 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Time has come to share some exciting news! I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at Haifa University in Spring 2025!

#AcademicTwitter #Neuroscience #NewYear #newPI
December 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Breathing orchestrates synchronization of sleep oscillations in the human hippocampus (!)

By the Zelano lab

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
December 19, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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HELLO WORLD!
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November 23, 2024 at 8:55 AM