Publications

2026

• Jung K., Eickhoff S.B., Patil K.R.
  Mechanistic versus descriptive interpretation of brain activity pattern reconstruction
  PNAS 123:42 (2026), doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2609630123.
• Wendt A., Klett K., Lindner B., Benda J., Grewe J.
  Increased firing rates monotonically expand neuronal coding bandwidth
  Biological Cybernetics 120:35 (2026), doi.org/10.1007/s00422-026-01063-3.
• Barayeu A., Schlungbaum M., Lindner B., Grewe J., Benda J.
  Spike Generation in Electroreceptor Afferents Introduces Additional Spectral Response Components by Weakly Nonlinear Interactions
  eNeuro 13:5 (2026), doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0357-25.2026.
• Mayer S., Benda J., Grewe J.
  Modelling individual ampullary afferents in two species of gymnotiform fish using simulation-based inference
  BioRxiv Jun 30, 2026, doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.24.734418. preprint
• Barayeu A., Benda J., Grewe J.
  Toward model-guided electrophysiology—Encoding of chirps in the electrosensory periphery of Apteronotus leptorhynchus
  Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 20 (2026), doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2026.1827196.
• Oberstrass A., Vaca E., Upschulte E., Niu M., Gallagher N.P., Graessel D., Schiffer C., Axer M., Amunts K., Dickscheid T.
  From fibers to cells: Fourier-based registration enables virtual Cresyl
  violet staining from 3D polarized light imaging
  Imaging Neuroscience 4 (2026), doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1079.

2025

• Kuckertz, A., L. Zhao, O. Kedo, K. Amunts, Palomero Gallagher N.
  Serotonin Receptors in Areas of the Emotion Regulation Network in Human and Rat Brains—A Comparative Autoradiographic Study
  Journal of Comparative Neurology 533, no. 7: 533, e70068. doi.org/10.1002/cne.70068.
• Fichtel, C., Huber, D.
  Studying the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus), one of the world’s smallest primates, in its natural habitat and in the laboratory provides unique perspectives on primate brain evolution, cognition, aging and neurodegenerative diseases, on an accelerated timescale and at a substantially lower cost as compared with larger primate models
  Mouse lemurs. Nat Methods 22, 1999–2001. doi.org/10.1038/s41592-025-02852-7.
• Hafed, Z. M., Arrenberg, A. B., Schwarz, C., Benda, J., and Grewe, J.
  Statistical regularities and the sensory consequences of self-action: a multi-species, multi-modal perspective
  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 94: 103087, doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.103087.
• Baumann, M. P. & Hafed, Z. M.
  Two-dimensional perisaccadic visual mislocalization in rhesus macaque monkeys
  eNeuro, doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0547-24.2025.
• Baumann, M. P., Denninger, A. F., & Hafed, Z. M.
  Perisaccadic perceptual mislocalization strength depends on the visual appearance of saccade targets
  Journal of Neurophysiology, Vol. 133, pp. 85-100. doi: 10.1152/jn.00368.2024.
  * Contributed equally
• Wu, W. & Hafed, Z. M.
  Stronger premicrosaccadic sensitivity enhancement for dark contrasts in the primate superior colliculus
  Scientific Reports, 15: 2761. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-87090-9.
• Kümmerlen, K., Blatt, J., Hoffmann, L. et al.
  Brain morphology in the peracarid crustacean Neomysis integer (Leach, 1814) with an emphasis on sexual dimorphism of the olfactory pathway
  Cell Tissue Res., doi.org/10.1007/s00441-025-03978-y.
• Kümmerlen K., Schlüter R., Harzsch S.
  The olfactory pathway in the peracarid crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis (Malacostraca): new insights into the evolution of olfactory processing in Pancrustacea
  Roy. Soc. Open Biol., doi: 10.1098/rsob.240397.
• Gruber L.,Cantera R.,Pleijzier M.W.,Niebergall M.,Steinert M.,Pertsch T., Hansson B.S.,Rybak J.
  The unique synaptic circuitry of specialized olfactory glomeruli in Drosophila melanogaster
  eLife 12:RP88824.
  
• M. Schlungbaum, A. Barayeu, J. Grewe, J. Benda, and B. Lindner.
  Effect of burst spikes on linear and nonlinear signal transmission in spiking neurons
  J. Comp. Neurosci. 53, 37.
• A. Barayeu, M. Schlungbaum, B. Lindner, J. Benda, and J. Grewe.
  Weakly nonlinear responses at low intrinsic noise levels in two types of electrosensory primary afferents
  doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.21.599999.
• A. Barayeu, M. Schlungbaum, B. Lindner, J. Benda, and J. Grewe.
  Bursts boost nonlinear encoding in electroreceptor afferents
  doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.07.597907.

2024



• Jiang, X., Dimitriou, E., Grabe, V., Sun, R., Chang, H., Zhang, Y., Gershenzon, J., Rybak, J., Hansson, B. S., Sachse, S.
  Ring-shaped odor coding in the antennal lobe of migratory locusts
  Cell 187 (15), pp. 13973 - 3991.e24, doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.05.036.
• Menzel, R., Rybak, J.
  Insights from the past: the work of Hans von Alten on the evolution of brain structure, ecological adaptation, and cognition in hymenopteran species
  Learning and Memory 31(5). doi: 10.1101/lm.053922.124.
• Rybak, J., Menzel, R.
  The Phylogeny of the Hymenopteran brain (von Alten, 1910) (2024),Translation of the original publication by Jürgen Rybak and Randolf Menzel
  Learning and Memory 31(5).
• Palieri V., Paoli E., Wu Y.K., Haesemeyer M., Grunwald Kadow I.C., Portugues R.
  The preoptic area and dorsal habenula jointly support homeostatic navigation in larval zebrafish
  Curr Biol. 2024 Feb 5;34(3):489-504.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.030. Epub 2024 Jan 10.



2023



• Hafed, Z. M., Hoffmann, K.-P., Chen, C.-Y., & Bogadhi, A. R.
  Functions of the primate superior colliculus
  Annual Review of Vision Science Vol. 9: 1, pp. 361-383. doi: 10.1146/annurev-vision-111022-123817.
• Barayeu, A., Schäfer, R., Grewe, J., Benda, J.
  Beat encoding at mistuned octaves within single electrosensory neurons
  iSience 26:7. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106840
• Schlungbaum, M., Lindner, B.
  Detecting a periodic signal by a population of spiking neurons in the weakly nonlinear response regime
  Eur Phys J E Soft Matter. 2023 Nov 6;46(11):108. doi: 10.1140/epje/s10189-023-00371-x.
• Hladnik, T.C., Grewe, J.
  Receptive field sizes and neuronal encoding bandwidth are constrained by axonal conduction delays.
  PLoS Comput Biol. 2023 Aug 11;19(8):e1010871. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010871.
• Rowland, J.M., van der Plas, T.L., Loidolt, M., Lees, R. M., Keeling, J., Dehning, J., Akam, T., Priesemann, V., Packer, A. M.
  Propagation of activity through the cortical hierarchy and perception are determined by neural variability
  Nature Neuroscience 26, 1584-1594 (2023). doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01413-5.
• Kümmerlen, K., Raspe, S., Harzsch, S.
  Neurochemical diversity in the central olfactory pathway of the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis (Amphipoda): evolutionary implications
  JCN. doi:10.1002/cne.25479.
• Gupta, D., Młynarski, W., Sumser, A., Symonova, O., Svaton, J., Jösch, M.
  Panoramic visual statistics shape retina-wide organization of receptive fields
  Nat Neurosci 26, 606–614. doi: 10.1038/s41593-023-01280-0.
• Wagener, L., Rinnert, P., Veit, L., Nieder, A.
  Crows protect visual working memory against interference
  Journal of Experimental Biology, 226(5), jeb245453. doi: 10.1242/jeb.245453.
• Franzen, J., Ramlow, L. Lindner, B.
  The steady state and response to a periodic stimulation of the firing rate for a theta neuron with correlated noise
  J. Comp. Neurosci. 51 (107-128). doi: 10.1007/s10827-022-00836-6.
• Luongo, F.J., Liu, L., Ho, C.L.A., Janis K Hesse, Wekselblatt, J.B., Francesco Lanfranchi, Huber, D. & Tsao, D.Y.
  Mice and primates use distinct strategies for visual segmentation
  eLife 12:e74394. doi:10.1101/2021.07.04.451059.
• Pusch, R., Clark, W., Rose, J.,& Güntürkün, O.
  Visual categories and concepts in the avian brain
  Animal Cognition: Vol. 26, 153–173. doi: 10.1007/s10071-022-01711-8.
• Wagener, L., Nieder, A.
  Categorical representation of abstract spatial magnitudes in the executive telencephalon of crows
  Current Biology S0960-9822(23)00461-X. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.013
• Balla, E., Wiesbrock, C., Linde, J., Kampa, B. M.
  Broadband visual stimuli improve neuronal representation and sensory perception
  bioRxiv (2023): 2023-05. doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.03.539238.
• Luongo, J. J., Liu, L.,Ho, C. L. A., Helle, J. K., Wekselblatt, J. B., Lanfanchi, F. F., Huber, D., Tsao, D. Y.
  Mice and primates use distinct strategies for visual segmentation
  eLife 12 (2023). doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74394.




2022



• Alexander E., Cai L.T., Fuchs S., Hladnik T.C., Zhang Y., Subramanian V., Guilbeault N.C., Vijayakumar C., Arunachalam M., Juntti S.A., Thiele T.R., Arrenberg A.B., Cooper E.A.
  Optic flow in the natural habitats of zebrafish supports spatial biases in visual self-motion estimation
  Curr Biol. 2022 Dec 5;32(23):5008-5021.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.009.
• Harzsch, S., Dircksen, H., & Hansson, B. S.
  Local olfactory interneurons provide the basis for neurochemical regionalization of olfactory glomeruli in crustaceans
  Journal of Comparative Neurology: Vol. 530, Issue 9. doi: 10.1002/cne.25283.
• Mathejczyk, T.F., Babo, E.J., Schönlein, E., Grinda, N.V., Greiner, A., Okrožnik, N., Belušič, G., Wernet, M.F.
  Behavioral responses of free flying Drosophila melanogaster to shiny, reflecting surfaces
  bioRxiv 2022.12.30.522304. doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.30.522304.
• Baumann, M. P.*, Bogadhi, A. R.*, Denninger, A. F., & Hafed, Z. M.
  Sensory tuning in neuronal movement commands
  BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.11.08.515621.
  * Contributed equally
• Pusch, R., Sevincik, C.S., Röders, D., Clark, W., Güntürkün, O.,& Rose, J.
  A three-dimensional functional investigation of the avian visual cortex – Do birds share a canonical forebrain circuit?
  51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California, USA.
• Fracasso, A.*, Buonocore, A.*, & Hafed, Z. M.
  Peri-saccadic visual sensitivity is higher in the upper visual field
  BioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2022.07.05.498850.
  * Contributed equally
• Aghvami S.S., Kubota Y., Egger V.
  Anatomical and Functional Connectivity at the Dendrodendritic Reciprocal Mitral Cell–Granule Cell Synapse: Impact on Recurrent and Lateral Inhibition
  Front. i. Neural Circuits. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2022.933201.
• Idrees, S., Baumann, M. P., Korympidou, M., Schubert, T., Kling, A., Franke, K., Hafed, Z. M., Franke, F., & Münch, T. A.
  Suppression without inhibition: How retinal computation contributes to saccadic suppression
  Communications Biology: Vol. 5, 692. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03526-2.
• Knoll, G., Lindner, B.
  Information transmission in recurrent networks: Consequences of network noise for synchronous and asynchronous signal encoding
  Phys. Rev. E 105, 044411, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.044411.
• Ditz, H. M., Fechner, J., Nieder, A.
  Cell-type specific pallial circuits shape categorical tuning responses in the crow telencephalon
  Communications Biology, 5(1), 269. doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03208-z.
• Kirschhock, M. E., Nieder, A.
  Number selective sensorimotor neurons in the crow translate perceived numerosity into number of actions
  Nature Communications, 13(1), 6913. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34457-5.
• Liao, D. A., Brecht, K. F., Johnston, M., Nieder, A.
  Recursive sequence generation in crows
  Science Advances, 8(44), eabq3356. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abq3356.
• Lindner, B.
  Fluctuation-dissipation relations for spiking neurons
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 198101. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2204.00549.
• Clark, W., Chilcott, M., Azizi, A., Pusch, R., Perry, K.,& Colombo, M.
  Neurons in the pigeon visual network discriminate between faces, scrambled faces, and sine grating items
  Scientific Reports: Vol. 12, 589. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-04559-z.
• Kutter, E. F., Boström, J., Elger, C. E., Nieder, A., Mormann, F.
  Neuronal codes for arithmetic rule processing in the human brain
  Current Biology, 32(6), 1275–1284.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.054.
• Kullmann, R., Knoll, G. Bernardi, D., Lindner, B.
  Critical current for giant Fano factor in neural models with bistable firing dynamics and implications for signal transmission
  Phys. Rev. E 105 014416, doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.105.014416.
• Zhang, Y., Huang, R., Nörenberg, W., & Arrenberg, A. B.
  A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion
  Curr Biol. 2022 Jun 6;32(11):2505-2516.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.048.
• Miller, R., Lambert, M. L., Frohnwieser, A., Brecht, K. F., Bugnyar, T., Crampton, I., Garcia-Pelegrin, E., Gould, K., Greggor, A. L., Izawa, E. I., Kelly, D. M., Li, Z., Luo, Y., Luong, L. B., Massen, J. J. M., Nieder, A., Reber, S. A., Schiestl, M., Seguchi, A., Sepehri, P., Clayton, N. S.
  Socio-ecological correlates of neophobia in corvids
  Current Biology, 32(1), 74–85.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.045.
• Nieder, A.
  In search for consciousness in animals: Using working memory and voluntary attention as behavioral indicators
  Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, 104865. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104865.
• Hahn, L. A., Balakhonov, D., Lundqvist, M., Nieder, A., Rose, J.
  Oscillations without cortex: Working memory modulates brainwaves in the endbrain of crows
  Progress in Neurobiology, 219, 102372. doi: org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2022.102372.




2021



• Harzsch, S., & Krieger, J.
  Genealogical relationships of mushroom bodies, hemiellipsoid bodies, and their afferent pathways in the brains of Pancrustacea
  Arthropod Structure and Development: Volume 65, November 2021, 101100. doi: 10.1016/j.asd.2021.101100.
• (*) Kind, E., Longden, K.D., Nern, A., Zhao, A., Sancer, G., Flynn, M.A., Laughland, C.W., Gezahegn, B., Ludwig, H.D., Thomson, A.G., Obrusnik, T., Alarcón, P.G., Dionne, H., Bock, D.D., Rubin, G.M., Reiser, M.B.*, Wernet, M.F.*
  Synaptic targets of photoreceptors specialized to detect color and skylight polarization in Drosophila
  Elife 10:e71858. doi: 10.7554/eLife.71858.
• Ho, C.L.A., Zimmermann, R., Flórez Weidinger, J.D., Prsa, M., Schottdorf, M., Merlin, S., Okamoto, T., Ikezoe, K., Pifferi, F., Aujard, F., Angelucci, A., Wolf, F. & Huber, D.
  Orientation Preference Maps in Microcebus murinus Reveal Size-Invariant Design Principles in Primate Visual Cortex
  Curr. Biol. 31, 733–741.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.027.
• 3. Ho, C. L. A., Fichtel, C. & Huber, D.
  The gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) as a model for early primate brain evolution.
  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Vol. 71 (2021), pp. 92-99. doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.09.012.
• Clemens, J., Schöneich, S., Kostarakos, K., Hennig, M., & Hedwig, B.
  A small, computationally flexible network produces the phenotypic diversity of song recognition in crickets
  eLife: 10:e61475. doi: 10.7554/eLife.61475.
• Güntürkün, O., von Eugen, K., Packheiser, J.,& Pusch, R.
  Avian pallial circuits and cognition – A comparison to mammals
  Current Opinion in Neurobiology: Vol. 71, 29-36. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2021.08.007.
• Steinfath, E., Palacios, A., Rottschäfer, J., Yuezak, D., & Clemens, J.
  Fast and accurate annotation of acoustic signals with deep neural networks
  eLife: 10:e68837. doi: 10.7554/eLife.68837.
• Alexander, E., Subramanian, V. K., Hladnik, T. C., Guilbeault, N. C., Cai, L. T., Thiele, T. R., Arrenberg, A. B., & Cooper, E. A.
  Self-motion cues in the natural habitats of zebrafish support lower visual field bias
  Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract September 2021: Vol.21, 1974. doi: 10.1167/jov.21.9.1974.
• Leyden, C., Brysch, C., & Arrenberg, A. B.
  A distributed saccade-associated network encodes high velocity conjugate and monocular eye movements in the zebrafish hindbrain
  Scientific Reports 2021 Jun 16, 12644. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90315-2.
• Rudelt, L., González Marx, D., Wibral, M., & Priesemann, V.
  Embedding optimization reveals long-lasting history dependence in neural spiking activity
  PLoS Comput Biol 17(6): e1008927. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008927.
• Baumann, M. P., Idrees, S., Münch, T. A., & Hafed, Z. M.
  Dependence of perceptual saccadic suppression on peri-saccadic image flow properties and luminance contrast polarity
  Journal of Vision (Special Issue: From Peripheral to Transsaccadic and Foveal Perception), 21(5): 15, 1-22. doi: 10.1167/jov.21.5.15.
• Springer, M., & Nawrot, M. P.
  A mechanistic model for reward prediction and extinction learning in the fruit fly
  ENeuro, 8(3). doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0549-20.2021.
• Knoll, G., Lindner, B.
  Recurrence-mediated suprathreshold stochastic resonance
  J Comput Neurosci 49, 407–418, doi: 10.1007/s10827-021-00788-3.
• Clemens, J., Ronacher, B., & Reichert, M.
  Sex-specific speed-accuracy tradeoffs shape neural processing of acoustic signals in a grasshopper
  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Volume 288, Issue 1945, Feb 24. 287:20210005. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0005
• Bernardi D., Doron G., Brecht M., Lindner B.
  A network model of the barrel cortex combined with a differentiator detector reproduces features of the behavioral response to single-neuron stimulation
  PLoS Comput Biol 17(2): e1007831. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007831.
• Benda, J.
  Neural adaptation
  Primer 2021:3, Feb 8 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.054.
• Wang, K., Arrenberg, B., Hinz, J., & Arrenberg, A. B.
  Reduction of visual stimulus artifacts using a spherical tank for small, aquatic animals
  Scientific Reports 2021 Feb 5;11(1): 3204. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-81904-2.
• Egger V., Kuner T.
  Olfactory bulb granule cells: specialized to link coactive glomerular
  columns for percept generation and discrimination of odors
  Cell and Tissue Research Special Issue "Olfactory Coding and Circuitries", Springer. Sachse S., Manzini I. (eds). 383(1):495-506. doi: 10.1007/s00441-020-03402-7.
• Nieder, A.
  Neuroethology of number sense across the animal kingdom
  Journal of Experimental Biology, 224(Pt 6), jeb218289. doi: 10.1242/jeb.218289.
• Nieder, A.
  The Evolutionary History of Brains for Numbers
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(7), 608–621. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.03.012.
• Nieder, A.
  Consciousness without cortex
  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 71, 69–76. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2021.09.010.
• Hahn, L. A., Balakhonov, D., Fongaro, E., Nieder, A., Rose, J.
  Working memory capacity of crows and monkeys arises from similar neuronal computations
  eLife, 10, e72783. doi: 10.7554/eLife.72783.
• Laurent, G. Wolf, F., Carr, C.
  Editorial overview: Evolution of brains and computation
  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Vol. 71 (2021), pp. iii-viii. doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.11.011.
• Schmidt, K.E., Wolf, F.
  Punctuated evolution of visual cortical circuits? Evidence from the large rodent Dasyprocta leporina, and the tiny primate Microcebus murinus
  Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Vol. 71 (2021), pp. 110-118. doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2021.10.007.
• Ferreiro, D. N., Conde-Ocazionez, S. A., Patriota, J. H. N., Souza, L. C., Oliveira, M. F., Wolf, F., Schmidt, K. E.
  Spatial clustering of orientation preference in primary visual cortex of the large rodent agouti
  iScience, Vol. 24:1 (2021). doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101882.




2020



• Egger, V., Diamond, J.S.
  A17 amacrine cells and olfactory granule cells: parallel processors of early sensory information
  Front. Cell. Neurosci. doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2020.600537
• Lage-Rupprecht V., Zhou L., Bianchini G., Aghvami S.S., Rozsa B., Sassoé-Pognetto M. Egger V.
  Presynaptic NMDARs cooperate with local spikes toward GABA release from the reciprocal olfactory bulb granule cell spine
  eLife 2020;9:e63737 doi: 10.7554/eLife.63737.
• Wagener, L., Nieder, A.
  Categorical Auditory Working Memory in Crows
  iScience, 23(11), 101737. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101737.
• Clemens, J., & Hennig, R.
  The Senses - Audition - Coding Strategies in Insects.
  Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.24184-9.
• Nourizonoz, A., Zimmermann, R., Ho, C.L.A., Pellat, S., Ormen, Y., Prévost-Solié, C., Reymond, G., Pifferi, F., Aujard, F., Herrel, A. & Huber, D.
  EthoLoop: automated closed-loop neuroethology in naturalistic environments
  Nat Meth 17, 1052–1059. doi:10.1038/s41592-020-0961-2.
• Mueller M., Egger V.
  Dendritic integration in olfactory bulb granule cells upon simultaneous multispine activation: Low thresholds for nonlocal spiking activity
  PLOS Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000873.
• Wang, K., Hinz, J., Zhang, Y., Thiele, T. R., & Arrenberg, A. B.
  Parallel Channels for Motion Feature Extraction in the Pretectum and Tectum of Larval Zebrafish
  Cell Rep. 2020 Jan 14;30(2):442-453.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.12.031.