Journal papers

Multi-day Neuron Tracking in High Density Electrophysiology Recordings using EMD [PDF]

Augustine Yuan, Jennifer Colonell, Anna Lebedeva, Michael Okun, Adam Charles and Timothy Harris

eLife (2024).

Brain state transitions primarily impact the spontaneous rate of slow-firing neurons [PDF]

Bradley Dearnley, Melissa Jones, Martynas Dervinis and Michael Okun

Cell Reports 42(10), 113185 (2023).

Logarithmically scaled, gamma distributed neuronal spiking [PDF]

Daniel Levenstein and Michael Okun

Journal of Physiology 601(15), 3055-3069 (2023).

Spike-based coupling between single neurons and populations across rat sensory cortices, perirhinal cortex, and hippocampus [PDF]

Reinder Dorman, Jeroen Bos, Martin Vinck, Pietro Marchesi, Julien Fiorilli, Jeanette Lorteije, Ingrid Reiten, Jan Bjaalie, Michael Okun and Cyriel Pennartz,

Cerebral Cortex 33(13), 8247-8264 (2023).

Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings

Nicholas Steinmetz*, Cagatay Aydin*, Anna Lebedeva*, Michael Okun*, Marius Pachitariu*, Marius Bauza, ..., Matteo Carandini and Timothy Harris,

Science 372, 258 (2021).

Dopaminergic and prefrontal basis of learning from sensory confidence and reward value [PDF]

Armin Lak, Michael Okun, Morgane Moss, Harsha Gurnani, Karolina Farrell, Miles Wells, Charu Reddy, Adam Kepecs, Kenneth Harris and Matteo Carandini

Neuron 105(4), 700-711 (2020).

Distinct structure of cortical population activity on fast and infraslow timescales [PDF]

Michael Okun, Nicholas Steinmetz, Armin Lak, Martynas Dervinis and Kenneth Harris

Cerebral Cortex 29(5), 2196-2210 (2019).

Fully integrated silicon probes for high-density recording of neural activity

James Jun*, Nicholas Steinmetz*, Joshua Siegle*, Daniel Denman*, Marius Bauza*, Brian Barbarits*, Albert Lee*, ... Michael Okun, .... Timothy Harris

Nature 551, 232-236 (2017).

Artefactual origin of biphasic cortical spike-LFP correlation [PDF] [Code]

Michael Okun

Journal of Computational Neuroscience 42(1), 31-35 (2017).

Inhibitory control of correlated intrinsic variability in cortical networks [PDF]

Carsen Stringer*, Marius Pachitariu*, Nicholas Steinmetz, Michael Okun, Peter Bartho, Kenneth Harris, Maneesh Sahani and Nicholas Lesica,

eLife 5: e19695 (2016).

Long term recordings with immobile silicon probes in the mouse cortex [PDF]

Michael Okun, Armin Lak, Matteo Carandini and Kenneth Harris,

PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151180 (2016).

The nature of shared cortical variability [PDF]

I-Chun Lin, Michael Okun, Matteo Carandini and Kenneth Harris,

Neuron 87(3), 644-656 (2015).

Diverse coupling of neurons to populations in sensory cortex [PDF] [Code]

Michael Okun, Nicholas Steinmetz, Lee Cossell, Florencia Iacaruso, Ho Ko, Peter Bartho, Tirin Moore, Sonja Hofer, Thomas Mrsic-Flogel, Matteo Carandini and Kenneth Harris,

Nature 521, 511-515 (2015).

Balance of excitation and inhibition

Michael Okun and Ilan Lampl,

Scholarpedia 4(8), 7467 (2009). Updated in 2014.

Population rate dynamics and multineuron firing patterns in sensory cortex [PDF] [Code]

Michael Okun, Pierre Yger, Stephan Marguet, Florian Gerard-Mercier, Andrea Benucci, Steffen Katzner, Laura Busse, Matteo Carandini and Kenneth Harris,

Journal of Neuroscience 32(48), 17108-17119 (2012).

Trial-to-trial correlation between thalamic sensory response and global EEG activity [PDF]

Yonatan Katz, Michael Okun and Ilan Lampl,

European Journal of Neuroscience 35(6), 826-837 (2012).

The subthreshold relation between cortical local field potential and neuronal firing unveiled by intracellular recordings in awake rats [PDF]

Michael Okun, Amir Naim and Ilan Lampl,

Journal of Neuroscience 30(12), 4440-4448 (2010).

Instantaneous correlation of excitation and inhibition during ongoing and sensory-evoked activities [PDF]

Michael Okun and Ilan Lampl,

Nature Neuroscience 11(5), 535-537 (2008).

Stochastic emergence of repeating cortical motifs in spontaneous membrane potential fluctuations in vivo [PDF]

Alik Mokeichev, Michael Okun, Omri Barak, Yonatan Katz, Ohad Ben-Shahar and Ilan Lampl,