

Prof. Yossi Yovel
Research work
Animal Behavior, Sensing, Navigation, Learning and Decision making. We use an arsenal of methods to study these topics in the field and in the lab including on-board sensing, modeling, MRI and bio-mimicry
Areas of interest & scientific knowledge
Behavioral Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Imaging Research
Selected Publications
- L. Harten, A. Katz, A. Goldshtein, M. Handel & Y. Yovel (2020) The ontogeny of a mammalian cognitive map in the real world. Science, 369, 194-197. DOI: 10.1126/science.aay3354
- S. Danilovich and Y. Yovel (2019) Integrating vision and echolocation for navigation and perception in bats. Science Advances,5: eaaw6503
- A. Goldshtein, M. Handel, O. Eitan, A. Bonstein, T. Shaler, S. Collet, S. Greif, R. A. Medellı´n, Y. Emek, A. Korman & Y. Yovel (2020) Reinforcement Learning Enables Resource Partitioning in Foraging Bats. Current Biology 30, 1–7. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.079
- Harten, L., Prat, Y., Ben Cohen, S., Dor, R. & Yovel, Y. (2019) Food for Sex in Bats Revealed as Producer Males Reproduce with Scrounging Females. Current Biology 29, 1-6
- Eliakim I, Cohen Z, Kosa G, Yovel Y (2018) A fully autonomous terrestrial bat-like acoustic robot. PLOS Computational Biology 14(9): e1006406.