Background
Moshe Abeles was born on October 7, 1936, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Son of Walter and Cecilia (Nehamkis) Abeles.
(Neurophysiologists are often accused by colleagues in the...)
Neurophysiologists are often accused by colleagues in the physical sciences of designing experiments without any underlying hypothesis. This impression is attributable to the ease of getting lost in the ever-increasing sea of professional publications that do not state explicitly the ultimate goal of the research. On the other hand, many of the explicit models for brain function in the past were so far removed from experimental reality that they had very little impact on further research. It seems that one needs much intimate experience with the real nervous system before a reasonable model can be suggested. It would have been impossible for Copernicus to suggest his model of the solar system without the detailed observations and tabulations of star and planet motion accumulated by the preceding generations. This need for an intimate experience with the nervous system before daring to put forward some hypothesis about its mechanism of action is especially apparent when theorizing about cerebral cortex function. There is widespread agreement that the processing of information in the cor tex is associated with complex Spatio-temporal patterns of activity. Yet the vast majority of experimental work is based on single neuron recordings or on recordings made with gross electrodes to which tens of thousands of neurons contribute in an unknown fashion. Although these experiments have taught us a great deal about the organization and function of the cor tex, they have not enabled us to examine the Spatio-temporal organization of neuronal activity in any detail.
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1982
Moshe Abeles was born on October 7, 1936, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Son of Walter and Cecilia (Nehamkis) Abeles.
Moshe Abeles got the degree of the Master of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1960. He also had the degree of the Doctor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1966. In 1986, he finished Johns Hopkins University with an Honorary degree.
Moshe Abeles research focuses on the functional circuits in the cerebral cortex. His physiological findings and his models about the functional significance of temporal relations in the cortex led to the famous "synfire chain theory" which how information processing can be carried out through the coordinated dynamic activity of cell assemblies.
In 2005 Moshe Abeles has founded the Gonda Multidsicpilinary brain research center at Bar-Ilan University and directed it until 2011.
Moshe Abeles is the author of several highly cited books in neuroscience, including "Corticonics: Neural circuits of the cerebral cortex" (1991) and "Local Cortical Circuits: An Electrophysiological Study" (2012).
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1982Moshe Abeles was married to Gabriella Horn on February 1, 1966, and had 2 children: Shiri, Orly.