2025

• Adriana Migliaro, Federico Pedraja, Stefan Mucha, Jan Benda, Ana Silva (2025) Tracking spatial patterns and daily modulation of behavior in a natural population of the pulse-type weakly electric fish, Gymnotus omarorum : iScience

 

2024

• Maria Schlungbaum, Alexandra Barayeu, Jan Grewe, Jan Benda, Benjamin Lindner (2024) Effect of burst spikes onlinear and nonlinear signal transmission in spiking neuron Journal of Computational Neuroscience

 

2023

• Alexandra Barayeu, Ramona Schäfer, Jan Grewe, Jan Benda (2023) Beat encoding at mistuned octaves within single electrosensory neurons iScience
• Tim C. Hladnik and Jan Grewe (2023)
  Receptive field sizes and neuronal encoding bandwidth are constrained ba axonal conduction delays.PLoS Computational Biology
• Nils A Koch, Lukas Sonnenberg, Ulrike Hedrich, Stephan Lauxmann, Jan Benda (2023) Loss or gain of function? Effects of ion channel mutations on neural firing depend on the neuron type  Frontiers in Neurology

• Erva Bayraktar, Yuanyuan Liu, Lukas Sonnenberg, Ulrike BS Hedrich, Yildirim Sara, Ahmed Eltokhi, Hang Lyu, Holger Lerche, Thomas V Wuttke, Stephan Lauxmann (2023) In vitro effects of eslicarbazepine (S-licarbazepine) as a potential precision therapy on SCN8A variants causing neuropsychiatric disorders British Journal of Pharmacology

   

2022

• Till Raab, Manu S. Madhav, Ravikrishnan P. Jayakumar, Jörg Henninger, Noah J. Cowan, Jan Benda (2022) Advances in non-invasive tracking of wave-type electric fish in natural and laboratory settings.Front. Integr. Neurosci.
• Aleš Škorjanc,Marko Kreft, Jan Benda (2022) Stimulator compensation and generation of Gaussian noise stimuli with defined amplitude spectra for studying input–output relations of sensory systems Springer Link
• Till Raab, Sercan Bayezit, Saskia Erdle, Jan Benda (2022) Electrocommunication signals indicate motivation to compete during dyadic interactions of an electric fish. JEB
• Christian Malte Boßelmann, Ulrike B.S. Hedrich, Peter Müller, Lukas Sonnenberg, Shridhar Parthasarathy, Ingo Helbig, Holger Lerche and Nico Pfeifer
  (2022) Predicting the functional effects of voltage-gated potassium channel missense variants with multi-task learning. EBioMedicine 81
• Katrine M Johannesen, Yuanyuan Liu, Mahmoud Koko, Cathrine E Gjerulfsen, Lukas Sonnenberg, Julian Schubert, Christina D Fenger, Ahmed Eltokhi, Maert Rannap, Nils A Koch, Stephan Lauxmann (...) Ulrike BS Hedrich, Jan Benda, Elena Gardella, Holger Lerche, Rikke S Møller (2022) Genotype-phenotype correlations in SCN8A-related disorders reveal prognostic and therapeutic implications  Brain

 

2021

• Jan Benda (2021) Primer: Neural adaptation.Current Biology  Current biology
• Stephan Lauxmann, Lukas Sonnenberg, Nils A Koch, Christian Bosselmann, Natalie Winter, Niklas Schwarz, Thomas V Wuttke, Ulrike BS Hedrich, Yuanyuan Liu, Holger Lerche, Jan Benda, Josua Kegele (2021) Therapeutic Potential of Sodium Channel Blockers as a Targeted Therapy Approach in KCNA1-Associated Episodic Ataxia and a Comprehensive Review of the Literature Frontiers in Neurology
• Nikolas Layer, Lukas Sonnenberg, Emilio Pardo González, Jan Benda, Ulrike Hedrich, Holger Lerche, Henner Koch, Thomas V Wuttke (2021) Dravet variant SCN 1AA1783V impairs interneuron firing predominatly by altered channel activitation  Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

 

2020

• Jan Benda (2020)
  The Physics of Electrosensory Worlds. In: Fritzsch, B. (Ed.) and Bleckmann, H. (Volume Editor), The Senses: A Comprehensive Refernce, vol. 7. Elsevier, Academic Press, pp. 228--254. pdf
   
• Jan Grewe (2020)
  Peripheral High-Frequency Electrosensory Systems. In: Fritzsch, B. (Ed.) and Bleckmann, H. (Volume Editor), The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, vol. 7 Elsevier, Academic Press, pp. 298-313
   
• Fabian H. Sinz, Carolin Sachgau, Jörg Henninger, Jan Benda and Jan Grewe (2020)
  Simultaneous spike-time locking to mutiple frequencies.
  J. Neurophysiol.
   
• Jörg Henninger, Rüdiger Krahe, Fabian Sinz, Jan Benda (2020)
  Tracking activity patterns of a multispecies community of gymnotiform weakly electric fish in their neotropical habitat without tagging. JEB

 

2019

• Till Raab, Laura Linhart, Anna Wurm, Jan Benda (2019)
  Dominance in Habitat Preference and Diurnal Explorative Behavior of the Weakly Electric Fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus.
  Front. Integr. Neurosci.
   
• Julia Sprenger, Lyuba Zehl, Jana Pick, Michael Sonntag, Jan Grewe, Thomas Wachtler, Sonja Grün, Michael Denker (2019)
  odMLtables: A user-friendly approach for managing metadata of neurophysiological experiments.
  Front. Neuroinform.
• Yuanyuan Liu, Julian Schubert, Lukas Sonnenberg, Katherine L Helbig, Christina E Hoei-Hansen, Mahmoud Koko, Maert Rannap, Stephan Lauxmann, Mahbubul Huq, Michael C Schneider, Katrine M Johannesen, Gerhard Kurlemann, Elena Gardella, Felicitas Becker, Yvonne G Weber, Jan Benda, Rikke S Møller, Holger Lerche (2019) Neuronal mechanisms of mutations in SCN8A causing epilepsy or intellectual disability Brain

 

2018

• Yuanyuan Liu, Julian Schubert, Lukas Sonnenberg, Katherine L. Helbig, Christina Høi Hansen, Stephan Lauxmann, Mahbubul Huq, Michael C. Schneider, Katrine M. Johannesen, Elena Gardella, Felicitas Becker, Yvonne G. Weber, Jan Benda, Rikke S. Møller, Holger Lerche (2018)
  Neuronal mechanisms of mutations in SCN8A causing epilepsy or intellectual disability Brain
   
• Jörg Henninger, Rüdiger Krahe, Frank Kirschbaum, Jan Grewe, Jan Benda (2018)
  Statistics of natural communication signals observed in the wild identify important yet neglected stimulus regimes in weakly electric fish.
  J. Neurosci.
• Chih-Yang Chen, Lukas Sonnenberg, Simone Weller, Thede Witschel, Ziad M Hafed (2018) Spatial frequency sensitivity in macaque midbrain  Nature communications

 

2017

• Manuel Beiran, Alexandra Kruscha, Jan Benda, Benjamin Lindner (2017)
  Coding of time-dependent stimuli in homogeneous and heterogeneous neural population.
  J. Comput. Neurosci. 44, 189-202.
   
• Jan Grewe, Alexandra Kruscha, Benjamin Lindner, Jan Benda (2017)
  Synchronous spikes are necessary but not sufficient for a synchrony code in populations of spiking neurons.
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114, E1977-E1985 PNAS

 

2016

• Sandra Dangelmayer, Jan Benda, Jan Grewe (2016)
  Weakly electric fish learn both visual and electrosensory cues in a multisensory object discrimination task.
   Journal of Physiology Paris
   
• Janez Prešern, Aleš Škorjanc, Tomaž Rodič, Jan Benda (2016)
  A single mechanism driving both inactivation and adaptation in rapidly adapting currents of DRG neurons?
  Biol. Cybern. 
   
• Lyuba Zehl, Florent Jaillet, Adrian Stoewer, Jan Grewe, Andrey Sobolev, Thomas Wachtler, Thomas G. Brochier, Alexa Riehle, Michael Denker, Sonja Grn (2016)
  Handling Metadata in a Neurophysiology Laboratory.
  Front. Neuroinform. 
   
• Uta Grünert, Jan Benda, Caroline Müller, Uta Raeder (2016)
  Vertical segregation of two cell-cycle phases of the calcifying freshwater phytoflagellate Phacotus lenticularis (Chlorophyta).
  J. Plankton Res.

 

2015

• K. Jannis Hildebrandt, Bernhard Ronacher, R. Matthias Hennig, Jan Benda (2015)
  A neural mechanism for time-window separation resolves ambiguity of adaptive coding.
  PLoS Biol. 
   
• K. Jannis Hildebrandt, Jan Benda, R. Matthias Hennig (2015)
  Computational themes of peripheral processing in the auditory pathway of insects.
  J. Comp. Physiol. 
   
• Jan Benda, Joel Tabak
  Spike-frequency adaptation.
  In Dieter Jaeger, Ranu Jung, editors, Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience pages 2814-2824. Springer.

 

2014

• Anna Stöckl, Fabian Sinz, Jan Benda, Jan Grewe (2014)
  Encoding of social signals in all three electrosensory pathways of Eigenmannia virescens.
  J. Neurophysiol.
   
• Henriette Walz, Jan Grewe, Jan Benda (2014)
  Static frequency tuning accounts for changes in neural synchrony evoked by transient communication signals.
  J. Neurophysiol.

 

2013

• Fabian H. Sinz, Anna Stöckl, Jan Grewe, Jan Benda
  Least informative dimensions.
  In C. J. C. Burges, L. Bottou, M. Welling, Z. Ghahramani, K. Q. Weinberger, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26 pages 413-421. url
   
• Jan Benda, Jan Grewe, Rüdiger Krahe
  Neural noise in electrocommunication --- from burden to benefits.
  In Henrick Brumm, editor, Animal Communication and Noise, Animal Signals and Communication 2 pages 129-156. Springer.
   
• Nahal Sharafi, Jan Benda, Benjamin Lindner (2013)
  Information filtering by synchronous spikes in a neural population.
  J. Comput. Neurosci.
   
• Henriette Walz, Ginette J. Hupé, Jan Benda, John E. Lewis (2013)
  The neuroethology of electrocommunication: how signal background influences sensory encoding and behaviour in Apteronotus leptorhynchus.
  J. Physiol. Paris

 

2012

• Karin Fisch, Tilo Schwalger, Benjamin Lindner, Andreas V. M. Herz, Jan Benda (2012)
  Channel noise from both slow adaptation currents and fast currents is required to explain spike-response variability in a sensory neuron.
  J. Neurosci.

 

2011

• Kai Jannis Hildebrandt, Jan Benda, R. Matthias Hennig (2011)
  Multiple arithmetic operations in a single neuron: the recruitment of adaptation processes in the cricket auditory pathway depends on sensory context.
  J. Neurosci. 
   
• Jan Grewe, Thomas Wachtler, Jan Benda (2011)
  A bottom-up approach to data annotation in neurophysiology.
  Front. Neuroinform. 
   
• Nikolaus Berndt, Sabrina Hoffmann, Jan Benda, Hermann-Georg Holzhütter (2011)
  The influence of the chloride currents on action potential firing and volume regulation of excitable cells studied by a kinetic model.
  J. Theor. Biol. 

 

2010

• Tilo Schwalger, Karin Fisch, Jan Benda, Benjamin Lindner (2010)
  How noisy adaptation of neurons shapes interspike interval histograms and correlations.
  PLoS Comput. Biol. 
   
• Jan Benda, Leonard Maler, André Longtin (2010)
  Linear versus nonlinear signal transmission in neuron models with adaptation-currents or dynamic thresholds.
  J. Neurophysiol. 
   
• Felix Creutzig, Jan Benda, Sandra Wohlgemuth, Andreas Stumpner, Bernhard Ronacher, Adreas V. M. Herz (2010)
  Temporal pattern recognition by parallel feature detection and temporal integration.

 

2009

• Kai Jannis Hildebrandt, Jan Benda, R. Matthias Hennig (2009)
  The origin of adaptation in the auditory pathway of locusts is specific to cell type and function.
  J. Neurosci. 
   
• Felix Creutzig, Sandra Wohlgemuth, Andreas Stumpner, Jan Benda, Bernhard Ronacher, Adreas V. M. Herz (2009)
  Time-scale invariant representation of acoustic communication signals by a bursting neuron.
  J. Neurosci. 
   
• Jason W. Middleton, André Longtin, Jan Benda, Leonard Maler (2009)
  Postsynaptic receptive field size and spike threshold determine encoding of high-frequency information via sensitivity to synchronous presynaptic activity.
  J. Neurophysiol.

 

2008

• Ginette J. Hupé, John E. Lewis, Jan Benda (2008)
  The effect of difference frequency on electrocommunication: chirp production and encoding in a species of weakly electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus.
  J. Physiol. Paris 
   
• Jan Benda, R. Matthias Hennig (2008)
  Dynamics of intensity invariance in a primary auditory interneuron.
  J. Comput. Neurosci.

 

2007

• Jan Benda, Tim Gollisch, Cristian Machens, Andreas V. M. Herz (2007)
  From response to stimulus: adaptive sampling in sensory physiology.
  Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 
   
• Dan Gussin, Jan Benda, Leonard Maler (2007)
  Limits of linear rate coding of dynamic stimuli by electroreceptor afferents.
  J. Neurophysiol. 

 

2006

• Jan Benda, André Longtin, Leonard Maler (2006)
  A synchronization-desynchronization code for natural communication signals.
  Neuron 
   
• Jason W. Middleton, André Longtin, Jan Benda, Leonard Maler (2006)
  The cellular basis for parallel neural transmission of a high-frequency stimulus and its low-frequency envelope.
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

 

2005

• Andreas V. M. Herz, Jan Benda, Tim Gollisch, Christian K. Machens, Roland Schaette, Hartmut Schütze, Martin B. Stemmler
  Auditory processing of acoustic communication signals: sensory biophysics, neural coding, and discrimination of conspecific songs.
  In Thomas A. Christensen, editor, Methods in Insect Sensory Neuroscience pages 129-156. CRC Press.
   
• Jan Benda, André Longtin, Leonard Maler (2005)
  Spike-frequency adaptation separates transient communication signals from background oscillations.
  J. Neurosci.

 

2003

• Jan Benda, Andreas V. M. Herz (2003)
  A universal model for spike-frequency adaptation.
  Neural Comput.

 

2002

• Tim Gollisch, Hartmut Schütze, Jan Benda, Andreas V. M. Herz (2002)
  Energy integration describes sound-intensity coding in an insect auditory system.
  J. Neurosci. 
   
• Orna Bornstein, G. Twig, Jan Benda, Reto Weiler, Ido Perlman (2002)
  Dynamic changes in the receptive fields of L1-type horizontal cells in the retina of the turtle Mauremys caspica.
  Vis. Neurosci. 

 

2001

• Jan Benda, Matthias Bethge, Matthias Hennig, Klaus Pawelzik, Andreas V. M. Herz (2001)
  Spike-frequency adaptation: phenomenological model and experimental tests.
  Neurocomput. 38--40, 105-110.
   
• Jan Benda, Roland Bock, Pál Ruján, Josef Ammermüller (2001)
  Asymmetrical dynamics of voltage spread in retinal horizontal cell networks.
  Vis. Neurosci.