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Spring Semester 2025-2026

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101, meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 to 1:15 pm in 205 Uris Hall (across from the elevators). 

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Please contact Thomas Cleland, or David Smith, or Marlen Gonzalez with  with any questions.

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26 August 202520 January 2026:   Organizational Meeting

2 September 202527 January 2026:  Lindsay Sailer

• Sun W, Zhang G-W, Huang JJ, Tao C, Seo MB, Tao HW, Zhang LI (2025). Reviving-like prosocial behavior in response to unconscious or dead conspecifics in rodents. Science 387:6736.

9 September 2025:  James Cunningham

• Bolding KA, Nagappan S, Han B-X, Wang F, Franks KM (2020).  Recurrent circuitry is required to stabilize piriform cortex odor representations across brain states.  eLife 9:e53125.

16 September 2025:  NO MEETING

23 September 2025:  Tim DeVoogd

• Payne HL, Aronov D (2025).  Remote activation of place codes by gaze in a highly visual animal.  Nature 643:1037-1043.  

30 September 2025:  NO MEETING

7 October 2025:  NO MEETING - Thom at NSF unless govt still shut down

14 October 2025:  FALL BREAK - NO MEETING

21 October 2025:  TBD

28 October 2025:  NO MEETING ... we suggest attending the Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium (10:00 am - 12:30 pm, Biotech G01).  

4 November 2025:  Wendy Yang

• Original research (no readings): Data on anterior thalamic inactivation and preliminary neuronal recordings.

11 November 2025:  Gokul Manoj 

• Wolf D, Hartig R, Zhuo Y, Scheller MF, Articus M, Moor M, Grinevich V, Linster C, Russo E, Weber-Fahr W, Reinwald JR, Kelsch W (2024).  Oxytocin induces the formation of distinctive cortical representations and cognitions biased toward familiar mice.  Nature Communications 15:6274.  

18 November 2025:  SFN CONFERENCE - NO MEETING

25 November 2025:  Sophia Becker

• Qi J, Schreiner DC, Martinez M, Pearson J, Mooney R (2025).  Dual neuromodulatory dynamics underlie birdsong learning.  Nature 641:690-698.  

2 December 2025:  Shiping Li

• J. Voigts, I. Kanitscheider, N. Miller, E. Toloza, J. Newman, I. Fiete, & M. Harnett (2025). Spatial reasoning via recurrent neural dynamics in mouse retrosplenial cortex. Nat Neurosci 28:1293–1299.

TBD

3 February 2026:  TBD

10 February 2026:  TBD

17 February 2026:   FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING

24 February 2026:  TBD

3 March 2026:  TBD

10 March 2026:  TBD

17 March 2026:  TBD

24 March 2026:  TBD

31 March 2026:   SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING

7 April 2026:  TBD

14 April 2026:  TBD

21 April 2026:  TBD

28 April 2026:  TBD

5 May 2026:  TBD

See you in the fall!See you in the spring.