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Spring Semester
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2025-
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2026
The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101, meets For Fall Semester 2010-2011, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 40 to 1:00 15 pm in 205 Uris Hall 205 (across from the elevators).
Your hosts are David Smith and Thomas Cleland.
Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.
The overarching theme this semester is Systems of neuronal representation and learning. Adhering to this theme is not required, but is strongly recommended. Please interpret it broadly. It is intended to include such diverse topics as: the systematic regulation of synaptic plasticity, Bayesian representations (including sensory representations as probability estimates), Bayesian and/or energetic optimality in neural encoding or transmission, perceptual learning, decision-making (including reward harvesting), temporal difference learning/dopamine (Schultz model), synaptic rules that give rise to systems-level learning properties.
To add yourself to the BCS-L mailing list, send a plain-text email to bcs-L-request@cornell.edu with the body of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list. See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details.
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31 August 2010: Organizational Meeting
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- No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
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7 September 2010: Thom Cleland
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- The topic of the day is "structure learning." Thom will present the PLoS One computational paper below with reference to the Behavioral Brain Research review of the overall topic (also below). Please read at least one of the two (your choice).
- Braun, Waldert, Aertsen, Wolpert, Mehring (2010). Structure learning in a sensorimotor association task. PLoS One 5(1):e8973.
- Braun, Mehring, Wolpert (2010). Structure learning in action. Behavioural Brain Research 206:157-165.
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14 September 2010: David Smith
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- Kuhl, B., Dudukovic, N., Kahn, I. & Wagner, A.(2007). Decreased demands on cognitive control reveal the neural processing benefits of forgetting. Nature Neuroscience 10(7), 908-914.
- Wimber, M., Rutschmann, R., Greenlee, M. and Bauml, K. (2009). Retrieval from Episodic Memory: Neural Mechanisms of Interference Resolution. J Cog Neurosci 21(3) 538-549.
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21 September 2010: Laura Darnieder
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- Ohms VR, Gill A, Van Heijninge CAA, Beckers GJL, ten Cate C (2009). Zebra finches exhibit speaker-independent phonetic perception of human speech. Proc. Royal Society B.
- Gauthier B, Shi R, Xu Y (2007). SImulating the acquisition of lexical tones from continuous dynamic input. J. Acoustical Society of America 121(5), May 2007.
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28 September 2010: Michelle Tong
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- "A well-written review with bias" -- just the thing...
- Hickok G (2009). Eight problems for the mirror neuron theory of action understanding in monkeys and humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21(7):1229-1243. (PubMed Central version)
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5 October 2010: Matt Lewis
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- Nir Y, Tononi G (2009) Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14(2):88-100.
- Schredl M et al (2009) Information processing during sleep: the effect of olfactory stimuli on dream content and dream emotions. Journal of Sleep Research 18:285-290.
Wiki Markup \[OPTIONAL\] [Issa EB, Wang X (2008)|^J Neurosci 2008 Issa.pdf] Sensory responses during sleep in primate primary and secondary auditory cortex. _Journal of Neuroscience_ 28(53):14467-14480.
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12 October 2010: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
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- Pfister J-P, Dayan P, Lengyel M (2010) Synapses with short-term plasticity are optimal estimators of presynaptic membrane potentials. Nature Neuroscience 13(10):1271-1275.
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19 October 2010: Guoshi Li
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- These papers concern unified models of synaptic plasticity, attempting to understand the underlying general rule(s) regulating synaptic weights and the diversity of conditions under which they may be altered.
Wiki Markup [Shouval HZ, Wang SS-H, Wittenberg GM (2010)|^STDP-A consequence of more fundamental rule.pdf] Spike timing dependent plasticity: a consequence of more fundamental learning rules _Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience_ 4:19. \[This is a review article\]- Shouval HZ, Bear MF, Cooper LN (2002) A unified model of NMDA receptor-dependent bidirectional synaptic plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99(16): 10831-10836.
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26 October 2010: Sasha Devore
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- Jazayeri M, Movshon JA (2006) Optimal representation of sensory information by neuronal populations. Nature Neuroscience 9(5):690-696 plus corrigendum (two equations with typographical errors corrected).
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2 November 2010: Tanya Nauvel
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- TBD
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9 November 2010: Adam Miller
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- TBD
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16 November 2010: NO MEETING (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting)
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23 November 2010: Shane Peace
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- TBD
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30 November 2010: SiWei Luo
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Shortlink to this page: https://cornellneuro.science/cnsjournalclub
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Presentations in the CNS JC are intended to "show us what you are interested in"; i.e., present work within your subfield that illustrates why it is interesting and broadly applicable. It is less important to choose papers that you think will be close to every attendees' heart than it is to choose papers that are blisteringly important or interesting or controversial in your own subfield, and explain/share this with the group. It's good for all of us. The corollary is that journal club members attend regularly, and don't decide whether to attend in a given week based on what is being presented.
Presenting your own work is always welcome, in whatever manner you like.
To add yourself to the journal club mailing list (BCS-L@lists.cornell.edu), or remove yourself from it, follow the instructions at https://it.cornell.edu/simplelists/manage-subscriptions.
You can enroll in the CNS Journal Club for credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271-101. The course requires that you present at least once during the semester and participate actively overall. You are welcome to attend without enrolling, of course, but we do appreciate graduate students enrolling if you plan to attend.
Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.
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20 January 2026: Organizational Meeting
27 January 2026: NO MEETING
3 February 2026: David Smith
- M. Zipple, B. Loflin, D. Chang Kuo, E. Tan and M. Sheehan (2025). Transfer to a naturalistic setting restructures fear responses in laboratory mice. Curr Bio 35:1157-76.
10 February 2026: NO MEETING
- Instead, please attend Micaela Rodriguez' "Human Bonding" lecture, 11:00 - 12:30, in G90 Uris Hall. (Dr. Rodriguez is a candidate for a faculty position in Psychology).
17 February 2026: FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING
24 February 2026: Lindsay Sailer
- Nardou R, Sawyer E, et al (2023). Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period. Nature 618: 790–798.
- Lindsay has generously shared her slide deck, with background info and related context.
3 March 2026: James Cunningham
- Asumbisa K, Peyrache A, Trenholm S (2025). Stereo olfaction underlies stable coding of head direction in blind mice. Nature Communications 16:3545.
10 March 2026: Patryk Ziobro
- Original research presentation (!)
17 March 2026: David Zheng
- Jung J, You I-J, Shin S (2025). Thalamo-hippocampal pathway determines aggression and self-harm. Science Advances 11: eady5540.
24 March 2026: Cynthia Wu
- Wolf D, Oettle L-L, Sanchez-Guardado L, Linster C, Lois C, Kelsch W (2026). Deletion of NPAS4 in olfactory bulb principal neurons alters E/I balance and impairs decoding of chemically similar odor molecules. Journal of Physiology 604.1: 527-547.
- Cynthia will also show some of her own work, some of which relates to the immediate-early gene Npas4. Some related papers:
- A preprint presenting "X-TRAP" transgenic mice ... essentially a double FosTRAP strain using two different inducers of Fos-gated fluorophore expression.
- The original paper introducing the Xon method, used as the second "TRAP"-like method in the "X-TRAP" paper.
31 March 2026: SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING
7 April 2026: TBD
14 April 2026: Wangchen Pei
- Perez EC, Elie JE, Soulage CO, Soula HA, Mathevon N, Vignal C (2012). The acoustic expression of stress in a songbird: Does corticosterone drive isolation-induced modifications of zebra finch calls? Hormones and Behavior 61: 573-581.
- For additional background reading of potential interest, there is this review:
- MacDougall-Shackleton SA, Spencer KA (2012). Developmental stress and birdsong: current evidence and future directions. Journal of Ornithology 153 (Suppl): S105-S117.
21 April 2026: No meeting
28 April 2026: No meeting
5 May 2026: Shiping Li
- J. Zhao, B. An, N. Cheng, Q. Dong, C. Wang, X. Chen (2025). Gravity-dependent choice of frame of reference in the posterior parietal cortex. Current Biology 35, 4882–4897.
See you in the fall!
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