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Spring Semester
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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 Spring 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.
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.The overarching theme this semester is Cell assemblies, functional connectivity, and feedback. Please interpret it broadly. It is intended to include such diverse topics as: cortical microcircuits, the dynamic reconfiguration of neural circuitry, decision making by such circuitry, the interactions between complex circuits and neuromodulatory nuclei (e.g., the basis for specificity in neuromodulatory effects), and the relationship between specific neuromodulators and nominal functions such as "attention" or "arousal".
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. 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 BCS CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (2 credit (1 CR, S/U) as a a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271-102101. 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 or David Smith with with any questions.
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20 January 2026: Organizational Meeting
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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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1 February 2011: Patrick Gill
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- Shoham S, O'Connor DH, Segev R (2006) How silent is the brain: is there a "dark matter" problem in neuroscience? Journal of Comparative Physiology A.
- Song S, Sjoestroem PJ, Reigl M, Nelson S, Chklovskii DB (2005) Highly nonrandom features of synaptic connectivity in local cortical circuits. PLoS Biology 3(3):0507-0519 (e68).
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8 February 2011: Dave Bulkin
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- Optional Reading: Bulkin and Groh, in press, Systematic Mapping of the Monkey Inferior Colliculus Reveals Enhanced Low Frequency Sound Representation.
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15 February 2011: TBD
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- TBD
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22 February 2011: TBD
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- TBD
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1 March 2011: Guoshi Li
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- Ardid S, Wang X-J, Gomez-Cabrero D, Compte A (2010) Reconciling coherent oscillation with modulation of irregular spiking activity in selective attention: gamma-range synchronization between sensory and executive cortical areas. J Neuroscience 30(8):2856-2870.
This is a tough one folks, so be extra sure to read it ahead of time.
Followup papers and URL of potential interest:
- Ardid S, Wang X-J, Compte A (2007). An integrated microcircuit model of attentional processing in the neocortex. J Neuroscience 27(32):8486-8495. This is the data paper preceding the modeling paper we read for journal club today.
- A video lecture by Albert Compte can be found here (thanks Matt).
- Froehlich F, McCormick DA (2010). Endogenous electric fields may guide neocortical network activity. Neuron 67:129-143. This paper discusses the possibility that field potentials may directly influence neuronal activity/spike timing.
- Anastassiou et al. (2011). Ephaptic coupling of cortical neurons. Nature Neuroscience.
- Anastassiou et al. (2010). The effect of spatially inhomogeneous extracellular electric fields on neurons. J Neurosci 30(5):1925-1936. These two papers defend the concept of ephaptic interactions (incl field potentials) affecting neuronal activity.
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8 March 2011: Sasha Devore
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- (Thom will not be present)
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15 March 2011: Matt Lewis
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- Zhang H, Lin S-C, Micolelis MAL (2010) Spatiotemporal coupling between hippocampal acetylcholine release and theta oscillations in vivo. J Neuroscience 30(40): 13431-13440.
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22 March 2011: SPRING BREAK -- NO MEETING
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- If you come to BCS today, you will be mocked.
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29 March 2011: Laura Darnieder
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- TBD
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5 April 2011: Michelle Tong
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- TBD
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12 April 2011: Tanya Nauvel
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- TBD
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19 April 2011: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
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- TBD
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26 April 2011: Adam Miller
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- TBD
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3 May 2011: Al Molnar
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