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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 (6528), meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 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.

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Presenting your own work is always welcome, in whatever manner you like.

To add yourself to the mailing list, send a plain-text email to bcs-L-request@cornell.edu  (BCS is the historical name of the journal club) 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 CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a 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 you graduate students enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or or David Smith with  with any questions.

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23 August 202220 January 2026:   Organizational Meeting30 August 2022

27 January 2026:  Tim DeVoogd

• Ksepka DT et al (2020), Tempo and pattern of brain size evolution.  Current Biology 30: 2026-2036.  

6 September 2022:  Thom Cleland

• Herculano-Houzel S (2014), The glia/neuron ratio: how it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution.  Glia 62:1377-1391.  

13 September 2022:  Julia Jun

• Bubb EJ, Aggleton JP, O'Mara SM, Nelson AJD (2021), Chemogenetics reveal an anterior cingulate-thalamic pathway for attending to task-relevant information.  Cerebral Cortex 31: 2169-2186.

20 September 2022:  Wendy Yang

• Doron A, Rubin A, Benmelech-Chovav A, Benaim N, Carmi T, Refaeli R, Novick N, Kreisel T, Ziv Y, Goshen, I (2022), Hippocampal astrocytes encode reward location.  Nature.  Online ahead of print,  doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05146-6. 

27 September 2022:  Santi Forero

• Amadei EA, Johnson ZV, Kwon YJ, Shpiner AC, Saravanan V, Mays WD, Ryan SJ, Walum H, Rainnie DG, Young LJ, Liu RC (2017), Dynamic corticostriatal activity biases social bonding in monogamous female prairie voles.  Nature 546: 297-301.  

4 October 2022:  Mylo Skolnick

• Xie L, Kang H, Xu Q, Chen MJ, Liao Y, Thiyagarajan M, O'Donnell J, Christensen DJ, Nicholson C, Iliff JJ, Takano T, Deane R, Nedergaard M (2013), Sleep drives metabolite clearance from the adult brain.  Science 342: 373-377.
  

11 October 2022:   No meeting (Fall Break)

18 October 2022:  Lindsay Sailer

• Lindsay will present some of her work, titled: The impacts of early-life adversity and social experience on social and neural development in prairie voles. No readings.
  

25 October 2022:  Connie Lin

•  Skim for field background:  Azzazy S, Ghaffarianhoseini A, GhaffarianHoseini A, Naismith N, Doborjeh Z (2021), A critical review on the impact of built environment on users' measured brain activity.  Architectural Science Review 64(4): 319-335.  

• Main paper:  Kuhn S, Duzel S, Eibich P, Krekel C, Wustemann H, Kolbe J, Martensson J, Goebel J, Gallinat J, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U (2017), In search of features that constitute an "enriched environment" in humans:  Associations between geographical properties and brain structure.  Nature Scientific Reports 7: 11920.   

1 November 2022:  Celia McLean

• Bromberg-Martin, E. S. and Hikosaka, O. (2009). Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Signal Preference for Advance Information about Upcoming Rewards. Neuron 63, 119-126.

8 November 2022:  Wen-Yi Wu

• Chae H, Banerjee A, Dussauze M, Albeanu DF (2022)  Long-range functional loops in the mouse olfactory system and their roles in computing odor identity.  Neuron 110: 1-16.  

15 November 2022:  Yidan Chen

• Bowles et al. (2022). Vagus nerve stimulation drives selective circuit modulation through cholinergic reinforcement. Neuron 110: 2867–288.

22 November 2022:  Hamid Turker

• Widloski J, Foster DJ (2022).  Flexible rerouting of hippocampal replay sequences around changing barriers in the absence of global place field remapping.  Neuron 110: 1547-1558.

29 November 2022:  Nora Prior

• TBD

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!Until next year...