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 (6528), meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 to 1:00 15 pm (ish) 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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24 20 January 20232026:   Organizational Meeting

31 January 2023:  Thom Cleland

• Bosman CA, Schoffelen J-M, Brunet N, Oostenveld R, Bastos AM, Womelsdorf T, Rubehn B, Stieglitz T, De Weerd P, Fries P (2012).  Attentional stimulus selection through selective synchronization between monkey visual areas.  Neuron 75: 875-888.  

7 February 2023:  Mary Elson

• Alger SJ, Stevenson SA, Armenta Vega A, Kelm-Nelson CA, Juang CV, Riters LV (2022).  Differences in dopamine and opioid receptor ratios in the nucleus accumbens relate to physical contact and undirected song in pair-bonded zebra finches.  Behavioral Neuroscience 136: 72–83. 

14 February 2023:  Lindsay Sailer

• Ben-Ami Bartal I, Breton JM, Sheng H, Long KLP, Chen S, Halliday A, Kenney JW, Wheeler AL, Frankland P, Shilyansky C, Deisseroth K, Keltner D, Kaufer D (2021).  Neural correlates of ingroup bias for prosociality in rats.  eLife 10: e65582.  

21 February 2023:  Wendy Yang

• Dario Campagner, Ruben Vale, Yu Lin Tan, Panagiota Iordanidou, Oriol Pavón Arocas, Federico Claudi, A. Vanessa Stempel, Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Rasmus S. Petersen, Troy W. Margrie1 & Tiago Branco (2022). A cortico-collicular circuit for orienting to shelter during escape. Nature 613.

28 February 2023:  NO MEETING - FEBRUARY BREAK

7 March 2023:  Celia McLean

• Benichov JI, Benezra SE, Vallentin D, Globerson E, Long MA, Tchernichovski O (2016).  The forebrain song system mediates predictive call timing in female and male zebra finches.  Current Biology 26: 309-318.  

14 March 2023:  Julia Jun

• Maggi S, Humphries MD (2022).  Activity subspaces in medial prefrontal cortex distinguish states of the world.  J Neuroscience 42(20): 4131-4146.

21 March 2023:  David Zheng

• Yang T, Bayless DW, Wei Y, Landayan D, Marcelo IM, Wang Y, DeNardo LA, Luo L, Druckmann S, Shah NM (2023).  Hypothalamic neurons that mirror aggression.  Cell 186: 1-17. 

28 March 2023:  Yidan Chen

• Jiang Y, Mi Q, Zhu L (2023).  Neurocomputational mechanisms of real-time distributed learning on social networks.  Nature Neuroscience, epub at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01258-y

4 April 2023:  NO MEETING - SPRING BREAK

11 April 2023:  Wen-Yi Wu

18 April 2023:  Santi Forero

25 April 2023:  Susanna Zheng

2 May 2023:  Marta Reales Moreno

9 May 2023:  Jeremy Spool (U Mass Amherst)

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!Until next fall...