Please contact Thomas Cleland with any questions (David Smith is on walkabout this semester). BCS meeting archive .

26 January 2010: Organizational Meeting

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive .

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".

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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.

8 March 2011: Licurgo de Almeida

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The overarching theme this semester is likely to be "Active Sensation", perhaps to be modified at our first meeting. Please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.

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Thom out of town

13 March 2012: Licurgo de Almeida

No readings. Licurgo will present some material from his recent work.

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive .

The semester's theme is assessing and comparing methods of inference regarding neural activity*. * How do local field potential (LFP) data relate to data from studies based on spike trains, BOLD, fMRI, calcium or voltage-dependent optical signals, immediate-early gene histology, or other measures of neural activity? What artifacts may arise from the use of particular techniques and do they threaten the supposed findings of a given paper? This has particular importance for relatively complex or new techniques -- e.g., studies of dynamical interregional communication in the brain, frequency-domain analyses, and other techniques that may be easily misinterpreted or overtrusted. As always, please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.

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Lee H, Ghim J-W, Kim H, Lee D, Jung MW (2012)\. Hippocampal neural correlates for values of experienced events. J. Neurosci. 32(43):15053-15065.

6 November 2012: SiWei Luo

Okuno H (2011).\ Regulation and function of immediate-early genes in the brain: beyond neuronal activity markers. Neuroscience Research 69:175-186.
Katche C, Goldin A, Gonzalez C, Bekinschtein P, Medina JG (2012). \ Maintenance of long-term memory storage is dependent on late posttraining Egr-1 expression.
Free Bonus Paper: Katche C, Bekinschtein P, Slipczuk L, Goldin A, Izquierdo IA, Cammarota M, Medina JH (2009) \ Delayed wave of c-Fos expression in the dorsal hippocampus involved specifically in persistence of long-term memory storage. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107(1):349-354.

13 November 2012: Rachel Swanson

J. Fell and N. Axmacher (2011)\ The role of phase synchronization in memory processes. Nature Reviews, 12:105-118.

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive .

The semester's theme is Neural representations: are they? what are they? and how are they formed? This can be approached from a mechanistic level (what neuronal mechanisms underlie the metric(s) by which neural representations are formed), a psychological level (generalization, discrimination, psychophysical evidence), a systems neuroscience level (coordinated cortical learning systems), or other levels TBD. Is the concept accurate? is it useful? misleading? Sensory inputs and learning change neural activity and mediate our experience - is this process well described by the concept of representations? As always, please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.

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No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.

29 January 2013 : Lindsey Vedder

Guifen Chena, John A. King, Neil Burgess and John O’Keefe (2013). How vision and movement combine in the hippocampal place code. PNAS 110(1):378-83.
R. Jonathan Robitsek,John A. White,Howard Eichenbaum (2013). Place cell activation predicts subsequent memory. Behavioural Brain Research. DOI 10.1016.

5 February 2013 ( Thom absent ) : TBD

TBD

12 February 2013 : Dave Bulkin

TBD

19 February 2013 ( Thom maybe absent ) : TBD

TBD

26 February 2013 : Dave Bulkin and David Smith

Lesley A. Schimanski, Peter Lipa, and Carol A. Barnes (2013). Tracking the Course of Hippocampal Representations during Learning: When Is the Map Required? J Neurosci 33(7):3094-3106.

5 March 2013 : Dave Bulkin and David Smith

Eduard Kelemen1 and Andre´ A. Fenton (2010). Dynamic Grouping of Hippocampal Neural Activity During Cognitive Control of Two Spatial Frames. PLOS Biology, 8(6) 31000403.

12 March 2013 : Adam Miller

D. Tse, R. Langston, M. Kakeyama, I. Bethus, P. Spooner, E. Wood, M. Witter, R. G. M. Morris (2007). Schemas and Memory Consolidation. Science 316:76-82.
D. Tse, T. Takeuchi, M. Kakeyama, Y. Kajii, H. Okuno, C. Tohyama, H. Bito, R. G. M. Morris1 (2011). Schema-Dependent Gene Activation and Memory Encoding in Neocortex. Science 333:891-895.

19 March 2013 : SPRING BREAK

No meeting

26 March 2013 ( Thom absent ) : Greg Peters

A. Garner, D. Rowland, S. Hwang, K. Baumgaertel, B. Roth, C. Kentros, and M. Mayford (2012). Generation of a Synthetic Memory Trace. Science 335, 1513-6.

2 April 2013 : Phil Perrone

D. Salzman and S. Fusi (2010). Emotion, Cognition, and Mental State Representation in Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex. Ann Rev Neurosci.

9 April 2013 : Rachel Swanson

Bagdasarian et al (2013). Pre-neuronal morphological processing of object location by individual whiskers. Nature Neuroscience, doi:10.1038/nn.3378.

16 April 2013 ( Thom maybe absent ) : Dave Bulkin and David Smith

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive .

The semester's theme is Attention , from both a neurobiological and cognitive perspective. The goal, of course, is to cross-reference and cross-challenge the two so as to come up with an integrative and useful understanding of the field. How can human attentional tasks best be studied using animal models? What, if any, is the special importance of cholinergic neuromodulation to attention? Is "attention" still a useful concept? As always, please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive .

The semester's theme is still Attention , from both a neurobiological and cognitive perspective. The goal, of course, is to cross-reference and cross-challenge the two so as to come up with an integrative and useful understanding of the field. How can human attentional tasks best be studied using animal models? What, if any, is the special importance of cholinergic neuromodulation to attention? Is "attention" still a useful concept? As always, please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive.

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The Spring 2015 semester's theme is States and Sequences, broadly intended to include the neurobiological, behavioral, and cognitive senses of the terms.

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Luczak et al (2009). Spontaneous events outline the realm of possible sensory responses in neocortical populations. Neuron 62: 413-425.

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Fall Semester 2015-2016

25 August 2015: Organizational Meeting

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Spring Semester 2015-2016

2 February 2016: Organizational Meeting

9 February 2016: Marissa Rice

U. Neisser (1981). John Dean’s Memory: A case study. Cognition, 9:l-22.
D. R. Addis, A. T. Wong, D. L. Schacter (2007). Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia 45:1363-1377.

16 February 2016: Feb Break - no meeting.

23 February 2016: Norma Hernandez

L. Savage, J. Hall, and R. Vetreno (2011). Anterior thalamic lesions alter both hippocampal dependent behavior and hippocampal acetylcholine release in the rat. Learning and Memory 18:751–758.

1 March 2016: David gone - no meeting this week

No meeting.

8 March 2016: David

R. Kaplan, M. Adhikari, R. Hindriks, D. Mantini, Y. Murayama, N. Logothetis, G. Deco (2016). Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples Influence Selective Activation of the Default Mode Network. Current Biology 26, 686–691.

Additional papers on ripples we talked about today:

D. Foster & M. Wilson (2006). Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature 440:680-683.
K. Diba & G. Buzsaki (2007). Forward and reverse hippocampal place-cell sequences during ripples. Nature Neuroscience 10(10):1241-1242.
S. Jadhav, C. Kemere, P. W. German, L. Frank (2012). Awake Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples Support Spatial Memory. Science 336:1454-1458.

15 March 2016: Joseph

Cleland, T. A., Chen, S. Y. T., Hozer, K. W., Ukatu, H. N., Wong, K. J., & Zheng, F. (2012). Sequential mechanisms underlying concentration invariance in biological olfaction. Bioinspired solutions to the challenges of chemical sensing, 7
Barrett, L. F., & Simmons, W. K. (2015). Interoceptive predictions in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(7), 419-429.

22 March 2016: Group Discussion (no official presenter)

E. Goldfarb, M. Chun, E. Phelps (2016). Memory-Guided Attention: Independent Contributions of the Hippocampus and Striatum. Neuron 89:317-324.

29 March 2016: Spring Break - no meeting

5 April 2016: Marissa Rice/Group Discussion

C. Shawn Green1 and Daphne Bavelier (2015). Action video game training for cognitive enhancement. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 4:103-108.

Additional readings following discussions at the meeting:

Mnih V, Kavukcuoglu K, et al. (2015). Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature 518:529.

12 April 2016: Open (Thom gone?)

TBA

19 April 2016: Khena Swallow

L. Batterink, J. Creery, and K. Paller (2016). Phase of Spontaneous Slow Oscillations during Sleep Influences Memory-Related Processing of Auditory Cues. Journal of Neuroscience 36(4):1401-9.

26 April 2016: Group Discussion (no official presenter)

D. Bendor & M. Wilson (2012). Biasing the content of hippocampal replay during sleep. Nature Neuroscience 15(10):1439-44.
G. Lavilléon, M. Lacroix, L. Rondi-Reig & K. Benchenane (2015). Explicit memory creation during sleep demonstrates a causal role of place cells in navigation. Nature Neuroscience 18(4):493-95.

3 May 2016: Joseph & all

Hu X, Antony JW, et al. (2015) Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep. Science 348(6238):1013-1015.

10 May 2016: Article Potluck - bring your favorite (or most amazing, unbelievable, oddest, etc.) recent article (or data) to share with the group.

Fall Semester 2016-2017

The Fall 2016 semester's theme is “Social Stimuli and Neural Representations”. This is intentionally broad because we want presenters to bring many different perspectives to the BCS journal club. Here are some examples of what we have in mind:

How to social stimuli (e.g. conspecifics) influence neural representations (e.g. spatial-contextual representations in the hippocampus)?
How are social stimuli, or stimuli that are related to social processes represented?
How is information related to individual or species recognition represented in the brain?

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

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.

You can enroll in the BCS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. 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 enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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23 August 2016: Organizational Meeting

30 August 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir

Tavares, R., Mendelsohn, A., Grossman, Y., Williams, C., Shapiro, M., Trope, Y., and Schiller, D. (2015). A Map for Social Navigation in the Human Brain. Neuron 87:231-43.

6 September 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir

G. Alexander, S. Farris, J. Pirone, C. Zheng, L. Colgin & S. Dudek (2015). Social and novel contexts modify hippocampal CA2 representations of space. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038.

13 September 2016: Marissa Rice and Alex Ophir

F. Hitti & S. Siegelbaum. (2014). The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory. Nature 508:88-94.
A. Smith, S. Williams Avram, A. Cymerblit-Sabba, J. Song and W. Young (2016). Targeted activation of the hippocampal CA2 area strongly enhances social memory. Molecular Psychiatry 21:1137-1144.

Additional (optional) reading:

L. Zynyuk, J. Huxter R. Muller and S. Fox. (2012). The Presence of a Second Rat Has Only Subtle Effects on the Location-Specific Firing of Hippocampal Place Cells. Hippocampus 22:1405–1416.

20 September 2016: No meeting this week

No readings

27 September 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (Retrosplenial Cortex as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding)

Immordino-Yang M, McColl A, Damasio H, Damasio A. (2009). Neural correlates of admiration and compassion. PNAS 106(19):8021-6.

Additional background for those interested (we'll discuss these in class).

Vedder, L. C., Miller, A. M. P., Harrison, M. B., and Smith, D. M. (2016). Retrosplenial Cortical Neurons Encode Navigational Cues, Trajectories and Reward Locations During Goal Directed Navigation. Cerebral Cortex, DOI 10.1093/cercor/bwh192.
Phelps SM & Ophir AG (2009). Monogamous brains and alternative tactics: Neuronal V1aR, space use and sexual infidelity among male prairie voles. In Cognitive ecology: The evolutionary ecology of information processing and decision making. 2nd Ed. (eds: Dukas R. & Ratcliffe J.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

4 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (A primer on the dorsal and ventral hippocampus)

B. Poucet, C. Thinus-Blanc, and R. Muller (1994). Place cells in the ventral hippocampus of rats. Neuroreport 5, 2045-2048.
M. Fanselow and H. Dong (2010). Are the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Functionally Distinct Structures? Neuron 65:7-19.
B. Strange, M. Witter, E. Lein and E. Moser (2014). Functional organization of the hippocampal longitudinal axis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15:655-669.

11 October 2016: Fall Break - no journal club

18 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (Ventral hippocampus as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding)

A. Felix-Ortiz and K. Tye (2014). Amygdala Inputs to the Ventral Hippocampus Bidirectionally Modulate Social Behavior. J. Neuroscience 34(2):586 –595.

Additional review as background for those interested.

S. Allsop, C. VanderWeele, R. Wichmann and K.Tye (2014). Optogenetic insights on the relationship between anxiety-related behaviors and social deficits. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol 8, Article 241.

25 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (Ventral hippocampus as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding, continued)

T. Okuyama, T. Kitamura, D. Roy, S. Itohara and S. Tonegawa (2016). Ventral CA1 neurons store social memory. Science 353(6307):1536-41.

1 November 2016: Jesse Werth

Jesse will discuss the ideas in of his recently submitted NSF fellowship proposal.

Spring Semester 2016-2017

For Fall and Spring Semesters 2016-2017, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive.

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The Spring 2017 semester's theme is "show us what you are interested in." As we morph into the "BEN journal club", we think that it may be less important to choose papers that 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 attendees 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 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.

You can enroll in the BCS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. 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 enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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31 January 2017: Organizational Meeting

7 February 2017: No meeting.

14 February 2017: David Smith

P. Jacob, G. Casali, L. Spieser, H. Page, D. Overington & K. Jeffery (2016). An independent, landmark-dominated head-direction signal in dysgranular retrosplenial cortex. Nature Neuroscience 20(2):173-175.

21 February 2017: Feb Break (no meeting)

28 February 2017: Adam Miller

B. Richards, F. Xia, A. Santoro, J. Husse, M. Woodin, S. Josselyn & P. Frankland (2014). Patterns across multiple memories are identified over time. Nature Neuroscience 17:981–986.

7 March 2017: Norma Hernandez

L. Qu, T. Kahnt, S. Cole and J. Gottfried (2016). De Novo Emergence of Odor Category Representations in the Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(2):468-478.

14 March 2017: Thom Cleland

Iurilli & Datta (2017). Population coding in an innately relevant olfactory area.
- http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)30094-6
- The main issue of interest here is to wrestle with the problem of "innately valent" odors or other stimuli – how are they recognized and represented?

21 March 2017: Marissa Rice

J. Balaguer, H. Spiers, D. Hassabis, C. Summerfield (2016). Neural Mechanisms of Hierarchical Planning in a Virtual Subway Network. Neuron, 90:893–903.

28 March 2017: Wen-Yi Wu

S. Hegde, W.Capell, B. Ibrahim, J. Klett, N. Patel, A. Sougiannis and M. Kelly (2016). Phosphodiesterase 11A (PDE11A), Enriched in Ventral Hippocampus Neurons, is Required for Consolidation of Social but not Nonsocial Memories in Mice. Neuropsychopharmacology 41:2920-2931.

Additional Reading:

S. Hegde, H. Ji, D. Oliver, N. Patel, N. Poupore, M. Shtutman and M. Kelly (2016). PDE11A Regulates Social Behaviors And Is A Key Mechanism By Which Social Experience Sculpts The Brain. Neuroscience 335:151-169.

4 April 2017: Spring Break (no meeting)

11 April 2017: Hamid Turker

D. Aronov, R. Nevers & D. Tank (2017). Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit. Nature 543:719-722.

Commentary on the main article:

J. Eckemann & E. Buffalo (2017). Auditory landscape on the cognitive map. Nature 543:631-632.

18 April 2017: Jesse Werth

L. Meshulam, J. Gauthier, C. Brody, D. Tank and W. Bialek (2016). Collective behavior of place and non{place neurons in the hippocampal network. arXiv:1612.08935v1.

25 April 2017: POSTPONED, will try to reschedule soon!

2 May 2017: Mike Goldstein

J. Krakauer, A. Ghazanfar, A. Gomez-Martin, M. MacIver and D. Poeppel (2017). Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias. Neuron 93:480-490.

9 May 2017:

Article Potluck: Bring your favorite, most insightful, most surprising, oddest or otherwise interesting article or bit of data to share with the group (time limit of 5-10 min).

Fall Semester 2017-2018

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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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 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 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.

You can enroll in the BCS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. 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 enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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22 August 2017: Organizational Meeting

29 August 2017: David Smith

Adam M. P. Miller, William Mau and David M. Smith. Ensemble coding of long-term spatial memories and future goal locations in the retrosplenial cortex.
Note: This manuscript is a working draft, so please do not distribute it beyond the journal club. Also, don't get too hung up with the analysis methodology. I'll explain as needed.

5 September 2017: Caitlyn Finton

Ludwig M, Tobin VA, Callahan MF, Papadaki E, Becker A, Engelmann M, Leng G (2013). Intranasal application of vasopressin fails to elicit changes in brain immediate-early gene expression, neural activity, and behavioural performance of rats. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 25:655-667.
I have been thinking a lot about intranasal oxytocin and vasopressin. This paper suggests that there is no change in brain activity or behavior from intranasal OT and VP, although other papers have found behavioral changes.
The following papers also were brought up during our (robust and interesting) discussion:

12 September 2017: Aubrey Kelly

J. Goodson (2013). Deconstructing sociality, social evolution and relevant nonapeptide functions. Psychneuroendocrinology 38:465-478.
This review, written by offspring of the Cornell Psych Department, stresses two important concepts relevant to all areas represented by attendees of the CNS journal club: 1) Careful consideration needs to be taken with how we define behavior, and 2) We must utilize a comparative approach in order to understand the evolution of behavior.

19 September 2017: Khena Swallow

S. Warren, E. Yacoub & G. Ghose (2014). Featural and temporal attention selectively enhance task-appropriate representations in human primary visual cortex. Nature Communications 5:5643.
This paper highlights two basic points that are important for anyone who cares about how brains work. First, attention alters the behavior of neuronal populations. As a result, tasks can impact what is represented and measured. Second, what is represented by neuronal populations is influenced by expectations along multiple dimensions, including visual features, timing, and semantics (not just space).
Optional additional reading: T. Çukur, S. Nishimoto, A. Huth & J. Gallant (2013). Attention during natural vision warps semantic representation across the human brain. Nature Neuroscience 16(6):763-770.

26 September 2017: Angela Freeman

M. Sadananda, M. Woehr, R. Schwarting (2008). Playback of 22-kHz and 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations induces differential c-fos expression in rat brain. Neuroscience Letters. 435:17-23.
I picked my paper because it is one of very few that looks at the neural basis of rodent vocalizations. And I'm all about communication, and I did a similar study on ground squirrel communication, which I am presenting at SFN this year, so I wanted to discuss this paper to prep for what things might be good to address in my own work.

3 October 2017: Jesse Werth

B. Lasztoczi and T. Klausberger (2016). Hippocampal Place Cells Couple to Three Different Gamma Oscillations during Place Field Traversal. Neuron 91:34-40.
Article discusses ideas central to neuronal information processing in a relatively well known brain network. We typically think of hippocampal place cells in the context of how much they fire (spike rates; e.g., with respect to place fields and the animal's physical location within an environment). The authors of this article offer an expanded framework that stresses the importance of when these cells fire (think small time-scales, spike-timing), rather than how much.
A paper that came up during discussion: Using a new approach for identifying temporal structure in neuroimaging data, Baldassano et al. (2017) propose a theory of how continuous experience is divided into events that are represented in high-level cortex, are stored in long-term memory, and influence later perception. Khena notes: "There's a lot of interesting stuff in here, but I also find aspects of it to be pretty confusing or just wrong (if I understand them correctly)."

10 October 2017: Fall Break - No meeting

17 October 2017: Samantha Carouso

K. Lynch, A. Gaglio, E. Tyler, J. Coculo, M. Louder and M. Hauber (2017). A neural basis for password-based species recognition in an avian brood parasite. Journal of Experimental Biology 220:2345-2353.
This paper can serve as a starting point for a discussion of species recognition mechanisms in general, brood parasitism behavior, vocal learning and call production and their related auditory and production brain regions, ZENK as a scientific tool, innate vs. learned behaviors (and the potential false dichotomy of that distinction), and in vivo/in ovo learning.

24 October 2017: George Prounis

M. Stephenson-Jones, K. Yu, S. Ahrens, J. Tucciarone, A. van Huijstee, L. Mejia, M. Penzo, L. Tai, L. Wilbrecht & B. Li (2016). A basal ganglia circuit for evaluating action outcomes. Nature 539:289-293.

Additional recommended reading:

L. Tai, A. M. Lee, N. Benavidez, A. Bonc, L. Wilbrecht (2012). Transient stimulation of distinct subpopulations of striatal neurons mimics changes in action value. Nature Neuroscience 15(9):1281-1289.
These papers highlight the dynamic role of basal ganglia dopamine systems in decision-making and action evaluation in mice. The authors bi-directionally influence reward-based decisions via optogenetic manipulation of specific neuronal populations within the basal ganglia. Overall, these papers demonstrate the 1) the importance of dopamine in both evaluation and action, and 2) the explanatory power of linking precise, sub-circuit neural manipulations to simple behavioral tasks. My research interests include developmental changes in decision-making circuits, particularly the involvement of dopamine systems during adolescent risk-taking behavior.

31 October 2017: Adam Broitman

A. Broitman, M. Kahana and M. Healey (submitted). Modeling Retest Effects in a Longitudinal Measurement Burst Design Study of Episodic Memory.
This paper proposes a mathematical model with which to separate age-related memory changes from task-specific retest effects in a longitudinal study. This paper may be useful to anyone who conducts long-term human cognition studies, and I will discuss its potential application to my future work.

7 November 2017: Cancelled - go see the job talks this week instead!

14 November 2017: Society for Neuroscience - No meeting

21 November 2017: Cancelled - go see Frank Castelli's defense instead!

28 November 2017: Wen-Yi Wu

T. Okuyama (2017). Social memory engram in the hippocampus. Neuroscience Research, epub ahead of print, DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2017.05.007

Spring Semester 2017-2018

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club) meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.

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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 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 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.

You can enroll in the CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. 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 enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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30 January 2018: Organizational Meeting

6 February 2018: Tim DeVoogd and Alex Ophir

R. Harris, L. O'Connell and H. Hofmann (2017). Brain Evolution, Development, and Plasticity. In (ed) Stephen V. Shepherd, The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience, First Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

13 February 2018: Wen-Yi Wu

D. Omer, S. Maimon, L. Las, N. Ulanovsky. (2018) Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science 359:218–24.

20 February 2018: FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING

27 February 2018: David Katz

R. Wood, M. Bauza, J. Krupic, S. Burton, A. Delekate, D. Chan & J. O'Keefe (2018). The honeycomb maze provides a novel test to study hippocampal-dependent spatial navigation. Nature 554:102-7.
Optional background reading: C. Paul, G. Magdab and S. Abel (2009). Spatial memory: Theoretical basis and comparative review on experimental methods in rodents. Behavioral Brain Research 203:151-164.

6 March 2018: Marissa Rice

D. Haun, C. Rapold, G. Janzen, and S. Levinson (2011). Plasticity of human spatial cognition: Spatial language and cognition covary across cultures. Cognition 119:70-80.

13 March 2018: Lisa Hiura

K. Tokarev, J. Bruno, I. Ljubicic, P. Kothari, S. Helekar, O. Tchernichovski, and H. Voss (2017). Sexual dimorphism in striatal dopaminergic responses promotes monogamy in social songbirds. eLife 6:e25819.

20 March 2018: Jesse Werth

Kass MD, Czarnecki LA, Moberly AH, McGann JP (2017) Differences in peripheral sensory input to the olfactory bulb between male and female mice. Scientific Reports 7:45851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep45851

27 March 2018: Jack Cook

Jack will be presenting work from his research project developing an analytical framework for odor learning. The readings are to get everybody in the right frame of mind for discussing this work in particular and the overall approach in general.
Zaidi Q, Victor J, McDermott J, Geffen M, Bensmaia Sl, Cleland TA (2013). Perceptual spaces: mathematical structures to neural mechanisms. J Neurosci 33(45): 17597-17602.
Lee JM (2013). Introduction to smooth manifolds, pages 1-17.
For some additional background (optional):
- Lee JM (2011). Introduction to topological manifolds, 2nd ed., pages 1-17.

3 April 2018: SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING

10 April 2018: Dev Laxman Subramanian

D. Khodagholy, J. Gelinas, G. Buzsáki (2017). Learning-enhanced coupling between ripple oscillations in association cortices and hippocampus. Science 358:369–72.

17 April 2018: NO MEETING

24 April 2018: Angela Freeman

S. Dloniak, J. French & K. Holekamp (2006). Rank-related maternal effects of androgens on behaviour in wild spotted hyaenas. Nature 440:1190-1193.

1 May 2018: Roy Moyal

Singer W (2013). Cortical dynamics revisited. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17(12):616-626.
Optional: Samaha J, Postle BR (2015) The speed of alpha-band oscillations predicts the temporal resolution of visual perception. Current Biology 25: 1-6.
For an introduction to the concept of criticality and its relevance to neuroscience: Beggs JM, Timme N (2012) Being critical of criticality in the brain. Frontiers in Physiology 3:163.

8 May 2018: Article Potluck

Bring your favorite, most insightful, most surprising, oddest, or otherwise somehow compelling article or bit of data to share with the group (time limit of 5-10 min each).

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.

Shortlink to this page: https://tinyurl.com/cornellcns

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.

Shortlink to this page: https://tinyurl.com/cornellcns

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26 February 2019: FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING

5 March 2019: Lindsay Sailer

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16 April 2019 (t): David Smith

Recent data on the role of the retrosplenial cortex in context (no readings).

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N. Renier et al (2016). Mapping of Brain Activity by Automated Volume Analysis of Immediate Early Genes. Cell 165, 1789-1802.

30 April 2019: TBD

7 May 2019: ARTICLE POTLUCK

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.

Shortlink to this page: https://tinyurl.com/cornellcns

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M. Yebra, A. Galarza-Vallejo, V. Soto-Leon, J. Gonzalez-Rosa, A. de Berker, S. Bestmann, A. Oliviero, M. Kroes & B. Strange (2019). Action boosts episodic memory encoding in humans via engagement of a noradrenergic system. Nature Communications, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11358-8.

12 November 2019: Faiza Ahmad

M. Robinson, S. Warlow, and K. Berridge (2014). Optogenetic Excitation of Central Amygdala Amplifies and Narrows Incentive Motivation to Pursue One Reward Above Another. J Neurosci 34(50):16567–16580.
NOTE: We had to redistill this 24MB file down to size in order to post it here; to do so the embedded Flash "Movie 1" on page 16571 was removed. For the full original PDF file, go to https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/34/50/16567.full.pdf.

19 November 2019: Wen-Yi Wu

R. Rao, M. von Heimendah, V. Bahr, and M. Brecht. (2019). Neuronal Responses to Conspecifics in the Ventral CA1. Cell Reports 27:3460–3472.

26 November 2019: No Meeting

Optional Readings for Thanksgiving week:

Buchwalder and Huber-Eicher (2003). A brief report on aggressive interactions within and between groups of domestic turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo). Applied Animal Behavior Science, 84:75-80.
A Scientific American article on the topic can be found here.

3 December 2019: Lisa Hiura

J. Scribner, E. Vance, D. Protter, W. Sheeran, E. Saslow, R. Cameron, E. Klein, J. Jimenez, M. Kheirbek, Z. Donaldson (2019). A neuronal signature for monogamous reunion. BioRxiv preprint, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/675959.

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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.

Better shortlink to this page: https://cornellneuro.science/cnsjournalclub

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11 February 2020: Savanna Butler

E. Edsinger and G. Dolen (2018). A Conserved Role for Serotonergic Neurotransmission in Mediating Social Behavior in Octopus. Current Biology 28, 3136-3142.

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Y. Jung, A. Kennedy, H. Chiu, F. Mohammad, A. Claridge-Chang, D. Anderson (2020) Neurons that Function within an Integrator to Promote a Persistent Behavioral State in Drosophila. Neuron 105, 322-333.

25 February 2020: Feb Break - no class

3 March 2020: Dev Laxman Subramanian

A. Alexander, L. Rangel, D. Tingley, D. Nitz (2018). Neurophysiological Signatures of Temporal Coordination Between Retrosplenial Cortex and the Hippocampal Formation.Behavioral Neuroscience, 132(5):453–468.

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17 March 2020: Hamid Turker

E. Ester, T. Sprague and J. Serences (2019). Categorical Biases in Human Occipitoparietal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2700-19.2019

24 March 2020: Da Lu

TBA

30 March 2020: Spring Break - no class

TBA

7 April 2020: Chialin Liao

TBA

14 April 2020: Santi Forero

TBA

21 April 2020: Celine Cammarata

TBA

28 April 2020: Jack Cook

TBA

5 May 2020: Article Potluck - bring your favorite recent finding or something from your own research to share with the group!

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9 February 2021: Organizational Meeting

16 February 2021: Christiane Linster

Daie, Svoboda, Druckmann 2021, Circuit motifs supporting short-term memory

23 February 2021: Cancelled

2 March 2021: Jesse Werth

Weiss, Soroka, Gorodisky, Shushan, Snitz, Weissgross, Furman-Haran, Dhollander, Sobel 2020, Human olfaction without apparent olfactory bulbs.

9 March 2021: Cornell Wellness Day - NO CLASSES

16 March 2021: Thomas Cleland

Kanta, Pare, Headley 2019, Closed-loop control of gamma oscillations in the amygdala demonstrates their role in spatial memory consolidation.

23 March 2021: Michael Mariscal

Grothe, Neitzel, Mandon, Kreiter 2012, Switching neuronal inputs by differential modulations of gamma-band phase-coherence.

30 March 2021: Santi Forero

Xing, Mack, Guo, Zhang, Ramirez, Yang, Lin, Wang, Li, Gau 2020, A subpopulation of prefrontal cortical neurons is required for social memory.
- Followup FYI: Robinson et al 2014, regarding the segmentation of different simultaneously encountered stimuli. Central nucleus of the amygdala is involved in narrowing incentive motivation to one stimulus over another.

6 April 2021: Wendy Yang

Gava, McHugh, Lefevre, Lopes dos Santos, Trouche, El Gaby, Schultz, Dupret 2021, Integrating new memories into the hippocampal network activity space.

13 April 2021: David Smith

Ressler, Goode, Kim, Ramanathan, Maren 2021, Covert capture and attenuation of a hippocampus-dependent fear memory.

20 April 2021: Patryk Ziobro

Gao S-C, Wei Y-C, Wang S-R, Xu X-H 2019, Medial preoptic area modulates courtship ultrasonic vocalization in adult male mice.

27 April 2021: Nicole Pranic

Zimmer MR, Fonseca AHO, Iyilikci O, Dai Pra R, Dietrich MO 2019, Functional ontogeny of hypothalamic Agrp neurons in neonatal mouse behaviors.

4 May 2021: Lindsay Sailer

Stagkourakis S, Spigolon G, Liu G, Anderson DJ 2020, Experience-dependent plasticity in an innate social behavior is mediated by hypothalamic LTP.

11 May 2021: Article Potluck - bring your favorite recent finding or something from your own research to share with the group!

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Fall Semester 2021-2022

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271, meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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 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 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.

You can enroll in the CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. 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 enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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31 August 2021: Organizational Meeting

7 September 2021: Julia Jun

Scott GA, Liu MC, Tahir NB, Zabder NK, Song Y, Greba Q, Howland JG (2020). Roles of the medial prefrontal cortex, mediodorsal thalamus, and their combined circuit for performance of the odor span task in rats: analysis of memory capacity and foraging behavior. Learning & Memory 27(2):67-77.

14 September 2021: Jesse Werth

Schoonover CE, Ohashi SN, Axel R, Fink AJP (2021). Representational drift in primary olfactory cortex. Nature 594: 541-546.
Followup papers of interest:
- Raman D, O'Leary T (2021). Optimal plasticity for memory maintenance during ongoing synaptic change. eLife 10:e62912. (Online only; PDF not yet available).

21 September 2021: Margaret Cruz

Meinhardt J, et al. (2021). Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19. Nature Neuroscience 24: 168-175.
- The role of brain microglia in synaptic plasticity (as well as the immune response) arose during discussion. Here are a couple of starting-point reviews of the topic for those interested.
  - Morris GP et al. (2013). Microglia: a new frontier for synaptic plasticity, learning and memory, and neurodegenerative disease research.
  - Augusto-Oliveira M et al. (2021). Lifestyle-dependent microglial plasticity: training the brain guardians.

28 September 2021: Celia McLean

Vahaba DM, Hecsh A, Remage-Healey L (2020).. Neuroestrogen synthesis modifies neural representations of learned song without altering vocal imitation in developing songbirds. Scientific Reports 10:3602.

5 October 2021: Michael Mariscal

Kato HK, Chu MW, Isaacson JS, Komiyama T (2012). Dynamic sensory representations in the olfactory bulb: modulation by wakefulness and experience. Neuron 76: 962-975.

12 October 2021: FALL BREAK / Indigenous Peoples' Day

No meeting

19 October 2021: Lia Chen

Cornblath EJ, Li HL, ..., Henderson MX (2021). Computational modeling of tau pathology spread reveals patterns of regional vulnerability and the impact of a genetic risk factor. Science Advances 7: eabg6677.
- Followups from discussion:
  - Seminal & review papers about graph theoretic analysis of brain networks: Bassett & Bullmore 2006, Bullmore & Sporns 2009, Bullmore & Sporns 2012, Bassett & Bullmore 2017
  - Dementia papers utilizing brain network analyses: Rittman et al 2016, Rittman et al 2019

26 October 2021: Wendy Yang

Rangel MJ, Baldo MVC, Canteras NS (2018). Influence of the anteromedial thalamus on social defeat-associated contextual fear memory. Behavioural Brain Research 339: 269-277.

2 November 2021: Nicole Pranic

Chen J, Markowitz JE, ..., Datta SR, Stowers L (2021). Flexible scaling and persistence of social vocal communication. Nature 593: 108-113.

9 November 2021: Society for Neuroscience Conference (virtual)

No meeting

16 November 2021: Santi Forero

Gobrogge KL, Jia X, Liu Y, Wang Z (2017). Neurochemical mediation of affiliation and aggression associated with pair-bonding. Biological Psychiatry 81: 231-242.

23 November 2021: Nora Prior

Jaric I, Rocks D, Greally JM, Suzuki M, Kundakovic M (2019). Chromatin organization in the female mouse brain fluctuates across the oestrous cycle. Nature Communications 10:2851.

30 November 2021: David Smith

New findings and questions about retrosplenial cortex

7 December 2021: CANCELLED – see you all next year!

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Spring Semester 2021-2022

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 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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 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 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.

You can enroll in the CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. 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 enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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25 Jan 2022: Organizational Meeting

1 February 2022: No meeting (owing to Covid-19 policy)

8 February 2022: No meeting

15 February 2022: Nicole Pranic

Wu YE, Dang J, Kingsbury L, Zhang M, Sun F, Hu RK, Hong W (2021) Neural control of affiliative touch in prosocial interaction. Nature 599: 262-267.

22 February 2022: Michael Mariscal

Wu A, Yu B, Chen Q, Matthews GA, Lu C, Campbell E, Tye KM, Komiyama T (2020) Context-dependent plasticity of adult-born neurons regulated by cortical feedback. Science Advances 6: eabc8319.

1 March 2022: No meeting ("February" break)

8 March 2022: No meeting (Thom out of town)

15 March 2022: Xin Zhao

Hu RK, Zuo Y, Ly T, Wang J, Meera P, Wu YE, Hong W (2021). An amygdala-to-hypothalamus circuit for social reward. Nature Neuroscience 24: 831-842.

22 March 2022: No meeting (Thom has been posted elsewhere during this time slot by the powers)

29 March 2022: Patryk Ziobro

Patryk presents "an outside perspective on my research"

5 April 2022: No meeting (Spring Break)

12 April 2022: Julia Jun

Anderson MC, Floresco SB (2022) Prefrontal-hippocampal interactions supporting the extinction of emotional memories: the retrieval stopping model. Neuropsychopharmacology 47: 180-195.

19 April 2022: SNOWED OUT!

26 April 2022: Lindsay Sailer

No Reading – This will be a practice talk for an invited talk that Lindsay will be giving at Salisbury University (out near the Maryland coast). Bring your interesting comments and constructive criticisms!

3 May 2022: Nora Prior

Intention and rigor in scientific progress.

See you all in the Fall!

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Fall Semester 2022-2023

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 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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.

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.

You can enroll in the CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. 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 enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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23 August 2022: Organizational Meeting

30 August 2022: 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

Nora will speak about her own current work: An integrated social-sensory framework of social behavior: preliminary studies in finches and voles.

Until next year...

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Spring Semester 2022-2023

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 pm(ish) in Uris Hall 205.

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.

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.

You can enroll in the CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. 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 enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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24 January 2023: 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: <CANCELLED due to Cornell snow closure >

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

Medinaceli Quintela R, Bauer J, Wallhorn L, Le K, Brunert D, Rothermel M (2020). Dynamic impairment of olfactory behavior and signaling mediated by an olfactory corticofugal system. Journal of Neuroscience 40(38): 7269-7285.
Supplementary Reading (review paper): Renata Medinaceli Quintela, Daniela Brunert and Markus Rotherme (2022). Functional role of the anterior olfactory nucleus in sensory information processing. Neuroforum 28(3):169–175.

18 April 2023: Santi Forero

W. Lee, H. Dowd, C. Nikain, M. Dwortz, E. Yang & J. Curley (2021). Effect of relative social rank within a social hierarchy on neural activation in response to familiar or unfamiliar social signals. Scientific Reports 11:2864.

25 April 2023: CANCELLED: Susanna Zheng

Carcea I, López Caraballo N, ..., Sullivan RM, Froemke RC (2021). Oxytocin neurons enable social transmission of maternal behavior. Nature 596: 553-557.

2 May 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.

9 May 2023: Jeremy Spool (U Mass Amherst)

Connecting auditory and social neural systems in gregarious songbirds [No readings]
See Jeremy's website for an overview of his work

Until next fall...

Fall Semester 2023-2024

22 August 2023: Organizational Meeting

29 August 2023: Dev Subramanian

A Comparison of Retrosplenial and Hippocampal Spatial and Contextual Firing Patterns (Dev's latest research)
Optional Background reading: AMP Miller , LC Vedder , LM Law and DM Smith (2014). Cues, context, and long-term memory: the role of the retrosplenial cortex in spatial cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:586.
Mentioned during presentation: Tang G, Shah A, Michmizos KP (2019) Spiking neural network on neuromorphic hardware for energy-efficient unidimensional SLAM. arXiv 1903.02504v2.

5 September 2023: David Zheng

N Gloveli, J Simonnet, W Tang, M Concha-Miranda, E Maier, A Dvorzhak, D Schmitz and M Brecht (2023). Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray. Neuron 111, 1-12.

12 September 2023: Julia Jun

AE McLaughlin & AD Redish (2023). Optogenetic disruption of the prelimbic cortex alters long-term decision strategy but not valuation on a spatial delay discounting task. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 200 107734.

19 September 2023: James Cunningham

Luisier A-C, Petitpierre G, Berod AC, Garcia-Burgos D, Bensafi M (2018). Effects of familiarization on odor hedonic responses and food choices in children with autism spectrum disorders. Autism 23(6): 1460-1471.
Background information in this optional review: Barros F, Soares SC (2020). Giving meaning to the social world in autism spectrum disorders: olfaction as a missing piece of the puzzle?

26 September 2023: Lindsay Sailer

Lindsay will present results from her collaboration with Caitlyn Finton: Hippocampal CA1 lesions impact mating tactics in prairie voles

3 October 2023 (David out of town): Xiyu Mei

Mei L, Yan R, Yin L, Sullivan RM, Lin D (2023). Antagonistic circuits mediating infanticide and maternal care in female mice. Nature 618: 1006.

10 October 2023: NO MEETING - FALL BREAK

17 October 2023 (Thom may be absent): Wendy Yang

A Sarel, S Palgi, D Blum, J Aljadeff, L Las & N Ulanovsky (2022). Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding. Nature 609:119-157.

24 October 2023: Marta Reales Moreno - CANCELLED, will be rescheduled for a later date.

Y. Yu, A. Tsai, C. Ou, C. Cheng, F. Chang, B. Shyu and A. Huang (2023). Optogenetic stimulation in the medial prefrontal cortex modulates stimulus valence from rewarding and aversive to neutral states. Frontiers in Psychiatry, DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1119803.

31 October 2023: Xin Zhao

Xin will be presenting work from his project: Social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in female mice. Looking forward to feedback and discussion!

7 November 2023: Marta Reales Moreno - Rescheduled.

Y. Yu, A. Tsai, C. Ou, C. Cheng, F. Chang, B. Shyu and A. Huang (2023). Optogenetic stimulation in the medial prefrontal cortex modulates stimulus valence from rewarding and aversive to neutral states. Frontiers in Psychiatry, DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1119803.

14 November 2023: NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

21 November 2023: SFN Show and Tell

28 November 2023: Shiping Li

R. Hattori, B. Danskin, Z. Babic, N. Mlynaryk, T. Komiyama (2019). Area-Specificity and Plasticity of History-Dependent Value Coding During Learning. Cell 177:1858-72.

Until next spring...

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Spring Semester 2023-2024

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 1:00 pm(ish) in Ives Hall 107 - NOTE THE NEW ROOM!

23 January 2024: Organizational Meeting

30 January 2024: Cancelled - see you next week.

6 February 2024: Tim DeVoogd

J. N. Audet, M. Couture, E. D. Jarvis (2023). Songbird species that display more-complex vocal learning are better problem-solvers and have larger brains. Science 381, 1170–1175.

13 February 2024: Lindsay Sailer

A. Kaźmierowska, M. Kostecki, M. Szczepanik, T. Nikolaev, A. Hamed, J. Michałowski, M. Wypych, A. Marchewka, and E. Knapska. (2023). Rats respond to aversive emotional arousal of human handlers with the activation of the basolateral and central amygdala. PNAS, 120(46):1-9.

20 February 2024: Dev Subramanian - Time Cells in the Retrosplenial Cortex

Optional background reading: Eichenbaum, H. (2014). Time cells in the hippocampus: a new dimension for mapping memories. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience (15)732-44.

27 February 2024: Feb Break - no meeting

5 March 2024: David Smith

A. LePort, A. Mattfeld, H. Dickinson-Anson, J. Fallon, C. Stark, F. Kruggel, L. Cahill, J. McGaugh (2012). Behavioral and neuroanatomical investigation of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM). Neurobio. Learn. Mem. 98:78-92.
Optional background reading (short and very interesting!): A. Luria (1968). The Mind of a Mnemonist. Ch 38. In U. Neisser, Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts, 1982, W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, 382-9.

12 March 2024: Hamid Turker

C. Lai, S. Tanaka, T. Harris, A. Lee (2023). Volitional activation of remote place representations with a hippocampal brain–machine interface. Science 382:566-73.

19 March 2024: CANCELLED - Will be rescheduled soon (Wendy Yang).

26 March 2024: Wendy Yang

Y. Shi, J. Yan, X. Xu, Z. Qiu (2024). Gating of Social Behavior by Inhibitory Inputs from Hippocampal CA1 to Retrosplenial Agranular Cortex. Neurosci. Bull. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-023-01172-0

2 April 2024: Spring Break - no meeting

9 April 2024:

16 April 2024: Chen Yang

Hot off the press: the second Annolid paper (arXiv preprint), focusing on Annolid's new zero-annotation automatic tracking capabilities.
Chen will present the newest developments in the Annolid software package for deep learning-based behavior analysis using instance segmentation. There are substantial new advances to present, based on new models including Cutie VOS (visual object segmentation) and Meta's Segment Anything that are used for easier object identification and automatic tracking. Come with your ideas, questions, and research needs.
You also can look at our lab's two Annolid-related posters from SFN 2024 for an introduction: Chen Yang et al., Ray Fang et al.
There are also several Annolid videos posted on Youtube; our MATB playlist is at https://cplab.science/matb.

23 April 2024: David Zheng

A. Sharif, J. Matsumoto, C. Choijiljav, A. Badarch, T. Setogawa, H. Nishijo and H. Nishimaru (2024). Characterization of Ultrasonic Vocalization-Modulated Neurons in Rat Motor Cortex Based on Their Activity Modulation and Axonal Projection to the Periaqueductal Gray. eNeuro 11(4):1-10.

30 April 2024: Hamid Turker

Medial prefrontal cortical neurons diff erentiate match and non-match cues in a continuous olfactory match-to-sample task. Original research, no readings.

Until next fall...

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Fall Semester 2024-2025

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 1:00 pm(ish) in 156 Goldwin Smith Hall

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.

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 subject line of the message saying simply join, and the body of the message blank/empty. Sending the message with a subject line of leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list. See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details.

You can enroll in the CNS Journal Club for credit (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. 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 enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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27 August 2024: Organizational Meeting

3 September 2024: David Zheng

Cogno SG, Obenhaus HA, Lautrup A, Jacobsen RI, Clopath C, Andersson SO, Donato F, Moser M-B, Moser EI (2024) Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex. Nature 625: 338.

10 September 2024: Cancelled - see you next week

17 September 2024: Cancelled - see you next week

24 September 2024: Cynthia Wu

J. Gonzalez, P. Torterolo, and A. Tort (2023). Mechanisms and functions of respiration-driven gamma oscillations in the primary olfactory cortex. eLife DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83044

1 October 2024 (Thom absent): Xin Zhao - research presentation

X. Zhao, Y. Chae, D. Smith, V. Chen, D. DeFelipe, J. Sokol1, A. Sadangi and K. Tschida (submitted). Short-term social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in a sex- and context-dependent manner.

8 October 2024: NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

15 October 2024: NO MEETING - FALL BREAK

22 October 2024: Julia Jun

F. Ceccarelli, L. Ferrucci, F. Londei, S. Ramawat, E. Brunamonti & Aldo Genovesio (2023). Static and dynamic coding in distinct cell types during associative learning in the prefrontal cortex.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43712-2

29 October 2024: Wendy Yang

Wanjia G, Favila SE, Kim G, Molitor RJ, Kuhl BA (2021). Abrupt hippocampal remapping signals resolution of memory interference. Nature Communications 12:4816.

5 November 2024: Hamid Türker

12 November 2024: Cancelled - see you next week

19 November 2024: Danqing Xie

Wolz, I., Sauvaget, A., Granero, R. et al. (2017). Subjective craving and event-related brain response to olfactory and visual chocolate cues in binge-eating and healthy individuals. Sci Rep 7, 41736. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep41736
You may also be interested in: Coppin, G., Pool, E., Delplanque, S. et al. (2016). Swiss identity smells like chocolate: Social identity shapes olfactory judgments. Sci Rep 6, 34979. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep34979.

26 November 2024: Shiping Li

O. Dubanet and M. Higley (2024). Retrosplenial inputs drive visual representations in the medial entorhinal cortex. Cell Reports 43, 114470.
Further reading about the CaMPARI method: Moeyaert et al 2018, Das et al 2023, HHMI news story, Summary by Janelia Farm.

3 December 2024: Zhiyi Wang

K. Wolf, E. Galeano Weber, J. van den Bosch, S. Volz, U. Nöth, R. Deichmann, M. Naumer, T. Pfeiffer and C. Fiebach (2018). Neurocognitive Development of the Resolution of Selective Visuo-Spatial Attention: Functional MRI Evidence From Object Tracking. Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01106.

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Spring Semester 2024-2025

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).

Your hosts are David Smith, Thomas Cleland, and Marlen Gonzalez.

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.

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 subject line of the message saying simply join, and the body of the message blank/empty. Sending the message with a subject line of leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list. See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details.

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 you enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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21 January 2025: Preview session with interested undergrads

28 January 2025: Organizational Meeting

4 February 2025: James Cunningham

Geng, C., Li, R., Li, S., Liu, P., Peng, Y., Liu, C., ... & Li, A. (2025). Noradrenergic inputs from the locus coeruleus to anterior piriform cortex and the olfactory bulb modulate olfactory outputs. Nature Communications, 16(1), 260.

Optional Background Reading:

Ghosh, A., Massaeli, F., Power, K. D., Omoluabi, T., Torraville, S. E., Pritchett, J. B., ... & Yuan, Q. (2021). Locus coeruleus activation patterns differentially modulate odor discrimination learning and odor valence in rats. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2(2), tgab026

11 February 2025: Tim DeVoogd - Original research presentation

Optional Readings:

Grant, P. & Grant, R. (2018). Evolution of Character Displacement in Darwin's Finches. Science 313:224-6.
Moore, J. & DeVoogd, T. (2017). Concerted and Mosaic Evolution of Functional Modules in Songbird Brains. Proceedings of the Royal Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0469.

18 February 2025: FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING

25 February 2025: Lindsay Sailer

Rea JJ, Liu CM, Hayes AMR, ..., Kanoski SE. (2025). Hippocampus oxytocin signaling promotes prosocial eating in rats. Biological Psychiatry 97(5), 540-549.

4 March 2025: Wendy Yang

S. Valerio & J. Taube (2012). Path integration: How the head direction signal maintains and corrects spatial orientation. Nature Neuroscience 15(10):1445-1453.

11 March 2025: Cynthia Wu

Martiros N, Kapoor V, Kim SE, Murthy VN (2022). Distinct representation of cue-outcome association by D1 and D2 neurons in the ventral striatum's olfactory tubercle. eLife 11:e75463.

18 March 2025: Hetvi Doshi

S. Chandra, S. Sharma, R. Chaudhuri & I. Fiete (2025). Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus. Nature 638:739–751

Optional (recommended) Background Reading:

R. Chaudhuri & I. Fiete (2016). Computational principles of memory. Nature Neuroscience 19:394–403.

25 March 2025: Continuing discussion of the episodic and associative memory model from last week.

Read the recommended reading from last week.
After-the-fact reading of interest: Huber DE (2025). A memory model of rodent spatial navigation: place cells are memories arranged in a grid and grid cells are non-spatial. eLife (in press).

1 April 2025: SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING

8 April 2025: Inbal Ravreby

Hyon R, Youm Y, Kim J, Chey J, Kwak S, Parkinson C (2020). Similarity in functional brain connectivity at rest predicts interpersonal closeness in the social network of an entire village. PNAS 117(52):33149-33160.
Inbal also will discuss a related project that she currently is working on.

15 April 2025: Free-for-all discussion

Background info: Barb Finlay is delivering the Gibson Lecture on Friday 18 April at 3:00 pm. The evening before, there will be a Gibson Seminar and catered dinner starting at 5:00 pm on April 17 in Uris 204. In traditional BBS style, the focus is on grad students, but all can attend. If you intend to go to the April 17th evening dinner seminar, please RSVP at this link, ideally by this Friday 11 April. The official announcement was emailed out on Tuesday 4/8 with subject line "Gibson lecture and grad student seminar".
At the evening Gibson Seminar, two of Barb's papers will be discussed, and we'll delve into broader issues of theory, data, and comparative work with her. We at the CNS JC would like to read the same papers, a couple days ahead, in order to get into them early and hence improve the quality of our discussions with Barb on Thursday. So, we will discuss both of them in CNS JC on April 15. Here they are:
MacIver, M.A. & Finlay, B.L (2021). The neuroecology of the water-to-land transition, and the evolution of the vertebrate brain. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Britain B: Biological Sciences 377: 20200523. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0523.
Imam, N. & Finlay, B.L (2020). Self-organization of cortical areas in the development and evolution of neocortex: a network growth model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 117: 29212-29220. doi:10.1073/pnas.2011724117.

22 April 2025: Cancelled - enjoy your free hour

29 April 2025: David Smith - The role of the retrosplenial cortex, as revealed by studies using the T-maze.

D. Subramanian, A.M.P. Miller, D. M. Smith (2024). The retrosplenial cortical role in delayed spatial alternation. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 216:108005.

6 May 2025: Marlen Gonzalez

Mosharov EV, et al. (2025). A human brain map of mitochondrial respiratory capacity and diversity. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08740-6.

So as we all learned today, "mitochondrial heterogeneity" usually means different numbers/densities of mitochondria being present in different cells or volumes of tissue from different regions of (in our case) the brain... but it also can mean actual differences in the properties of individual mitochondria, or classes of mitochondria. Or so it seems. Should you wish to dig into this, here are a couple of reviews that may be of interest:

Granath-Panelo M, Kajimura S (2024). Mitochondrial heterogeneity and adaptations to cellular needs. Nat Cell Biol 26(5):674-686.
Pekkurnaz G, Wang X (2022). Mitochondrial heterogeneity and homeostasis through the lens of a neuron. Nat Metab 4(7): 802-812.
... and many more...

See you all next fall!

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Fall 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).

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.

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 subject line of the message saying simply join, and the body of the message blank/empty. Sending the message with a subject line of leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list. See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details.

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, David Smith, or Marlen Gonzalez with any questions.

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26 August 2025: Organizational Meeting

2 September 2025: 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.

See you in the spring.

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