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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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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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- 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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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- 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
12 September 2023: Julia Jun
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
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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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