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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).
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.
1 April 2025: SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING
8 April 2025: Inbal Ravreby
- TBA
15 April 2025: TBD
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22 April 2025: TBD
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29 April 2025: TBD
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6 May 2025: TBD
- TBD