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 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

See you in the spring.