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Fall Semester 2008

10 September 2008:  Organizational Meeting

17 September 2008:  D. Smith

• Manns, Howard and Eichenbaum (2008). Gradual Changes in Hippocampal Activity Support Remembering the Order of Events. Neuron 56, 530-540.
  
  

25 September 2008:  D. Smith

• Lapish, Durstewitz, Chandler and Seamans (2008). Successful choice behavior is associated with distinct and coherent network states in anterior cingulate cortex. PNAS, 105(33), 11963-8.

2 October 2008:  Mark Albert

• Albert, M. V., Schnabel, A. and Field, D. J. (2008). Innate Visual Learning Through Spontaneous Activity Patterns. PLOS Computational Biology, 4(8), 1-8.

9 October 2008: Christina Sill

• Ji and Wilson (2008). Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep. Nature Neuroscience, 10(3), 100-7.

16 October 2008: David Field

• Gross, C. G. (2002). Genealogy of the Grandmother Cell. Neuroscientist, 8(1), 84-90.
• Quiroga, Reddy, Kreiman, Koch Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain. Nature, 435, 1102-7.
• Waydo, Kraskov, Quiroga, Fried, and Koch. (2006). Sparse Representation in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(40), 10232-4.

23 October 2008: Patrick Gill

• Gill, Amin, Fremouw, Woolley and Theunissen. Functional Consequences of Synaptic Plasticity in Sensory Systems (draft manuscript).

30 October 2008: Thom Cleland

• Cleland and Sethupathy (2006).  Non-topographical contrast enhancement in the olfactory bulb.  BMC Neurosci 7:7. 
• Cleland, Johnson, Leon, Linster (2007).  Relational representation in the olfactory system.  PNAS 104(6):1953-8.

These two modeling papers illustrate a theoretical model of the mechanisms underlying high-dimensional decorrelation of odor stimuli in the olfactory bulb.  The first (2006) is the more important for journal club purposes.  

6 November 2008: Mike Wojnowicz

• Durstewitz, Kelc and Gunturkun (1999). A Neurocomputational Theory of the Dopaminergic Modulation of Working Memory Functions. J. Neuroscience. 19(7):2807-22.

13 November 2008: Helene Porte

• Louie and Wilson (2006). Temporally Structured Replay of Awake Hippocampal Ensemble Activity during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. Neuron. 29:145-156.

20 November 2008:

• Summerfield, Hassabis and Maguire (2008). Cortical midline involvement in autobiographical memory. Neuroimage. early e-pbulication.

27 November 2008: Thanksgiving Break - NO MEETING

4 December 2008:

• Hagmann, Cammoun, Gigandet, Meuli, Honey, Wedeen, Sporns (2008). Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex. PLOS Biology. 6(7):1479-93.
  

Spring Semester 2009

21 January 2009:  Organizational Meeting

28 January 2009: David Smith

• Memory, Interference and Brain Mechanisms of Retrieval. No readings this week.

4 February 2009: Greg Peters

• M. E. Hasselmo (2008). Grid Cell Mechanisms and Function: Contributions of Entorhinal Persistent Spiking and Phase Resetting, Hippocampus 18:1213-1229.

11 February 2009: Anuttama Sheela Mohan

• Hasselmo and Eichenbaum (2005). Hippocampal mechanisms for the context-dependent retrieval of episodes.  Neural Networks 18: 1172-1190

18 February 2009: Mike Wojnowitcz - POSTPONED DUE TO PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY MEETING.

• Reading TBA. 

25 February 2009:   SUPERSEDED BY PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY MEETING

• No meeting; no reading.

4 March 2009: Thom Cleland

• Inoue and Strowbridge (2008). Transient activity induces a long-lasting increase in the excitability of olfactory bulb interneurons.  J. Neurophysiology 99:187-199.  (Some background information available in Pressler et al (2007)). 

11 March 2009: David Smith

• Pastalkova, Itskov, Amarasingham and Buzsáki (2008). Internally Generated Cell Assembly Sequences in the Rat Hippocampus

18 March 2009: TBA

• Reading PDF. 

25 March 2009: Christine Charvet (visiting postdoc)

• Precocial and altricial birds evolved different developmental strategies to expand their telencephalon. No readings.

1 April 2009: TBA, There will be a room change for this meeting.

• Reading PDF. 

8 April 2009: Christina Sill

• Buzsaki, G. (2005). Theta Rhythm of Navigation: Link Between Path Integration and Landmark Navigation, Episodic and Semantic Memory. 

15 April 2009: Cancelled!

22 April 2009: Helene Porte

• Montgomery, Betancur, and Buzsaki (2009). Behavior-Dependent Coordination of Multiple Theta Dipoles in the Hippocampus.

29 April 2009: Mike Wojnowicz

• Reading PDF.