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Fall Semester 2008-2009

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 2008-2009

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. 

Fall Semester 2009-2010

1 September 2009:  Organizational Meeting

• No readings.

8 September 2009: Mark Albert

• Mechanisms Underlying Development of Visual Maps and Receptive Fields. (2008) Andrew D. Huberman, Marla B. Feller and Barbara Chapman.

15 September 2009: Sasha DeVore

• R. Metzger et al (2006). Effects of Reward and Behavioral Context on Neural Activity in the Primate Inferior Colliculus. J Neurosci 26(28).
• L. M. Kay and G. Laurent (1999). Odor- and context-dependent modulation of mitral cell activity in behaving rats. Nature Neurosci 2(11).

22 September 2009: David Smith

• S. E. Morrison1 and C. D. Salzman (2009). The Convergence of Information about Rewarding and Aversive Stimuli in Single Neurons. J Neurosci 29(37):11471-11483.

29 September 2009: Article Pot Luck

• Bring your favorite (or the most interesting) recent paper you've run across and share it with the group.

6 October 2009:  Mike Wojnowicz

• Ganguli,S., Bisley,J., Roitman,J., Shadlen, M., Goldberg, M. and Miller, K. (2008). One-Dimensional Dynamics of Attention and Decision Making in LIP. Neuron 58, 15-25.

13 October 2009: Fall Break - No meeting.

• No readings.

20 October 2009: Society for Neuroscience Conference - No meeting.

• No readings.

27 October 2009: Ted Cornforth

• Balu, R. Pressler, R. T. and Strowbridge, B. (2007). Multiple Modes of Synaptic Excitation of Olfactory Bulb Granule Cells, Journal of Neuroscience 27(21):5621-5632.
• Gao, Y. & Strowbridge, B. (2009). Long-term plasticity of excitatory inputs to granule cells in the rat olfactory bulb. Nature Neuroscience..

3 November 2009: Anuttama Sheela Mohan

• Brea, Kay, Kopel (submitted). Subthreshold oscillations and gamma rhythms in the olfactory bulb: a modeling study.Submitted to PNAS.  Preprint used by permission. 

10 November 2009: Matt Law

• Mamiya et al (2009). Brain Region-Specific Gene Expression Activation Required for Reconsolidation and Extinction of Contextual Fear Memory. J Neurosci 29(2):402- 413.
• Wang, S., de Oliveira Alvares, L. & Nader, K. (2009). Cellular and systems mechanisms of memory strength as a constraint on auditory fear reconsolidation. Nature Neuroscience (12)7.

During the discussion, Patrick Gill brought up an additional related paper:

Today several people asked me to send out a 2005 paper (Fusi, Drew, Abbott 2005, Cascade models of synaptically stored memories_)_ showing why a variety of memory maintenance mechanisms with different timescales are better than having just one or two simple memory maintenance mechanisms.  Here it is._  There's also a followup paper showing why it didn't matter that they used synapses with binary weighting in the 2005 paper:_  Stefano Fusi & L F Abbott  "Limits on the memory storage capacity of bounded synapses"  Nat Neuro 10 (4) April 2007 p 485.

17 November 2009: SiWei Luo

•  Chapuis, J. et al (2009). The Way an Odor Is Experienced during Aversive Conditioning Determines the Extent of the Network Recruited during Retrieval: A Multisite Electrophysiological Study in Rats. J Neurosci 29(33):10287-10298.

24 November 2009: Laura Manella

• Veyrac, A. et al, (2009). Novelty Determines the Effects of Olfactory Enrichment on Memory and Neurogenesis Through Noradrenergic Mechanisms. Neuropsychopharmacology 34, 786-95.
•  Morenoa, M. et al,(2009). Olfactory perceptual learning requires adult neurogenesis. PNAS 106(42), 17980-5.

1 December 2009: Greg Peters

• Harvey et al (2009). Intracellular dynamics of hippocampal place cells during virtual navigation. Nature 461:941-946.

Spring Semester 2009-2010

For Spring semester 2009-2010, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 12:00 to 1:15 pm in Uris Hall 205. 

The overarching theme this semester is Oscillations .  Adhering to this theme is not required, but recommended.  Please interpret it broadly. Theories of gamma, beta, and theta oscillations in the nervous system are the centroid of intent, but alpha, sleep, circadian, etc. rhythms are also spot-on as are reasonably accessible dynamical systems topics from math and engineering. 

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. 

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

26 January 2010:  Organizational Meeting

• No readings.

2 February 2010:  Thomas Cleland

• Fries, Nikolic, and Singer (2007).  The gamma cycle.  Trends in Neurosciences.  
• Optional/supplementary:  Dan and Poo (2004).  Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity of Neural Circuits.  Review in Neuron.

In discussion, Patrick brought up Li et al (2004), a paper from Mu-ming Poo's lab showing that those presynaptic neurons that spike early, and that consequently (via STDP) have their synaptic weights upon a postsynaptic neuron strengthened, are also themselves rendered more excitable. That is, by this mechanism STDP can "work on the presynaptic neuron" as well as on its output synapse. The net effect of this can be to durably group a set of early-firing neurons together into a fully synchronous ensemble evoking activity in that postsynaptic cell.

9 February 2010:  Christina Sill

• Hasselmo, Giocomo, and Yoshida (2009).  Cellular dynamical mechanisms for encoding the time and place of events along spatiotemporal trajectories in episodic memory.  Behavioral Brain Research. 

16 February 2010:  Patrick Gill

• Fusi, Drews, and Abbott (2005).  Cascade models of synaptically stored memories.  Neuron.

23 February 2010:  NO MEETING

•  No Meeting.  If you come, nobody will be there except for you. 

2 March 2010:  Helene Porte

• Mahon, Vautrelle, et al (2006). Distinct patterns of striatal medium spiny neuron activity during the natural sleep-wake cycle.  J. Neuroscience.

9 March 2010:  Sasha Devore

• Schroeder et al. (2008).  Neuronal oscillations and visual amplification of speech.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 

In discussion, Guoshi brought up this modeling paper analyzing the property that visual input (lip reading) facilitates auditory input most effectively under moderate noise conditions. 

16 March 2010:  Thomas Cleland

• Fries (2005).  A mechanism for cognitive dynamics:  neuronal communication through neuronal coherence.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 

• Schoffelen, Oostenveld, and Fries (2005).  Neuronal coherence as a mechanism of effective corticospinal interaction.  Science. 

23 March 2010:  SPRING BREAK

• No meeting, because it's spring break.  But to keep you in good form, take a look at this paper that Shane found.  Contrary to what I presented at the beginning of the semester, these authors argue that extracellular fields per se CAN directly affect neuronal activity.  If this effect is sufficiently true to matter, this would provide another mechanism by which neuronal populations can be coordinated (or, in some circumstances, an additional problem to be overcome in trying to coordinate them).  Maybe we'll get a chance to talk about it later this semester. 

30 March 2010:  SiWei Luo

• Kalenscher et al. (2010). Reward-associated gamma oscillations in ventral striatum are regionally differentiated and modulate local firing activity.  Journal of Neurophysiology.

6 April 2010:  Guoshi Li

• David et al (2009).  Specific entrainment of mitral cells during gamma oscillation in the rat olfactory bulb.  PLoS Computational Biology. 

13 April 2010:  Anuttama Sheela Mohan

• Breton-Provencher et al (2009).  Interneurons produced in adulthood are required for the normal functioning of the olfactory bulb network and for the execution of selected olfactory behaviors.  Journal of Neuroscience.

20 April 2010:  Shane Peace and Ben Johnson

• Results from planar-array multielectrode slice recordings of gamma oscillations in the mouse olfactory bulb.

27 April 2010:  NO MEETING

• No Meeting.  You may wonder where the rest of us are.  We are not at journal club, because there is none today.

4 May 2010:  Mike Wojnowicz

• Rougier et al (2005).  Prefrontal cortex and flexible cognitive control: rules without symbols.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 

NOTE: It's coming time to start thinking of next semester's overarching theme. One possibility is "Synaptic plasticity", a broad topic that could include molecular mechanisms as well as population-level patterns of perceptual learning, LTP as well as neuromodulator-regulated changes.  As a BCS topic, of course, the intent would be to choose approaches relevant to behavioral, computational, and systems-level questions.  The relevance/necessity of bidirectional regulation of plasticity would be a prime topic.  Following up on synchrony-dependent timing properties of synaptic plasticity mechanisms would establish a common thread with this semester's theme.  Another, somewhat related theme is a neuroscience version of statistical learning:  anything from perceptual learning to Bayesian representations of coding to temporal difference learning to dopamine (Schultz model) to the underlying synaptic rules that give rise to relevant population level learning properties to optimality of the Bayesian brain.  Thoughts?  other ideas?  Send them to Thom or bring them up at BCS. 

Another idea:  Mechanisms of memory consolidation and reconsolidation -- perhaps a more focused version of "synaptic plasticity" as above.  These topics are much more well understood and diverse than they were even a few years ago, and they are leading to a number of exciting hypotheses about systems and behavioral integrative mechanisms.  For example, see Nader & Einarsson (2010) Ann NY Acad Sci 1191:27-41, as well as Jonathan L.C. Lee's recent Nature Neuroscience paper (2008) and Trends in Neurosciences opinion (2010).  

Fall Semester 2010-2011

For Fall Semester 2010-2011, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

The overarching theme this semester is Systems of neuronal representation and learning .  Adhering to this theme is not required, but is strongly recommended.  Please interpret it broadly. It is intended to include such diverse topics as:  the systematic regulation of synaptic plasticity, Bayesian representations (including sensory representations as probability estimates), Bayesian and/or energetic optimality in neural encoding or transmission, perceptual learning, decision-making (including reward harvesting), temporal difference learning/dopamine (Schultz model), synaptic rules that give rise to systems-level learning properties.

31 August 2010:  Organizational Meeting

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

7 September 2010: Thom Cleland

• The topic of the day is "structure learning."  Thom will present the PLoS One computational paper below with reference to the Behavioral Brain Research review of the overall topic (also below).  Please read at least one of the two (your choice).
• Braun, Waldert, Aertsen, Wolpert, Mehring (2010).  Structure learning in a sensorimotor association task.  PLoS One 5(1):e8973.
• Braun, Mehring, Wolpert (2010).  Structure learning in action.  Behavioural Brain Research 206:157-165.

14 September 2010: David Smith

• Kuhl, B., Dudukovic, N., Kahn, I. & Wagner, A.(2007). Decreased demands on cognitive control reveal the neural processing benefits of forgetting. Nature Neuroscience 10(7), 908-914.
• Wimber, M., Rutschmann, R., Greenlee, M. and Bauml, K. (2009). Retrieval from Episodic Memory: Neural Mechanisms of Interference Resolution. J Cog Neurosci 21(3) 538-549.

21 September 2010:  Laura Darnieder

• Ohms VR, Gill A, Van Heijninge CAA, Beckers GJL, ten Cate C (2009). Zebra finches exhibit speaker-independent phonetic perception of human speech.  Proc. Royal Society B.  
• Gauthier B, Shi R, Xu Y (2007).  Simulating the acquisition of lexical tones from continuous dynamic input.  J. Acoustical Society of America 121(5), May 2007. 

28 September 2010:  Michelle Tong

• "A well-written review with bias" -- just the thing...
• Hickok G (2009).  Eight problems for the mirror neuron theory of action understanding in monkeys and humans.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21(7):1229-1243.  (PubMed Central version)

5 October 2010:  Matt Lewis

• Nir Y, Tononi G (2009) Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14(2):88-100.
• Schredl M et al (2009)  Information processing during sleep: the effect of olfactory stimuli on dream content and dream emotions.  Journal of Sleep Research 18:285-290. 
• [OPTIONAL]  Issa EB, Wang X (2008) Sensory responses during sleep in primate primary and secondary auditory cortex.  Journal of Neuroscience 28(53):14467-14480. 

12 October 2010: Anuttama Sheela Mohan

• Pfister J-P, Dayan P, Lengyel M (2010) Synapses with short-term plasticity are optimal estimators of presynaptic membrane potentials.  Nature Neuroscience 13(10):1271-1275. 

19 October 2010:  Guoshi Li

• These papers concern unified models of synaptic plasticity, attempting to understand the underlying general rule(s) regulating synaptic weights and the diversity of conditions under which they may be altered. 
• Shouval HZ, Wang SS-H, Wittenberg GM (2010) Spike timing dependent plasticity: a consequence of more fundamental learning rules  Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 4:19.  [This is a review article]
• Shouval HZ, Bear MF, Cooper LN (2002) A unified model of NMDA receptor-dependent bidirectional synaptic plasticity.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99(16): 10831-10836.

26 October 2010:  Sasha Devore

• Jazayeri M, Movshon JA (2006)  Optimal representation of sensory information by neuronal populations.  Nature Neuroscience 9(5):690-696 plus corrigendum.
• Supplementary materials for Jazayeri & Movshon (2006).  Includes corrected equations as noted in corrigendum. 

2 November 2010:  Tanya Nauvel

• Smith AC, Shah SA, Hudson AE, Purpura KP, Victor JD, Brown EN, Schiff ND (2009).  A Bayesian statistical analysis of behavioral facilitation associated with deep brain stimulation.  Journal of Neuroscience Methods 183(2):267-276.  PMC Version. 

9 November 2010:  Adam Miller

• Yin HH, Prasad Mulcare S, Hilario MRF, Clouse E, Holloway T, Davis MI, Hansson AC, Lovinger DM, Costa RM (2009).  Dynamic reorganization of striatal circuits during the acquisition and consolidation of a skill.  Nature Neuroscience 12(3):333-341. 

16 November 2010:  NO MEETING (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting)

23 November 2010:  Shane Peace

• Long MA, Jin DZ, Fee MS (2010).  Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation. Nature 468(7322): 394-399.

30 November 2010: SiWei Luo

• Bromberg-Martin ES, Matsumoto M, Hikosaka O (2010).  Distinct tonic and phasic anticipatory activity in lateral habenula and dopamine neurons.  Neuron 67: 144-155.
• [OPTIONAL - BACKGROUND]  Hikosaka O, Sesack SR, Lecourtier L, Shepard PD (2008).  Habenula: crossroad between the basal ganglia and the limbic system.  Journal of Neuroscience 28(46): 11825-11829. 

THEME PROPOSALS FOR SPRING 2011:

• Cell assemblies and functional connectivity.
• Attention.
• Decision making: how do brains/neurons make up their minds... could be broad like sensorimotor or small like anything dealing with synaptic integration/action potential generation.
• More oscillations.  i know we did it last spring but it seems like it's still a recurring a nightmare for most people.

Spring Semester 2010-2011

For Spring Semester 2010-2011, 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 .

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".  

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  (2 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar:  PSYCH 6271-102.  The course requires that you present at least once during the semester and participate actively overall.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

25 January 2011:  Organizational Meeting

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

1 February 2011:  Patrick Gill

• Shoham S, O'Connor DH, Segev R (2006).  How silent is the brain: is there a "dark matter" problem in neuroscience?  Journal of Comparative Physiology A.  
• Song S, Sjoestroem PJ, Reigl M, Nelson S, Chklovskii DB (2005).  Highly nonrandom features of synaptic connectivity in local cortical circuits.  PLoS Biology 3(3):0507-0519 (e68). 

8 February 2011:  Dave Bulkin

• Optional Reading: Bulkin and Groh, in press, Systematic Mapping of the Monkey Inferior Colliculus Reveals Enhanced Low Frequency Sound Representation.

15 February 2011:  TBD

• TBD

22 February 2011:  TBD

• TBD

1 March 2011:  Guoshi Li

• Ardid S, Wang X-J, Gomez-Cabrero D, Compte A (2010).  Reconciling coherent oscillation with modulation of irregular spiking activity in selective attention:  gamma-range synchronization between sensory and executive cortical areas.  J Neuroscience 30(8):2856-2870.

      This is a tough one folks, so be extra sure to read it ahead of time. 

 Followup papers and URL of potential interest:

• 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

•  David M. Eagleman and Terrence J. Sejnowski (2007). Motion signals bias localization judgments: A unified explanation for the flash-lag, flash-drag, flash-jump, and Frohlich illusions. Journal of Vision. 7(4):3, 1-12.

15 March 2011:  Matt Lewis

• Zhang H, Lin S-C, Micolelis MAL (2010).  Spatiotemporal coupling between hippocampal acetylcholine release and theta oscillations in vivo.  J Neuroscience 30(40): 13431-13440.
• Zhang, Lin and Nicolelis (2009). Acquiring local field potential information from amperometric neurochemical recordings. J Neurosci Methods 179:191-200.

22 March 2011:   SPRING BREAK -- NO MEETING

• If you come to BCS today, you will be mocked. 

29 March 2011:  Laura Darnieder

• Gyorgy Buzsaki (2010). Neural Syntax: Cell Assemblies, Synapsembles, and Readers. Neuron, 68:362-385.

5 April 2011:  Michelle Tong

• Richard Stevenson and Don Wilson (2007).  Odour perception: an object-recognition approach.  Perception 36:1821-1833.
• Orban G, Fiser J, Aslin RN, Lengyel M (2008).  Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observers.  PNAS 105(7):2745-2750.  You may also want to read the supplementary information.

12 April 2011:  Tanya Nauvel

• Corlett PR, Simons JS, Pigott JS, Gardner JM, Murray GK, Krystal JH, Fletcher PC (2009).  llusions and delusions: relating experimentally-induced false memories to anomalous experiences and ideas.  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 3(53):1-9.

19 April 2011:  Anuttama Sheela Mohan

• Tenenbaum JB, Griffiths TL (2001)  Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24:629-640.
• Haddad R, Khan R, Takahashi YK, Mori K, Harel D, Sobel N (2008)  A metric for odorant comparison.  Nature Methods 5(5): 425-429.

26 April 2011:  Adam Miller

      An interesting exploration of the functional connectivity between two memory systems.

• Brown RM, Robertson EM (2007)  Off-line processing:  reciprocal interactions between declarative and procedural memories.  Journal of Neuroscience 27(39):10468-10475.
• Keisler A, Shadmehr R (2010)  A shared resource between declarative memory and motor memory.  Journal of Neuroscience 30(44):14817-14823.

3 May 2011:  CANCELLED

Fall Semester 2011-2012

For Fall Semester 2011-2012, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205. 

The overarching theme this semester is yet to be determined, but our likely first speaker will discuss his own recent work relating to neural representations.  Please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.  

Starting in Fall 2011, BCS will try out a "minimal Powerpoint" policy.  In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown.  Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall.  We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers.  Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers.  You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers.  That's great.  Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation.  Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.  

That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized.  Not a problem.  

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  (2 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar:  PSYCH 6271-102.  The course requires that you present at least once during the semester and participate actively overall.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

30 August 2011:  Organizational Meeting

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

6 September 2011:  Raj Raizada 

• Research talk:  "What makes different people's representations alike: A solution to the problem of across-subject fMRI decoding"
• Here are the Powerpoint slides (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/raj_Cornell_BCS_talk_Sept6.ppt?version=1&modificationDate=1315401718000||\) from Raj's talk.
• To see Raj's manuscript about the decoding-via-similarity-space work (mostly skipped over during his BCS talk, submitted to J. Cognitive Neuroscience), please contact Raj directly. 

13 September 2011:  Dave Bulkin

• Mark M. Churchland, John P. Cunningham, Matthew T. Kaufman, Stephen I. Ryu, and Krishna V. Shenoy (2010). Cortical Preparatory Activity: Representation of Movement or First Cog in a Dynamical Machine? Neuron 68, 387-400. (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/churchalnd_2010.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1315498595000||\)

20 September 2011:  Eyal Nitzany

• No readings.

27 September 2011:  Pedro Rittner

• Pedro will be talking about a computational model he is working on in deep olfactory bulb.  Guoshi and Anuttama also have particular insights into the questions described. 

4 October 2011:  TBD

• TBD

11 October 2011:  FALL BREAK - NO BCS

18 October 2011:   Matt Lewis

• For background, please read:  Dayan P, Huys QJM (2009) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Annu+Rev+Neurosci+2009+Dayan.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1317307411000||\) Serotonin in affective control.  Annual Review of Neuroscience 32:95-126.  This review attempts to combine the studies of serotonin (aka 5HT) in invertebrates with studies in vertebrates to construct a grand synthesis, and contains several ideas that are well worth discussing. 

25 October 2011:  Adam Miller

• Two papers in line with Adam's biannual theme.  What does that mean?  Come and ask Adam yourself.
• van der Meer MAA, Redish AD (2009) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/van+der+Meer_2009_Covert+expectation+of+reward+in+rat+ventral+striatum+at+decision+points.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1318973143000||\) Covert expectation-of-reward in rat ventral striatum at decision points.  Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 3(1).
• Howe MW, Atallah HE, McCool A, Gibson DJ, Graybiel AM (2011) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Howe_2011_Habit+learning+is+associated+with+major+shifts+in+frequencies+of+oscillatory+activity+and+synchronized+spike+firing+in+striatum.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1318973170000||\) Habit learning is associated with major shifts in frequencies of oscillatory activity and synchronized spike firing in striatum.  PNAS 108(40):16801-16806.  

1 November 2011:  SiWei Luo

• Kim EJ, Kim ES, Covey E, Kim JJ (2010) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Social+transmission+of+fear+in+rats+the+role+of+22kHz+ultrasonic+distress+vocalization.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1319725484000||\)  Social transmission of fear in rats: the role of 22 kHz ultrasonic distress vocalization.  PLoS One 5(12):e15077.

For additional background, if desired:

• Galef BJ (2002) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Social+learning+of+food+preferences+in+rodents+rapid+appetitive+learning.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1319725510000||\)  Social learning of food preferences in rodents:  rapid appetitive learning.  Current Protocols in Neuroscience 8.5D.1-8.5D.8.  
• Kiyokawa Y, Takeuchi Y, Nishihara M, Mori Y (2009) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Main+olfactory+system+mediates+social+buffering+of+conditioned+fear+responses+in+male+rats.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1319725530000||\)  Main olfactory system mediates social buffering of conditioned fear responses in male rats.  European Journal of Neuroscience 29:777-785.

8 November 2011:  Anuttama Sheela Mohan

• These two papers are a point/counterpoint "Perspective" pair published in Neuron this year:
• Sahay A, Wilson DA, Hen R (2011) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/WilsonHenNeuron.pdf?version=2&modificationDate=1320542837000||\)  Pattern Separation: A Common Function for New Neurons in Hippocampus and Olfactory Bulb.  Neuron 70:582.
• Aimone JB, Deng W, Gage FH (2011) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/GageNeuron.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1320542859000||\) Resolving New Memories: A Critical Look at the Dentate Gyrus, Adult Neurogenesis, and Pattern Separation.  Neuron 70:589.

15 November 2011:  Society for Neuroscience meeting -- NO BCS

• NEWS ITEM:  Tom Griffiths will be speaking this Friday, 18 November, at the Psychology Colloquium (3:30 in Uris Hall 202).  You may remember him from such previous BCS papers as Tenenbaum JB, Griffiths TL (2001) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Behav+Brain+Sci+2001+Tenenbaum.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1303139935000||\)  Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24:629-640.  You can fill the empty space in your soul by rereading that paper, or his more recent work.  

22 November 2011:  Guoshi Li

• Guoshi is presenting his own work:  a computational model of cholinergic neuromodulation in olfactory bulb. 

29 November 2011:  Sasha Devore

• Sasha will present at the first BCS meeting of spring semester instead, on the topic of active sensation

Spring Semester 2011-2012

For Spring Semester 2011-2012, 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|../../../../../../../../../../display/BCS/Past+BCS+Meetings|||||||||\.

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.  

BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy of Fall 2011.  In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown.  Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall.  We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers.  Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers.  You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers.  That's great.  Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation.  Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.  

That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized.  Not a problem.  

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  (1-2 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar:  PSYCH 6271-101  (class number 8699).  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.

24 January 2012:  Organizational Meeting

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

31 January 2012:  No meeting

• A week off, so that you can get that thing done that you wanted to get done but couldn't because you didn't have the time.  Until now.  

7 February 2012:  Thom Cleland

• Three Ways to Break Your Olfactory Bulb's Memory Circuitry.  Recent work on learning and memory within olfactory bulb -- in particular, the effects of muscarinic cholinergic antagonists, alpha-1 noradrenergic antagonists, isoflurane anesthesia, and potentially the fast glutamate reuptake transporter.  

14 February 2012:  Sasha Devore

• Schroeder CE, Wilson DA, Radman T, Scharfman H, Lakatos P (2010)\  Dynamics of Active Sensing and perceptual selection.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology 20:172-176.  

21 February 2012:  Matt Law

• Ferezou, Haiss, Gentet, Aronoff, Weber, Petersen (2007)\  Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Cortical Sensorimotor Integration in Behaving Mice.  Neuron 56:907-923.

28 February 2012:  TBD

• Thom out of town

6 March 2012:  TBD

• Thom out of town

13 March 2012:  Licurgo de Almeida

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

20 March 2012:  SPRING BREAK - NO BCS MEETING

• n/a

27 March 2012:  Dave Bulkin

• Fries, P. (2009) Neuronal gamma-band synchronization as a fundamental process in cortical computation. Annual Review of Neuroscience. 32, 209-224\.

3 April 2012:  Guoshi Li

• Julie Chapuis and Don Wilson (2011)\  Bidirectional plasticity of cortical pattern recognition and behavioral sensory acuity.  Nature Neuroscience.  
• Supplementary information\ from Chapuis and Wilson (2011). 

10 April 2012:  Greg Peters

• Hyman JM, Ma L, Balaguer-Ballester E, Durstewitz D, Seamans JK (2012)\ Contextual encoding by ensembles of medial prefrontal cortex neurons.  PNAS 109(13): 5086-5091.

17 April 2012:  SiWei Luo

• Joseph LeDoux (2012). Rethinking the Emotional Brain. Neuron, 73, 653-676.\

24 April 2012:  Adam Miller

• Liu X, Ramirez S, Pang PT, Puryear CB, Govindarajan A, Deisseroth K, Tonegawa S (2012)\  Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall.  Nature, in press. 

1 May 2012: CANCELED

Fall Semester 2012-2013

For Fall Semester 2012-2013, 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 .

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.  

We are considering decision making and 'neuroeconomics' as a possible organizing theme for Spring 2013. 

     ---

BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy of Fall 2011.  In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown.  Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall.  We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers.  Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers.  You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers.  That's great.  Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation.  Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.  

That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized.  Not a problem.  

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  (1-2 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar:  PSYCH 6271-101  (class number 8699).  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.

4 September 2012:  Organizational Meeting

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

11 September 2012:  Dave Bulkin

• Stimulus contrast modulates functional connectivity in visual cortex. Nauhaus I, Busse L, Carandini M, Ringach DL. Nat Neurosci. 2009.\
• Network Rhythms Influence the Relationship between Spike-Triggered Local Field Potential and Functional Connectivity. Ray S, Maunsell JH. J Neurosci. 2011.\
• Robustness of traveling waves in ongoing activity of visual cortex. Nauhaus I, Busse L, Ringach DL, Carandini M. J Neurosci. 2012.\

18 September 2012:  No meeting this week. Use the found time for something important or fun!

25 September 2012:  Adam Miller

• Jason M. Scimeca and David Badre, 2012, Striatal Contributions to Declarative Memory Retrieval. Neuron.\
• David J Foster and James J Knierim, 2012, Sequence learning and the role of the hippocampus in rodent navigation. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.\ 

2 October 2012:  Sasha DeVore

• Alexandre Zenon & Richard J. Krauzlis (2012). Attention deficits without cortical neuronal deficits. Nature, 489:434-9.\

9 October 2012:  NEUROSCIENCE DAY

• Cornell's Neuroscience Program sponsors the annual Neuroscience Day events today.
• 9 am - 6 pm, in the Atrium/Morison Room of Corson-Mudd Hall

16 October 2012:  SFN

• SFN Conference - no BCS meeting

23 October 2012:  Matt Law

• K. Allen, N. Rawlins, D. Bannerman and J. Csicsvari1 (2012). Hippocampal Place Cells Can Encode Multiple Trial-Dependent Features through Rate Remapping. J Neurosci, 32(42):14752-66\.

30 October 2012:  Lindsey Vedder

• 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.

20 November 2012:  Guoshi Li

• Cancelled in favor of BEN job talk.

27 November 2012:  Matt Lewis

• Andrew A. Pierce and Allison W. Xu (2010)\. De Novo Neurogenesis in Adult Hypothalamus as a Compensatory Mechanism to Regulate Energy Balance. Journal of Neuroscience 30(2):723--30.
• Daniel A Lee, et al (2012)\. Tanycytes of the hypothalamic median eminence form a diet-responsive neurogenic niche. Nature Neuroscience 15(5):700-2.
• Maia V. Kokoeva, Huali Yin, Jeffrey S. Flier (2005)\. Neurogenesis in the Hypothalamus of Adult Mice: Potential Role in Energy Balance. Science 310:679-683.

     Bonus content based on discussion:

• Lee and Blackshaw 2012 review\.
• Kempermann Perspectives 2012 review\.

     More bonus content based on discussion -- the 2011 point/counterpoint articles in Neuron on the putative role of neurogenesis in pattern separation in olfactory bulb:

• Aimone, Deng, Gage 2011 perspective\.
• Sahay, Wilson, Hen 2011 perspective\.

Spring Semester 2012-2013

For Spring Semester 2012-2013, 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 .

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.  

    ---

BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy, in place since Fall 2011.  In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown.  Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall.  We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers.  Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers.  You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers.  That's great.  Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation.  Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.  

That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized.  Not a problem.  

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  (1-2 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.

22 January 2013:  Organizational Meeting

• 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

• Ziv, Burns, Cocker, Hameli, Kitch, Gamal and Schnitzer (2013). Long-term dynamics of CA1 hippocampal place codes. Nature Neuroscience, 16(3):264-8.

23 April 2013:  Guoshi Li

• Boergers, Epstein, Kopell (2005).  Background gamma rhythmicity and attention in cortical local circuits:  a computational study.  PNAS 102(19): 7002-7007.  Background gamma rhythmicity and attention in cortical local circuits: A computational study

30 April 2013:  SiWei Luo

• Maffei, Haley, Fontanini (2012).  Neural processing of gustatory information in insular circuits.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology 22:709-716.  This review is background.
• Samuelson. Gardner, Fontanini (2013).  Thalamic contribution to cortical processing of taste and expectation.  Journal of Neuroscience 33(5):1815-1827.  

Fall Semester 2013-2014

For Spring Semester 2013-2014, 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 .

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.  

    ---

BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy, in place since Fall 2011.  In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown.  Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall.  We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers.  Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers.  You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers.  That's great.  Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation.  Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.  

That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized.  Not a problem.  

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 messageleave 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  (1-2 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.

    ---

3 September 2013:  Organizational Meeting

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

10 September 2013:  Khena Swallow  (Introductory readings on attention)

• Desimone and Duncan (1995). Neural mechanisms of selective visual attention.  This review is still the canonical theoretical framework for visual attention in neuroscience.  We are likely to refer back to it repeatedly over the course of the semester as we read and discuss other papers.
• Chapter 1 from Harold Pashler's book The Psychology of Attention (1998).  A classic from the cognitive science perspective.  Particularly notable is the author's position that the term "attention" is poorly defined and no longer useful.  

17 September 2013:  Dave Bulkin

• Muzzio et al (Kandel lab) (2009).  Attention enhances the retrieval and stability of visuospatial and olfactory representations in the dorsal hippocampus.  
• Fenton et al (2010).  Attention-like modulation of hippocampus place cell discharge.  

24 September 2013:  Adam Miller

• Gershman, Schapiro, Hupbach and Norman (2013). Neural Context Reinstatement Predicts Memory Misattribution. J. Neuroscience 33(20):8590-5.
• Eisenberg, Kobilo, Berman and Dudai (2003). Stability of Retrieved Memory: Inverse Correlation with Trace Dominance. Science 301:1102-4.

1 October 2013 ( Thom may be absent ):  Lindsey Vedder

• David A. Oakley and Peter W. Halligan (2013). Hypnotic suggestion: opportunities for cognitive neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience 14:565-576.

8 October 2013:  Pedro Rittner

• Hasselmo and McGaughy (2004).  High acetylcholine levels set circuit dynamics for attention and encoding and low acetylcholine levels set dynamics for consolidation.  Progress in Brain Research 145. 
• Hasselmo (2006).  The role of acetylcholine in learning and memory.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16: 710-715.

15 October 2013:  FALL BREAK 

• No BCS meeting.

22 October 2013:  Phil Perrone

• Lickliter R, Bahrick LE, Markham RG (2006).  Intersensory redundancy educates selective attention in bobwhite quail embryos. Developmental Science 9:604-615.

29 October 2013:  Guoshi Li

• Ardid S, Wang X-J, Compte A (2007).  An integrated microcircuit model of attentional processing in the neocortex. Journal of Neuroscience 27(32):8486-8495. 

5 November 2013:  Rachel Swanson

• Mikiko Kadohisa, Philippe Petrov, Mark Stokes, Natasha Sigala, Mark Buckley, David Gaffan, Makoto Kusunoki and John Duncan (2013). Dynamic Construction of a Coherent Attentional State in a Prefrontal Cell Population. Neuron 80:235-246.

12 November 2013:  Society for Neuroscience Meeting

• No BCS meeting.

19 November 2013:  NO MEETING

• No BCS meeting

26 November 2013:  SiWei Luo

• A.J. Austin and T. Duka (2010). Mechanisms of attention for appetitive and aversive outcomes in Pavlovian conditioning. Behavioral Brain Research (213)19-26.
• Felipe L. Schiffino, Vivian Zhou and Peter C. Holland (2013). Posterior parietal cortex is critical for the encoding, consolidation, and retrieval of a memory that guides attention for learning. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi:10.1111/ejn.12417

3 December 2013:  Isle Bastille

• Stephana C, Wilkinson A, Huber L (2012).  Have we met before? Pigeons recognise familiar human faces.  Avian biology research 5(2):75-80.

Spring Semester 2013-2014

For Spring Semester 2013-2014, 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 .

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.

---

BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy, in place since Fall 2011. In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown. Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall. We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers. Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers. You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers. That's great. Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation. Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.

That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized. Not a problem.

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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28 January 2014: Organizational Meeting

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

4 February 2014: Group discussion of Charles Schroeder's work - no designated presenter.

• J. Besle, C. Schevon, A. Mehta, P. Lakatos, R. Goodman, G. McKhann, R. Emerson and C. Schroeder (2011). Tuning of the Human Neocortex to the Temporal Dynamics of Attended Events. J. Neurosci 31(9):3176-85.
• P. Lakatos, G. Karmos, A. Mehta, I. Ulbert, C. Schroeder (2008). Entrainment of Neuronal Oscillations as a Mechanism of Attentional Selection. Science 321:110-113.

11 February 2014: Dave Bulkin

• Y. Saalmann, M. Pinsk, L. Wang, X. Li and S. Kastner (2012). The Pulvinar Regulates Information Transmission Between Cortical Areas Based on Attention Demands. Science 337:753-6.

Additional references:

• Re Granger causality: Bressler SL, Seth AK (2011) Wiener-Granger causality: a well-established methodology. NeuroImage 58:323-329.
• Re the thalamus being more than a relay: Sherman SM (2007) The thalamus is more than just a relay. Curr Opin Neurobiol 17(4):417-422.
• Rachel's book: Sherman SM, Guillery RW (2013). Functional connections of cortical areas: a new view from the thalamus. MIT Press.

18 February 2014: FEBRUARY BREAK

• No meeting

25 February 2014: TBD

• TBD

4 March 2014: Phil Perrone

• C. Asplund, J. Todd, A. Snyder and R. Marois (2010). A central role for the lateral prefrontal cortex in goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention. Nature Neuroscience,13(4):507-512.

11 March 2014: TBD

• Thom might be out of town

18 March 2014: David Smith

•   K. Miura, Z. Mainen and N. Uchida1 (2012).  Odor representations in olfactory cortex: distributed rate coding and decorrelated population activity. Neuron 74:1087-1098.

25 March 2014: Khena Swallow

• J. Arsenault, K. Nelissen, B. Jarraya and W. Vanduffel (2013). Dopaminergic Reward Signals Selectively Decrease fMRI Activity in Primate Visual Cortex. Neuron 77:1174-1186.

1 April 2014: SPRING BREAK

• No meeting

8 April 2014: Lindsey Vedder

• M. Schoenfeld, J. Hopf, C. Merkel1, H. Heinze & S. Hillyard. (2014). Object-based attention involves the sequential activation of feature-specific cortical modules. Nature Neuroscience 17(4): 619-626.

15 April 2014: Adam Miller

• Harel A, Kravitz DJ, Baker OI (2014).  Task context impacts visual object processing differentially across the cortex. PNAS.

22 April 2014: Cory Horowitz

• Paulk AC, Stacey JA, Pearson TWJ, Taylor GJ, Moore RJD, Srinivasan MV, van Swinderen B (2014). Selective attention in the honeybee optic lobes precedes behavioral choices. PNAS 111(13):5006-5011.

29 April 2014:

• TBD

6 May 2014: Rachel Swanson

• M. Chalk, J. Herrero, M. Gieselmann, L. Delicato, S. Gotthardt and A. Thiele (2010).  Attention Reduces Stimulus-Driven Gamma Frequency Oscillations and Spike Field Coherence in V1. Neuron 66, 114–125.

Fall Semester 2014-2015

For Fall Semester 2014-2015, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will be on hiatus.  Watch this space for our reformation in Spring 2015.

Spring Semester 2014-2015

For Spring Semester 2014-2015, 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 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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In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown. Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall. We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers. Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers. You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers. That's great. Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation. Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.

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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27 January 2015:  Organizational Meeting

3 February 2015:  Dave Bulkin

• Wikenheiser, Redish (2015).  Hippocampal theta sequences reflect current goals.  Nature Neuroscience 18: 289–294

10 February 2015: David Smith

• F. Do-Monte, K, Quinones-Laracuente & G. Quirk (2015). A temporal shift in the circuits mediating retrieval of fear memory. Nature, epub doi: 10.1038/nature14030.
• K. Smith, A. Virkuda, K. Deisserothb and A. Graybiel (2013). Reversible online control of habitual behavior by optogenetic perturbation of medial prefrontal cortex. PNAS 109(46):18932-7.

17 February 2015: Feb Break - no BCS.

24 February 2015: 

3 March 2015: No designated presenter, so please read the article and come prepared to discuss it.

• M. deBettencourt, J. Cohen, R. Lee, K. Norman & N. Turk-Browne (2015). Closed-loop training of attention with real-time brain imaging. Nature Neuroscience 18(3):470-8.

10 March 2015: Rachel Swanson

• C. Harvey, P. Coen, & D. Tank (2012). Choice-specific sequences in parietal cortex during a virtual-navigation Wimberetal15.pdfdecision task. Nature 484: 62-68.

• Additional (optional) background reading: Dean V. Buonomano and Wolfgang Maass (2009). State-dependent computations: spatiotemporal processing in cortical networks. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10:113-125.

17 March 2015: Thom Cleland

• Mazor O, Laurent G (2005).  Transient dynamics versus fixed points in odor representations by locust antennal lobe projection neurons.  Neuron 48:661-673. 
• Miller JP (2005).  A rose by any other code.  Whatever that means.  (This is a short Neuron Previews article about the Mazor & Laurent paper).  

24 March 2015: Khena Swallow

• L. Hsieh, M. Gruber, L. Jenkins and C. Ranganath (2014). Hippocampal Activity Patterns Carry Information About Objects in Temporal Context. Neuron 81, 1165-1178.

31 March 2015: Spring Break - no BCS

7 April 2015: Gina Mason

• Robertson SS, Watamura SE, Wilbourn MP (2012).  Attentional dynamics of infant visual foraging.  PNAS 109(28):11460-11464.  
  
  

14 April 2015: No meeting

21 April 2015:  David Smith

• M. Wimber, A. Alink, I. Charest, N. Kriegeskorte & M. Anderson (2015). Retrieval induces adaptive forgetting of competing memories via cortical pattern suppression. Nature Neuroscience, doi:10.1038/nn.3973.

28 April 2015:  Ayon Borthakur

• Riecke H (2013).  Olfactory computation and adult neurogenesis.  Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience.  Springer.
• Chow S-F, Wick SD, Riecke H (2012).  Neurogenesis Drives Stimulus Decorrelation in a Model of the Olfactory Bulb.  PLoS Computational Biology 8:3.

Read the encyclopedia article for an easier overview of how Hermann Riecke et al think about the issue and how their model is supposed to work; it will prepare you to better understand the model itself in the Chow et al paper.  We won't go into all of the math, but will go through the figures and see how it works, what it predicts, etc..

• Rowat P, Selverston AI (1996).  Figure 3 in this paper shows the simpler nullcline example that Thom was trying to illustrate on the board.  

5 May 2015:  Rachel Swanson

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

Fall Semester 2015-2016

25 August 2015:  Organizational Meeting

• Barron et al., 2015.  Embracing multiple definitions of learning.  Trends in Neurosciences 38(7):405.
  • This short TINS paper reflects on different views of learning derived from different fields of study (neuroscience, psychology, behavioral ecology, machine learning).  

1 September 2015:  No meeting.

8 September 2015:  Adam Miller

• J. Alfei, R. Monti, V. Molina, A. Bueno and G. Urcelay. (2015). Prediction error and trace dominance determine the fate of fear memories after post-training manipulations. Learning and Memory 22:385-400.

15 September 2015:  David Smith

• Akers et al (2014). Hippocampal Neurogenesis Regulates Forgetting During Adulthood and Infancy.Science, 344:598-602.

Optional reading: This review article has some background material on neurognesis as it relates to the main paper.

• P. Frankland, S. Kohler and S. Josselyn (2014). Hippocampal neurogenesis and forgetting. Trends in Neurosciences. 36(9):497-503.

22 September 2015:  David Smith

• Retrosplenial Cortical Neurons Encode Important Navigational Cues - recent data from the Smith lab, no readings.

29 September 2015:  Marissa Rice

• M. Guigueno, D. Snow, S. MacDougall-Shackleton, D. Sherry (2014). Female cowbirds have more accurate spatial memory than males. Biology Letters 10.

6 October 2015:  Norma Hernandez

• J, de Bourbon-Teles, P. Bentley, S. Koshino, K. Shah, A. Dutta, P. Malhotra, T. Egner, M. Husain, and D. Soto (2014).Thalamic Control of Human Attention Driven by Memory and Learning. Current Biology 24:993-9.

13 October 2015:  Fall Break - no BCS

20 October 2015:  Society for Neuroscience meeting - no BCS

27 October 2015:  Marissa Rice

• J. Vargas, J. Lopez, and C. Salas (2004). Encoding of Geometric and Featural Spatial Information by Goldfish (Carassius auratus). J. Comp. Psych. 118(2):206-216.

10 November 2015: Khena Swallow

• G.E. Wimmer, E. Braun, N. Daw and D. Shohamy (2014). Episodic Memory Encoding Interferes with Reward Learning and Decreases Striatal Prediction Errors. J Neurosci, 34(45):14901-12).

17 November 2015:  Alex Ophir

• S. Owen, S. Tuncdemir, P. Bader, N. Tirko, G. Fishell & R. Tsien (2013). Oxytocin enhances hippocampal spike transmission by modulating fast-spiking interneurons. Nature 500:458-464.

24 November 2015:  Lisa Hiura

• H. Smid, G. Wang, T. Bukovinszky, J. Steidle, M. Bleeker, J. van Loon and L. Vet. (2007). Species-specific acquisition and consolidation of long-term memory in parasitic wasps. Proc R Soc B 274:1539-46.

1 December 2015:  Article Potluck

• Bring your favorite (or most controversial) recent article for a 5-10 min presentation.

Spring Semester 2015-2016