Spring Semester 2023-2024
The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101 (6528), meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 to 1:00 pm(ish) in Ives Hall 107 - NOTE THE NEW ROOM!
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
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. Thoughts? other ideas? Send them to Thom or bring them up at BCS.
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 (BCS is the historical name of the journal club) with the body subject line of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't mattersimply 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 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 (David Smith is on walkabout this semester). BCS meeting archive.
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23 January 2024: Organizational Meeting
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30 January 2024: Cancelled - see you next week.
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6 February
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2024:
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- 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.
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9 February 2010: Christina Sill
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- 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.
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16 February 2010: Patrick Gill
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- Fusi, Drews, and Abbott (2005). Cascade models of synaptically stored memories. Neuron.
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23 February 2010: NO MEETING
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- No Meeting. If you come, nobody will be there except for you.
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2 March 2010: Helene Porte
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- Mahon, Vautrelle, et al (2006). Distinct patterns of striatal medium spiny neuron activity during the natural sleep-wake cycle. J. Neuroscience.
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9 March 2010: Sasha Devore
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- 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.
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16 March 2010: Thomas Cleland
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- 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.
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23 March 2010: SPRING BREAK
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- 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.
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30 March 2010: SiWei Luo
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- Kalenscher et al. (2010). Reward-associated gamma oscillations in ventral striatum are regionally differentiated and modulate local firing activity. Journal of Neurophysiology.
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6 April 2010: Guoshi Li
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- TBD.
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13 April 2010: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
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- TBD.
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20 April 2010: Shane Peace and Ben Johnson
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- Results from planar-array multielectrode slice recordings of gamma oscillations in the mouse olfactory bulb.
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27 April 2010: TBD
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4 May 2010: Mike Wojnowicz
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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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