Spring Semester
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2024
The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101 (6528), meets For Spring Semester 2013-2014, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 40 to 1:00 pm(ish) in Uris Hall 205. Ives Hall 107 - NOTE THE NEW ROOM!
Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (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.
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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.
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 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. 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 (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 matter. Sending the message 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 BCS CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit 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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23 January
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2024: Organizational Meeting
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30 January 2024: Cancelled - see you next week.
6 February 2024: 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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4 February 2014: Group discussion of Charles Schroeder's work - no designated presenter.
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- 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.
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11 February 2014: Dave Bulkin
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- 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.
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18 February 2014: FEBRUARY BREAK
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- No meeting
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25 February 2014: TBD
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- TBD
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4 March 2014: Phil Perrone
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- C. Asplund1, 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.
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11 March 2014: TBD
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- Thom might be out of town
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18 March 2014: David Smith
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- K. Miura, Z. Mainen and N. Uchida1 (2012). Odor Representations in Olfactory Cortex: Distributed Rate Coding and Decorrelated Population Activity. Neuron 74:1087-1098.
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25 March 2014: Khena Swallow
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- 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.
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1 April 2014: SPRING BREAK
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- No meeting
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8 April 2014: Lindsey Vedder
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- 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.
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15 April 2014: Adam Miller
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- Harel A, Kravitz DJ, Baker OI (2014). Task context impacts visual object processing differentially across the cortex. PNAS.
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22 April 2014: Cory Horowitz
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- TBD
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29 April 2014: Rachel Swanson
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- TBD
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6 May 2014: TBD
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