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Fall Semester
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2011-
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2012
For Spring Fall Semester 20102011-20112012, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.
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Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.
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30 August 2011: Organizational Meeting
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- No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
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6 September 2011:
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- 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).
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8 February 2011: Dave Bulkin
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- Optional Reading: Bulkin and Groh, in press, Systematic Mapping of the Monkey Inferior Colliculus Reveals Enhanced Low Frequency Sound Representation.
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TBD
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13 September 2011: TBD
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20 September 2011: TBD
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22 February 2011: TBD
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27 September 2011:
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4 October 2011: TBD
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11 October 2011: TBD
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18 October 2011: TBD
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25 October 2011: TBD
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1 November 2011: TBD
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8 November 2011: TBD
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15 November 2011: TBD
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- 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.
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8 March 2011: Licurgo de Almeida
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- 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.
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15 March 2011: Matt Lewis
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- 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.
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22 March 2011: SPRING BREAK -- NO MEETING
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- If you come to BCS today, you will be mocked.
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29 March 2011: Laura Darnieder
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- Gyorgy Buzsaki (2010). Neural Syntax: Cell Assemblies, Synapsembles, and Readers. Neuron, 68:362-385.
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5 April 2011: Michelle Tong
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- 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.
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12 April 2011: Tanya Nauvel
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- 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.
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19 April 2011: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
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- 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) 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.
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26 April 2011: Adam Miller
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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.
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3 May 2011: CANCELLED
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22 November 2011: TBD
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29 November 2011: TBD
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