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Fall Semester
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2013-
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2014
For Spring Semester 20122013-20132014, 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 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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Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.
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3 September 2013: 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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10 September 2013:
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- 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.
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Introductory readings on attention
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17 September 2013: TBD
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24 September 2013:
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1 October 2013 (Thom
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may be absent): TBD
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26 February 2013: Dave Bulkin and David Smith
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- 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.
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5 March 2013: Dave Bulkin and David Smith
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- 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.
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8 October 2013:
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- 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.
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19 March 2013: SPRING BREAK
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- No meeting
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26 March 2013 (Thom absent): Greg Peters
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- 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.
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2 April 2013: Phil Perrone
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- D. Salzman and S. Fusi (2010) Emotion, Cognition, and Mental State Representation in Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex. Ann Rev Neurosci.
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9 April 2013: Rachel Swanson
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- Bagdasarian et al (2013). Pre-neuronal morphological processing of object location by individual whiskers. Nature Neuroscience, doi:10.1038/nn.3378.
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16 April 2013 (Thom maybe absent): Dave Bulkin and David Smith
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- Ziv, Burns, Cocker, Hameli, Kitch, Gamal and Schnitzer (2013). Long-term dynamics of CA1 hippocampal place codes. Nature Neuroscience, 16(3):264-8.
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23 April 2013: Guoshi Li
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- 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
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15 October 2013: FALL BREAK
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- No BCS meeting.
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22 October 2013: TBD
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29 October 2013: TBD
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5 November 2013: TBD
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12 November 2013: Society for Neuroscience Meeting
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- No BCS meeting.
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19 November 2013: TBD
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26 November 2013: TBD
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3 December 2013: TBD
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30 April 2013: SiWei Luo
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- 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.