Spring Semester 2014-2015

For Spring Fall Semester 20142015-20152016, 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 Fall 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.

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Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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27 January 25 August 2015:  Organizational Meeting

3 February 1 September 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

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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

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8 September 2015: TBD

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15 September 2015:  TBD

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22 September 2015:  TBD

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29 September 2015:  TBD

• Thom out of town

6 October 2015:  TBD

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13 October 2015:  Fall Break - no BCS

20 October 2015:  Society for Neuroscience meeting - no BCS

27 October 2015:  TBD

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10 November 2015: TBD

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17 November 2015:  TBD

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24 November 2015:  TBD

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1 December 2015:  TBD

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