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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive.
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The Fall Spring 2015 semester's theme is “Learning within constraintsSocial Stimuli and Neural Representations”. This is intentionally broad, in part because BCS itself has broadened this semester to include behavioral ecology approaches. Here are some examples of what we have in mind:
- Learning is constrained, and therefore shaped in form and content, by preexisting memory. How so?
- Learning is constrained by species-specific capacities and attunements, sensory or otherwise. When is this important?
- Learning is constrained by modality: how is learning about space different from, or similar to, learning about nonspatial stimuli? How is space encoded; how is this similar to and different from other types of information encoding? This could be a proxy for hippocampus = place codes vs hippocampus = episodic memory wars.
- Learning is strongly shaped by ‘educated guesses’ of whether a new stimulus is ‘the same’ as a previous stimulus or not: the former is based on generalization and leads to the reinforcement learning literature; the latter instead leads one into literatures of competition and interference among conflicting but similar memories. What do we know about this ongoing process, and is there something to be gained by combining and comparing the reinforcement learning literature with the interference literature? This essentially statistical process is also the basis for mimicry and its advantages, especially regarding imperfect mimics.
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- to social stimuli (e.g. conspecifics) influence neural representations (e.g. spatial-contextual representations in the hippocampus)?
- How are social stimuli, or stimuli that are related to social processes represented?
- How is information related to individual or species recognition represented in the brain?
Presenting your own work is always welcome, in whatever manner you like.
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Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.
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2 February 23 August 2016: Organizational Meeting
9 February 2016: Marissa Rice
- U. Neisser (1981). John Dean’s Memory: A case study. Cognition, 9:l-22.
- D. R. Addis, A. T. Wong, D. L. Schacter (2007). Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia 45:1363-1377.
16 February 2016: Feb Break - no meeting.
23 February 2016: Norma Hernandez
- L. Savage, J. Hall, and R. Vetreno (2011). Anterior thalamic lesions alter both hippocampal dependent behavior and hippocampal acetylcholine release in the rat. Learning and Memory 18:751–758.
1 March 2016: David gone - no meeting this week
- No meeting.
8 March 2016: David
R. Kaplan, M. Adhikari, R. Hindriks, D. Mantini, Y. Murayama, N. Logothetis, G. Deco (2016). Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples Influence Selective Activation of the Default Mode Network. Current Biology 26, 686–691.
Additional papers on ripples we talked about today:
D. Foster & M. Wilson (2006). Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature 440:680-683.
K. Diba & G. Buzsaki (2007). Forward and reverse hippocampal place-cell sequences during ripples. Nature Neuroscience 10(10):1241-1242.
S. Jadhav, C. Kemere, P. W. German, L. Frank (2012). Awake Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples Support Spatial Memory. Science 336:1454-1458.
15 March 2016: Joseph
- Cleland, T. A., Chen, S. Y. T., Hozer, K. W., Ukatu, H. N., Wong, K. J., & Zheng, F. (2012). Sequential mechanisms underlying concentration invariance in biological olfaction. Bioinspired solutions to the challenges of chemical sensing, 7
- Barrett, L. F., & Simmons, W. K. (2015). Interoceptive predictions in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(7), 419-429.
22 March 2016: Group Discussion (no official presenter)
- E. Goldfarb, M. Chun, E. Phelps (2016). Memory-Guided Attention: Independent Contributions of the Hippocampus and Striatum. Neuron 89:317-324.
29 March 2016: Spring Break - no meeting
5 April 2016: Marissa Rice/Group Discussion
- C. Shawn Green1 and Daphne Bavelier (2015). Action video game training for cognitive enhancement. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 4:103-108.
Additional readings following discussions at the meeting:
- Mnih V, Kavukcuoglu K, et al. (2015). Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature 518:529.
12 April 2016: Open (Thom gone?)
- TBA
19 April 2016: Khena Swallow
L. Batterink, J. Creery, and K. Paller (2016). Phase of Spontaneous Slow Oscillations during Sleep Influences Memory-Related Processing of Auditory Cues. Journal of Neuroscience 36(4):1401-9.
26 April 2016: Group Discussion (no official presenter)
D. Bendor & M. Wilson (2012). Biasing the content of hippocampal replay during sleep. Nature Neuroscience 15(10):1439-44.
- G. Lavilléon, M. Lacroix, L. Rondi-Reig & K. Benchenane (2015). Explicit memory creation during sleep demonstrates a causal role of place cells in navigation. Nature Neuroscience 18(4):493-95.
3 May 2016: Joseph & all
- Hu X, Antony JW, et al. (2015) Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep. Science 348(6238):1013-1015.
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30 August 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir
- Tavares, R., Mendelsohn, A., Grossman, Y., Williams, C., Shapiro, M., Trope, Y., and Schiller, D. (2015). A Map for Social Navigation in the Human Brain. Neuron 87:231-43.
6 September 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir
G. Alexander, S. Farris, J. Pirone, C. Zheng, L. Colgin & S. Dudek (2015). Social and novel contexts modify hippocampal CA2 representations of space. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038.