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B. Lasztoczi and T. Klausberger (2016). Hippocampal Place Cells Couple to Three Different Gamma Oscillations during Place Field Traversal. Neuron 91:34-40.
- Article discusses ideas central to neuronal information processing in a relatively well known brain network. We typically think of hippocampal place cells in the context of how much they fire (spike rates; e.g., with respect to place fields and the animal's physical location within an environment). The authors of this article offer an expanded framework that stresses the importance of when these cells fire (think small time-scales, spike-timing), rather than how much.
- A paper that came up during discussion: Using a new approach for identifying temporal structure in neuroimaging data, Baldassano et al. (2017) propose a theory of how continuous experience is divided into events that are represented in high-level cortex, are stored in long-term memory, and influence later perception. Khena notes: "There's a lot of interesting stuff in here, but I also find aspects of it to be pretty confusing or just wrong (if I understand them correctly)."
10 October 2017: Fall Break - No meeting
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