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Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.
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30 January 28 August 2018: Organizational Meeting
6 February 2018: Tim DeVoogd and Alex Ophir
R. Harris, L. O'Connell and H. Hofmann (2017). Brain Evolution, Development, and Plasticity. In (ed) Stephen V. Shepherd, The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience, First Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
13 February 2018: Wen-Yi Wu
D. Omer, S. Maimon, L. Las, N. Ulanovsky. (2018) Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science 359:218–24.
20 February 2018: FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING
27 February 2018: David Katz
R. Wood, M. Bauza, J. Krupic, S. Burton, A. Delekate, D. Chan & J. O'Keefe (2018). The honeycomb maze provides a novel test to study hippocampal-dependent spatial navigation. Nature 554:102-7.
Optional background reading: C. Paul, G. Magdab and S. Abel (2009). Spatial memory: Theoretical basis and comparative review on experimental methods in rodents. Behavioral Brain Research 203:151-164.
6 March 2018: Marissa Rice
D. Haun, C. Rapold, G. Janzen, and S. Levinson (2011). Plasticity of human spatial cognition: Spatial language and cognition covary across cultures. Cognition 119:70-80.
13 March 2018: Lisa Hiura
K. Tokarev, J. Bruno, I. Ljubicic, P. Kothari, S. Helekar, O. Tchernichovski, and H. Voss (2017). Sexual dimorphism in striatal dopaminergic responses promotes monogamy in social songbirds. eLife 6:e25819.
20 March 2018: Jesse Werth
Kass MD, Czarnecki LA, Moberly AH, McGann JP (2017) Differences in peripheral sensory input to the olfactory bulb between male and female mice. Scientific Reports 7:45851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep45851
27 March 2018: Jack Cook
Jack will be presenting work from his research project developing an analytical framework for odor learning. The readings are to get everybody in the right frame of mind for discussing this work in particular and the overall approach in general.
- Zaidi Q, Victor J, McDermott J, Geffen M, Bensmaia Sl, Cleland TA (2013). Perceptual spaces: mathematical structures to neural mechanisms. J Neurosci 33(45): 17597-17602.
- Lee JM (2013). Introduction to smooth manifolds, pages 1-17.
- For some additional background (optional):
- Lee JM (2011). Introduction to topological manifolds, 2nd ed., pages 1-17.
3 April 2018: SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING
10 April 2018: Dev Laxman Subramanian
D. Khodagholy, J. Gelinas, G. Buzsáki (2017). Learning-enhanced coupling between ripple oscillations in association cortices and hippocampus. Science 358:369–72.
17 April 2018: NO MEETING
24 April 2018: Angela Freeman
S. Dloniak, J. French & K. Holekamp (2006). Rank-related maternal effects of androgens on behaviour in wild spotted hyaenas. Nature 440:1190-1193.
1 May 2018: Roy Moyal
Singer W (2013). Cortical dynamics revisited. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17(12):616-626.
- Optional: Samaha J, Postle BR (2015) The speed of alpha-band oscillations predicts the temporal resolution of visual perception. Current Biology 25: 1-6.
- For an introduction to the concept of criticality and its relevance to neuroscience: Beggs JM, Timme N (2012) Being critical of criticality in the brain. Frontiers in Physiology 3:163.
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2 October 2018:
9 October 2018: FALL BREAK - NO MEETING
16 October 2018:
23 October 2018:
30 October 2018: Justas Birgiolas, University of Arizona (Postdoc candidate with Thom Cleland)
6 November 2018:
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20 November 2018:
27 November 2018:
4 December 2018: 8 May 2018: Article PotluckARTICLE POTLUCK
- Bring your favorite, most insightful, most surprising, oddest, or otherwise somehow compelling article or bit of data to share with the group (time limit of 5-10 min each).
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