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Spring Semester 2023-2024

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101 (6528), meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 to 1:00 pm(ish) in Uris Hall 205.Ives Hall 107 - NOTE THE NEW ROOM!

Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.

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Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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22 August 202323 January 2024:  Organizational Meeting29 August 2023

30 January 2024:  Dev Subramanian

• A Comparison of Retrosplenial and Hippocampal Spatial and Contextual Firing Patterns (Dev's latest research)
• Optional Background reading: AMP Miller , LC Vedder , LM Law and DM Smith (2014). Cues, context, and long-term memory: the role of the retrosplenial cortex in spatial cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:586.
• Mentioned during presentation:  Tang G, Shah A, Michmizos KP (2019) Spiking neural network on neuromorphic hardware for energy-efficient unidimensional SLAM.  arXiv 1903.02504v2. 

5 September 2023:  David Zheng

• N Gloveli, J Simonnet, W Tang, M Concha-Miranda, E Maier, A Dvorzhak, D Schmitz and M Brecht (2023). Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray. Neuron 111, 1-12.

12 September 2023:  Julia Jun

• AE McLaughlin & AD Redish (2023). Optogenetic disruption of the prelimbic cortex alters long-term decision strategy but not valuation on a spatial delay discounting task. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 200 107734.

19 September 2023:  James Cunningham

• Luisier A-C, Petitpierre G, Berod AC, Garcia-Burgos D, Bensafi M (2018).  Effects of familiarization on odor hedonic responses and food choices in children with autism spectrum disorders.  Autism 23(6): 1460-1471.
• Background information in this optional review:  Barros F, Soares SC (2020).  Giving meaning to the social world in autism spectrum disorders:  olfaction as a missing piece of the puzzle?  

26 September 2023:  Lindsay Sailer

• Lindsay will present results from her collaboration with Caitlyn Finton:  Hippocampal CA1 lesions impact mating tactics in prairie voles

3 October 2023 (David out of town):  Xiyu Mei

• Mei L, Yan R, Yin L, Sullivan RM, Lin D (2023).  Antagonistic circuits mediating infanticide and maternal care in female mice.  Nature 618: 1006.  

10 October 2023:   NO MEETING - FALL BREAK

17 October 2023  (Thom may be absent):  Wendy Yang

• A Sarel, S Palgi, D Blum, J Aljadeff, L Las & N Ulanovsky (2022). Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding. Nature 609:119-157.

24 October 2023:  Marta Reales Moreno - CANCELLED, will be rescheduled for a later date.

• Y. Yu, A. Tsai, C. Ou, C. Cheng, F. Chang, B. Shyu and A. Huang (2023). Optogenetic stimulation in the medial prefrontal cortex modulates stimulus valence from rewarding and aversive to neutral states. Frontiers in Psychiatry, DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1119803.

31 October 2023:  Xin Zhao

• Xin will be presenting work from his project:  Social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in female mice.  Looking forward to feedback and discussion!

7 November 2023:  Marta Reales Moreno - Rescheduled.

• Y. Yu, A. Tsai, C. Ou, C. Cheng, F. Chang, B. Shyu and A. Huang (2023). Optogenetic stimulation in the medial prefrontal cortex modulates stimulus valence from rewarding and aversive to neutral states. Frontiers in Psychiatry, DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1119803.

14 November 2023:  NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

21 November 2023:  SFN Show and Tell

28 November 2023:  Shiping Li

• R. Hattori, B. Danskin, Z. Babic, N. Mlynaryk, T. Komiyama (2019). Area-Specificity and Plasticity of History-Dependent Value Coding During Learning. Cell 177:1858-72.

6 February 2024: 

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27 February 2024: Feb Break - no meeting

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12 March 2024:

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26 March 2024: 

2 April 2024: Spring Break - no meeting

9 April 2024:

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7 May 2024: 

Until next fallUntil next spring...