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Fall Semester 2010-2011

For Fall Semester 2010-2011, 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.

The overarching theme this semester is Systems of neuronal representation and learning.  Adhering to this theme is not required, but is strongly recommended.  Please interpret it broadly. It is intended to include such diverse topics as:  the systematic regulation of synaptic plasticity, Bayesian representations (including sensory representations as probability estimates), Bayesian and/or energetic optimality in neural encoding or transmission, perceptual learning, decision-making (including reward harvesting), temporal difference learning/dopamine (Schultz model), synaptic rules that give rise to systems-level learning properties. 

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Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

31 August 2010:  Organizational Meeting
  • No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
7 September 2010: Thom Cleland
  • The topic of the day is "structure learning."  Thom will present the PLoS One computational paper below with reference to the Behavioral Brain Research review of the overall topic (also below).  Please read at least one of the two (your choice).
  • Braun, Waldert, Aertsen, Wolpert, Mehring (2010).  Structure learning in a sensorimotor association task.  PLoS One 5(1):e8973.
  • Braun, Mehring, Wolpert (2010).  Structure learning in action.  Behavioural Brain Research 206:157-165.
14 September 2010: David Smith
21 September 2010:  Laura Darnieder
28 September 2010:  Michelle Tong
  • "A well-written review with bias" -- just the thing...
  • Hickok G (2009).  Eight problems for the mirror neuron theory of action understanding in monkeys and humans.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21(7):1229-1243.  (PubMed Central version)
5 October 2010:  Matt Lewis
  • Nir Y, Tononi G (2009) Dreaming and the brain: from phenomenology to neurophysiology.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14(2):88-100.
  • Schredl M et al (2009)  Information processing during sleep: the effect of olfactory stimuli on dream content and dream emotions.  Journal of Sleep Research 18:285-290. 
  • [OPTIONAL]  [Issa EB, Wang X (2008)|^J Neurosci 2008 Issa.pdf] Sensory responses during sleep in primate primary and secondary auditory cortex.  Journal of Neuroscience 28(53):14467-14480. 

12 October 2010: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
19 October 2010:  Guoshi Li
  • These papers concern unified models of synaptic plasticity, attempting to understand the underlying general rule(s) regulating synaptic weights and the diversity of conditions under which they may be altered. 
  • [Shouval HZ, Wang SS-H, Wittenberg GM (2010)|^STDP-A consequence of more fundamental rule.pdf] Spike timing dependent plasticity: a consequence of more fundamental learning rules  Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 4:19.  [This is a review article]

  • Shouval HZ, Bear MF, Cooper LN (2002) A unified model of NMDA receptor-dependent bidirectional synaptic plasticity.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99(16): 10831-10836.
26 October 2010:  Sasha Devore
  • Jazayeri M, Movshon JA (2006)  Optimal representation of sensory information by neuronal populations.  Nature Neuroscience 9(5):690-696 plus corrigendum.
  • Supplementary materials for Jazayeri & Movshon (2006).  Includes corrected equations as noted in corrigendum. 
2 November 2010:  Tanya Nauvel
9 November 2010:  Adam Miller
16 November 2010:  NO MEETING (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting)
23 November 2010:  Shane Peace
  • [Long MA, Jin DZ, Fee MS (2010)|^Nature2010 Long.pdf].  Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation. Nature 468(7322): 394-399.
30 November 2010: SiWei Luo
  • TBD
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