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Fall Semester 2011-2012

For Fall Semester 2011-2012, 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 yet to be determined, but our likely first speaker will discuss his own recent work relating to neural representations.  Please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.  

Starting in Fall 2011, BCS will try out a "minimal Powerpoint" policy.  In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown.  Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall.  We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers.  Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers.  You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers.  That's great.  Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation.  Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.  

That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized.  Not a problem.  

To add yourself to the BCS-L mailing list, send a plain-text email to bcs-L-request@cornell.edu with the body of the message saying simply join.  The subject line doesn't matter.  Sending the message leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list.  See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details. 

You can enroll in the BCS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit  (2 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar:  PSYCH 6271-102.  The course requires that you present at least once during the semester and participate actively overall.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

30 August 2011:  Organizational Meeting
  • No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
6 September 2011:  Rajeev Raizada 
  • Research talk:  "What makes different people's representations alike: A solution to the problem of across-subject fMRI decoding"
13 September 2011:  TBD
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20 September 2011:  TBD
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22 February 2011:  TBD
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27 September 2011:  TBD
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4 October 2011:  TBD
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11 October 2011:  TBD
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  • Thom will be absent.  
18 October 2011:   TBD
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25 October 2011:  TBD
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1 November 2011:  TBD
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8 November 2011:  TBD
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15 November 2011:  Society for Neuroscience meeting -- NO BCS
  • NEWS ITEM:  Tom Griffiths will be speaking this Friday, 18 November, at the Psychology Colloquium (3:30 in Uris Hall 202).  You may remember him from such previous BCS papers as Tenenbaum JB, Griffiths TL (2001)  Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24:629-640.  You can fill the empty space in your soul by rereading that paper, or his more recent work.  
22 November 2011:  TBD
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29 November 2011:  TBD
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