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Spring Semester 2015-2016

For Fall and Spring Semesters 2015-2016, 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.

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The Spring 2015 semester's theme is  “Social Stimuli and Neural Representations”.  This is intentionally broad because we want presenters to bring many different perspectives to the BCS journal club.  Here are some examples of what we have in mind:

  • How to social stimuli (e.g. conspecifics) influence neural representations (e.g. spatial-contextual representations in the hippocampus)?
  • How are social stimuli, or stimuli that are related to social processes represented? 
  • How is information related to individual or species recognition represented in the brain?

Presenting your own work is always welcome, in whatever manner you like.

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 (1 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar: PSYCH 6271. The course requires that you present at least once during the semester and participate actively overall. You are welcome to attend without enrolling, of course, but we do appreciate you enrolling if you plan to attend the whole semester and to present.

Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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23 August 2016:  Organizational Meeting

30 August 2016:  David Smith and Alex Ophir

6 September 2016:  David Smith and Alex Ophir

13 September 2016:  Marissa Rice and Alex Ophir

Additional (optional) reading:

20 September 2016: No meeting this week

  • No readings

27 September 2016:  David Smith and Alex Ophir (Retrosplenial Cortex as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding)

Additional background for those interested (we'll discuss these in class).

  • Vedder, L. C., Miller, A. M. P., Harrison, M. B., and Smith, D. M. (2016). Retrosplenial Cortical Neurons Encode Navigational Cues, Trajectories and Reward Locations During Goal Directed Navigation. Cerebral Cortex, DOI 10.1093/cercor/bwh192.
  • Phelps SM & Ophir AG (2009). Monogamous brains and alternative tactics: Neuronal V1aR, space use and sexual infidelity among male prairie voles. In Cognitive ecology: The evolutionary ecology of information processing and decision making. 2nd Ed. (eds: Dukas R. & Ratcliffe J.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

11 October 2016:  Fall Break - no journal club

18 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (Ventral hippocampus as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding)

 

18 October 2016:  Open

  • TBA

25 October 2016:  Open

  • TBA

1 November 2016:  Open

  • TBA

8 November 2016:  Open

  • TBA

15 November 2016:  SFN Meeting - no journal club

 

22 November 2016:  Khena Swallow

  • TBA

29 November 2016:  Open

  • TBA

 

 

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