Fall 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.

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

Shortlink to this page:  https://cornellneuro.science/cnsjournalclub

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Presentations in the CNS JC are intended to "show us what you are interested in"; i.e., present work within your subfield that illustrates why it is interesting and broadly applicable.  It is less important to choose papers that you think will be close to every attendees' heart than it is to choose papers that are blisteringly important or interesting or controversial in your own subfield, and explain/share this with the group.  It's good for all of us.  The corollary is that journal club members attend regularly, and don't decide whether to attend in a given week based on what is being presented.  

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

To add yourself to the mailing list, send a plain-text email to bcs-L-request@cornell.edu  (BCS is the historical name of the journal club) 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 CNS 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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22 August 2023:  Organizational Meeting

29 August 2023:  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

• 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

26 September 2023:  Lindsay

3 October 2023:  TBD

10 October 2023:   NO MEETING - FALL BREAK

17 October 2023:  TBD

24 October 2023:  Marta

31 October 2023:  TBD

7 November 2023:  TBD

14 November 2023:  NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

21 November 2023:  TBD

28 November 2023:  TBD

Until next spring...