Fall Semester 2019-2020

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club) meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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

Shortlink to this page:  https://tinyurl.com/cornellcns

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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 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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3 September 2019:  Organizational Meeting

10 September 2019:  Celine Cammarata

• V. Namboodiri, J. Otis, K. van Heeswijk, E. Voets, R. Alghorazi, J. Rodriguez-Romaguera, S. Mihalas & G. Stuber (2019). Single-cell activity tracking reveals that orbitofrontal neurons acquire and maintain a long-term memory to guide behavioral adaptation. Nature Neuroscience 22:1110–1121.

17 September 2019:  Mary Elson

• M. Davis, K. Grogan and D. Maney (2019). Expression of oxytocin receptors in the zebra finch brain during vocal development. bioRxiv preprint doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/739623.

24 September 2019:  Lindsay Sailer

• L. Wang, V. Talwar, T. Osakada, A. Kuang, Z. Guo, T. Yamaguchi and D. Lin (2019). Hypothalamic Control of Conspecific Self-Defense. Cell Reports 26:1747–1758.

1 October 2019:  Jesse Werth

• K. Katori, H. Manabe, A. Nakashima, E. Dunfu, T. Sasaki, Y. Ikegaya, H. Takeuchi (2017). Sharp wave-associated activity patterns of cortical neurons in the mouse piriform cortex. European J Neurosci, 48:3246–3254.

Optional Additional Readings:

• A. Lee and M. Wilson (2002). Memory of Sequential Experience in the Hippocampus during Slow Wave Sleep. Neuron 36:1183-94.
• H. Manabe, I. Kusumoto-Yoshida, M. Ota and K. Mori (2011). Olfactory Cortex Generates Synchronized Top-Down Inputs to the Olfactory Bulb during Slow-Wave Sleep. J Neurosci, 31(22):8123–33.

8 October 2019:  Mike Goldstein

•  TBD

15 October 2019:  FALL BREAK - NO MEETING

22 October 2019:  SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE - NO MEETING

29 October 2019:  Santiago Forero

• A. Hamid, J. Pettibone, O. Mabrouk, V. Hetrick, R. Schmidt, C.Vander Weele, R. Kennedy, B. Aragona & J. Berke (2016). Mesolimbic dopamine signals the value of work. Nature Nueroscience, 19(1):117-26.

5 November 2019:   Khena Swallow

• M. Yebra, A. Galarza-Vallejo, V. Soto-Leon, J. Gonzalez-Rosa, A. de Berker, S. Bestmann, A. Oliviero, M. Kroes & B. Strange (2019). Action boosts episodic memory encoding in humans via engagement of a noradrenergic system. Nature Communications, doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11358-8.

12 November 2019:  Faiza Ahmad

• M. Robinson, S. Warlow, and K. Berridge (2014). Optogenetic Excitation of Central Amygdala Amplifies and Narrows Incentive Motivation to Pursue One Reward Above Another. J Neurosci 34(50):16567–16580.

19 November 2019:  Wen-Yi Wu 

• TBD

26 November 2019:  TBD

• TBD

3 December 2019:  Lisa Hiura

• TBD

7 May 2019:   TBD  (or article potluck)

• TBD