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Spring Semester 2023-2024

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101, meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 to 1:00 pm(ish) in Ives Hall 107 - NOTE THE NEW ROOM!

23 January 2024:  Organizational Meeting

30 January 2024:   Cancelled - see you next week.

6 February 2024:  Tim DeVoogd

13 February 2024:  Lindsay Sailer

20 February 2024Dev Subramanian - Time Cells in the Retrosplenial Cortex

  • Optional background reading: Eichenbaum, H. (2014). Time cells in the hippocampus: a new dimension for mapping memories. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience (15)732-44.

27 February 2024Feb Break - no meeting

5 March 2024:  David Smith

12 March 2024:  Hamid Turker

19 March 2024:  CANCELLED - Will be rescheduled soon (Wendy Yang).

26 March 2024: Wendy Yang

2 April 2024Spring Break - no meeting

9 April 2024:

16 April 2024:  Chen Yang

  • Hot off the press:  the second Annolid paper (arXiv preprint), focusing on Annolid's new zero-annotation automatic tracking capabilities.  
  • Chen will present the newest developments in the Annolid software package for deep learning-based behavior analysis using instance segmentation.  There are substantial new advances to present, based on new models including Cutie VOS (visual object segmentation) and Meta's Segment Anything that are used for easier object identification and automatic tracking.  Come with your ideas, questions, and research needs.  
  • You also can look at our lab's two Annolid-related posters from SFN 2024 for an introduction:  Chen Yang et al., Ray Fang et al.
  • There are also several Annolid videos posted on Youtube; our MATB playlist is at https://cplab.science/matb.  

23 April 2024:  David Zheng

30 April 2024: Hamid Turker

  • Medial prefrontal cortical neurons diff erentiate match and non-match cues in a continuous olfactory match-to-sample task. Original research, no readings.


Until next fall...



Fall Semester 2008-2009

10 September 2008:  Organizational Meeting
17 September 2008:  D. Smith
25 September 2008:  D. Smith
2 October 2008:  Mark Albert
9 October 2008: Christina Sill
  • Ji and Wilson (2008). Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep. Nature Neuroscience, 10(3), 100-7.
16 October 2008: David Field
23 October 2008: Patrick Gill
30 October 2008: Thom Cleland

These two modeling papers illustrate a theoretical model of the mechanisms underlying high-dimensional decorrelation of odor stimuli in the olfactory bulb.  The first (2006) is the more important for journal club purposes.  

6 November 2008: Mike Wojnowicz
13 November 2008: Helene Porte
  • Louie and Wilson (2006). Temporally Structured Replay of Awake Hippocampal Ensemble Activity during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. Neuron. 29:145-156.
20 November 2008:
27 November 2008: Thanksgiving Break - NO MEETING
4 December 2008:



Spring Semester 2008-2009

21 January 2009:  Organizational Meeting
28 January 2009: David Smith
  • Memory, Interference and Brain Mechanisms of Retrieval. No readings this week.
4 February 2009: Greg Peters
11 February 2009: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
18 February 2009: Mike Wojnowitcz - POSTPONED DUE TO PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY MEETING.
  • Reading TBA. 
25 February 2009:   SUPERSEDED BY PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY MEETING
  • No meeting; no reading.
4 March 2009: Thom Cleland
11 March 2009: David Smith
18 March 2009: TBA
  • Reading PDF. 
25 March 2009: Christine Charvet (visiting postdoc)
  • Precocial and altricial birds evolved different developmental strategies to expand their telencephalon. No readings.
1 April 2009: TBA, There will be a room change for this meeting.
  • Reading PDF. 
8 April 2009: Christina Sill
  • Buzsaki, G. (2005). Theta Rhythm of Navigation: Link Between Path Integration and Landmark Navigation, Episodic and Semantic Memory. 
15 April 2009: Cancelled!
22 April 2009: Helene Porte
29 April 2009: Mike Wojnowicz
  • Reading PDF.



Fall Semester 2009-2010

1 September 2009:  Organizational Meeting
8 September 2009: Mark Albert
15 September 2009: Sasha DeVore
22 September 2009: David Smith
29 September 2009: Article Pot Luck
  • Bring your favorite (or the most interesting) recent paper you've run across and share it with the group.
6 October 2009:  Mike Wojnowicz
13 October 2009: Fall Break - No meeting.
  • No readings.
20 October 2009: Society for Neuroscience Conference - No meeting.
  • No readings.
27 October 2009: Ted Cornforth
3 November 2009: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
10 November 2009: Matt Law

During the discussion, Patrick Gill brought up an additional related paper:

Today several people asked me to send out a 2005 paper (Fusi, Drew, Abbott 2005, Cascade models of synaptically stored memories_)_ showing why a variety of memory maintenance mechanisms with different timescales are better than having just one or two simple memory maintenance mechanisms.  Here it is._  There's also a followup paper showing why it didn't matter that they used synapses with binary weighting in the 2005 paper:_  Stefano Fusi & L F Abbott  "Limits on the memory storage capacity of bounded synapses"  Nat Neuro 10 (4) April 2007 p 485.

17 November 2009: SiWei Luo
24 November 2009: Laura Manella
1 December 2009: Greg Peters



Spring Semester 2009-2010

For Spring semester 2009-2010, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 12:00 to 1:15 pm in Uris Hall 205

The overarching theme this semester is Oscillations .  Adhering to this theme is not required, but recommended.  Please interpret it broadly. Theories of gamma, beta, and theta oscillations in the nervous system are the centroid of intent, but alpha, sleep, circadian, etc. rhythms are also spot-on as are reasonably accessible dynamical systems topics from math and engineering. 

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. 

Please contact Thomas Cleland with any questions (David Smith is on walkabout this semester).  BCS meeting archive .

26 January 2010:  Organizational Meeting
  • No readings.
2 February 2010:  Thomas Cleland

In discussion, Patrick brought up Li et al (2004), a paper from Mu-ming Poo's lab showing that those presynaptic neurons that spike early, and that consequently (via STDP) have their synaptic weights upon a postsynaptic neuron strengthened, are also themselves rendered more excitable. That is, by this mechanism STDP can "work on the presynaptic neuron" as well as on its output synapse. The net effect of this can be to durably group a set of early-firing neurons together into a fully synchronous ensemble evoking activity in that postsynaptic cell.

9 February 2010:  Christina Sill
  • Hasselmo, Giocomo, and Yoshida (2009).  Cellular dynamical mechanisms for encoding the time and place of events along spatiotemporal trajectories in episodic memory.  Behavioral Brain Research
16 February 2010:  Patrick Gill
23 February 2010:  NO MEETING
  •  No Meeting.  If you come, nobody will be there except for you. 
2 March 2010:  Helene Porte
9 March 2010:  Sasha Devore
  • Schroeder et al. (2008).  Neuronal oscillations and visual amplification of speech.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences

In discussion, Guoshi brought up this modeling paper analyzing the property that visual input (lip reading) facilitates auditory input most effectively under moderate noise conditions. 

16 March 2010:  Thomas Cleland
  • Fries (2005).  A mechanism for cognitive dynamics:  neuronal communication through neuronal coherence.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences
23 March 2010:  SPRING BREAK
  • No meeting, because it's spring break.  But to keep you in good form, take a look at this paper that Shane found.  Contrary to what I presented at the beginning of the semester, these authors argue that extracellular fields per se CAN directly affect neuronal activity.  If this effect is sufficiently true to matter, this would provide another mechanism by which neuronal populations can be coordinated (or, in some circumstances, an additional problem to be overcome in trying to coordinate them).  Maybe we'll get a chance to talk about it later this semester. 
30 March 2010:  SiWei Luo
  • Kalenscher et al. (2010). Reward-associated gamma oscillations in ventral striatum are regionally differentiated and modulate local firing activity.  Journal of Neurophysiology.
6 April 2010:  Guoshi Li
  • David et al (2009).  Specific entrainment of mitral cells during gamma oscillation in the rat olfactory bulb.  PLoS Computational Biology
13 April 2010:  Anuttama Sheela Mohan
  • Breton-Provencher et al (2009).  Interneurons produced in adulthood are required for the normal functioning of the olfactory bulb network and for the execution of selected olfactory behaviors.  Journal of Neuroscience.
20 April 2010:  Shane Peace and Ben Johnson
  • Results from planar-array multielectrode slice recordings of gamma oscillations in the mouse olfactory bulb.
27 April 2010:  NO MEETING
  • No Meeting.  You may wonder where the rest of us are.  We are not at journal club, because there is none today.
4 May 2010:  Mike Wojnowicz
  • Rougier et al (2005).  Prefrontal cortex and flexible cognitive control: rules without symbols.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 

NOTE: It's coming time to start thinking of next semester's overarching theme. One possibility is "Synaptic plasticity", a broad topic that could include molecular mechanisms as well as population-level patterns of perceptual learning, LTP as well as neuromodulator-regulated changes.  As a BCS topic, of course, the intent would be to choose approaches relevant to behavioral, computational, and systems-level questions.  The relevance/necessity of bidirectional regulation of plasticity would be a prime topic.  Following up on synchrony-dependent timing properties of synaptic plasticity mechanisms would establish a common thread with this semester's theme.  Another, somewhat related theme is a neuroscience version of statistical learning:  anything from perceptual learning to Bayesian representations of coding to temporal difference learning to dopamine (Schultz model) to the underlying synaptic rules that give rise to relevant population level learning properties to optimality of the Bayesian brain.  Thoughts?  other ideas?  Send them to Thom or bring them up at BCS. 

Another idea:  Mechanisms of memory consolidation and reconsolidation -- perhaps a more focused version of "synaptic plasticity" as above.  These topics are much more well understood and diverse than they were even a few years ago, and they are leading to a number of exciting hypotheses about systems and behavioral integrative mechanisms.  For example, see Nader & Einarsson (2010) Ann NY Acad Sci 1191:27-41, as well as Jonathan L.C. Lee's recent Nature Neuroscience paper (2008) and Trends in Neurosciences opinion (2010).  



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.

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.


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) 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) 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
30 November 2010: SiWei Luo
THEME PROPOSALS FOR SPRING 2011:
  • Cell assemblies and functional connectivity.
  • Attention.
  • Decision making: how do brains/neurons make up their minds... could be broad like sensorimotor or small like anything dealing with synaptic integration/action potential generation.
  • More oscillations.  i know we did it last spring but it seems like it's still a recurring a nightmare for most people.



Spring Semester 2010-2011

For Spring 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 Cell assemblies, functional connectivity, and feedback .  Please interpret it broadly. It is intended to include such diverse topics as: cortical microcircuits, the dynamic reconfiguration of neural circuitry, decision making by such circuitry, the interactions between complex circuits and neuromodulatory nuclei (e.g., the basis for specificity in neuromodulatory effects), and the relationship between specific neuromodulators and nominal functions such as "attention" or "arousal".  

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.

25 January 2011:  Organizational Meeting
  • No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
1 February 2011:  Patrick Gill
8 February 2011:  Dave Bulkin
15 February 2011:  TBD
  • TBD
22 February 2011:  TBD
  • TBD
1 March 2011:  Guoshi Li
  • Ardid S, Wang X-J, Gomez-Cabrero D, Compte A (2010).  Reconciling coherent oscillation with modulation of irregular spiking activity in selective attention:  gamma-range synchronization between sensory and executive cortical areas.  J Neuroscience 30(8):2856-2870.

      This is a tough one folks, so be extra sure to read it ahead of time. 

 Followup papers and URL of potential interest:

  • Ardid S, Wang X-J, Compte A (2007).  An integrated microcircuit model of attentional processing in the neocortex.  J Neuroscience 27(32):8486-8495.  This is the data paper preceding the modeling paper we read for journal club today.
  • A video lecture by Albert Compte can be found here  (thanks Matt).
  • Froehlich F, McCormick DA (2010).  Endogenous electric fields may guide neocortical network activity.  Neuron 67:129-143.  This paper discusses the possibility that field potentials may directly influence neuronal activity/spike timing.
  • Anastassiou et al. (2011).  Ephaptic coupling of cortical neurons. Nature Neuroscience.  
  • Anastassiou et al. (2010).  The effect of spatially inhomogeneous extracellular electric fields on neurons.  J Neurosci 30(5):1925-1936.  These two papers defend the concept of ephaptic interactions (incl field potentials) affecting neuronal activity.
8 March 2011:  Licurgo de Almeida
15 March 2011:  Matt Lewis
22 March 2011:   SPRING BREAK -- NO MEETING
  • If you come to BCS today, you will be mocked. 
29 March 2011:  Laura Darnieder
5 April 2011:  Michelle Tong
12 April 2011:  Tanya Nauvel
19 April 2011:  Anuttama Sheela Mohan
26 April 2011:  Adam Miller

      An interesting exploration of the functional connectivity between two memory systems.

  • Brown RM, Robertson EM (2007)  Off-line processing:  reciprocal interactions between declarative and procedural memories.  Journal of Neuroscience 27(39):10468-10475.
  • Keisler A, Shadmehr R (2010)  A shared resource between declarative memory and motor memory.  Journal of Neuroscience 30(44):14817-14823.
3 May 2011:  CANCELLED



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

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:  Raj Raizada 
  • Research talk:  "What makes different people's representations alike: A solution to the problem of across-subject fMRI decoding"
  • Here are the Powerpoint slides (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/raj_Cornell_BCS_talk_Sept6.ppt?version=1&modificationDate=1315401718000||\) from Raj's talk.
  • To see Raj's manuscript about the decoding-via-similarity-space work (mostly skipped over during his BCS talk, submitted to J. Cognitive Neuroscience), please contact Raj directly. 
13 September 2011:  Dave Bulkin
  • Mark M. Churchland, John P. Cunningham, Matthew T. Kaufman, Stephen I. Ryu, and Krishna V. Shenoy (2010). Cortical Preparatory Activity: Representation of Movement or First Cog in a Dynamical Machine? Neuron 68, 387-400. (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/churchalnd_2010.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1315498595000||\)
20 September 2011:  Eyal Nitzany
  • No readings.
27 September 2011:  Pedro Rittner
  • Pedro will be talking about a computational model he is working on in deep olfactory bulb.  Guoshi and Anuttama also have particular insights into the questions described. 
4 October 2011:  TBD
  • TBD
11 October 2011:  FALL BREAK - NO BCS
18 October 2011:   Matt Lewis
  • For background, please read:  Dayan P, Huys QJM (2009) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Annu+Rev+Neurosci+2009+Dayan.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1317307411000||\) Serotonin in affective control.  Annual Review of Neuroscience 32:95-126.  This review attempts to combine the studies of serotonin (aka 5HT) in invertebrates with studies in vertebrates to construct a grand synthesis, and contains several ideas that are well worth discussing. 
25 October 2011:  Adam Miller
  • Two papers in line with Adam's biannual theme.  What does that mean?  Come and ask Adam yourself.
  • van der Meer MAA, Redish AD (2009) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/van+der+Meer_2009_Covert+expectation+of+reward+in+rat+ventral+striatum+at+decision+points.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1318973143000||\) Covert expectation-of-reward in rat ventral striatum at decision points.  Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 3(1).
  • Howe MW, Atallah HE, McCool A, Gibson DJ, Graybiel AM (2011) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Howe_2011_Habit+learning+is+associated+with+major+shifts+in+frequencies+of+oscillatory+activity+and+synchronized+spike+firing+in+striatum.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1318973170000||\) Habit learning is associated with major shifts in frequencies of oscillatory activity and synchronized spike firing in striatum.  PNAS 108(40):16801-16806.  
1 November 2011:  SiWei Luo
  • Kim EJ, Kim ES, Covey E, Kim JJ (2010) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Social+transmission+of+fear+in+rats+the+role+of+22kHz+ultrasonic+distress+vocalization.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1319725484000||\)  Social transmission of fear in rats: the role of 22 kHz ultrasonic distress vocalization.  PLoS One 5(12):e15077.

For additional background, if desired:

  • Galef BJ (2002) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Social+learning+of+food+preferences+in+rodents+rapid+appetitive+learning.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1319725510000||\)  Social learning of food preferences in rodents:  rapid appetitive learning.  Current Protocols in Neuroscience 8.5D.1-8.5D.8.  
  • Kiyokawa Y, Takeuchi Y, Nishihara M, Mori Y (2009) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Main+olfactory+system+mediates+social+buffering+of+conditioned+fear+responses+in+male+rats.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1319725530000||\)  Main olfactory system mediates social buffering of conditioned fear responses in male rats.  European Journal of Neuroscience 29:777-785.
8 November 2011:  Anuttama Sheela Mohan
  • These two papers are a point/counterpoint "Perspective" pair published in Neuron this year:
  • Sahay A, Wilson DA, Hen R (2011) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/WilsonHenNeuron.pdf?version=2&modificationDate=1320542837000||\)  Pattern Separation: A Common Function for New Neurons in Hippocampus and Olfactory Bulb.  Neuron 70:582.
  • Aimone JB, Deng W, Gage FH (2011) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/GageNeuron.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1320542859000||\) Resolving New Memories: A Critical Look at the Dentate Gyrus, Adult Neurogenesis, and Pattern Separation.  Neuron 70:589.
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) (https://confluence.cornell.edu/download/attachments/89461995/Behav+Brain+Sci+2001+Tenenbaum.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1303139935000||\)  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:  Guoshi Li
  • Guoshi is presenting his own work:  a computational model of cholinergic neuromodulation in olfactory bulb. 
29 November 2011:  Sasha Devore
  • Sasha will present at the first BCS meeting of spring semester instead, on the topic of active sensation



Spring Semester 2011-2012

For Spring 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|../../../../../../../../../../display/BCS/Past+BCS+Meetings|||||||||\.

The overarching theme this semester is likely to be "Active Sensation", perhaps to be modified at our first meeting.  Please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.  

BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy of Fall 2011.  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  (1-2 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar:  PSYCH 6271-101  (class number 8699).  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.

24 January 2012:  Organizational Meeting
  • No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
31 January 2012:  No meeting
  • A week off, so that you can get that thing done that you wanted to get done but couldn't because you didn't have the time.  Until now.  
7 February 2012:  Thom Cleland
  • Three Ways to Break Your Olfactory Bulb's Memory Circuitry.  Recent work on learning and memory within olfactory bulb -- in particular, the effects of muscarinic cholinergic antagonists, alpha-1 noradrenergic antagonists, isoflurane anesthesia, and potentially the fast glutamate reuptake transporter.  
14 February 2012:  Sasha Devore
21 February 2012:  Matt Law
28 February 2012:  TBD
  • Thom out of town
6 March 2012:  TBD
  • Thom out of town
13 March 2012:  Licurgo de Almeida
  • No readings.  Licurgo will present some material from his recent work.  
20 March 2012:  SPRING BREAK - NO BCS MEETING
  • n/a
27 March 2012:  Dave Bulkin
3 April 2012:  Guoshi Li
10 April 2012:  Greg Peters
17 April 2012:  SiWei Luo
24 April 2012:  Adam Miller
1 May 2012: CANCELED



Fall Semester 2012-2013

For Fall Semester 2012-2013, 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 semester's theme is assessing and comparing methods of inference regarding neural activity*. * How do local field potential (LFP) data relate to data from studies based on spike trains, BOLD, fMRI, calcium or voltage-dependent optical signals, immediate-early gene histology, or other measures of neural activity?  What artifacts may arise from the use of particular techniques and do they threaten the supposed findings of a given paper?  This has particular importance for relatively complex or new techniques -- e.g., studies of dynamical interregional communication in the brain, frequency-domain analyses, and other techniques that may be easily misinterpreted or overtrusted.  As always, please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.  

We are considering decision making and 'neuroeconomics' as a possible organizing theme for Spring 2013. 

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BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy of Fall 2011.  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  (1-2 CR, S/U) as a Topics in Biopsychology seminar:  PSYCH 6271-101  (class number 8699).  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.

4 September 2012:  Organizational Meeting
  • No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
11 September 2012:  Dave Bulkin
18 September 2012:  No meeting this week. Use the found time for something important or fun!
25 September 2012:  Adam Miller
2 October 2012:  Sasha DeVore
9 October 2012:  NEUROSCIENCE DAY
  • Cornell's Neuroscience Program sponsors the annual Neuroscience Day events today.
  • 9 am - 6 pm, in the Atrium/Morison Room of Corson-Mudd Hall
16 October 2012:  SFN
  • SFN Conference - no BCS meeting
23 October 2012:  Matt Law
30 October 2012:  Lindsey Vedder
6 November 2012:   SiWei Luo
13 November 2012:  Rachel Swanson
20 November 2012:  Guoshi Li
  • Cancelled in favor of BEN job talk.
27 November 2012:  Matt Lewis

     Bonus content based on discussion:

     More bonus content based on discussion -- the 2011 point/counterpoint articles in Neuron on the putative role of neurogenesis in pattern separation in olfactory bulb:



Spring Semester 2012-2013

For Spring Semester 2012-2013, 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 semester's theme is Neural representations:  are they?  what are they?  and how are they formed?   This can be approached from a mechanistic level (what neuronal mechanisms underlie the metric(s) by which neural representations are formed), a psychological level  (generalization, discrimination, psychophysical evidence), a systems neuroscience level (coordinated cortical learning systems), or other levels TBD.  Is the concept accurate?  is it useful?  misleading?  Sensory inputs and learning change neural activity and mediate our experience - is this process well described by the concept of representations?  As always, please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.  

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BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy, in place since Fall 2011.  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  (1-2 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.

22 January 2013:  Organizational Meeting
  • No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
29 January 2013 :  Lindsey Vedder
5 February 2013 ( Thom absent ) :  TBD
  • TBD
12 February 2013 :  Dave Bulkin
  • TBD
19 February 2013 ( Thom maybe absent ) :  TBD
  • TBD
26 February 2013 :  Dave Bulkin and David Smith
5 March 2013 :  Dave Bulkin and David Smith
12 March 2013 :  Adam Miller
19 March 2013 :  SPRING BREAK
  • No meeting
26 March 2013 ( Thom absent ) :  Greg Peters
2 April 2013 Phil Perrone
9 April 2013 :  Rachel Swanson
  • Bagdasarian et al (2013). Pre-neuronal morphological processing of object location by individual whiskers. Nature Neuroscience, doi:10.1038/nn.3378.
16 April 2013 ( Thom maybe absent ) :  Dave Bulkin and David Smith
23 April 2013:  Guoshi Li
  • Boergers, Epstein, Kopell (2005).  Background gamma rhythmicity and attention in cortical local circuits:  a computational study.  PNAS 102(19): 7002-7007.  Background gamma rhythmicity and attention in cortical local circuits: A computational study
30 April 2013:  SiWei Luo



Fall Semester 2013-2014

For Spring Semester 2013-2014, 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 semester's theme is  Attention , from both a neurobiological and cognitive perspective.  The goal, of course, is to cross-reference and cross-challenge the two so as to come up with an integrative and useful understanding of the field.  How can human attentional tasks best be studied using animal models?  What, if any, is the special importance of cholinergic neuromodulation to attention?  Is "attention" still a useful concept?  As always, please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.  

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BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy, in place since Fall 2011.  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 messageleave 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  (1-2 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 2013:  Organizational Meeting
  • No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
10 September 2013:  Khena Swallow  (Introductory readings on attention)
17 September 2013:  Dave Bulkin
24 September 2013:  Adam Miller
1 October 2013 ( Thom may be absent ):  Lindsey Vedder
8 October 2013:  Pedro Rittner
  • Hasselmo and McGaughy (2004).  High acetylcholine levels set circuit dynamics for attention and encoding and low acetylcholine levels set dynamics for consolidation.  Progress in Brain Research 145. 
  • Hasselmo (2006).  The role of acetylcholine in learning and memory.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16: 710-715.
15 October 2013:  FALL BREAK 
  • No BCS meeting.
22 October 2013:  Phil Perrone
29 October 2013:  Guoshi Li
5 November 2013:  Rachel Swanson
12 November 2013:  Society for Neuroscience Meeting
  • No BCS meeting.
19 November 2013:  NO MEETING
  • No BCS meeting
26 November 2013:  SiWei Luo
3 December 2013:  Isle Bastille



Spring Semester 2013-2014

For Spring Semester 2013-2014, 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 semester's theme is still Attention , from both a neurobiological and cognitive perspective. The goal, of course, is to cross-reference and cross-challenge the two so as to come up with an integrative and useful understanding of the field. How can human attentional tasks best be studied using animal models? What, if any, is the special importance of cholinergic neuromodulation to attention? Is "attention" still a useful concept? As always, please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.

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BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy, in place since Fall 2011. 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 (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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28 January 2014: Organizational Meeting
  • No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
4 February 2014: Group discussion of Charles Schroeder's work - no designated presenter.
11 February 2014: Dave Bulkin

Additional references:

  • Re Granger causality: Bressler SL, Seth AK (2011) Wiener-Granger causality: a well-established methodology. NeuroImage 58:323-329.
  • Re the thalamus being more than a relay: Sherman SM (2007) The thalamus is more than just a relay. Curr Opin Neurobiol 17(4):417-422.
  • Rachel's book: Sherman SM, Guillery RW (2013). Functional connections of cortical areas: a new view from the thalamus. MIT Press.
18 February 2014: FEBRUARY BREAK
  • No meeting
25 February 2014: TBD
  • TBD
4 March 2014: Phil Perrone
11 March 2014: TBD
  • Thom might be out of town
18 March 2014: David Smith
25 March 2014: Khena Swallow
1 April 2014: SPRING BREAK
  • No meeting
8 April 2014: Lindsey Vedder
15 April 2014: Adam Miller
22 April 2014: Cory Horowitz
29 April 2014:
  • TBD
6 May 2014: Rachel Swanson



Fall Semester 2014-2015

For Fall Semester 2014-2015, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will be on hiatus.  Watch this space for our reformation in Spring 2015.



Spring Semester 2014-2015

For Spring Semester 2014-2015, 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 States and Sequences, broadly intended to include the neurobiological, behavioral, and cognitive senses of the terms.

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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.

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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27 January 2015:  Organizational Meeting


3 February 2015:  Dave Bulkin

10 February 2015: David Smith

17 February 2015: Feb Break - no BCS.


24 February 2015


3 March 2015: No designated presenter, so please read the article and come prepared to discuss it.

10 March 2015: Rachel Swanson

17 March 2015: Thom Cleland

  • Mazor O, Laurent G (2005).  Transient dynamics versus fixed points in odor representations by locust antennal lobe projection neurons.  Neuron 48:661-673. 
  • Miller JP (2005).  A rose by any other code.  Whatever that means.  (This is a short Neuron Previews article about the Mazor & Laurent paper).  

24 March 2015: Khena Swallow

31 March 2015: Spring Break - no BCS


7 April 2015: Gina Mason

14 April 2015: No meeting


21 April 2015:  David Smith


28 April 2015:  Ayon Borthakur

  • Riecke H (2013).  Olfactory computation and adult neurogenesis.  Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience.  Springer.
  • Chow S-F, Wick SD, Riecke H (2012).  Neurogenesis Drives Stimulus Decorrelation in a Model of the Olfactory Bulb.  PLoS Computational Biology 8:3.

Read the encyclopedia article for an easier overview of how Hermann Riecke et al think about the issue and how their model is supposed to work; it will prepare you to better understand the model itself in the Chow et al paper.  We won't go into all of the math, but will go through the figures and see how it works, what it predicts, etc..


5 May 2015:  Rachel Swanson

  • Luczak et al (2009).  Spontaneous events outline the realm of possible sensory responses in neocortical populations.  Neuron 62: 413-425.



Fall Semester 2015-2016

 

25 August 2015:  Organizational Meeting

  • Barron et al., 2015.  Embracing multiple definitions of learning.  Trends in Neurosciences 38(7):405.
    • This short TINS paper reflects on different views of learning derived from different fields of study (neuroscience, psychology, behavioral ecology, machine learning).  

1 September 2015 No meeting.

8 September 2015:  Adam Miller

15 September 2015:  David Smith

  • Akers et al (2014). Hippocampal Neurogenesis Regulates Forgetting During Adulthood and Infancy.Science, 344:598-602.

Optional reading: This review article has some background material on neurognesis as it relates to the main paper.

22 September 2015:  David Smith

  • Retrosplenial Cortical Neurons Encode Important Navigational Cues - recent data from the Smith lab, no readings.

29 September 2015:  Marissa Rice

6 October 2015:  Norma Hernandez

13 October 2015:  Fall Break - no BCS

20 October 2015:  Society for Neuroscience meeting - no BCS

27 October 2015:  Marissa Rice

10 November 2015: Khena Swallow

17 November 2015:  Alex Ophir

24 November 2015:  Lisa Hiura

1 December 2015:  Article Potluck

  • Bring your favorite (or most controversial) recent article for a 5-10 min presentation.


Spring Semester 2015-2016

 
2 February 2016:  Organizational Meeting

 

9 February 2016:  Marissa Rice

16 February 2016:  Feb Break - no meeting.


23 February 2016:  Norma Hernandez

1 March 2016:  David gone - no meeting this week

  • No meeting.

8 March 2016:  David

Additional papers on ripples we talked about today:

  • D. Foster & M. Wilson (2006). Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature 440:680-683.

  • K. Diba & G. Buzsaki (2007). Forward and reverse hippocampal place-cell sequences during ripples. Nature Neuroscience 10(10):1241-1242.

  • S. Jadhav, C. Kemere, P. W. German, L. Frank (2012). Awake Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples Support Spatial Memory. Science 336:1454-1458.

15 March 2016:  Joseph

22 March 2016:  Group Discussion (no official presenter)

29 March 2016:  Spring Break - no meeting


5 April 2016:  Marissa Rice/Group Discussion

Additional readings following discussions at the meeting:


12 April 2016:  Open (Thom gone?)

  • TBA

19 April 2016:  Khena Swallow

26 April 2016:  Group Discussion (no official presenter)

3 May 2016:  Joseph & all

10 May 2016:  Article Potluck - bring your favorite (or most amazing, unbelievable, oddest, etc.) recent article (or data) to share with the group.



Fall Semester 2016-2017

The Fall 2016 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)

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

1 November 2016:  Jesse Werth

  • Jesse will discuss the ideas in of his recently submitted NSF fellowship proposal.

Suggested background reading:

8 November 2016: Adam Miller

  • Adam will discuss his recently completed work on the retrosplenial cortex, spatial memory and the simulation of future goals.

15 November 2016:  SFN Meeting - no journal club


22 November 2016:  Cancelled - no meeting this week.


29 November 2016:  Article potluck

  • Bring your favorite, oddest, or most compelling recent finding or article to share with the group.



Spring Semester 2016-2017

For Fall and Spring Semesters 2016-2017, 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 2017 semester's theme is "show us what you are interested in."  As we morph into the "BEN journal club", we think that it may be less important to choose papers that 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 attendees 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 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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31 January 2017:  Organizational Meeting

7 February 2017:  No meeting.

14 February 2017:  David Smith

21 February 2017:  Feb Break (no meeting)

28 February 2017: Adam Miller

7 March 2017: Norma Hernandez

14 March 2017: Thom Cleland

21 March 2017: Marissa Rice

28 March 2017: Wen-Yi Wu

Additional Reading:

4 April 2017: Spring Break (no meeting)


11 April 2017: Hamid Turker

Commentary on the main article:

18 April 2017: Jesse Werth

25 April 2017: POSTPONED, will try to reschedule soon!

2 May 2017: Mike Goldstein

9 May 2017

  • Article Potluck: Bring your favorite, most insightful, most surprising, oddest or otherwise interesting article or bit of data to share with the group (time limit of 5-10 min).




Fall Semester 2017-2018

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

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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 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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22 August 2017:  Organizational Meeting

29 August 2017:  David Smith

  • Adam M. P. Miller, William Mau and David M. Smith. Ensemble coding of long-term spatial memories and future goal locations in the retrosplenial cortex.

  • Note: This manuscript is a working draft, so please do not distribute it beyond the journal club. Also, don't get too hung up with the analysis methodology. I'll explain as needed.

5 September 2017:  Caitlyn Finton

12 September 2017:  Aubrey Kelly

  • J. Goodson (2013). Deconstructing sociality, social evolution and relevant nonapeptide functions. Psychneuroendocrinology 38:465-478.
  • This review, written by offspring of the Cornell Psych Department, stresses two important concepts relevant to all areas represented by attendees of the CNS journal club: 1) Careful consideration needs to be taken with how we define behavior, and 2) We must utilize a comparative approach in order to understand the evolution of behavior.

19 September 2017:  Khena Swallow

  • S. Warren, E. Yacoub & G. Ghose (2014). Featural and temporal attention selectively enhance task-appropriate representations in human primary visual cortex. Nature Communications 5:5643.

  • This paper highlights two basic points that are important for anyone who cares about how brains work. First, attention alters the behavior of neuronal populations. As a result, tasks can impact what is represented and measured. Second, what is represented by neuronal populations is influenced by expectations along multiple dimensions, including visual features, timing, and semantics (not just space).

  • Optional additional reading: T. Çukur, S. Nishimoto, A. Huth & J. Gallant (2013). Attention during natural vision warps semantic representation across the human brain. Nature Neuroscience 16(6):763-770.

26 September 2017:  Angela Freeman

  • M. Sadananda, M. Woehr, R. Schwarting (2008).  Playback of 22-kHz and 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations induces differential c-fos expression in rat brain. Neuroscience Letters. 435:17-23.

  • I picked my paper because it is one of very few that looks at the neural basis of rodent vocalizations. And I'm all about communication, and I did a similar study on ground squirrel communication, which I am presenting at SFN this year, so I wanted to discuss this paper to prep for what things might be good to address in my own work.

3 October 2017:  Jesse Werth

  • B. Lasztoczi and T. Klausberger (2016). Hippocampal Place Cells Couple to Three Different Gamma Oscillations during Place Field Traversal. Neuron 91:34-40.

  • Article discusses ideas central to neuronal information processing in a relatively well known brain network. We typically think of hippocampal place cells in the context of how much they fire (spike rates; e.g., with respect to place fields and the animal's physical location within an environment).  The authors of this article offer an expanded framework that stresses the importance of when these cells fire (think small time-scales, spike-timing), rather than how much.
  • A paper that came up during discussion:  Using a new approach for identifying temporal structure in neuroimaging data, Baldassano et al. (2017) propose a theory of how continuous experience is divided into events that are represented in high-level cortex, are stored in long-term memory, and influence later perception.  Khena notes:  "There's a lot of interesting stuff in here, but I also find aspects of it to be pretty confusing or just wrong (if I understand them correctly)."

10 October 2017:  Fall Break - No meeting


17 October 2017:  Samantha Carouso

  • K. Lynch, A. Gaglio, E. Tyler, J. Coculo, M. Louder and M. Hauber (2017). A neural basis for password-based species recognition in an avian brood parasite. Journal of Experimental Biology 220:2345-2353.

  • This paper can serve as a starting point for a discussion of species recognition mechanisms in general, brood parasitism behavior, vocal learning and call production and their related auditory and production brain regions, ZENK as a scientific tool, innate vs. learned behaviors (and the potential false dichotomy of that distinction), and in vivo/in ovo learning.

24 October 2017:  George Prounis

Additional recommended reading:

  • L. Tai, A. M. Lee, N. Benavidez, A. Bonc, L. Wilbrecht (2012). Transient stimulation of distinct subpopulations of striatal neurons mimics changes in action value. Nature Neuroscience 15(9):1281-1289.

  • These papers highlight the dynamic role of basal ganglia dopamine systems in decision-making and action evaluation in mice. The authors bi-directionally influence reward-based decisions via optogenetic manipulation of specific neuronal populations within the basal ganglia. Overall, these papers demonstrate the 1) the importance of dopamine in both evaluation and action, and 2) the explanatory power of linking precise, sub-circuit neural manipulations to simple behavioral tasks. My research interests include developmental changes in decision-making circuits, particularly the involvement of dopamine systems during adolescent risk-taking behavior.

31 October 2017:  Adam Broitman

  • A. Broitman, M. Kahana and M. Healey (submitted).  Modeling Retest Effects in a Longitudinal Measurement Burst Design Study of Episodic Memory.

  • This paper proposes a mathematical model with which to separate age-related memory changes from task-specific retest effects in a longitudinal study. This paper may be useful to anyone who conducts long-term human cognition studies, and I will discuss its potential application to my future work. 

7 November 2017:  Cancelled - go see the job talks this week instead!


14 November 2017:  Society for Neuroscience - No meeting


21 November 2017:  Cancelled - go see Frank Castelli's defense instead!


28 November 2017:  Wen-Yi Wu

  • T. Okuyama (2017). Social memory engram in the hippocampus. Neuroscience Research, epub ahead of print, DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2017.05.007



Spring Semester 2017-2018

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.

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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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30 January 2018:  Organizational Meeting

6 February 2018:  Tim DeVoogd and Alex Ophir

13 February 2018:  Wen-Yi Wu

20 February 2018 FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING


27 February 2018:  David Katz

6 March 2018:  Marissa Rice

13 March 2018:  Lisa Hiura

20 March 2018:  Jesse Werth

27 March 2018:  Jack Cook

  • Jack will be presenting work from his research project developing an analytical framework for odor learning.  The readings are to get everybody in the right frame of mind for discussing this work in particular and the overall approach in general.

  • Zaidi Q, Victor J, McDermott J, Geffen M, Bensmaia Sl, Cleland TA (2013).  Perceptual spaces:  mathematical structures to neural mechanisms.  J Neurosci 33(45): 17597-17602.  
  • Lee JM (2013).  Introduction to smooth manifolds, pages 1-17.  
  • For some additional background (optional):
    • Lee JM (2011).  Introduction to topological manifolds, 2nd ed., pages 1-17.

3 April 2018SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING


10 April 2018:  Dev Laxman Subramanian

17 April 2018NO MEETING


24 April 2018:  Angela Freeman

1 May 2018:  Roy Moyal

  • Singer W (2013). Cortical dynamics revisited. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17(12):616-626.

  • Optional:  Samaha J, Postle BR (2015)  The speed of alpha-band oscillations predicts the temporal resolution of visual perception.  Current Biology 25: 1-6.  
  • For an introduction to the concept of criticality and its relevance to neuroscience:  Beggs JM, Timme N (2012) Being critical of criticality in the brain.  Frontiers in Physiology 3:163.  

8 May 2018:  Article Potluck

  • Bring your favorite, most insightful, most surprising, oddest, or otherwise somehow compelling article or bit of data to share with the group (time limit of 5-10 min each).



Fall Semester 2018-2019

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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28 August 2018:  Organizational Meeting


4 September 2018:  Dave Bulkin


11 September 2018:  Santiago Forero


18 September 2018:  Marissa Rice


2 October 2018 (t):  Celine Cammarata


9 October 2018:  FALL BREAK - NO MEETING


16 October 2018:  Dev Laxman Subramanian

Optional Additional Readings:


23 October 2018 (t):  Wen-Yi Wu 


30 October 2018:  Justas Birgiolas, University of Arizona (Postdoc candidate with Thom Cleland)

  • "The Road to San Junipero:  modeling the brain with supercomputers.  Computational methods and a case study of the olfactory bulb." 
  • No readings necessary 


6 November 2018 SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE - NO MEETING


13 November 2018:  Lisa Hiura

20 November 2018:  Jack Cook

  • Cook J, Cleland TA (in prep)  The geometry of olfactory learning.  
  • It's pretty mathy (the fleshing-out text has yet to be added) but the gist is that this is a formal way to model the learning of odor signals, including their natural variance, and how this learning process enables the learning of real-world odors as dynamically constructed discrete categories.  

4 December 2018:  ARTICLE POTLUCK

  • Bring your favorite, most insightful, most surprising, oddest, or otherwise somehow compelling article or bit of data to share with the group (time limit of 5-10 min each).



Spring Semester 2018-2019

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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29 January 2019:  Organizational Meeting


5 February 2019:  David Field

  • Olshausen BA, Field DJ (2006)  What is the other 85 percent of V1 doing?   In: Sejnowski T, van Hemmen L (Eds.), Problems in Systems Neuroscience 23: 182-211.]

Optional supplementary reading:

12 February 2019:  Mary Elson

  • H. Barr & S. Woolley (2018). Developmental auditory exposure shapes responses of catecholaminergic neurons to socially-modulated song. Scientific Reports 8:11717.

19 February 2019:  Marissa Rice

5 March 2019:  Lindsay Sailer

12 March 2019:  David Katz

19 March 2019:  Cheong Yi 

26 March 2019:  Dev Laxman Subramanian

2 April 2019:   SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING


9 April 2019:  Wen-Yi Wu

  •  The hippocampus and social context. Wen-Yi will discuss findings from her project dorsal and ventral hippocampal responses to manipulations of the social context.

16 April 2019 (t): David Smith 

  • Recent data on the role of the retrosplenial cortex in context (no readings).

23 April 2019:  Grainger Sasso

  •  N. Renier et al (2016). Mapping of Brain Activity by Automated Volume Analysis of Immediate Early Genes. Cell 165, 1789-1802.

7 May 2019ARTICLE POTLUCK

  • Bring your favorite, most insightful, most surprising, oddest, or otherwise somehow compelling article or bit of data to share with the group (time limit of 5-10 min each).




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

17 September 2019:  Mary Elson

24 September 2019:  Lindsay Sailer

8 October 2019:  Mike Goldstein

  •  TBD

15 October 2019FALL BREAK - NO MEETING

22 October 2019SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE - NO MEETING

29 October 2019:  Santiago Forero

5 November 2019:   Khena Swallow

12 November 2019:  Faiza Ahmad

19 November 2019:  Wen-Yi Wu 

26 November 2019No Meeting

Optional Readings for Thanksgiving week:

  • Buchwalder and Huber-Eicher (2003). A brief report on aggressive interactions within and between groups of domestic turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo). Applied Animal Behavior Science, 84:75-80.
  • A Scientific American article on the topic can be found here.

10 December 2019:  Article Potluck - bring your favorite recent finding or something from your own research to share with the group!




Spring Semester 2019-2020

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271, 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.

 

Better 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 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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21 January 2020:  Organizational Meeting

28 January 2020:  Tim DeVoogd

4 February 2020:  Mary Elson

11 February 2020:  Savanna Butler 

25 February 2020: Feb Break - no class

3 March 2020:  Dev Laxman Subramanian 

10 March 2020: Julia Jun

17 March 2020: Hamid Turker

24 March 2020: Da Lu

  • TBA

30 March 2020: Spring Break - no class

  • TBA

7 April 2020: Chialin Liao

  • TBA

14 April 2020: Santi Forero

  • TBA

21 April 2020: Celine Cammarata

  • TBA

28 April 2020: Jack Cook

  • TBA

5 May 2020: Article Potluck - bring your favorite recent finding or something from your own research to share with the group!




Spring Semester 2020-2021

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271, meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205  via Zoom.

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 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 Katie Tschida with any questions.

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9 February 2021:  Organizational Meeting

16 February 2021Christiane Linster

23 February 2021Cancelled

2 March 2021Jesse Werth

16 March 2021: Thomas Cleland

  • Kanta, Pare, Headley 2019, Closed-loop control of gamma oscillations in the amygdala demonstrates their role in spatial memory consolidation.

23 March 2021Michael Mariscal

30 March 2021: Santi Forero

6 April 2021: Wendy Yang

13 April 2021: David Smith

20 April 2021: Patryk Ziobro

27 April 2021: Nicole Pranic

4 May 2021:  Lindsay Sailer

11 May 2021:  Article Potluck - bring your favorite recent finding or something from your own research to share with the group!



Fall Semester 2021-2022

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271, 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://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 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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31 August 2021:  Organizational Meeting

7 September 2021:  Julia Jun

14 September 2021:  Jesse Werth

21 September 2021:  Margaret Cruz

  • Meinhardt J, et al. (2021).  Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19.  Nature Neuroscience 24: 168-175.  
    • The role of brain microglia in synaptic plasticity (as well as the immune response) arose during discussion.  Here are a couple of starting-point reviews of the topic for those interested. 

28 September 2021:  Celia McLean

5 October 2021:  Michael Mariscal

12 October 2021FALL BREAK / Indigenous Peoples' Day

  • No meeting

19 October 2021:  Lia Chen

26 October 2021:  Wendy Yang

2 November 2021:  Nicole Pranic

9 November 2021:  Society for Neuroscience Conference (virtual)

  • No meeting

16 November 2021:  Santi Forero

23 November 2021:  Nora Prior

30 November 2021:  David Smith

  • New findings and questions about retrosplenial cortex

7 December 2021:  CANCELLED – see you all next year!



Spring Semester 2021-2022

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 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 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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25 Jan 2022:  Organizational Meeting

1 February 2022:  No meeting (owing to Covid-19 policy)

8 February 2022:  No meeting

15 February 2022:  Nicole Pranic

22 February 2022:  Michael Mariscal

1 March 2022:  No meeting  ("February" break)

8 March 2022:  No meeting (Thom out of town)

15 March 2022:  Xin Zhao

22 March 2022:  No meeting (Thom has been posted elsewhere during this time slot by the powers)

29 March 2022:  Patryk Ziobro

  • Patryk presents "an outside perspective on my research"

5 April 2022:  No meeting (Spring Break)

12 April 2022:  Julia Jun

  • Anderson MC, Floresco SB (2022) Prefrontal-hippocampal interactions supporting the extinction of emotional memories:  the retrieval stopping model.  Neuropsychopharmacology 47: 180-195.  

19 April 2022:  SNOWED OUT!

26 April 2022:  Lindsay Sailer

  • No Reading – This will be a practice talk for an invited talk that Lindsay will be giving at Salisbury University (out near the Maryland coast).  Bring your interesting comments and constructive criticisms!

3 May 2022:  Nora Prior

  • Intention and rigor in scientific progress.


See you all in the Fall!



Fall Semester 2022-2023

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 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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23 August 2022:  Organizational Meeting

30 August 2022:  Tim DeVoogd

6 September 2022:  Thom Cleland

  • Herculano-Houzel S (2014), The glia/neuron ratio: how it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution.  Glia 62:1377-1391.  

13 September 2022:  Julia Jun

20 September 2022:  Wendy Yang

27 September 2022:  Santi Forero

4 October 2022:  Mylo Skolnick

11 October 2022:   No meeting (Fall Break)


18 October 2022:  Lindsay Sailer

  • Lindsay will present some of her work, titled: The impacts of early-life adversity and social experience on social and neural development in prairie voles. No readings.

25 October 2022:  Connie Lin

1 November 2022:  Celia McLean

8 November 2022:  Wen-Yi Wu

15 November 2022:  Yidan Chen

  • Bowles et al. (2022). Vagus nerve stimulation drives selective circuit modulation through cholinergic reinforcement. Neuron 110: 2867–288.

22 November 2022:  Hamid Turker

  • Widloski J, Foster DJ (2022).  Flexible rerouting of hippocampal replay sequences around changing barriers in the absence of global place field remapping.  Neuron 110: 1547-1558.

29 November 2022:  Nora Prior

  • Nora will speak about her own current work:  An integrated social-sensory framework of social behavior:  preliminary studies in finches and voles.


Until next year...




Spring Semester 2022-2023

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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24 January 2023:  Organizational Meeting

31 January 2023:  Thom Cleland

7 February 2023:  Mary Elson

14 February 2023:  Lindsay Sailer

21 February 2023:  Wendy Yang

28 February 2023NO MEETING - FEBRUARY BREAK

7 March 2023:  Celia McLean

14 March 2023:  <CANCELLED due to Cornell snow closure >

21 March 2023:  David Zheng

28 March 2023:  Yidan Chen

4 April 2023NO MEETING - SPRING BREAK

11 April 2023:  Wen-Yi Wu

18 April 2023:  Santi Forero

25 April 2023:  CANCELLED: Susanna Zheng

2 May 2023:  Julia Jun

  • Maggi S, Humphries MD (2022).  Activity subspaces in medial prefrontal cortex distinguish states of the world.  J Neuroscience 42(20): 4131-4146.

9 May 2023:  Jeremy Spool (U Mass Amherst)

  • Connecting auditory and social neural systems in gregarious songbirds   [No readings]
  • See Jeremy's website for an overview of his work


Until next fall...


Fall Semester 2023-2024

22 August 2023:  Organizational Meeting

29 August 2023:  Dev Subramanian

5 September 2023:  David Zheng

12 September 2023:  Julia Jun

19 September 2023:  James Cunningham

26 September 2023:  Lindsay Sailer

  • Lindsay will present results from her collaboration with Caitlyn Finton:  Hippocampal CA1 lesions impact mating tactics in prairie voles

3 October 2023 (David out of town):  Xiyu Mei

10 October 2023:   NO MEETING - FALL BREAK

17 October 2023  (Thom may be absent):  Wendy Yang

24 October 2023:  Marta Reales Moreno - CANCELLED, will be rescheduled for a later date.

31 October 2023:  Xin Zhao

  • Xin will be presenting work from his project:  Social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in female mice.  Looking forward to feedback and discussion!

7 November 2023:  Marta Reales Moreno - Rescheduled.

 

14 November 2023:  NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

21 November 2023:  SFN Show and Tell

28 November 2023:  Shiping Li


Until next spring...


 







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