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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.
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10 September 2013: Khena Swallow (Introductory readings on attention)
- Desimone and Duncan (1995). Neural mechanisms of selective visual attention\. This review is still the canonical theoretical framework for visual attention in neuroscience. We are likely to refer back to it repeatedly over the course of the semester as we read and discuss other papers.
- Chapter 1 from Harold Pashler's book The Psychology of Attention (1998)\. A classic from the cognitive science perspective. Particularly notable is the author's position that the term "attention" is poorly defined and no longer useful.
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- Muzzio et al (Kandel lab) (2009)\. Attention enhances the retrieval and stability of visuospatial and olfactory representations in the dorsal hippocampus.
- Fenton et al (2010)\. Attention-like modulation of hippocampus place cell discharge.
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- Gershman, Schapiro, Hupbach and Norman (2013).\ Neural Context Reinstatement Predicts Memory Misattribution. J. Neuroscience 33(20):8590-5.
- Eisenberg, Kobilo, Berman and Dudai (2003).\ Stability of Retrieved Memory: Inverse Correlation with Trace Dominance. Science 301:1102-4.
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- David A. Oakley and Peter W. Halligan (2013).\ Hypnotic suggestion: opportunities for cognitive neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience 14:565-576.
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- 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.
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- Lickliter R, Bahrick LE, Markham RG (2006).\ Intersensory redundancy educates selective attention in bobwhite quail embryos. Developmental Science 9:604-615.
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- Ardid S, Wang X-J, Compte A (2007).\ An integrated microcircuit model of attentional processing in the neocortex. Journal of Neuroscience 27(32):8486-8495.
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- Mikiko Kadohisa, Philippe Petrov, Mark Stokes, Natasha Sigala, Mark Buckley, David Gaffan, Makoto Kusunoki and John Duncan (2013)\. Dynamic Construction of a Coherent Attentional State in a Prefrontal Cell Population. Neuron 80:235-246.
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- A.J. Austin and T. Duka (2010).\ Mechanisms of attention for appetitive and aversive outcomes in Pavlovian conditioning. Behavioral Brain Research (213)19-26.
- Felipe L. Schiffino, Vivian Zhou and Peter C. Holland (2013). \Posterior parietal cortex is critical for the encoding, consolidation, and retrieval of a memory that guides attention for learning. European Journal of Neuroscience. doi:10.1111/ejn.12417
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- Stephana C, Wilkinson A, Huber L (2012).\ Have we met before? Pigeons recognise familiar human faces. Avian biology research 5(2):75-80.