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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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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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28 January 2014: Organizational Meeting
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- No readings. Please come prepared to choose a day to present from the many opportunities below.
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10 September 2013: Khena Swallow (Introductory readings on attention)
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- 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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17 September 2013: Dave Bulkin
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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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24 September 2013: Adam Miller
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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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1 October 2013 (Thom may be absent): Lindsey Vedder
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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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8 October 2013: Pedro Rittner
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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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15 October 2013: FALL BREAK
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- No BCS meeting.
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22 October 2013: Phil Perrone
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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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29 October 2013: Guoshi Li
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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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5 November 2013: Rachel Swanson
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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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12 November 2013: Society for Neuroscience Meeting
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- No BCS meeting.
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19 November 2013: NO MEETING
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- No BCS meeting
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26 November 2013: SiWei Luo
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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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3 December 2013: Isle Bastille
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4 February 2014: TBD
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- TBD
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11 February 2014: TBD
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- TBD
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18 February 2014: TBD
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- TBD
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25 February 2014: TBD
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- TBD
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4 March 2014: TBD
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- TBD
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11 March 2014: TBD
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18 March 2014: TBD
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25 March 2014: TBD
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1 April 2014: SPRING BREAK
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- No meeting
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8 April 2014: TBD
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- TBD
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15 April 2014: TBD
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22 April 2014: TBD
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29 April 2014: TBD
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6 May 2014: TBD
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- TBD
- Stephana C, Wilkinson A, Huber L (2012). Have we met before? Pigeons recognise familiar human faces. Avian biology research 5(2):75-80.