9 February 2016:  Marissa Rice

• U. Neisser (1981). John Dean’s Memory: A case study. Cognition, 9:l-22.
• D. R. Addis, A. T. Wong, D. L. Schacter (2007). Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia 45:1363-1377.

16 February 2016:  Feb Break - no meeting.

23 February 2016:  Norma Hernandez

• L. Savage, J. Hall, and R. Vetreno (2011). Anterior thalamic lesions alter both hippocampal dependent behavior and hippocampal acetylcholine release in the rat. Learning and Memory 18:751–758.

1 March 2016:  David gone - no meeting this week

• No meeting.

8 March 2016:  David

• R. Kaplan, M. Adhikari, R. Hindriks, D. Mantini, Y. Murayama, N. Logothetis, G. Deco (2016). Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples Influence Selective Activation of the Default Mode Network. Current Biology 26, 686–691.

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

• Cleland, T. A., Chen, S. Y. T., Hozer, K. W., Ukatu, H. N., Wong, K. J., & Zheng, F. (2012). Sequential mechanisms underlying concentration invariance in biological olfaction. Bioinspired solutions to the challenges of chemical sensing, 7
• Barrett, L. F., & Simmons, W. K. (2015). Interoceptive predictions in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(7), 419-429.

22 March 2016:  Group Discussion (no official presenter)

• E. Goldfarb, M. Chun, E. Phelps (2016). Memory-Guided Attention: Independent Contributions of the Hippocampus and Striatum. Neuron 89:317-324.

29 March 2016:  Spring Break - no meeting

5 April 2016:  Marissa Rice/Group Discussion

• C. Shawn Green1 and Daphne Bavelier (2015). Action video game training for cognitive enhancement. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 4:103-108.

Additional readings following discussions at the meeting:

• Mnih V, Kavukcuoglu K, et al. (2015).  Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning.  Nature 518:529.

12 April 2016:  Open (Thom gone?)

• TBA

19 April 2016:  Khena Swallow

• L. Batterink, J. Creery, and K. Paller (2016). Phase of Spontaneous Slow Oscillations during Sleep Influences Memory-Related Processing of Auditory Cues. Journal of Neuroscience 36(4):1401-9.

26 April 2016:  Group Discussion (no official presenter)

• D. Bendor & M. Wilson (2012). Biasing the content of hippocampal replay during sleep. Nature Neuroscience 15(10):1439-44.

• G. Lavilléon, M. Lacroix, L. Rondi-Reig & K. Benchenane (2015). Explicit memory creation during sleep demonstrates a causal role of place cells in navigation. Nature Neuroscience 18(4):493-95.

3 May 2016:  Joseph & all

• Hu X, Antony JW, et al. (2015) Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep.  Science 348(6238):1013-1015.

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.

-----

23 August 2016:  Organizational Meeting

30 August 2016:  David Smith and Alex Ophir

• Tavares, R., Mendelsohn, A., Grossman, Y., Williams, C., Shapiro, M., Trope, Y., and Schiller, D. (2015). A Map for Social Navigation in the Human Brain. Neuron 87:231-43.

6 September 2016:  David Smith and Alex Ophir

• G. Alexander, S. Farris, J. Pirone, C. Zheng, L. Colgin & S. Dudek (2015). Social and novel contexts modify hippocampal CA2 representations of space. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038.

13 September 2016:  Marissa Rice and Alex Ophir

• F. Hitti & S. Siegelbaum. (2014). The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory. Nature 508:88-94.

• A. Smith, S. Williams Avram, A. Cymerblit-Sabba, J. Song and W. Young (2016). Targeted activation of the hippocampal CA2 area strongly enhances social memory. Molecular Psychiatry 21:1137-1144.

Additional (optional) reading:

• L. Zynyuk, J. Huxter R. Muller and S. Fox. (2012). The Presence of a Second Rat Has Only Subtle Effects on the Location-Specific Firing of Hippocampal Place Cells. Hippocampus 22:1405–1416.

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)

• Immordino-Yang M, McColl A, Damasio H, Damasio A. (2009). Neural correlates of admiration and compassion. PNAS 106(19):8021-6.

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.

4 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (A primer on the dorsal and ventral hippocampus)

• B. Poucet, C. Thinus-Blanc, and R. Muller (1994). Place cells in the ventral hippocampus of rats. Neuroreport 5, 2045-2048.

• M. Fanselow and H. Dong (2010). Are the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Functionally Distinct Structures? Neuron 65:7-19.
• B. Strange, M. Witter, E. Lein and E. Moser (2014). Functional organization of the hippocampal longitudinal axis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15:655-669.

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)

• A. Felix-Ortiz and K. Tye (2014). Amygdala Inputs to the Ventral Hippocampus Bidirectionally Modulate Social Behavior. J. Neuroscience 34(2):586 –595.

Additional review as background for those interested.

• S. Allsop, C. VanderWeele, R. Wichmann and K.Tye (2014). Optogenetic insights on the relationship between anxiety-related behaviors and social deficits. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol 8, Article 241.

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

• T. Okuyama, T. Kitamura, D. Roy, S. Itohara and S. Tonegawa (2016). Ventral CA1 neurons store social memory. Science 353(6307):1536-41.

1 November 2016:  Jesse Werth

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

Suggested background reading:

• S. Shea, L. Katz and R. Mooney (2008). Noradrenergic Induction of Odor-Specific Neural Habituation and Olfactory Memories. Journal of Neuroscience 28(42):10711–10719.

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.

-----

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.

-----

31 January 2017:  Organizational Meeting

7 February 2017:  No meeting.

14 February 2017:  David Smith

• P. Jacob, G. Casali, L. Spieser, H. Page, D. Overington & K. Jeffery (2016). An independent, landmark-dominated head-direction signal in dysgranular retrosplenial cortex. Nature Neuroscience 20(2):173-175.

21 February 2017:  Feb Break (no meeting)

28 February 2017: Adam Miller

• B. Richards, F. Xia, A. Santoro, J. Husse, M. Woodin, S. Josselyn & P. Frankland (2014). Patterns across multiple memories are identified over time. Nature Neuroscience 17:981–986.

7 March 2017: Norma Hernandez

• L. Qu, T. Kahnt, S. Cole and J. Gottfried (2016). De Novo Emergence of Odor Category Representations in the Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(2):468-478.

14 March 2017: Thom Cleland

• Iurilli & Datta (2017).  Population coding in an innately relevant olfactory area.  

  • http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)30094-6   

  • The main issue of interest here is to wrestle with the problem of "innately valent" odors or other stimuli – how are they recognized and represented?

21 March 2017: Marissa Rice

• J. Balaguer, H. Spiers, D. Hassabis, C. Summerfield (2016). Neural Mechanisms of Hierarchical Planning in a Virtual Subway Network. Neuron, 90:893–903.

28 March 2017: Wen-Yi Wu

• S. Hegde, W.Capell, B. Ibrahim, J. Klett, N. Patel, A. Sougiannis and M. Kelly (2016). Phosphodiesterase 11A (PDE11A), Enriched in Ventral Hippocampus Neurons, is Required for Consolidation of Social but not Nonsocial Memories in Mice. Neuropsychopharmacology 41:2920-2931.

Additional Reading:

• S. Hegde, H. Ji, D. Oliver, N. Patel, N. Poupore, M. Shtutman and M. Kelly (2016). PDE11A Regulates Social Behaviors And Is A Key Mechanism By Which Social Experience Sculpts The Brain. Neuroscience 335:151-169.

4 April 2017: Spring Break (no meeting)

11 April 2017: Hamid Turker

• D. Aronov, R. Nevers & D. Tank (2017). Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit. Nature 543:719-722.

Commentary on the main article:

• J. Eckemann & E. Buffalo (2017). Auditory landscape on the cognitive map. Nature 543:631-632.

18 April 2017: Jesse Werth

• L. Meshulam, J. Gauthier, C. Brody, D. Tank and W. Bialek (2016). Collective behavior of place and non{place neurons in the hippocampal network. arXiv:1612.08935v1.

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

2 May 2017: Mike Goldstein

• J. Krakauer, A. Ghazanfar, A. Gomez-Martin, M. MacIver and D. Poeppel (2017). Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias. Neuron 93:480-490.

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.

-----

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.

-----

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

• Ludwig M, Tobin VA, Callahan MF, Papadaki E, Becker A, Engelmann M, Leng G (2013).  Intranasal application of vasopressin fails to elicit changes in brain immediate-early gene expression, neural activity, and behavioural performance of rats.  Journal of Neuroendocrinology 25:655-667.

• I have been thinking a lot about intranasal oxytocin and vasopressin. This paper suggests that there is no change in brain activity or behavior from intranasal OT and VP, although other papers have found behavioral changes. 
• The following papers also were brought up during our (robust and interesting) discussion:
  • Bartz et al. 2011
  • Churchland and Winkielman 2012
  • Rilling et al. 2014
  • Guastella and Hickie 2016
  • Quintana et al. 2016 

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

• M. Stephenson-Jones, K. Yu, S. Ahrens, J. Tucciarone, A. van Huijstee, L. Mejia, M. Penzo, L. Tai, L. Wilbrecht & B. Li (2016). A basal ganglia circuit for evaluating action outcomes. Nature 539:289-293.

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.

-----

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.

-----

30 January 2018:  Organizational Meeting

6 February 2018:  Tim DeVoogd and Alex Ophir

• R. Harris, L. O'Connell and H. Hofmann (2017). Brain Evolution, Development, and Plasticity. In (ed) Stephen V. Shepherd, The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience, First Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

13 February 2018:  Wen-Yi Wu

• D. Omer, S. Maimon, L. Las, N. Ulanovsky. (2018) Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science 359:218–24.

20 February 2018:  FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING

27 February 2018:  David Katz

• R. Wood, M. Bauza, J. Krupic, S. Burton, A. Delekate, D. Chan & J. O'Keefe (2018). The honeycomb maze provides a novel test to study hippocampal-dependent spatial navigation. Nature 554:102-7.

• Optional background reading: C. Paul, G. Magdab and S. Abel (2009). Spatial memory: Theoretical basis and comparative review on experimental methods in rodents. Behavioral Brain Research 203:151-164.

6 March 2018:  Marissa Rice

• D. Haun, C. Rapold, G. Janzen, and S. Levinson (2011). Plasticity of human spatial cognition: Spatial language and cognition covary across cultures. Cognition 119:70-80.

13 March 2018:  Lisa Hiura

• K. Tokarev, J. Bruno, I. Ljubicic, P. Kothari, S. Helekar, O. Tchernichovski, and H. Voss (2017). Sexual dimorphism in striatal dopaminergic responses promotes monogamy in social songbirds. eLife 6:e25819.

20 March 2018:  Jesse Werth

• Kass MD, Czarnecki LA, Moberly AH, McGann JP (2017)  Differences in peripheral sensory input to the olfactory bulb between male and female mice.  Scientific Reports 7:45851.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep45851 

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 2018:  SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING

10 April 2018:  Dev Laxman Subramanian

• D. Khodagholy, J. Gelinas, G. Buzsáki (2017). Learning-enhanced coupling between ripple oscillations in association cortices and hippocampus. Science 358:369–72.

17 April 2018:  NO MEETING

24 April 2018:  Angela Freeman

• S. Dloniak, J. French & K. Holekamp (2006). Rank-related maternal effects of androgens on behaviour in wild spotted hyaenas. Nature 440:1190-1193.

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).