Fall Semester
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The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101, meets For Fall Semester 2010-2011, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 40 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205. (ish) in 156 Goldwin Smith Hall
Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.
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.
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 To add yourself to the BCS-L 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 subject line of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't mattersimply join, and the body of the message blank/empty. Sending the message with a subject line of 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 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 August 2024: Organizational Meeting
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7 September 2010: Thom Cleland
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- 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.
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14 September 2010: David Smith
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- Kuhl, B., Dudukovic, N., Kahn, I. & Wagner, A.(2007). Decreased demands on cognitive control reveal the neural processing benefits of forgetting. Nature Neuroscience 10(7), 908-914.
- Wimber, M., Rutschmann, R., Greenlee, M. and Bauml, K. (2009). Retrieval from Episodic Memory: Neural Mechanisms of Interference Resolution. J Cog Neurosci 21(3) 538-549.
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21 September 2010: Laura Darnieder
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- Ohms VR, Gill A, Van Heijninge CAA, Beckers GJL, ten Cate C (2009). Zebra finches exhibit speaker-independent phonetic perception of human speech. Proc. Royal Society B.
- Gauthier B, Shi R, Xu Y (2007). SImulating the acquisition of lexical tones from continuous dynamic input. J. Acoustical Society of America 121(5), May 2007.
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28 September 2010: Michelle Tong
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- "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)
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5 October 2010: Matt Lewis
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- 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.
Wiki Markup \[OPTIONAL\] [Issa EB, Wang X (2008)|^J Neurosci 2008 Issa.pdf] Sensory responses during sleep in primate primary and secondary auditory cortex. _Journal of Neuroscience_ 28(53):14467-14480.
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12 October 2010: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
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- Pfister J-P, Dayan P, Lengyel M (2010) Synapses with short-term plasticity are optimal estimators of presynaptic membrane potentials. Nature Neuroscience 13(10):1271-1275.
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19 October 2010: Guoshi Li
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- 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.
Wiki Markup [Shouval HZ, Wang SS-H, Wittenberg GM (2010)|^STDP-A consequence of more fundamental rule.pdf] 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.
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26 October 2010: Sasha Devore
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- 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.
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2 November 2010: Tanya Nauvel
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- Smith AC, Shah SA, Hudson AE, Purpura KP, Victor JD, Brown EN, Schiff ND (2009). A Bayesian statistical analysis of behavioral facilitation associated with deep brain stimulation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 183(2):267-276. PMC Version.
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9 November 2010: Adam Miller
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- Yin HH, Prasad Mulcare S, Hilario MRF, Clouse E, Holloway T, Davis MI, Hansson AC, Lovinger DM, Costa RM (2009). Dynamic reorganization of striatal circuits during the acquisition and consolidation of a skill. Nature Neuroscience 12(3):333-341.
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16 November 2010: NO MEETING (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting)
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23 November 2010: Shane Peace
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- Long MA, Jin DZ, Fee MS (2010). Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation. Nature 468(7322): 394-399.
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30 November 2010: SiWei Luo
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3 September 2024: TBD
10 September 2024: TBD
17 September 2024: TBD
24 September 2024: TBD
1 October 2024: TBD (Thom absent)
8 October 2024: NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE
15 October 2024: NO MEETING - FALL BREAK
22 October 2024: TBD
29 October 2024: TBD
5 November 2024: TBD
12 November 2024: TBD
19 November 2024: TBD
26 November 2024: TBD
3 December 2024: TBD
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