Spring Semester
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2023-
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2024
The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101 (6528), meets For Spring Semester 2010-2011, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 40 to 1:00 pm(ish) in Uris Hall 205. Ives Hall 107 - NOTE THE NEW ROOM!
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.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 (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 matter. Sending the message simply 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 BCS CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit credit (2 1 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. 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 January 2024: Organizational Meeting
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30 January 2024: Cancelled - see you next week.
6 February 2024: Tim DeVoogd
- J. N. Audet, M. Couture, E. D. Jarvis (2023). Songbird species that display more-complex vocal learning are better problem-solvers and have larger brains. Science 381, 1170–1175.
13 February 2024: Lindsay Sailer
- A. Kaźmierowska, M. Kostecki, M. Szczepanik, T. Nikolaev, A. Hamed, J. Michałowski, M. Wypych, A. Marchewka, and E. Knapska. (2023). Rats respond to aversive emotional arousal of human handlers with the activation of the basolateral and central amygdala. PNAS, 120(46):1-9.
20 February 2024: Dev 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 2024: Feb Break - no meeting
5 March 2024: David Smith
- A. LePort, A. Mattfeld, H. Dickinson-Anson, J. Fallon, C. Stark, F. Kruggel, L. Cahill, J. McGaugh (2012). Behavioral and neuroanatomical investigation of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM). Neurobio. Learn. Mem. 98:78-92.
- Optional background reading (short and very interesting!): A. Luria (1968). The Mind of a Mnemonist. Ch 38. In U. Neisser, Memory Observed: Remembering in Natural Contexts, 1982, W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, 382-9.
12 March 2024: Hamid Turker
- C. Lai, S. Tanaka, T. Harris, A. Lee (2023). Volitional activation of remote place representations with a hippocampal brain–machine interface. Science 382:566-73.
19 March 2024: CANCELLED - Will be rescheduled soon (Wendy Yang).
26 March 2024: Wendy Yang
- Y. Shi, J. Yan, X. Xu, Z. Qiu (2024). Gating of Social Behavior by Inhibitory Inputs from Hippocampal CA1 to Retrosplenial Agranular Cortex. Neurosci. Bull. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-023-01172-0
2 April 2024: Spring 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
A. Sharif, J. Matsumoto, C. Choijiljav, A. Badarch, T. Setogawa, H. Nishijo and H. Nishimaru (2024). Characterization of Ultrasonic Vocalization-Modulated Neurons in Rat Motor Cortex Based on Their Activity Modulation and Axonal Projection to the Periaqueductal Gray. eNeuro 11(4):1-10.
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...
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1 February 2011: Patrick Gill
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- Shoham S, O'Connor DH, Segev R (2006) How silent is the brain: is there a "dark matter" problem in neuroscience? Journal of Comparative Physiology A.
- Song S, Sjoestroem PJ, Reigl M, Nelson S, Chklovskii DB (2005) Highly nonrandom features of synaptic connectivity in local cortical circuits. PLoS Biology 3(3):0507-0519 (e68).
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8 February 2011: Dave Bulkin
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- Optional Reading: Bulkin and Groh, in press, Systematic Mapping of the Monkey Inferior Colliculus Reveals Enhanced Low Frequency Sound Representation.
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15 February 2011: TBD
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- TBD
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22 February 2011: TBD
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- TBD
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1 March 2011: Guoshi Li
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- 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.
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8 March 2011: Licurgo de Almeida
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- David M. Eagleman and Terrence J. Sejnowski (2007). Motion signals bias localization judgments: A unified explanation for the flash-lag, flash-drag, flash-jump, and Frohlich illusions. Journal of Vision. 7(4):3, 1-12.
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15 March 2011: Matt Lewis
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- Zhang H, Lin S-C, Micolelis MAL (2010) Spatiotemporal coupling between hippocampal acetylcholine release and theta oscillations in vivo. J Neuroscience 30(40): 13431-13440.
- Zhang, Lin and Nicolelis (2009). Acquiring local field potential information from amperometric neurochemical recordings. J Neurosci Methods 179:191-200.
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22 March 2011: SPRING BREAK -- NO MEETING
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- If you come to BCS today, you will be mocked.
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29 March 2011: Laura Darnieder
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- Gyorgy Buzsaki (2010). Neural Syntax: Cell Assemblies, Synapsembles, and Readers. Neuron, 68:362-385.
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5 April 2011: Michelle Tong
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- Richard Stevenson and Don Wilson (2007). Odour perception: an object-recognition approach. Perception 36:1821-1833.
- Orban G, Fiser J, Aslin RN, Lengyel M (2008). Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observers. PNAS 105(7):2745-2750. You may also want to read the supplementary information.
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12 April 2011: Tanya Nauvel
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- Corlett PR, Simons JS, Pigott JS, Gardner JM, Murray GK, Krystal JH, Fletcher PC (2009). llusions and delusions: relating experimentally-induced false memories to anomalous experiences and ideas. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 3(53):1-9.
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19 April 2011: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
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- Tenenbaum JB, Griffiths TL (2001) Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24:629-640.
- Haddad R, Khan R, Takahashi YK, Mori K, Harel D, Sobel N (2008) A metric for odorant comparison. Nature Methods 5(5): 425-429.
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26 April 2011: Adam Miller
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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.
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3 May 2011: Al Molnar
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