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 2011-2012, 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 yet to be determined, but our likely first speaker will discuss his own recent work relating to neural representations. Please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.
Starting in Fall 2011, BCS will try out a "minimal Powerpoint" policy. In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown. Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall. We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers. Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers. You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers. That's great. Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation. Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.
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 That said, presenting your own work is always welcome, and in this case often it will be in Powerpoint format and formally organized. Not a problem. 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 (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 (2 credit (1 CR, S/U) as a 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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27 August 2024: Organizational Meeting
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3 September 2024: David Zheng
- Cogno SG, Obenhaus HA, Lautrup A, Jacobsen RI, Clopath C, Andersson SO, Donato F, Moser M-B, Moser EI (2024) Minute-scale oscillatory sequences in medial entorhinal cortex. Nature 625: 338.
10 September 2024: Cancelled - see you next week
17 September 2024: Cancelled - see you next week
24 September 2024: Cynthia Wu
- J. Gonzalez, P. Torterolo, and A. Tort (2023). Mechanisms and functions of respiration-driven gamma oscillations in the primary olfactory cortex. eLife DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83044
1 October 2024 (Thom absent): Xin Zhao - research presentation
- X. Zhao, Y. Chae, D. Smith, V. Chen, D. DeFelipe, J. Sokol1, A. Sadangi and K. Tschida (submitted). Short-term social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in a sex- and context-dependent manner.
8 October 2024: NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE
15 October 2024: NO MEETING - FALL BREAK
22 October 2024: Julia Jun
- F. Ceccarelli, L. Ferrucci, F. Londei, S. Ramawat, E. Brunamonti & Aldo Genovesio (2023). Static and dynamic coding in distinct cell types during associative learning in the prefrontal cortex.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43712-2
29 October 2024: Wendy Yang
5 November 2024: Hamid Türker
12 November 2024: Manmeet Kaur Lamba
19 November 2024: Danqing Xie
26 November 2024: Shiping Li
3 December 2024: Zhiyi Wang
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6 September 2011: Raj Raizada
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- Research talk: "What makes different people's representations alike: A solution to the problem of across-subject fMRI decoding"
- Here are the Powerpoint slides from Raj's talk.
- To see Raj's manuscript about the decoding-via-similarity-space work (mostly skipped over during his BCS talk, submitted to J. Cognitive Neuroscience), please contact Raj directly.
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13 September 2011: Dave Bulkin
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20 September 2011: Eyal Nitzany
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- No readings.
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27 September 2011: Pedro Rittner
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- Pedro will be talking about a computational model he is working on in deep olfactory bulb. Guoshi and Anuttama also have particular insights into the questions described.
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4 October 2011: TBD
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- TBD
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11 October 2011: FALL BREAK - NO BCS
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18 October 2011: Matt Lewis
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- For background, please read: Dayan P, Huys QJM (2009) Serotonin in affective control. Annual Review of Neuroscience 32:95-126. This review attempts to combine the studies of serotonin (aka 5HT) in invertebrates with studies in vertebrates to construct a grand synthesis, and contains several ideas that are well worth discussing.
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25 October 2011: Adam Miller
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- Two papers in line with Adam's biannual theme. What does that mean? Come and ask Adam yourself.
- van der Meer MAA, Redish AD (2009) Covert expectation-of-reward in rat ventral striatum at decision points. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 3(1).
- Howe MW, Atallah HE, McCool A, Gibson DJ, Graybiel AM (2011) Habit learning is associated with major shifts in frequencies of oscillatory activity and synchronized spike firing in striatum. PNAS 108(40):16801-16806.
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1 November 2011: SiWei Luo
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- Kim EJ, Kim ES, Covey E, Kim JJ (2010) Social transmission of fear in rats: the role of 22 kHz ultrasonic distress vocalization. PLoS One 5(12):e15077.
For additional background, if desired:
- Galef BJ (2002) Social learning of food preferences in rodents: rapid appetitive learning. Current Protocols in Neuroscience 8.5D.1-8.5D.8.
- Kiyokawa Y, Takeuchi Y, Nishihara M, Mori Y (2009) Main olfactory system mediates social buffering of conditioned fear responses in male rats. European Journal of Neuroscience 29:777-785.
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8 November 2011: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
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- These two papers are a point/counterpoint "Perspective" pair published in Neuron this year:
- Sahay A, Wilson DA, Hen R (2011) Pattern Separation: A Common Function for New Neurons in Hippocampus and Olfactory Bulb. Neuron 70:582.
- Aimone JB, Deng W, Gage FH (2011) Resolving New Memories: A Critical Look at the Dentate Gyrus, Adult Neurogenesis, and Pattern Separation. Neuron 70:589.
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15 November 2011: Society for Neuroscience meeting -- NO BCS
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- NEWS ITEM: Tom Griffiths will be speaking this Friday, 18 November, at the Psychology Colloquium (3:30 in Uris Hall 202). You may remember him from such previous BCS papers as Tenenbaum JB, Griffiths TL (2001) Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24:629-640. You can fill the empty space in your soul by rereading that paper, or his more recent work.
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22 November 2011: Guoshi Li
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- TBD
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29 November 2011: Sasha Devore
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