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Spring Semester

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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 2012-2013, 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 205Ives Hall 107 - NOTE THE NEW ROOM!

Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the CNS (BCS) meeting archive.

The semester's theme is Neural representations:  are they?  what are they?  and how are they formed?  This can be approached from a mechanistic level (what neuronal mechanisms underlie the metric(s) by which neural representations are formed), a psychological level  (generalization, discrimination, psychophysical evidence), a systems neuroscience level (coordinated cortical learning systems), or other levels TBD.  Is the concept accurate?  is it useful?  misleading?  Sensory inputs and learning change neural activity and mediate our experience - is this process well described by the concept of representations?  As always, please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.  

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BCS will continue its "minimal Powerpoint" policy, in place since Fall 2011.  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  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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23 January 2024:  Organizational Meeting

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30 January 2024:   Cancelled - see you next week.

6 February 2024:  Tim DeVoogd

13 February 2024:  Lindsay Sailer

20 February 2024Dev 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 2024Feb Break - no meeting

5 March 2024:  David Smith

12 March 2024:  Hamid Turker

19 March 2024:  CANCELLED - Will be rescheduled soon (Wendy Yang).

26 March 2024: Wendy Yang

2 April 2024Spring 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

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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29 January 2013:  Lindsey Vedder

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5 February 2013 (Thom absent):  TBD

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12 February 2013:  Dave Bulkin

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19 February 2013 (Thom maybe absent):  TBD

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26 February 2013:  Racquel Redwood

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5 March 2013:  Esther Hoffman

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12 March 2013:  Adam Miller

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19 March 2013:  SPRING BREAK

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  • No meeting

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26 March 2013 (Thom absent):  TBD

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2 April 2013Phil Perrone

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9 April 2013:  Rachel Swanson

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16 April 2013 (Thom maybe absent):  TBD

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23 April 2013:  Guoshi Li

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30 April 2013:  SiWei Luo

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