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Fall Semester
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2024-
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2025
The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101, 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 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 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 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 BCS CNS Journal Club for graduate or undergraduate credit credit (1 -2 CR, S/U) as a 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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29 January 2013: Lindsey Vedder
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- Guifen Chena, John A. King, Neil Burgess and John O'Keefe (2013). How vision and movement combine in the hippocampal place code. PNAS 110(1):378-83.
- R. Jonathan Robitsek,John A. White,Howard Eichenbaum (2013). Place cell activation predicts subsequent memory. Behavioural Brain Research. DOI 10.1016.
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5 February 2013 (Thom absent): TBD
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- TBD
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12 February 2013: Dave Bulkin
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- TBD
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19 February 2013 (Thom maybe absent): TBD
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- TBD
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26 February 2013: Dave Bulkin and David Smith
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- Lesley A. Schimanski, Peter Lipa, and Carol A. Barnes (2013). Tracking the Course of Hippocampal Representations during Learning: When Is the Map Required? J Neurosci 33(7):3094-3106.
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5 March 2013: TBD
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- TBD
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12 March 2013: Adam Miller
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- TBD
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19 March 2013: SPRING BREAK
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- No meeting
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26 March 2013 (Thom absent): Greg Peters
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- TBD
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2 April 2013: Phil Perrone
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- TBD
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9 April 2013: Rachel Swanson
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- TBD
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16 April 2013 (Thom maybe absent): TBD
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- TBD
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23 April 2013: Guoshi Li
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- TBD
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30 April 2013: 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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