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The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101, meets For Spring Semester 2013-2014, 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 still Attention, from both a neurobiological and cognitive perspective.  The goal, of course, is to cross-reference and cross-challenge the two so as to come up with an integrative and useful understanding of the field.  How can human attentional tasks best be studied using animal models?  What, if any, is the special importance of cholinergic neuromodulation to attention?  Is "attention" still a useful concept?  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 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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3 September 2024:   David Zheng

10 September 2024:  Cancelled - see you next week

17 September 2024:  Cancelled - see you next week

24 September 2024:  Cynthia Wu

1 October 2024 (Thom absent):  Xin Zhao - research presentation

8 October 2024:   NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

15 October 2024:  NO MEETING - FALL BREAK

22 October 2024:  Julia Jun

29 October 2024:  Wendy Yang

5 November 2024Hamid 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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4 February 2014:  Group discussion of Charles Schroeder's work - no designated presenter.

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11 February 2014:  Dave Bulkin

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Additional references:

  • Re Granger causality:  Bressler SL, Seth AK (2011)  Wiener-Granger causality:  a well-established methodology.  NeuroImage 58:323-329.  
  • Re the thalamus being more than a relay:  Sherman SM (2007)  The thalamus is more than just a relay.  Curr Opin Neurobiol 17(4):417-422.
  • Rachel's book:  Sherman SM, Guillery RW (2013).  Functional connections of cortical areas: a new view from the thalamus.  MIT Press.  

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18 February 2014:  FEBRUARY BREAK

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  • No meeting

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25 February 2014:  TBD

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  • TBD

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4 March 2014:  Phil Perrone

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11 March 2014:  TBD

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  • Thom might be out of town

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18 March 2014:  David Smith

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25 March 2014:  Khena Swallow

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1 April 2014:  SPRING BREAK

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  • No meeting 

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8 April 2014:  Lindsey Vedder

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15 April 2014:  Adam Miller

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  • TBD

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22 April 2014:  Cory Horowitz

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  • TBD

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29 April 2014:  Rachel Swanson

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6 May 2014:  TBD

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