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 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.
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. 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 (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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30 23 January 20182024: Organizational Meeting
30 January 2024: Cancelled - see you next week.
6 February 2018 2024: Tim DeVoogd and Alex Ophir
R. Harris, L. O'Connell and H. Hofmann (2017). Brain Evolution, Development, and Plasticity. In (ed) Stephen V. Shepherd, The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience, First Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
13 February 2018: Wen-Yi Wu
D. Omer, S. Maimon, L. Las, N. Ulanovsky. (2018) Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science 359:218–24.
20 February 2018: FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING
27 February 2018: David Katz
R. Wood, M. Bauza, J. Krupic, S. Burton, A. Delekate, D. Chan & J. O'Keefe (2018). The honeycomb maze provides a novel test to study hippocampal-dependent spatial navigation. Nature 554:102-7.
Optional background reading: C. Paul, G. Magdab and S. Abel (2009). Spatial memory: Theoretical basis and comparative review on experimental methods in rodents. Behavioral Brain Research 203:151-164.
6 March 2018: Marissa Rice
D. Haun, C. Rapold, G. Janzen, and S. Levinson (2011). Plasticity of human spatial cognition: Spatial language and cognition covary across cultures. Cognition 119:70-80.
13 March 2018: Lisa Hiura
K. Tokarev, J. Bruno, I. Ljubicic, P. Kothari, S. Helekar, O. Tchernichovski, and H. Voss (2017). Sexual dimorphism in striatal dopaminergic responses promotes monogamy in social songbirds. eLife 6:e25819.
20 March 2018: Jesse Werth
Kass MD, Czarnecki LA, Moberly AH, McGann JP (2017) Differences in peripheral sensory input to the olfactory bulb between male and female mice. Scientific Reports 7:45851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep45851
27 March 2018: Jack Cook
Jack will be presenting work from his research project developing an analytical framework for odor learning. The readings are to get everybody in the right frame of mind for discussing this work in particular and the overall approach in general.
- Zaidi Q, Victor J, McDermott J, Geffen M, Bensmaia Sl, Cleland TA (2013). Perceptual spaces: mathematical structures to neural mechanisms. J Neurosci 33(45): 17597-17602.
- Lee JM (2013). Introduction to smooth manifolds, pages 1-17.
- For some additional background (optional):
- Lee JM (2011). Introduction to topological manifolds, 2nd ed., pages 1-17.
3 April 2018: SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING
10 April 2018: Dev Laxman Subramanian
D. Khodagholy, J. Gelinas, G. Buzsáki (2017). Learning-enhanced coupling between ripple oscillations in association cortices and hippocampus. Science 358:369–72.
17 April 2018: NO MEETING
24 April 2018: Angela Freeman
1 May 2018: Roy Moyal
8 May 2018: Article Potluck
- Bring your favorite, most insightful, most surprising, oddest, or otherwise somehow compelling article or bit of data to share with the group (time limit of 5-10 min each).
- 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...