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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.
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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.
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To add yourself to the mailing list, send a plain-text email to bcs-L-request@cornell.edu (BCS is the historical name of the journal club) with 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 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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31 August 202123 January 2024: Organizational Meeting
7 September 2021: Julia Jun
Scott GA, Liu MC, Tahir NB, Zabder NK, Song Y, Greba Q, Howland JG (2020). Roles of the medial prefrontal cortex, mediodorsal thalamus, and their combined circuit for performance of the odor span task in rats: analysis of memory capacity and foraging behavior. Learning & Memory 27(2):67-77.
14 September 2021: Jesse Werth
Schoonover CE, Ohashi SN, Axel R, Fink AJP (2021). Representational drift in primary olfactory cortex. Nature 594: 541-546.
- Followup papers of interest:
- Raman D, O'Leary T (2021). Optimal plasticity for memory maintenance during ongoing synaptic change. eLife 10:e62912. (Online only; PDF not yet available).
21 September 2021: Margaret Cruz
Meinhardt J, et al. (2021). Olfactory transmucosal SARS-CoV-2 invasion as a port of central nervous system entry in individuals with COVID-19. Nature Neuroscience 24: 168-175.
- The role of brain microglia in synaptic plasticity (as well as the immune response) arose during discussion. Here are a couple of starting-point reviews of the topic for those interested.
- Morris GP et al. (2013). Microglia: a new frontier for synaptic plasticity, learning and memory, and neurodegenerative disease research.
- Augusto-Oliveira M et al. (2021). Lifestyle-dependent microglial plasticity: training the brain guardians.
- The role of brain microglia in synaptic plasticity (as well as the immune response) arose during discussion. Here are a couple of starting-point reviews of the topic for those interested.
28 September 2021: Celia McLean
Vahaba DM, Hecsh A, Remage-Healey L (2020). Neuroestrogen synthesis modifies neural representations of learned song without altering vocal imitation in developing songbirds. Scientific Reports 10:3602.
5 October 2021: Michael Mariscal
Kato HK, Chu MW, Isaacson JS, Komiyama T (2012). Dynamic sensory representations in the olfactory bulb: modulation by wakefulness and experience. Neuron 76: 962-975.
12 October 2021: FALL BREAK / Indigenous Peoples' Day
No meeting
19 October 2021: Lia Chen
Cornblath EJ, Li HL, ..., Henderson MX (2021). Computational modeling of tau pathology spread reveals patterns of regional vulnerability and the impact of a genetic risk factor. Science Advances 7: eabg6677.
- Followups from discussion:
- Seminal & review papers about graph theoretic analysis of brain networks: Bassett & Bullmore 2006, Bullmore & Sporns 2009, Bullmore & Sporns 2012, Bassett & Bullmore 2017
- Dementia papers utilizing brain network analyses: Rittman et al 2016, Rittman et al 2019
- Followups from discussion:
26 October 2021: Wendy Yang
Rangel MJ, Baldo MVC, Canteras NS (2018). Influence of the anteromedial thalamus on social defeat-associated contextual fear memory. Behavioural Brain Research 339: 269-277.
2 November 2021: Nicole Pranic
Chen J, Markowitz JE, ..., Datta SR, Stowers L (2021). Flexible scaling and persistence of social vocal communication. Nature 593: 108-113.
9 November 2021: Society for Neuroscience Conference (virtual)
No meeting
16 November 2021: Santi Forero
Gobrogge KL, Jia X, Liu Y, Wang Z (2017). Neurochemical mediation of affiliation and aggression associated with pair-bonding. Biological Psychiatry 81: 231-242.
23 November 2021: Nora Prior
Jaric I, Rocks D, Greally JM, Suzuki M, Kundakovic M (2019). Chromatin organization in the female mouse brain fluctuates across the oestrous cycle. Nature Communications 10:2851.
30 November 2021: Kefira Wu
TBD
7 December 2021: Patryk Ziobro
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30 January 2024: Cancelled - see you next week.
6 February 2024: Tim DeVoogd
- 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...