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Old shortlink:  https://tinyurl.com/cornellcns

Fall Semester 2008-2009

10 September 2008:  Organizational Meeting

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Spring Semester 2008-2009

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29 April 2009: Mike Wojnowicz
  • Reading PDF.

 


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Fall Semester 2009-2010

1 September 2009:  Organizational Meeting

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Spring Semester 2009-2010

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Another idea:  Mechanisms of memory consolidation and reconsolidation -- perhaps a more focused version of "synaptic plasticity" as above.  These topics are much more well understood and diverse than they were even a few years ago, and they are leading to a number of exciting hypotheses about systems and behavioral integrative mechanisms.  For example, see Nader & Einarsson (2010) Ann NY Acad Sci 1191:27-41, as well as Jonathan L.C. Lee's recent Nature Neuroscience paper (2008) and Trends in Neurosciences opinion (2010).  

 


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Fall Semester 2010-2011

For Fall Semester 2010-2011, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

The overarching theme this semester is Systems of neuronal representation and learning .  Adhering to this theme is not required, but is strongly recommended.  Please interpret it broadly. It is intended to include such diverse topics as:  the systematic regulation of synaptic plasticity, Bayesian representations (including sensory representations as probability estimates), Bayesian and/or energetic optimality in neural encoding or transmission, perceptual learning, decision-making (including reward harvesting), temporal difference learning/dopamine (Schultz model), synaptic rules that give rise to systems-level learning properties.

 


31 August 2010:  Organizational Meeting

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  • Cell assemblies and functional connectivity.
  • Attention.
  • Decision making: how do brains/neurons make up their minds... could be broad like sensorimotor or small like anything dealing with synaptic integration/action potential generation.
  • More oscillations.  i know we did it last spring but it seems like it's still a recurring a nightmare for most people.

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Spring Semester 2010-2011

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  • Brown RM, Robertson EM (2007)  Off-line processing:  reciprocal interactions between declarative and procedural memories.  Journal of Neuroscience 27(39):10468-10475.
  • Keisler A, Shadmehr R (2010)  A shared resource between declarative memory and motor memory.  Journal of Neuroscience 30(44):14817-14823.
3 May 2011:  CANCELLED

 

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Fall Semester 2011-2012

For Fall Semester 2011-2012, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205

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  • Sasha will present at the first BCS meeting of spring semester instead, on the topic of active sensation

 


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Spring Semester 2011-2012

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1 May 2012: CANCELED

 

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Fall Semester 2012-2013

For Fall Semester 2012-2013, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205

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Spring Semester 2012-2013

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Fall Semester 2013-2014

For Spring Semester 2013-2014, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205

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Spring Semester 2013-2014

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Fall Semester 2014-2015

For Fall Semester 2014-2015, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will be on hiatus.  Watch this space for our reformation in Spring 2015.

 


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Spring Semester 2014-2015

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Please contact Thomas Cleland or David Smith with any questions.

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27 January 2015:  Organizational Meeting 


3 February 2015:  Dave Bulkin

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17 February 2015: Feb Break - no BCS. 


24 February 2015

 


3 March 2015: No designated presenter, so please read the article and come prepared to discuss it.

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31 March 2015: Spring Break - no BCS

 


7 April 2015: Gina Mason

14 April 2015: No meeting

 


21 April 2015:  David Smith

 


28 April 2015:  Ayon Borthakur

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5 May 2015:  Rachel Swanson

  • Luczak et al (2009).  Spontaneous events outline the realm of possible sensory responses in neocortical populations.  Neuron 62: 413-425.

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Fall Semester 2015-2016


25 August 2015:  Organizational Meeting

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9 February 2016:  Marissa Rice

16 February 2016:  Feb Break - no meeting.

 


23 February 2016:  Norma Hernandez

1 March 2016:  David gone - no meeting this week

  • No meeting.

8 March 2016:  David

Additional papers on ripples we talked about today:

  • D. Foster & M. Wilson (2006). Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature 440:680-683.

  • K. Diba & G. Buzsaki (2007). Forward and reverse hippocampal place-cell sequences during ripples. Nature Neuroscience 10(10):1241-1242.

  • S. Jadhav, C. Kemere, P. W. German, L. Frank (2012). Awake Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples Support Spatial Memory. Science 336:1454-1458.

15 March 2016:  Joseph

22 March 2016:  Group Discussion (no official presenter)

29 March 2016:  Spring Break - no meeting 


5 April 2016:  Marissa Rice/Group Discussion

Additional readings following discussions at the meeting:

 


12 April 2016:  Open (Thom gone?)

  • TBA

19 April 2016:  Khena Swallow

26 April 2016:  Group Discussion (no official presenter)

3 May 2016:  Joseph & all

10 May 2016:  Article Potluck - bring your favorite (or most amazing, unbelievable, oddest, etc.) recent article (or data) to share with the group. 



Fall Semester 2016-2017

The Fall 2016 semester's theme is  “Social Stimuli and Neural Representations”.  This is intentionally broad because we want presenters to bring many different perspectives to the BCS journal club.  Here are some examples of what we have in mind:

  • How to social stimuli (e.g. conspecifics) influence neural representations (e.g. spatial-contextual representations in the hippocampus)?
  • How are social stimuli, or stimuli that are related to social processes represented? 
  • How is information related to individual or species recognition represented in the brain?

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 with the body of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list. See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details.

You can enroll in the BCS 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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23 August 2016:  Organizational Meeting

30 August 2016:  David Smith and Alex Ophir

6 September 2016:  David Smith and Alex Ophir

13 September 2016:  Marissa Rice and Alex Ophir

Additional (optional) reading:

20 September 2016: No meeting this week

  • No readings

27 September 2016:  David Smith and Alex Ophir (Retrosplenial Cortex as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding)

Additional background for those interested (we'll discuss these in class).

  • Vedder, L. C., Miller, A. M. P., Harrison, M. B., and Smith, D. M. (2016). Retrosplenial Cortical Neurons Encode Navigational Cues, Trajectories and Reward Locations During Goal Directed Navigation. Cerebral Cortex, DOI 10.1093/cercor/bwh192.
  • Phelps SM & Ophir AG (2009). Monogamous brains and alternative tactics: Neuronal V1aR, space use and sexual infidelity among male prairie voles. In Cognitive ecology: The evolutionary ecology of information processing and decision making. 2nd Ed. (eds: Dukas R. & Ratcliffe J.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

11 October 2016:  Fall Break - no journal club

18 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (Ventral hippocampus as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding)

25 October 2016:  David Smith and Alex Ophir (Ventral hippocampus as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding, continued)

1 November 2016:  Jesse Werth

  • Jesse will discuss the ideas in of his recently submitted NSF fellowship proposal.

Suggested background reading:

8 November 2016: Adam Miller

  • Adam will discuss his recently completed work on the retrosplenial cortex, spatial memory and the simulation of future goals.

15 November 2016:  SFN Meeting - no journal club

 


22 November 2016:  Cancelled - no meeting this week.

 


29 November 2016:  Article potluck

  • Bring your favorite, oddest, or most compelling recent finding or article to share with the group.

 



Spring Semester 2016-2017

For Fall and Spring Semesters 2016-2017, the Behavioral, Computational, and Systems Neuroscience (BCS) Journal Club will meet on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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

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The Spring 2017 semester's theme is "show us what you are interested in."  As we morph into the "BEN journal club", we think that it may be less important to choose papers that 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 attendees 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 with the body of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list. See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details.

You can enroll in the BCS 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 January 2017:  Organizational Meeting

7 February 2017:  No meeting.

14 February 2017:  David Smith

21 February 2017:  Feb Break (no meeting)

28 February 2017: Adam Miller

7 March 2017: Norma Hernandez

14 March 2017: Thom Cleland

21 March 2017: Marissa Rice

28 March 2017: Wen-Yi Wu

Additional Reading:

4 April 2017: Spring Break (no meeting)

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11 April 2017: Hamid Turker

Commentary on the main article:

18 April 2017: Jesse Werth

25 April 2017: POSTPONED, will try to reschedule soon!

2 May 2017: Mike Goldstein

9 May 2017

  • Article Potluck: Bring your favorite, most insightful, most surprising, oddest or otherwise interesting article or bit of data to share with the group (time limit of 5-10 min).

 

 




Fall Semester 2017-2018

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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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 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 with the body of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message leave instead will unsubscribe you from the list. See Cornell's Lyris HowTo page for further details.

You can enroll in the BCS 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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22 August 2017:  Organizational Meeting

29 August 2017:  David Smith

  • Adam M. P. Miller, William Mau and David M. Smith. Ensemble coding of long-term spatial memories and future goal locations in the retrosplenial cortex.

  • Note: This manuscript is a working draft, so please do not distribute it beyond the journal club. Also, don't get too hung up with the analysis methodology. I'll explain as needed.

5 September 2017:  Caitlyn Finton

12 September 2017:  Aubrey Kelly

  • J. Goodson (2013). Deconstructing sociality, social evolution and relevant nonapeptide functions. Psychneuroendocrinology 38:465-478.
  • This review, written by offspring of the Cornell Psych Department, stresses two important concepts relevant to all areas represented by attendees of the CNS journal club: 1) Careful consideration needs to be taken with how we define behavior, and 2) We must utilize a comparative approach in order to understand the evolution of behavior.

19 September 2017:  Khena Swallow

  • S. Warren, E. Yacoub & G. Ghose (2014). Featural and temporal attention selectively enhance task-appropriate representations in human primary visual cortex. Nature Communications 5:5643.

  • This paper highlights two basic points that are important for anyone who cares about how brains work. First, attention alters the behavior of neuronal populations. As a result, tasks can impact what is represented and measured. Second, what is represented by neuronal populations is influenced by expectations along multiple dimensions, including visual features, timing, and semantics (not just space).

  • Optional additional reading: T. Çukur, S. Nishimoto, A. Huth & J. Gallant (2013). Attention during natural vision warps semantic representation across the human brain. Nature Neuroscience 16(6):763-770.

26 September 2017:  Angela Freeman

  • M. Sadananda, M. Woehr, R. Schwarting (2008).  Playback of 22-kHz and 50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations induces differential c-fos expression in rat brain. Neuroscience Letters. 435:17-23.

  • I picked my paper because it is one of very few that looks at the neural basis of rodent vocalizations. And I'm all about communication, and I did a similar study on ground squirrel communication, which I am presenting at SFN this year, so I wanted to discuss this paper to prep for what things might be good to address in my own work.

3 October 2017:  Jesse Werth

  • B. Lasztoczi and T. Klausberger (2016). Hippocampal Place Cells Couple to Three Different Gamma Oscillations during Place Field Traversal. Neuron 91:34-40.

  • Article discusses ideas central to neuronal information processing in a relatively well known brain network. We typically think of hippocampal place cells in the context of how much they fire (spike rates; e.g., with respect to place fields and the animal's physical location within an environment).  The authors of this article offer an expanded framework that stresses the importance of when these cells fire (think small time-scales, spike-timing), rather than how much.
  • A paper that came up during discussion:  Using a new approach for identifying temporal structure in neuroimaging data, Baldassano et al. (2017) propose a theory of how continuous experience is divided into events that are represented in high-level cortex, are stored in long-term memory, and influence later perception.  Khena notes:  "There's a lot of interesting stuff in here, but I also find aspects of it to be pretty confusing or just wrong (if I understand them correctly)."

10 October 2017:  Fall Break - No meeting

 


17 October 2017:  Samantha Carouso

  • K. Lynch, A. Gaglio, E. Tyler, J. Coculo, M. Louder and M. Hauber (2017). A neural basis for password-based species recognition in an avian brood parasite. Journal of Experimental Biology 220:2345-2353.

  • This paper can serve as a starting point for a discussion of species recognition mechanisms in general, brood parasitism behavior, vocal learning and call production and their related auditory and production brain regions, ZENK as a scientific tool, innate vs. learned behaviors (and the potential false dichotomy of that distinction), and in vivo/in ovo learning.

24 October 2017:  George Prounis

Additional recommended reading:

  • L. Tai, A. M. Lee, N. Benavidez, A. Bonc, L. Wilbrecht (2012). Transient stimulation of distinct subpopulations of striatal neurons mimics changes in action value. Nature Neuroscience 15(9):1281-1289.

  • These papers highlight the dynamic role of basal ganglia dopamine systems in decision-making and action evaluation in mice. The authors bi-directionally influence reward-based decisions via optogenetic manipulation of specific neuronal populations within the basal ganglia. Overall, these papers demonstrate the 1) the importance of dopamine in both evaluation and action, and 2) the explanatory power of linking precise, sub-circuit neural manipulations to simple behavioral tasks. My research interests include developmental changes in decision-making circuits, particularly the involvement of dopamine systems during adolescent risk-taking behavior.

31 October 2017:  Adam Broitman

  • A. Broitman, M. Kahana and M. Healey (submitted).  Modeling Retest Effects in a Longitudinal Measurement Burst Design Study of Episodic Memory.

  • This paper proposes a mathematical model with which to separate age-related memory changes from task-specific retest effects in a longitudinal study. This paper may be useful to anyone who conducts long-term human cognition studies, and I will discuss its potential application to my future work. 

7 November 2017:  Cancelled - go see the job talks this week instead!

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14 November 2017:  Society for Neuroscience - No meeting

 


21 November 2017:  Cancelled - go see Frank Castelli's defense instead!

 


28 November 2017:  Wen-Yi Wu

  • T. Okuyama (2017). Social memory engram in the hippocampus. Neuroscience Research, epub ahead of print, DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2017.05.007

 



Spring Semester 2017-2018

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club) meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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 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 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 of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message 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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30 January 2018:  Organizational Meeting

6 February 2018:  Tim DeVoogd and Alex Ophir

13 February 2018:  Wen-Yi Wu

20 February 2018 FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING

 


27 February 2018:  David Katz

6 March 2018:  Marissa Rice

13 March 2018:  Lisa Hiura

20 March 2018:  Jesse Werth

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 2018SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING

 


10 April 2018:  Dev Laxman Subramanian

17 April 2018NO MEETING 


24 April 2018:  Angela Freeman

1 May 2018:  Roy Moyal

  • Singer W (2013). Cortical dynamics revisited. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17(12):616-626.

  • Optional:  Samaha J, Postle BR (2015)  The speed of alpha-band oscillations predicts the temporal resolution of visual perception.  Current Biology 25: 1-6.  
  • For an introduction to the concept of criticality and its relevance to neuroscience:  Beggs JM, Timme N (2012) Being critical of criticality in the brain.  Frontiers in Physiology 3:163.  

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).
 



Fall Semester 2018-2019

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club) meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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28 August 2018:  Organizational Meeting 


4 September 2018:  Dave Bulkin

 


11 September 2018:  Santiago Forero

 


18 September 2018:  Marissa Rice

 


2 October 2018 (t):  Celine Cammarata

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9 October 2018:  FALL BREAK - NO MEETING 


16 October 2018:  Dev Laxman Subramanian

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23 October 2018 (t):  Wen-Yi Wu 

 


30 October 2018:  Justas Birgiolas, University of Arizona (Postdoc candidate with Thom Cleland)

  • "The Road to San Junipero:  modeling the brain with supercomputers.  Computational methods and a case study of the olfactory bulb." 
  • No readings necessary 

 


6 November 2018 SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE - NO MEETING

 


13 November 2018:  Lisa Hiura

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4 December 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).

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Spring Semester 2018-2019

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29 January 2019:  Organizational Meeting

 


5 February 2019:  David Field

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2 April 2019:   SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING

 


9 April 2019:  Wen-Yi Wu

  •  The hippocampus and social context. Wen-Yi will discuss findings from her project dorsal and ventral hippocampal responses to manipulations of the social context.

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  • 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).

 

 


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Fall Semester 2019-2020

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club) meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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3 September 2019:  Organizational Meeting

 


10 September 2019:  Celine Cammarata

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10 December 2019:  Article Potluck - bring your favorite recent finding or something from your own research to share with the group!

 

 

 

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Spring Semester 2019-2020

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271, meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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


Better 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 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 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 of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message 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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21 January 2020:  Organizational Meeting

28 January 2020:  Tim DeVoogd

4 February 2020:  Mary Elson

11 February 2020:  Savanna Butler 

25 February 2020: Feb Break - no class

3 March 2020:  Dev Laxman Subramanian 

10 March 2020: Julia Jun

17 March 2020: Hamid Turker

24 March 2020: Da Lu

  • TBA

30 March 2020: Spring Break - no class

  • TBA

7 April 2020: Chialin Liao

  • TBA

14 April 2020: Santi Forero

  • TBA

21 April 2020: Celine Cammarata

  • TBA

28 April 2020: Jack Cook

  • TBA

5 May 2020: Article Potluck - bring your favorite recent finding or something from your own research to share with the group!


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Spring Semester 2020-2021

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271, meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205  via Zoom.

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 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 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 of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message 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 Katie Tschida with any questions.

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9 February 2021:  Organizational Meeting

16 February 2021Christiane Linster

23 February 2021Cancelled

2 March 2021Jesse Werth

16 March 2021: Thomas Cleland

  • Kanta, Pare, Headley 2019, Closed-loop control of gamma oscillations in the amygdala demonstrates their role in spatial memory consolidation.

23 March 2021Michael Mariscal

30 March 2021: Santi Forero

6 April 2021: Wendy Yang

13 April 2021: David Smith

20 April 2021: Patryk Ziobro

27 April 2021: Nicole Pranic

4 May 2021:  Lindsay Sailer

11 May 2021:  Article Potluck - bring your favorite recent finding or something from your own research to share with the group!


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Fall Semester 2021-2022

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271, meets on Tuesdays from 11:45 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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 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 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 of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message 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 2021:  Organizational Meeting

7 September 2021:  Julia Jun

14 September 2021:  Jesse Werth

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. 

28 September 2021:  Celia McLean

5 October 2021:  Michael Mariscal

12 October 2021FALL BREAK / Indigenous Peoples' Day

  • No meeting

19 October 2021:  Lia Chen

26 October 2021:  Wendy Yang

2 November 2021:  Nicole Pranic

9 November 2021:  Society for Neuroscience Conference (virtual)

  • No meeting

16 November 2021:  Santi Forero

23 November 2021:  Nora Prior

30 November 2021:  David Smith

  • New findings and questions about retrosplenial cortex

7 December 2021:  CANCELLED – see you all next year!


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Spring Semester 2021-2022

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101 (6528), meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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 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 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 of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message 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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25 Jan 2022:  Organizational Meeting

1 February 2022:  No meeting (owing to Covid-19 policy)

8 February 2022:  No meeting

15 February 2022:  Nicole Pranic

22 February 2022:  Michael Mariscal

1 March 2022:  No meeting  ("February" break)

8 March 2022:  No meeting (Thom out of town)

15 March 2022:  Xin Zhao

22 March 2022:  No meeting (Thom has been posted elsewhere during this time slot by the powers)

29 March 2022:  Patryk Ziobro

  • Patryk presents "an outside perspective on my research"

5 April 2022:  No meeting (Spring Break)

12 April 2022:  Julia Jun

  • Anderson MC, Floresco SB (2022) Prefrontal-hippocampal interactions supporting the extinction of emotional memories:  the retrieval stopping model.  Neuropsychopharmacology 47: 180-195.  

19 April 2022:  SNOWED OUT!

26 April 2022:  Lindsay Sailer

  • No Reading – This will be a practice talk for an invited talk that Lindsay will be giving at Salisbury University (out near the Maryland coast).  Bring your interesting comments and constructive criticisms!

3 May 2022:  Nora Prior

  • Intention and rigor in scientific progress.


See you all in the Fall!


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Fall Semester 2022-2023

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101 (6528), meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 to 1:00 pm in Uris Hall 205.

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 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 of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message 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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23 August 2022:  Organizational Meeting

30 August 2022:  Tim DeVoogd

6 September 2022:  Thom Cleland

  • Herculano-Houzel S (2014), The glia/neuron ratio: how it varies uniformly across brain structures and species and what that means for brain physiology and evolution.  Glia 62:1377-1391.  

13 September 2022:  Julia Jun

20 September 2022:  Wendy Yang

27 September 2022:  Santi Forero

4 October 2022:  Mylo Skolnick

11 October 2022:   No meeting (Fall Break)


18 October 2022:  Lindsay Sailer

  • Lindsay will present some of her work, titled: The impacts of early-life adversity and social experience on social and neural development in prairie voles. No readings.

25 October 2022:  Connie Lin

1 November 2022:  Celia McLean

8 November 2022:  Wen-Yi Wu

15 November 2022:  Yidan Chen

  • Bowles et al. (2022). Vagus nerve stimulation drives selective circuit modulation through cholinergic reinforcement. Neuron 110: 2867–288.

22 November 2022:  Hamid Turker

  • Widloski J, Foster DJ (2022).  Flexible rerouting of hippocampal replay sequences around changing barriers in the absence of global place field remapping.  Neuron 110: 1547-1558.

29 November 2022:  Nora Prior

  • Nora will speak about her own current work:  An integrated social-sensory framework of social behavior:  preliminary studies in finches and voles.


Until next year...


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Spring Semester 2022-2023

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101 (6528), meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 to 1:00 pm(ish) in Uris Hall 205.

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 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 of the message saying simply join. The subject line doesn't matter. Sending the message 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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24 January 2023:  Organizational Meeting

31 January 2023:  Thom Cleland

7 February 2023:  Mary Elson

14 February 2023:  Lindsay Sailer

21 February 2023:  Wendy Yang

28 February 2023NO MEETING - FEBRUARY BREAK

7 March 2023:  Celia McLean

14 March 2023:  <CANCELLED due to Cornell snow closure >

21 March 2023:  David Zheng

28 March 2023:  Yidan Chen

4 April 2023NO MEETING - SPRING BREAK

11 April 2023:  Wen-Yi Wu

18 April 2023:  Santi Forero

25 April 2023:  CANCELLED: Susanna Zheng

2 May 2023:  Julia Jun

  • Maggi S, Humphries MD (2022).  Activity subspaces in medial prefrontal cortex distinguish states of the world.  J Neuroscience 42(20): 4131-4146.

9 May 2023:  Jeremy Spool (U Mass Amherst)

  • Connecting auditory and social neural systems in gregarious songbirds   [No readings]
  • See Jeremy's website for an overview of his work


Until next fall...


Fall Semester 2023-2024

22 August 2023:  Organizational Meeting

29 August 2023:  Dev Subramanian

5 September 2023:  David Zheng

12 September 2023:  Julia Jun

19 September 2023:  James Cunningham

26 September 2023:  Lindsay Sailer

  • Lindsay will present results from her collaboration with Caitlyn Finton:  Hippocampal CA1 lesions impact mating tactics in prairie voles

3 October 2023 (David out of town):  Xiyu Mei

10 October 2023:   NO MEETING - FALL BREAK

17 October 2023  (Thom may be absent):  Wendy Yang

24 October 2023:  Marta Reales Moreno - CANCELLED, will be rescheduled for a later date.

31 October 2023:  Xin Zhao

  • Xin will be presenting work from his project:  Social isolation acts on hypothalamic neurons to promote social behavior in female mice.  Looking forward to feedback and discussion!

7 November 2023:  Marta Reales Moreno - Rescheduled.


14 November 2023:  NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

21 November 2023:  SFN Show and Tell

28 November 2023:  Shiping Li


Until next spring...


 

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