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Papers and notes from previous semesters can be found in the BCS meeting archive\.
The overarching theme this semester is yet to be determined, but our likely first speaker will discuss his own recent work relating to neural representations. Please interpret BCS themes broadly -- they are meant to focus rather than to exclude.
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- Research talk: "What makes different people's representations alike: A solution to the problem of across-subject fMRI decoding"
- Here are the Powerpoint slides\ from Raj's talk.
- To see Raj's manuscript about the decoding-via-similarity-space work (mostly skipped over during his BCS talk, submitted to J. Cognitive Neuroscience), please contact Raj directly.
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20 September 2011: Eyal Nitzany
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- For background, please read: Dayan P, Huys QJM (2009)\ Serotonin in affective control. Annual Review of Neuroscience 32:95-126. This review attempts to combine the studies of serotonin (aka 5HT) in invertebrates with studies in vertebrates to construct a grand synthesis, and contains several ideas that are well worth discussing.
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- Two papers in line with Adam's biannual theme. What does that mean? Come and ask Adam yourself.
- van der Meer MAA, Redish AD (2009)\ Covert expectation-of-reward in rat ventral striatum at decision points. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 3(1).
- Howe MW, Atallah HE, McCool A, Gibson DJ, Graybiel AM (2011)\ Habit learning is associated with major shifts in frequencies of oscillatory activity and synchronized spike firing in striatum. PNAS 108(40):16801-16806.
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- Kim EJ, Kim ES, Covey E, Kim JJ (2010)\ Social transmission of fear in rats: the role of 22 kHz ultrasonic distress vocalization. PLoS One 5(12):e15077.
For additional background, if desired:
- Galef BJ (2002)\ Social learning of food preferences in rodents: rapid appetitive learning. Current Protocols in Neuroscience 8.5D.1-8.5D.8.
- Kiyokawa Y, Takeuchi Y, Nishihara M, Mori Y (2009)\ Main olfactory system mediates social buffering of conditioned fear responses in male rats. European Journal of Neuroscience 29:777-785.
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- These two papers are a point/counterpoint "Perspective" pair published in Neuron this year:
- Sahay A, Wilson DA, Hen R (2011)\ Pattern Separation: A Common Function for New Neurons in Hippocampus and Olfactory Bulb. Neuron 70:582.
- Aimone JB, Deng W, Gage FH (2011) \ Resolving New Memories: A Critical Look at the Dentate Gyrus, Adult Neurogenesis, and Pattern Separation. Neuron 70:589.
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- NEWS ITEM: Tom Griffiths will be speaking this Friday, 18 November, at the Psychology Colloquium (3:30 in Uris Hall 202). You may remember him from such previous BCS papers as Tenenbaum JB, Griffiths TL (2001)\ Generalization, similarity, and Bayesian inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24:629-640. You can fill the empty space in your soul by rereading that paper, or his more recent work.
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