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Fall Semester 2008-2009
10 September 2008: Organizational Meeting
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9 February 2016: Marissa Rice
- U. Neisser (1981). John Dean’s Memory: A case study. Cognition, 9:l-22.
- D. R. Addis, A. T. Wong, D. L. Schacter (2007). Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia 45:1363-1377.
16 February 2016: Feb Break - no meeting.
23 February 2016: Norma Hernandez
- L. Savage, J. Hall, and R. Vetreno (2011). Anterior thalamic lesions alter both hippocampal dependent behavior and hippocampal acetylcholine release in the rat. Learning and Memory 18:751–758.
1 March 2016: David gone - no meeting this week
- No meeting.
8 March 2016: David
R. Kaplan, M. Adhikari, R. Hindriks, D. Mantini, Y. Murayama, N. Logothetis, G. Deco (2016). Hippocampal Sharp-Wave Ripples Influence Selective Activation of the Default Mode Network. Current Biology 26, 686–691.
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
- Cleland, T. A., Chen, S. Y. T., Hozer, K. W., Ukatu, H. N., Wong, K. J., & Zheng, F. (2012). Sequential mechanisms underlying concentration invariance in biological olfaction. Bioinspired solutions to the challenges of chemical sensing, 7
- Barrett, L. F., & Simmons, W. K. (2015). Interoceptive predictions in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(7), 419-429.
22 March 2016: Group Discussion (no official presenter)
- E. Goldfarb, M. Chun, E. Phelps (2016). Memory-Guided Attention: Independent Contributions of the Hippocampus and Striatum. Neuron 89:317-324.
29 March 2016: Spring Break - no meeting
5 April 2016: Marissa Rice/Group Discussion
- C. Shawn Green1 and Daphne Bavelier (2015). Action video game training for cognitive enhancement. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 4:103-108.
Additional readings following discussions at the meeting:
- Mnih V, Kavukcuoglu K, et al. (2015). Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature 518:529.
12 April 2016: Open (Thom gone?)
- TBA
19 April 2016: Khena Swallow
L. Batterink, J. Creery, and K. Paller (2016). Phase of Spontaneous Slow Oscillations during Sleep Influences Memory-Related Processing of Auditory Cues. Journal of Neuroscience 36(4):1401-9.
26 April 2016: Group Discussion (no official presenter)
D. Bendor & M. Wilson (2012). Biasing the content of hippocampal replay during sleep. Nature Neuroscience 15(10):1439-44.
- G. Lavilléon, M. Lacroix, L. Rondi-Reig & K. Benchenane (2015). Explicit memory creation during sleep demonstrates a causal role of place cells in navigation. Nature Neuroscience 18(4):493-95.
3 May 2016: Joseph & all
- Hu X, Antony JW, et al. (2015) Unlearning implicit social biases during sleep. Science 348(6238):1013-1015.
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
- Tavares, R., Mendelsohn, A., Grossman, Y., Williams, C., Shapiro, M., Trope, Y., and Schiller, D. (2015). A Map for Social Navigation in the Human Brain. Neuron 87:231-43.
6 September 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir
G. Alexander, S. Farris, J. Pirone, C. Zheng, L. Colgin & S. Dudek (2015). Social and novel contexts modify hippocampal CA2 representations of space. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038.
13 September 2016: Marissa Rice and Alex Ophir
F. Hitti & S. Siegelbaum. (2014). The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for social memory. Nature 508:88-94.
- A. Smith, S. Williams Avram, A. Cymerblit-Sabba, J. Song and W. Young (2016). Targeted activation of the hippocampal CA2 area strongly enhances social memory. Molecular Psychiatry 21:1137-1144.
Additional (optional) reading:
L. Zynyuk, J. Huxter R. Muller and S. Fox. (2012). The Presence of a Second Rat Has Only Subtle Effects on the Location-Specific Firing of Hippocampal Place Cells. Hippocampus 22:1405–1416.
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)
- Immordino-Yang M, McColl A, Damasio H, Damasio A. (2009). Neural correlates of admiration and compassion. PNAS 106(19):8021-6.
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.
4 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (A primer on the dorsal and ventral hippocampus)
B. Poucet, C. Thinus-Blanc, and R. Muller (1994). Place cells in the ventral hippocampus of rats. Neuroreport 5, 2045-2048.
- M. Fanselow and H. Dong (2010). Are the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus Functionally Distinct Structures? Neuron 65:7-19.
- B. Strange, M. Witter, E. Lein and E. Moser (2014). Functional organization of the hippocampal longitudinal axis. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 15:655-669.
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)
- A. Felix-Ortiz and K. Tye (2014). Amygdala Inputs to the Ventral Hippocampus Bidirectionally Modulate Social Behavior. J. Neuroscience 34(2):586 –595.
Additional review as background for those interested.
- S. Allsop, C. VanderWeele, R. Wichmann and K.Tye (2014). Optogenetic insights on the relationship between anxiety-related behaviors and social deficits. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, vol 8, Article 241.
25 October 2016: David Smith and Alex Ophir (Ventral hippocampus as a possible target of investigation for social-spatial coding, continued)
T. Okuyama, T. Kitamura, D. Roy, S. Itohara and S. Tonegawa (2016). Ventral CA1 neurons store social memory. Science 353(6307):1536-41.
1 November 2016: Jesse Werth
- Jesse will discuss the ideas in of his recently submitted NSF fellowship proposal.
Suggested background reading:
- S. Shea, L. Katz and R. Mooney (2008). Noradrenergic Induction of Odor-Specific Neural Habituation and Olfactory Memories. Journal of Neuroscience 28(42):10711–10719.
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
P. Jacob, G. Casali, L. Spieser, H. Page, D. Overington & K. Jeffery (2016). An independent, landmark-dominated head-direction signal in dysgranular retrosplenial cortex. Nature Neuroscience 20(2):173-175.
21 February 2017: Feb Break (no meeting)
28 February 2017: Adam Miller
B. Richards, F. Xia, A. Santoro, J. Husse, M. Woodin, S. Josselyn & P. Frankland (2014). Patterns across multiple memories are identified over time. Nature Neuroscience 17:981–986.
7 March 2017: Norma Hernandez
L. Qu, T. Kahnt, S. Cole and J. Gottfried (2016). De Novo Emergence of Odor Category Representations in the Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(2):468-478.
14 March 2017: Thom Cleland
Iurilli & Datta (2017). Population coding in an innately relevant olfactory area.
The main issue of interest here is to wrestle with the problem of "innately valent" odors or other stimuli – how are they recognized and represented?
21 March 2017: Marissa Rice
J. Balaguer, H. Spiers, D. Hassabis, C. Summerfield (2016). Neural Mechanisms of Hierarchical Planning in a Virtual Subway Network. Neuron, 90:893–903.
28 March 2017: Wen-Yi Wu
S. Hegde, W.Capell, B. Ibrahim, J. Klett, N. Patel, A. Sougiannis and M. Kelly (2016). Phosphodiesterase 11A (PDE11A), Enriched in Ventral Hippocampus Neurons, is Required for Consolidation of Social but not Nonsocial Memories in Mice. Neuropsychopharmacology 41:2920-2931.
Additional Reading:
S. Hegde, H. Ji, D. Oliver, N. Patel, N. Poupore, M. Shtutman and M. Kelly (2016). PDE11A Regulates Social Behaviors And Is A Key Mechanism By Which Social Experience Sculpts The Brain. Neuroscience 335:151-169.
4 April 2017: Spring Break (no meeting)
11 April 2017: Hamid Turker
D. Aronov, R. Nevers & D. Tank (2017). Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit. Nature 543:719-722.
Commentary on the main article:
- J. Eckemann & E. Buffalo (2017). Auditory landscape on the cognitive map. Nature 543:631-632.
18 April 2017: Jesse Werth
L. Meshulam, J. Gauthier, C. Brody, D. Tank and W. Bialek (2016). Collective behavior of place and non{place neurons in the hippocampal network. arXiv:1612.08935v1.
25 April 2017: POSTPONED, will try to reschedule soon!
2 May 2017: Mike Goldstein
J. Krakauer, A. Ghazanfar, A. Gomez-Martin, M. MacIver and D. Poeppel (2017). Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias. Neuron 93:480-490.
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).