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.
Shortlink to this page: https://tinyurl.com/cornellcns
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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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28 August 2018: Organizational Meeting
4 September 2018: Dave Bulkin
- D. Bulkin, D. Sinclair, L.M. Law, D. Smith (working manuscript). Hippocampal State Transitions at Event Boundaries.
11 September 2018: Santiago Forero
R. Cui, P. Delclos, M. Schumer and G. Rosenthal (2018). Early social learning triggers neurogenomic expression changes in a swordtail fish. Proc. R. Soc. B 284: 20170701
18 September 2018: Marissa Rice
- C. Holmes, N. Newcombe, T. Shipley (2018). Move to learn: Integrating spatial information from multiple viewpoints. Cognition 178:7–25
25 September 2018: David Katz
- H. Ito, E. Moser and M.B. Moser (2018). Supramammillary Nucleus Modulates Spike-Time Coordination in the Prefrontal-Thalamo-Hippocampal Circuit during Navigation. Neuron 99, 576–587
2 October 2018 (t): Celine Cammarata
- Akrami A, Kopec CD, Diamond ME, Brody CD (2018). Posterior parietal cortex represents sensory history and mediates its effects on behaviour. Nature 554:368-372, with supplementary methods and figures.
9 October 2018: FALL BREAK - NO MEETING
16 October 2018: Dev Laxman Subramanian
- S. Robinson, T. Todd, A. Pasternak, B. Luikart, P. Skelton, D. Urban and D. Bucci (2014). Chemogenetic Silencing of Neurons in Retrosplenial Cortex Disrupts Sensory Preconditioning. Journal of Neuroscience 34(33):10982-8.
Optional Additional Readings:
- T. Todd, N. DeAngeli, M. Jiang and D. Bucci (2017). Retrograde Amnesia of Contextual Fear Conditioning: Evidence for Retrosplenial Cortex Involvement in Configural Processing. Behavioral Neuroscience 131(1):46–54.
- M. Jiang, N. DeAngeli, D. Bucci & T. Todd, (2018). Retrosplenial Cortex Has a Time-Dependent Role in Memory for Visual Stimuli. Behavioral Neuroscience. Advance online
publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000229.
23 October 2018 (t): Wen-Yi Wu
T. Meira, F. Leroy, E. Buss, A. Oliva, J. Park & S. Siegelbaum (2018). A hippocampal circuit linking dorsal CA2 to ventral CA1 critical for social memory dynamics. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06501-w
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
L. Hung, S. Neuner, J. Polepalli, K. Beier, M. Wright, J. Walsh, E. Lewis, L. Luo, K. Deisseroth, G. Dölen, R. Malenka (2017). Gating of social reward by oxytocin in the ventral tegmental area. Science 357:1406–11.
- FOLLOWUP paper: Bakos et al (2018) Molecular Mechanisms of Oxytocin Signaling at the Synaptic Connection. Neural Plasticity: 4864107.
20 November 2018: Jack Cook
- Cook J, Cleland TA (in prep) The geometry of olfactory learning.
- It's pretty mathy (the fleshing-out text has yet to be added) but the gist is that this is a formal way to model the learning of odor signals, including their natural variance, and how this learning process enables the learning of real-world odors as dynamically constructed discrete categories.
27 November 2018: Mary Elson
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).