Fall Semester 2023-2024

The Cognition and Neural Systems (CNS) Journal Club (nee' BCS Journal Club), also known as PSYCH 6271-101 (6528), meets on Tuesdays from 11:40 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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22 August 2023:  Organizational Meeting

29 August 2023:  Dev Subramanian

• A Comparison of Retrosplenial and Hippocampal Spatial and Contextual Firing Patterns (Dev's latest research)
• Optional Background reading: AMP Miller , LC Vedder , LM Law and DM Smith (2014). Cues, context, and long-term memory: the role of the retrosplenial cortex in spatial cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:586.
• Mentioned during presentation:  Tang G, Shah A, Michmizos KP (2019) Spiking neural network on neuromorphic hardware for energy-efficient unidimensional SLAM.  arXiv 1903.02504v2. 

5 September 2023:  David Zheng

• N Gloveli, J Simonnet, W Tang, M Concha-Miranda, E Maier, A Dvorzhak, D Schmitz and M Brecht (2023). Play and tickling responses map to the lateral columns of the rat periaqueductal gray. Neuron 111, 1-12.

12 September 2023:  Julia Jun

• AE McLaughlin & AD Redish (2023). Optogenetic disruption of the prelimbic cortex alters long-term decision strategy but not valuation on a spatial delay discounting task. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 200 107734.

19 September 2023:  James Cunningham

• Luisier A-C, Petitpierre G, Berod AC, Garcia-Burgos D, Bensafi M (2018).  Effects of familiarization on odor hedonic responses and food choices in children with autism spectrum disorders.  Autism 23(6): 1460-1471.
• Background information in this optional review:  Barros F, Soares SC (2020).  Giving meaning to the social world in autism spectrum disorders:  olfaction as a missing piece of the puzzle?  

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

• Mei L, Yan R, Yin L, Sullivan RM, Lin D (2023).  Antagonistic circuits mediating infanticide and maternal care in female mice.  Nature 618: 1006.  

10 October 2023:   NO MEETING - FALL BREAK

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

• A Sarel, S Palgi, D Blum, J Aljadeff, L Las & N Ulanovsky (2022). Natural switches in behaviour rapidly modulate hippocampal coding. Nature 609:119-157.

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

• Y. Yu, A. Tsai, C. Ou, C. Cheng, F. Chang, B. Shyu and A. Huang (2023). Optogenetic stimulation in the medial prefrontal cortex modulates stimulus valence from rewarding and aversive to neutral states. Frontiers in Psychiatry, DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1119803.

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:  TBD

14 November 2023:  NO MEETING - SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE

21 November 2023:  TBD

28 November 2023:  TBD

Until next spring...