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Fall Semester 2008
10 September 2008: Organizational Meeting
17 September 2008: D. Smith
- Manns, Howard and Eichenbaum (2008). Gradual Changes in Hippocampal Activity Support Remembering the Order of Events. Neuron 56, 530-540.
25 September 2008: D. Smith
- Lapish, Durstewitz, Chandler and Seamans (2008). Successful choice behavior is associated with distinct and coherent network states in anterior cingulate cortex. PNAS, 105(33), 11963-8.
2 October 2008: Mark Albert
- Albert, M. V., Schnabel, A. and Field, D. J. (2008). Innate Visual Learning Through Spontaneous Activity Patterns. PLOS Computational Biology, 4(8), 1-8.
9 October 2008: Christina Sill
- Ji and Wilson (2008). Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep. Nature Neuroscience, 10(3), 100-7.
16 October 2008: David Field
- Gross, C. G. (2002). Genealogy of the Grandmother Cell. Neuroscientist, 8(1), 84-90.
- Quiroga, Reddy, Kreiman, Koch Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain. Nature, 435, 1102-7.
- Waydo, Kraskov, Quiroga, Fried, and Koch. (2006). Sparse Representation in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(40), 10232-4.
23 October 2008: Patrick Gill
- Gill, Amin, Fremouw, Woolley and Theunissen. Functional Consequences of Synaptic Plasticity in Sensory Systems (draft manuscript).
30 October 2008: Thom Cleland
- Cleland and Sethupathy (2006). Non-topographical contrast enhancement in the olfactory bulb. BMC Neurosci 7:7.
- Cleland, Johnson, Leon, Linster (2007). Relational representation in the olfactory system. PNAS 104(6):1953-8.
These two modeling papers illustrate a theoretical model of the mechanisms underlying high-dimensional decorrelation of odor stimuli in the olfactory bulb. The first (2006) is the more important for journal club purposes.
6 November 2008: Mike Wojnowicz
- Durstewitz, Kelc and Gunturkun (1999). A Neurocomputational Theory of the Dopaminergic Modulation of Working Memory Functions. J. Neuroscience. 19(7):2807-22.
13 November 2008: Helene Porte
- Louie and Wilson (2006). Temporally Structured Replay of Awake Hippocampal Ensemble Activity during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. Neuron. 29:145-156.
20 November 2008:
- Summerfield, Hassabis and Maguire (2008). Cortical midline involvement in autobiographical memory. Neuroimage. early e-pbulication.
27 November 2008: Thanksgiving Break - NO MEETING
4 December 2008:
- Hagmann, Cammoun, Gigandet, Meuli, Honey, Wedeen, Sporns (2008). Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex. PLOS Biology. 6(7):1479-93.
Spring Semester 2009
21 January 2009: Organizational Meeting
28 January 2009: David Smith
- Memory, Interference and Brain Mechanisms of Retrieval. No readings this week.
4 February 2009: Greg Peters
11 February 2009: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
- Hasselmo and Eichenbaum (2005). Hippocampal mechanisms for the context-dependent retrieval of episodes. Neural Networks 18: 1172-1190
18 February 2009: Mike Wojnowitcz - POSTPONED DUE TO PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY MEETING.
- Reading TBA.
25 February 2009: SUPERSEDED BY PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY MEETING
- No meeting; no reading.
4 March 2009: Thom Cleland
- Inoue and Strowbridge (2008). Transient activity induces a long-lasting increase in the excitability of olfactory bulb interneurons. J. Neurophysiology 99:187-199. (Some background information available in Pressler et al (2007)).
11 March 2009: David Smith
- Pastalkova, Itskov, Amarasingham and Buzsáki (2008). Internally Generated Cell Assembly Sequences in the Rat Hippocampus
18 March 2009: TBA
- Reading PDF.
25 March 2009: Christine Charvet (visiting postdoc)
- Precocial and altricial birds evolved different developmental strategies to expand their telencephalon. No readings.
1 April 2009: TBA, There will be a room change for this meeting.
- Reading PDF.
8 April 2009: Christina Sill
- Buzsaki, G. (2005). Theta Rhythm of Navigation: Link Between Path Integration and Landmark Navigation, Episodic and Semantic Memory.
15 April 2009: Cancelled!
22 April 2009: Helene Porte
- Montgomery, Betancur, and Buzsaki (2009). Behavior-Dependent Coordination of Multiple Theta Dipoles in the Hippocampus.
29 April 2009: Mike Wojnowicz
- Reading PDF.
Fall Semester 2009
1 September 2009: Organizational Meeting
8 September 2009: Mark Albert
15 September 2009: Sasha DeVore
- R. Metzger et al (2006). Effects of Reward and Behavioral Context on Neural Activity in the Primate Inferior Colliculus. J Neurosci 26(28).
- L. M. Kay and G. Laurent (1999). Odor- and context-dependent modulation of mitral cell activity in behaving rats. Nature Neurosci 2(11).
22 September 2009: David Smith
29 September 2009: Article Pot Luck
- Bring your favorite (or the most interesting) recent paper you've run across and share it with the group.
6 October 2009: Mike Wojnowicz
13 October 2009: Fall Break - No meeting.
- No readings.
20 October 2009: Society for Neuroscience Conference - No meeting.
- No readings.
27 October 2009: Ted Cornforth
- Balu, R. Pressler, R. T. and Strowbridge, B. (2007). Multiple Modes of Synaptic Excitation of Olfactory Bulb Granule Cells, Journal of Neuroscience 27(21):5621-5632.
- Gao, Y. & Strowbridge, B. (2009). Long-term plasticity of excitatory inputs to granule cells in the rat olfactory bulb. Nature Neuroscience..
3 November 2009: Anuttama Sheela Mohan
- Brea, Kay, Kopel (submitted). Subthreshold oscillations and gamma rhythms in the olfactory bulb: a modeling study.Submitted to PNAS. Preprint used by permission.
10 November 2009: Matt Law
- Mamiya et al (2009). Brain Region-Specific Gene Expression Activation Required for Reconsolidation and Extinction of Contextual Fear Memory. J Neurosci 29(2):402- 413.
- Wang, S., de Oliveira Alvares, L. & Nader, K. (2009). Cellular and systems mechanisms of memory strength as a constraint on auditory fear reconsolidation. Nature Neuroscience (12)7.
During the discussion, Patrick Gill brought up an additional related paper:
Today several people asked me to send out a 2005 paper (Fusi, Drew, Abbott 2005, Cascade models of synaptically stored memories_)_ showing why a variety of memory maintenance mechanisms with different timescales are better than having just one or two simple memory maintenance mechanisms. Here it is._ There's also a followup paper showing why it didn't matter that they used synapses with binary weighting in the 2005 paper:_ Stefano Fusi & L F Abbott "Limits on the memory storage capacity of bounded synapses" Nat Neuro 10 (4) April 2007 p 485.
17 November 2009: SiWei Luo
24 November 2009: Laura Manella
- Veyrac, A. et al, (2009). Novelty Determines the Effects of Olfactory Enrichment on Memory and Neurogenesis Through Noradrenergic Mechanisms. Neuropsychopharmacology 34, 786-95.
- Morenoa, M. et al,(2009). Olfactory perceptual learning requires adult neurogenesis. PNAS 106(42), 17980-5.