For Fall Semester 2015-2016, 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 Fall 2015 semester's theme is “Learning within constraints”. This is intentionally broad, in part because BCS itself has broadened this semester to include behavioral ecology approaches. Here are some examples of what we have in mind:
In order to make discussions more engaging and less formal, we encourage presentations to be primarily "chalk talks", in which concepts are sketched rather than figures shown. Mixed media are OK too, in which a complex figure can be put onto a slide or simply zoomed up on from the PDF file of the original paper, but drawing the figure tends to convey stronger understanding than does flashing a figure up on the wall. We also emphasize that you do not have to present papers in their entirety, much less multiple papers. Having everybody read up thoroughly on something small and focused usually makes for a better experience than everybody skimming one or more full papers. You may want to present only one exciting concept, exemplified by one or more figures drawn from one or more papers. That's great. Focus on the concepts, and don't feel compelled to master every detail of every paper that you want to include in your presentation. Do what you feel is best, but please do not just put the figures of a paper into a slide show and describe the paper.
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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25 August 2015: Organizational Meeting
1 September 2015: No meeting.
8 September 2015: Adam Miller
15 September 2015: David Smith
Optional reading: This review article has some background material on neurognesis as it relates to the main paper.
22 September 2015: David Smith
29 September 2015: Marissa Rice
6 October 2015: Norma Hernandez
J, de Bourbon-Teles, P. Bentley, S. Koshino, K. Shah, A. Dutta, P. Malhotra, T. Egner, M. Husain, and D. Soto (2014).Thalamic Control of Human Attention Driven by Memory and Learning. Current Biology 24:993-9.
13 October 2015: Fall Break - no BCS
20 October 2015: Society for Neuroscience meeting - no BCS
27 October 2015: Marissa Rice
J. Vargas, J. Lopez, and C. Salas (2004). Encoding of Geometric and Featural Spatial Information by Goldfish (Carassius auratus). J. Comp. Psych. 118(2):206-216.
10 November 2015: Khena Swallow
17 November 2015: Alex Ophir
24 November 2015: Lisa Hiura
H. Smid, G. Wang, T. Bukovinszky, J. Steidle, M. Bleeker, J. van Loon and L. Vet. (2007). Species-specific acquisition and consolidation of long-term memory in parasitic wasps. Proc R Soc B 274:1539-46.
1 December 2015: TBD