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: 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.
2 May 2017:
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