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.
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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 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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30 January 2018: Organizational Meeting
6 February 2018: Tim DeVoogd and Alex Ophir
R. Harris, L. O'Connell and H. Hofmann (2017). Brain Evolution, Development, and Plasticity. In (ed) Stephen V. Shepherd, The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience, First Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
13 February 2018: Wen-Yi Wu
D. Omer, S. Maimon, L. Las, N. Ulanovsky. (2018) Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science 359:218–24.
20 February 2018: FEBRUARY BREAK - NO MEETING
27 February 2018: David Katz
R. Wood, M. Bauza, J. Krupic, S. Burton, A. Delekate, D. Chan & J. O'Keefe (2018). The honeycomb maze provides a novel test to study hippocampal-dependent spatial navigation. Nature 554:102-7.
Optional background reading: C. Paul, G. Magdab and S. Abel (2009). Spatial memory: Theoretical basis and comparative review on experimental methods in rodents. Behavioral Brain Research 203:151-164.
6 March 2018: Marissa Rice
D. Haun, C. Rapold, G. Janzen, and S. Levinson (2011). Plasticity of human spatial cognition: Spatial language and cognition covary across cultures. Cognition 119:70-80.
13 March 2018: Lisa Hiura
K. Tokarev, J. Bruno, I. Ljubicic, P. Kothari, S. Helekar, O. Tchernichovski, and H. Voss (2017). Sexual dimorphism in striatal dopaminergic responses promotes monogamy in social songbirds. eLife 6:e25819.
20 March 2018: Jesse Werth
Kass MD, Czarnecki LA, Moberly AH, McGann JP (2017) Differences in peripheral sensory input to the olfactory bulb between male and female mice. Scientific Reports 7:45851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep45851
27 March 2018: Jack Cook
Jack will be presenting work from his research project developing an analytical framework for odor learning. The readings are to get everybody in the right frame of mind for discussing this work in particular and the overall approach in general.
- Zaidi Q, Victor J, McDermott J, Geffen M, Bensmaia Sl, Cleland TA (2013). Perceptual spaces: mathematical structures to neural mechanisms. J Neurosci 33(45): 17597-17602.
- Lee JM (2013). Introduction to smooth manifolds, pages 1-17.
- For some additional background (optional):
- Lee JM (2011). Introduction to topological manifolds, 2nd ed., pages 1-17.
3 April 2018: SPRING BREAK - NO MEETING
10 April 2018: Dev Laxman Subramanian
17 April 2018: NO MEETING
24 April 2018: Angela Freeman
1 May 2018: Roy Moyal
8 May 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).