Next Meeting:

      September 10, 2003 (Wednesday), 5:00 pm

Location of Meeting:

     BME Library (Traylor 709, Medical School)

Articles to be discussed:

    Ohbayashi M, Ohki K, Miyashita Y. Conversion of working memory to motor sequence in the monkey premotor cortex. Science. 2003 Jul 11;301(5630):233-6.  [PDF file]

    This year, we have decided to combine the systems neuroscience journal clubs that were formerly held separately at the Mind/Brain Institute and in the Biomedical Engineering Department.  We had a number of crossover students last year who added a great deal to the energy and quality of our discussions.  We hope that combining the two journal clubs will promotethis trend and increase cross-campus interactions between scientists working on different neural systems. The plan is to alternate venues week to week between the Mind/Brain library (341 Krieger Hall, Homewood campus) and the BME Library (Traylor 709, Medical School).
    The combined journal club will function as a graduate-level seminar series on the current literature in systems neuroscience.  It will also serve as a discussion group for systems neuroscience post-docs and faculty from the Homewood and Medical School campuses.  All participants interested in systems/cognitive neuroscience are welcome.  Each week, a student or faculty member will present a recent article selected in consultation with the course directors.  The selected readings will focus on the neural mechanisms of perception, attention, motor behavior, learning and memory, as studied using physiological, psychophysical, computational and imaging techniques. Discussions and open exchanges of opinions are strongly encouraged.

List of Presentations:

Fall 2003

9/10: Kechen Zhang (Medical School)
        Ohbayashi M, Ohki K, Miyashita Y. Conversion of working memory to motor sequence in the monkey premotor cortex. Science. 2003 Jul 11;301(5630):233-6.

Spring 2003

15-Jan  Mauktik Kulkarni (Homewood)
        Naito E, Roland PE, Ehrsson HH. I feel my hand moving. A new role of the primary motor cortex in somatic perception of limb movement. Neuron. 2002 Dec 5;36(5):979-88

22-Jan  Reza Shadmehr (Medical School)
        Sommer MA, Wurtz RH. A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements. Science. 2002 May 24;296(5572):1480-2.

29-Jan  Ed Barlett (Homewood)
        Llinas RR, Leznik E, Urbano FJ. Temporal binding via cortical coincidence detection of specific and nonspecific thalamocortical inputs: a voltage-dependent dye-imaging study in mouse brain slices. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Jan 8;99(1):449-54.

12-Feb  Pramodsingh Thakur (Homewood)
        Gold JI, Shadlen MN. The influence of behavioral context on the representation of a perceptual decision in developing oculomotor commands. J Neurosci. 2003 Jan 15;23(2):632-51.

5-Mar  Steve Eliades (Homewood)
        Bushara KO et al. Neural correlates of cross-modal binding. Nat Neurosci. 2003 Feb;6(2):190-5

12-Mar  Elias Issa (Medical School)
        Doiron, B., Chacron, M. J., Maler, L., Longtin, A. & Bastian J. Inhibitory feedback required for network oscillatory responses to communication but not prey stimuli. Nature. 421, 539-543 (2003).

26-Mar  David Hinkle (Homewood) 
    Heider B., Spillmann, L. Peterhans, E., Stereoscopic illusory contours--cortical neuron responses
and human perception. J. Cogn Neurosci 14: 1018-1029 (2002)

2-Apr  Fangtu Qiu (Homewood)
    A. Thiele and G. Stoner. Neuronal synchrony does not correlate with motion coherence in cortical area MT.
Nature. 2003 Jan 23;421(6921):366-70.

9-Apr  Kechen Zhang (Homewood)
    T. Moore and K.M. Armstrong, Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. Nature 421:370-373, (2003)

16-Apr  Peter Denchev (Medical School)
    Harris JA, Miniussi C, Harris IM, Diamond ME. Transient storage of a tactile memory trace in primary somatosensory cortex. J. Neurosci. 22:8720-8725, (2002).

23-Apr  Eunjung Hwang (Homewood)
    Fiorillo et al. Discrete coding of reward probability and uncertainty by dopamine neurons. Science 299:1898-1902, (2003)

9/25    Ed Connor (Homewood)
           Nieder A, Freedman DJ, Miller EK. Representation of the quantity of visual items in the primate prefrontal cortex. Science. 2002 Sep 6;297(5587):1708-11.

10/2    Ernst Niebur (Medical School)
            Reinagel P, Reid RC. Precise firing events are conserved across neurons. J Neurosci. 2002 Aug 15;22(16):6837-41.

10/9    Vatsun Sadagopan (Homewood)
            Mazurek M.E. and Shadlen M.N., Limits to the temporal fidelity of cortical spike rate signals, Nat. Neurosci. 5 463-471, 2002.

10/16   Scott Brincat (Homewood)
            Graziano MS, Taylor CS, Moore T. Complex movements evoked by microstimulation of precentral cortex. Neuron. 2002 May 30;34(5):841-51.

10/23   Phillip O'Herron (Medical School)
            W. Vanduffel et al.  Differences in Human and Monkey Intraparietal Cortex. Science 298: 413-415, 2002.
            K.-I. Tsutsui et al. Neural Correlates for Perception of 3D Surface Orientation from Texture Gradient. Science 298: 409-412, 2002.

10/30   Melanie Palomares (Medical School)
            Froehler MT, Duffy CJ. Cortical neurons encoding path and place: where you go is where you are. Science. 2002 Mar 29;295(5564):2462-5.

11/13   Hideaki Shimazaki (Homewood)
            Fu YX, Djupsund K, Gao H, Hayden B, Shen K, Dan Y. Temporal specificity in the cortical plasticity of visual space representation. Science. 2002 Jun 14; 296:1999-2003.

11/20   Daniel Bendor (Medical School)
            Romo R, Hernandez A, Zainos A, Lemus L, Brody CD. Neuronal correlates of decision-making in secondary somatosensory cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2002 Nov;5(11):1217-25.

12/4    Jacob Vogelstein (Homewood)
            Taylor DM, Tillery SI, Schwartz AB. Direct cortical control of 3D neuroprosthetic devices. Science. 2002 Jun 7;296(5574):1829-32.

12/18   Chris DiMattina (Medical School)
            Zhang LI, Bao S, Merzenich MM. Disruption of primary auditory cortex by synchronous auditory inputs during a critical period. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 Feb 19;99(4):2309-14.

List of Previously Discussed Articles:

Spring 2002

5/17/2002: Smith ZM et al. Chimaeric sounds reveal dichotomies in auditory perception. Nature 416: 87-90, 2002 (presented by Fan Yang).

5/10/2002: Lewicki MS. Efficient coding of natural sounds. Nat Neurosci. 2002 Apr;5(4):356-63 (presented by Sheng Xu).

4/26/2002: Tong C, Wolpert DM, Flanagan JR. Kinematics and dynamics are not represented independently in motor working memory: evidence from an interference study. J Neurosci. 2002 Feb 1;22(3):1108-13 (presented by Maneesh Dewan).

4/19/2002: Hough GE and Volman SF. Short-term and long-term effects of vocal distortion on song maintenance in zebra finches. J Neurosci. 2002 Feb 1;22(3):1177-86 (presented by Simil Roupe).

4/5/2002: Toth LJ, Assad JA. Dynamic coding of behaviourally relevant stimuli in parietal cortex. Nature 415:165-8. 2002 (presented by Steve Eliades).

3/8/2002: Cisek P, Kalaska JF. Simultaneous encoding of multiple potential reach directions in dorsal premotor cortex. J Neurophysiol. 87:1149-54, 2002 (presented by Daniel Bendor).

3/1/2002: H. Sawamura et al. Numerical representation for action in the parietal cortex of the monkey. Nature 415: 918-922, 2002 (presented by Joe Francis).

2/22/2002: D. S. Reich et al. Independent and redundant information in nearby cortical neurons. Science 294:2566-8., 2001. (presented by Ed Bartlett).

2/15/2002: W. Muellbacher et al. Early consolidation in human primary motor cortex. Nature 415: 640-644, 2002 (presented by Opher Donchin).

2/8/2002: C. Constantinidis et al. A role for inhibition in shaping the temporal flow of information in prefrontal cortex. Nat. Neurosci. 5:175-180, 2002 (presented by Xiaoqin Wang).

12/7/2001: Boettiger CA, Doupe AJ. Developmentally restricted synaptic plasticity in a songbird nucleus required for song learning. Neuron. 2001 Sep 13;31(5):809-18 (presented by Christopher DiMattina)

11/2/2001: Kakei S, Hoffman DS, Strick PL. Direction of action is represented in the ventral premotor cortex. Nat Neurosci. 2001 Oct; 4(10):1020-5 (presented by Vincent Huang)

10/26/2001: C. Tallon-Baudry et al. Oscillatory Synchrony between Human Extrastriate Areas during Visual Short-Term Memory Maintenance. J Neurosci. 2001 Oct 15;21(20):RC177. (presented by EunJung Hwang)

10/5/2001: (1) J. V. Haxby et al. Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex. Science 293: 2425-2430, 2001. (2) P. E. Downing et al. A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body. Science 293: 2470-2473, 2001. (presented by Haiyin Chen).

9/28/2001: Yamamoto S, Kitazawa S. Reversal of subjective temporal order due to arm crossing. Nat Neurosci. 2001 Jul;4(7):759-65. (presented by Opher Donchin).

9/21/2001: P. R. Roelfsema and H. Spekreijse. The Representation of Erroneously Perceived Stimuli in the Primary Visual Cortex. Neuron, 31: 853–863, 2001. (presented by Ed Bartlett).

7/14/2001: Zugaro et al. Background, but not foreground, spatial cues are taken as references for head direction responses by rat anterodorsal thalamus neurons. J Neurosci. 2001 Jul 15;21(14):RC154. (presented by Stephanie Wainscott).

7/3/2001:   Dragoi et al. Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex. Nature 411:80-86, 2000 (presented by Dennis Barbour).

6/26/2001: M. C. DeSoto et al. When in Doubt, Do it Both Ways: Brain Evidence of the Simultaneous Activation of Conflicting Motor Responses in a Spatial Stroop Task. J Cogn Neurosci. 2001 May;13(4):523-36 (presented by Joe Francis).

6/19/2001: Miall RC, Reckess GZ, Imamizu H.  The cerebellum coordinates eye and hand tracking movements. Nat Neurosci. 2001 Jun;4(6):638-44 (presented by EunJung Hwang).

6/12/2001: T. Paus. Primate Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Where Motor Control Drive and Cognition Interface.  Nature Reviews Neurosci 2: 417-424, 2001 (presented by Opher Donchin).

5/29/2001: Zacks et al. Human brain activity time-locked to perceptual event boundaries. Nature Neuroscience 4: 651-655, 2001 (presented by Xiaoqin Wang).

4/30/2001: Gdowski MJ, Miller LE, Parrish T, Nenonene EK, Houk JC. Context dependency in the globus pallidus internal segment during targeted arm movements. J Neurophysiol, 85(2):998-1004, 2001 (presented by Ashwini Rao).

4/16/2001: J.L. Peña and M. Konishi. Auditory Spatial Receptive Fields Created by Multiplication. Science 13: 249-252, 2001. (presented by Tom Lu).

3/12/2001: Sheinburg and Logothetis. Noticing Familiar Objects in Real World Scenes: The Role of Temporal
Cortical Neurons in Natural Vision. Journal of Neuroscience 21(4):1340-1350, 2001 (presented by Gregory Ariff).

2/26/2001: Hupe et. al. Feedback Connections Act on the Early Part of the Responses in Monkey Visual Cortex. J. Neurophysiol. 85:134-145, 2001. (presented by Opher Donchin)

2/12/2001: Treue et al. Seeing multiple directions of motion - physiology and psychophysics. Nature Neuroscience 3: 270-276, 2000. (presented by EunJung Hwang)

11/28/2000 Gold JI, Knudsen EI. Abnormal auditory experience induces frequency-specific adjustments in unit tuning for binaural localization cues in the optic tectum of juvenile owls. J. Neurosci. 20:862-77, 2000. (presented by Chris DiMattina)

11/14/2000 D.K. Lee; L. Itti; C. Koch; J. Braun; Attention activates winner-take-all competition among visual filters. Nature Neuroscience 2:375 - 381 (1999). (presented by Sharba Bandyopadhyay)

10/31/2000 Larkum ME, Zhu JJ, Sakmann B. A new cellular mechanism for coupling inputs arriving at different cortical layers. Nature. 1999 Mar 25;398(6725):338-41. (presented by Ed Bartlett)

10/17/2000 Brainard, MS and Doupe, AJ (2000). Interruption of a basal ganglia forebrain circuit prevents plasticity of learned vocalizations. Nature, 404, 762-766. (presented by Ashwini Rao)

10/3/2000 Taylor et al. Dendritic computation of direction selectivity by retinal ganglion cells. Science. 289:2347-2350, 2000. (presented by Tom Lu)

9/19/2000 Dantzker, J. L. & Callaway, E. M. Laminar sources of synaptic input to cortical inhibitory interneurons and pyramidal neurons. Nat Neurosci 3, 701-7 (2000). (presented by Dennis Barbour)

5/3/2000 Yuri Zilberter, Katharina M. M. Kaiser, and Bert Sakmann. Dendritic GABA Release Depresses Excitatory Transmission between Layer 2/3 Pyramidal and Bitufted Neurons in Rat Neocortex. Neuron 1999 24: 979.(presented by Vikas Bhandawat)

4/26/2000 (presented by Dennis Barbour):

(1) Jitendra Sharma; Alessandra Angelucci; Mriganka Sur. Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex. Nature 404: 841-847 (2000).

(2) Laurie von Melchner; Sarah L. Pallas; Mriganka Sur. Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway. Nature 404: 871-876 (2000).
 

Special Series on Gene Manipulations in Whole Animal Physiology

3/8/2000: Session #1 (presenter: Henry Colecraft)

WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH VIRAL-MEDIATED GENE DELIVERY IN VIVO?

(1) Choi-Lundberg DL et al (1997) Dopaminergic neurons protected from degerneration by GDNF gene therapy.  Science 275:838.

(2) Corti O et al (1999) Long-term doxycycline-controlled expression of human tyrosine hydroxylase after direct adenovirus-mediated gene transfer to a rat model of Parkinsons's disease.  PNAS 96:12120.

3/15/2000: Session #2 (presenter: Shoji Takahashi)

COMBINATION OF OPTICAL AND VIRAL-GENE-DELIVERY TECHNIQUES RESOLVE
MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH LTP IN VIVO

(1) Shi SH, et al. Rapid spine delivery and redistribution of AMPA receptors after synaptic NMDA receptor activation. Science. 1999 Jun 11;284(5421):1811-6.

(2) Maletic-Savatic M, et al.  Rapid dendritic morphogenesis in CA1 hippocampal dendrites induced by
synaptic activity. Science. 1999 Mar 19;283(5409):1923-7.

3/22/2000: Session #3 (presenter: Ramani Balu)

WHAT VIRAL-MEDIATED GENE-DELIVERY CAN DO FOR HEARING SCIENCE RESEARCH ?

(1) Derby ML, et al. Gene transfer into the mammalian inner ear using HSV-1 and vaccinia
virus vectors. Hear Res. 1999 Aug;134(1-2):1-8.

(2) Holt JR, et al. Functional expression of exogenous proteins in mammalian sensory hair
cells infected with adenoviral vectors. J Neurophysiol. 1999 Apr;81(4):1881-8.

3/29/2000: Session #4 (presenter: Mike Erickson)

2-PHOTON MICROSCOPY: POWERFUL ASSAY TECHNIQUE FOR STUDYING GENETICALLY
INDUCED CHANGES IN NEURONAL FUNCTION IN VIVO

(1) Helmchen F, et al. In vivo dendritic calcium dynamics in deep-layer cortical pyramidal
neurons. Nat Neurosci. 1999 Nov;2(11):989-96.

(2) Svoboda K, et al. Spread of dendritic excitation in layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons in rat
barrel cortex in vivo. Nat Neurosci. 1999 Jan;2(1):65-73.

4/5/2000: Session #5 (presenter: Esther Brooks-Asplund).

WHAT VIRAL-MEDIATED GENE DELIVERY CAN DO FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH ?

(1) Miyamoto MI, et al. Adenoviral gene transfer of SERCA2a improves left-ventricular function
in aortic-banded rats in transition to heart failure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Jan 18;97(2):793-8.

(2) Maurice JP, et al.  Enhancement of cardiac function after adenoviral-mediated in vivo
intracoronary beta2-adrenergic receptor gene delivery. J Clin Invest. 1999 Jul;104(1):21-9.

3/1/2000:        Izhar Bar-Gad, Gali Havazelet- Heimer, Eytan Ruppin and Hagai Bergman. "Reinforcement driven dimentionality reduction - A model for information processing in the absal ganalia".  2000 (presented by Opher Donchin)

2/2/2000:        Hensch TK, et al. Local GABA circuit control of experience-dependent plasticity in developing visual cortex. Science 282:1504-1508, 1998 (presented by Siddhartha Kadia).

2/9/2000:        Anirudh Gupta, Yun Wang, and Henry Markram. Organizing Principles for a Diversity of GABAergic Interneurons and Synapses in the Neocortex. Science 287: 273-278, 2000. (presented by Tom Lu).

Fall 1999

12/15/1999:    Hamdy, S. et al. Long term reorganization of human motor cortex driven by short-term sensory stimulation. Nature Neuroscience. 1: 64-68, 1998. (Presented by Paul George)

12/ 8/1999:     P. Cisek and S. H. Scott. An alternative interpretation of population vector rotation in macaque motor cortex. Neurosci.Lett. 272 (1):1-4, 1999. (presented by Opher Donchin)

12/ 1/1999:     J. K. Chapin et al. Real-time control of a robot arm using simultaneously recorded neurons in the motor cortex. Nature Neuroscience 2: 664-670. (presented by Vikas Bhandawat)

11/24/1999:    No meeting (Thanksgiving Eve)

11/17/1999:    G-Q. Bi and M-M. Poo. Distributed synaptic modification in neural networks induced by patterned stimulation.  Nature 401: 792-796, 1999. (presented by Lina Reiss).

11/10/1999:    Y. Rossetti et al. Prism adaptation to a rightward optical deviation rehabilitates left hemispatial neglect. Nature 395: 166-169, 1998 (presented by Gregory Ariff).

11/3 /1999:     Gray-Keller  et. al. "Longitudinal spread of second messenger signals in isolated rod outer segments of lizards" J. Physiol. 519: 679-692, 1999 (presented by Ramani Balu).

10/20/1999:    Tomita et al. Top-down signal from prefrontal cortex in executive control of memory retrieval. Nature 401:699-703, 1999 (presented by Dennis Barbour).

10/13/1999: Maurer et al. Rapid improvements in the acuity of infants after visual input. Science 286: 108-110, 1999 (presented by Thomas Lu).

9/29/1999: J-N. Kim and M. Shadlen. Neural correlates of a decision in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex  of the macaque. Nature Neuroscience 2(2): 176-185, 1999 (presented by Ramnarayan Ramachandran).

9/22/1999: Klinke R. et al. Recruitment of the Auditory Cortex in Congenitally Deaf Cats by Long-Term Cochlear Electrostimulation. Science 1999 September 10; 285: 1729-1733. (presented by Xiaoqin Wang)

9/15/1999: Das A, et al. Topography of contextual modulations mediated by short-range interactions in primary visual cortex. Nature. 1999 Jun 17; 399(6737):655-61. (presented by Siddhartha Kadia)

Fall 1998

12/9/1998: K. MacLeod, A. Backer, and G. Laurent. "Who reads temporal information contained across synchronized and oscillatory spike trains?" Nature 395: 693-698, 1998 (presented by Ramnarayan Ramachandran).

12/2/1998: M A L Nicolelis et al. Simultaneous encoding of tactile information by three primate cortical areas. Nature Neuroscience 1: 621-630, 1998 (presented by Xiaoqin Wang).

11/4/1998: M. Martina et. al. Functional and molecular differences between voltage-gated K+ channels of fast-spiking interneurons and pyramidal neurons of rat hippocampus. J Neurosci 1998 Oct 15;18(20):8111-25 (presented by Daniel Peruzzi).

10/28/1998: S. Single and A. Borst. Dendritic Integration and Its Role in Computing Image Velocity. Science 281: 1848-1850, 1998 (presented by Ramani Balu).

10/21/1998: T. S. Horowitz and J. M. Wolfe. Visual search has no memory. Nature 394: 575-577, 1998 (presented by Dennis Barbour).

10/7/1998: Y Dan, J-M Alonso, W M Usrey & R C Reid. Coding of visual information by precisely correlated spikes in the lateral
geniculate nucleus. Nature Neuroscience 1: 501-507, 1998 (presented by Ross Snider).

9/30/1998: W. MARTIN USREY, JOHN B. REPPAS & R. CLAY REID. Paired-spike interactions and synaptic efficacy of retinal inputs to the thalamus. Nature 395: 384-387, 1998 (presented by Tom Lu).

9/22/1998: N. LESSARD, M. PARÉ, F. LEPORE & M. LASSONDE. Early-blind human subjects localize sound sources better than sighted subjects. Nature 395: 278-280, 1998 (presented by Siddhartha Kadia).

5/20/1998: Robert E. Clarke and Larry R. Squire. Classical Conditioning and Brain Systems: The Role of Awareness. Science 280, 77-81 April 3, 1998 (presented by Maurice Smith).

5/13/1998: Turennout M. v. et al, Brain Activity During Speaking: From Syntax to Phonology in 40 Milliseconds. Science 280, p572-574. 1998 (presented by Tom Lu).

5/6/1998: G.H.Recanzone. Rapidly induced auditory plasticity: The ventriloquism aftereffect. PNAS 95(3)869-875, 1998 (presented by Barbara Calhoun).

4/29/1998: S Kitazawa, T Kimura and P-B Yin. Cerebellar complex spikes encode both destinations and errors in arm movements. Nature 392: 494, 1998 (presented by Nikhil Bhushan).

4/22/1998: M.S.A. Graziano, X.T. Hu, C.G. Gross. Coding the locations of objects in the dark. Science 277: 239-241, 1997 (presented by Lina Reiss).

4/8/1998: Turrigiano et al. Activity-dependent scaling of quantal amplitude in neocortical neurons. Nature 391: 892-896, 1998 (presented by Ross Snider).

3/25/1998: Kilgard and Merzenich, Cortical map reorganization enabled by nucleus basalis activity. Science 279:1714-1718, 1998 (presented by Tom Lu).

3/18/1998: Fried I, MacDonald KA, Wilson CL, Single neuron activity in human hippocampus and amygdala during recognition of faces and objects. Neuron 18:753-765, 1997 (presented by Daniel Peruzzi).

3/11/1998: Polat et al. Collinear stimuli regulate visual responses depending on cell's contrast threshold. Nature 391: 580-584, 1998 (presented by Anitha Pasupathy).

3/4/1998: Dolan et al. "How the brain learns to see objects and faces in an impoverished context", Nature, 389:596-599, 1997 (presented by Ramnarayan Ramachandran).

2/25/1998: P. Sinha and T. Poggio, "Role of learning in three-dimensional form perception." Nature, 384:460-463, 1996 (presented by Kurt Thoroughman).

2/11/1998: K. D. Davis et al., Phantom sensations generated by thalamic microstimulation, Nature 391: 385-387, 1998 (presented by Xiaoqin Wang).

2/4/1998: Crair et al. The role of visual experience in the development of colums in cat visual cortex. Science 279: 566-570,1998 (presented by Barbara Calhounn). 

Fall 1997

12/3/97: M. Stopfer et al. Impaired odour discrimination on desynchronization of odour-encoding neural assemblies. Nature 390: 70-74, 1997 (presented by Ramnarayan Ramachandran).

11/19/97: K.M. Kendrick et al. Formation of olfactory memories mediated by nitric oxide. Nature 388: 670-674, 1997 (presented by Dan Peruzzi).

11/12/97: Linearity and Normalization in Simple Cells of the Macaque Primary Visual Cortex, Journal of Nueroscience, 17:8621-8644 (presented by Maurice Smith).

11/5/97: J.-R. Duhamel et al. Spatial Invariance of visual receptive fields in parietal cortex neurons, Nature 389: 845-848, 1997 (presented by Nikhil Bhushan).

10/22/97: McClearn GE, et al. Substantial genetic influence on cognitive abilities in twins 80 or more years old. Science. 276:1560-1563. 1997 (presented by Thomas Lu).

10/15/97: P. K. Kuhl et al. Cross-language analysis of phonetic units in language addressed to infants. Science 277: 684-686, 1997 (presented by Dennis Barbour).

10/8/97: M A Basso & R H Wurtz. Modulation of neuronal activity by target uncertainity. Nature 389: 66-68, 1997 (presented by Anitha Pasupathy).

10/1/97: J. Duncan et al. Restricted attentional capacity within but not between sensory modalities. Nature 387: 808-810, 1997 (presented by Barbara Calhoun).

9/24/97: Cohen et al. Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans, Nature 389: 180-183, 1997 (presented by Kurt Thoroughman).

9/17/97: Ruyter et al. Reproducibility and variability in neural spike trains. Science 275: 1805-1808, 1997 (presented by Ross Snider).

9/10/97: Fitzpatrick et al. A neuronal population code for sound localization. Nature 388: 871-874, 1997 (presented by Siddhartha Kadia). 

Spring 1997

5/14/97: Doug P. Hanes and Jeffrey D. Schall. Neural Control of Voluntary Movement Initiation. Science, 274:427-430, 1996 (presented by Arup Roy).

5/7/97: G. A. Calvert et al. Activation of auditory cortex during silent lipreading. Science 276: 593-596, 1997 (presented by Ramnarayan Ramachandran).

4/30/97: Steve Massaquoi and Jean-Jacques Slotine. The intermediate cerebellum may function as a wave-variable processor. Neuroscience Letters 215:60-64, 1996 (presented by Maurice Smith).

4/23/97: Z. Ghahramani and D.M. Wolpert. Modular decomposition in visuomotor learning. Nature 386: 392-395, 1997 (presented by Reza Shadmehr).

4/16/97: J.R. Saffran, R.N. Aslin and E.L. Newport. Statistical Learning by 8 Month Old Infants. Science 274:1926-1928, 1996 (presented by LeAnn Daniel).

3/26/97: Steven J.Luck, et al., Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Selective Attention in Areas V1, V2 and V4 of Macaque Visual Cortex. J. Neurophysiology, 77: 24-41, 1997 (presented by Anitha Pasupath).

3/12/97: Nygaard, L.C., Sommers, M.S. and Pisoni, D.B. Speech perception as a talker-contingent process. Psychological Science. 5(1): 42-47, 1994 (presented by Tony Agamaite).

3/5/97: M. Wehr and G. Laurent. Odour encoding by temporal sequences of firing in oscillating neural assemblies. Nature 384: 162-166, 1996 (presented by John Doucet).

2/26/97: D. Pare and R. Llinas. Conscious and pre-concious processes as seen from the standpoint of sleep-waking cycle neurophysiolgy. Neuropsychologia 33:1155-1168, 1995 (presented by Ross Snider).

2/19/97: Tennigkeit et al.. Mechanisms for signal transformation in lemniscal auditory thalamus. J. Neurophysiology, 76:3597-3608, 1996 (presented by Siddhartha Kadia).

2/12/97: R. Naatanen et al. Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses. Nature 385: 432-434 (presented by Xiaoqin Wang).

1/29/97: Nudo RJ. Wise BM. SiFuentes F. Milliken GW. Neural substrates for the effects of rehabilitative training on motor recovery after ischemic infarct. Science 272(5269):1791-4, 1996 (presented by Kurt Thoroughman).

1/15/97: S.J.Chew, D.S. Vicario and F.Nottebohm. Quantal duration of auditory memories. Science 274:1909-1914, 1996 (presented by Barbara Calhoun).

12/11/96: Arieli A. Sterkin A. Grinvald A. Aertsen A. DYNAMICS OF ONGOING ACTIVITY - EXPLANATION OF THE LARGE VARIABILITY IN EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSES , Science 273:1868-1871, 1996 (presented by Nitish Thakor).

12/4/96: H. Gemba et al. Cortical field potentials preceding vocalization and influences of cerebellar hemispherectomy upon them in monkeys. Brain Research 697:143-151, 1996 (presented by Jean Hu).

11/13/96: M.S. A. Graziano, G. S. Yap, C. G. Gross. Coding of visual space by Premotor neurons. Science 266:1054-1057,1994 (presented by Arup Roy).

11/6/96: LF Abbot, ET Rolls, MJ Tovee. Representational Capacity of Face Coding in Monkeys. Cerebral Cortex 6:498-505, 1996 (presented by Tom Lu).

10/30/96: S.A. Northgrave and D.D. Rasmusson. The Immediate Effects of Peripheral Deafferentation on Neurons of the Cuneate Nucleus in Raccoons. Somatosensory and Motor Research, 13: 103-113, 1996 (presented by Siddhartha Kadia).

10/23/96: Knudsen & Knudsen, THE DISRUPTION OF AUDITORY SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY BY INACTIVATION OF THE FOREBRAIN ARCHISTRIATUM IN BARN OWLS, Nature (383): 428-431, 1996. (presented by Ramnarayan Ramachandran).

10/16/96: Wyttenbach et al. Categorical perception of sound frequency by crickets. Science 273: 1542-1544, 1996. (presented by Dennis Barbour).

10/9/96: Jeffrey et al. Synaptogenesis and FOS Expression in the Motor Cortex of the Adult Rat after Motor Skill Learning. J. Neuroscience 16: 4529-4535, 1996 (presented by Kurt Thoroughman).

10/2/96: Rossi et al. The representation of brightness in primary visual cortex. Science 273:1104-1107, 1996 (presented by John Doucet).

9/25/96: D.C. Bradley et al. Mechanisms of Heading Perception in Primate visual Cortex. Science,273:1544-1547, 1996 (presented by Anitha Pasupathy).

9/18/96: F.W. Ohl and H. Scheich. Differential frequency conditioning enhances spectral contrast sensitivity of units in auditory cortex (field A1) of the alert Mongolian gerbil. European J. of Neuroscience. 8:1001-1017, 1996 (presented by Xiaoqin Wang).

9/11/96: J. Yan and N. Suga. Cortiofugal modulation of time-domain processing of biosonar information in bats. Science 273:1100-1103, 1996 (presented by Barbara Calhoun). 

Spring 1996

5/8/96: D. Malonek and A. Grinvald. Interactions between electrical activity and cortical microcirculation revealed by imaging spectroscopy: Implications for functional brain imaging. Science 272:551-554, 1996 (presented by Xiaoqin Wang).

5/1/96: E. Ahissar et al. Dependence of cortical plasticity on correlated activity of single neurons and on behavioral context. Science 257:1412-1415, 1992. (presented by Tom Lu)

4/24/96: DeAngelis GC. Anzai A. Ohzawa I. Freeman RD. Receptive field structure in the visual cortex: does selective stimulation induce plasticity? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 92(21):9682-9686, 1995 Oct 10. (presented by Barbara Calhoun).

4/10/96: R. J. Nudo, G. W. Milliken, W. M. Jenkins, M. M. Merzenich. Use-Dependent Alterations of Movement Representations in Primary Motor Cortex of Adult Squirrel Monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience, 16:785-807,1996 (presented by Kurt Thoroughman).

4/3/96: S.J.Cruikshank and N.M.Weingerger. Receptive-field plasticity in the adult auditory cortex induced by Hebbian covariance. Journal of Neuroscience, 16:861-875,1996 (presented by Xiaoqin Wang).

3/27/96: T.D. Albright and G.R. Stoner. "Visual motion perception". PNAS 92:2433-2440 (presented by Anitha Pasupathy).

3/20/96: C.D. Salzman and W.T. Newsome "Neural mechanisms for forming a perceptual decision." Science 264(5156): 231-7, 1994 Apr.8 (presented by John Doucet).

3/6/96: Zohary E., Celebrini S., Britten KH, Newsome WT. Neuronal plasticity that underlies improvement in perceptual performance. Science 263:1289-92, 1994 (presented by Siddhartha Kadia).

2/28/96: Castro-Alamancos et al., Different forms of synaptic plasticity in somatosensory and motor areas of the neocortex. J Neurosci,15:5324-5333,1995. (presented by Maurice Smith).

2/21/96: D.W.F. Schwarz and R.W.W. Tomlinson. "Spectral response patterns of auditor y cortex neurons to harmonic complex tones in alert monkey (Macaca mulatta)". J. Neurophysiology, 64(1): 282-298, 1990 (presented by Barbara Calhoun).

Fall 1995

12/13/95: M.N. Shadlen and W. T. Newsome: "Noise, neural codes and cortical organization". Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 4:569-579, 1994 (presented by John Doucet).

12/6/95: W. Guido and T. Weyand, "Burst responses in thalamic relay cells of the awake behaving cat". J. Neurophyiology 74(4): 1782-1786, 1995 (presented by Siddhartha Kadia).

11/29/95: M. Meister et al "Concerted Signaling by Retinal Ganglion Cells" Science, 270: 1207-1210, 1995 (presented by Roger Miller).

10/25/95: A.M. Sillito, H.E. Jones, G.L. Gerstein and D.C. West, "Feature-linked synchronization of thalamic relay cell firing induced by feedback from the visual cortex". Nature 369:479-482, 1994 (presented by Jim DiCarlo).

10/18/95: S.P. Dear, J.A. Simmons and J. Fritz, "A possible neuronal basis for representation of acoustic scenes in auditory cortex of the big brown bat". Nature 364:620-623, 1993 (presented by Xiaoqin Wang).

10/11/95: J. J. Hopfield. "Pattern recognition computation using action potential timing for stimulus representation" Nature, 376: 33-36,1995 (presented by Kurt Thoroughman)

10/4/95:Nicolelis, M.A.L., Baccala, L.A., Lin, R.C.S., and Chapin, J. K. "Sensorimotor encoding by synchronous neural ensemble activity at multiple levels of the somatosensory system", Science, Vol. 268, 6/2/95, pp. 1353-1358. (presented by Amy Brisben)

9/27/95:D.C. Somers, S.B. Nelson and M. Sur, "An emergent model of orientation selectivity in cat visual cortical simple cells". J. Neuroscience, 15(8):5448-65, August 1995 (presented by Dave Blake)

9/20/95:Jacobs KM, Donoghue JP (1991), "Reshaping the cortical motor map by unmasking of latent intracortical connections". Science 251:944-947. (presented by Reza Shadmehr)

9/13/95:A. Das and C. D. Gilbert (1995), "Long-range horizontal connections and their role in cortical reorganization revealed by optical recording of cat primary visual cortex". Nature 375:780-784. (presented by Xiaoqin Wang)