Meetings 2006 - 2007

August 24, 2007

Correlation between neural spike trains increases with firing rate.

de la Rocha J, Doiron B, Shea-Brown E, Josic K, Reyes A.

Nature. 2007 Aug 16;448(7155):802-6. Supplement

Presented by Wei Chen

August 10, 2007

Emergence of novel color vision in mice engineered to express a human cone photopigment.

Jacobs GH, Williams GA, Cahill H, Nathans J.

Science. 2007 Mar 23;315(5819):1723-5. Supplement

Presented by Michael Crair

July 27, 2007

Functional differences between macaque prefrontal cortex and caudate nucleus during eye movements with and without reward.

Kobayashi S, Kawagoe R, Takikawa Y, Koizumi M, Sakagami M, Hikosaka O.

Exp Brain Res. 2006 Aug 9.

Presented by Soyoun Kim (Lee Lab)

July 13, 2007

Probabilistic reasoning by neurons.

Yang T, Shadlen MN.

Nature. 2007 Jun 28;447(7148):1075-80. Supplement

Presented by Nick Turk-Browne (Chun Lab)

June 29, 2007

Hebbian STDP in mushroom bodies facilitates the synchronous flow of olfactory information in locusts.

Cassenaer S, Laurent G.

Nature. 2007 Jun 20. Supplement

Presented by Ruchir Shah (Crair Lab)

June 15, 2007

Lateral habenula as a source of negative reward signals in dopamine neurons.

Matsumoto M, Hikosaka O.

Nature. 2007 May 23. Supplement

Presented by Hyojung Seo (Lee Lab)

June 1, 2007

Categorization of behavioural sequences in the prefrontal cortex.

Shima K, Isoda M, Mushiake H, Tanji J.

Nature. 2007 Jan 18;445(7125):315-8. Supplement

Presented by John Fitzpatrick (Yeckel Lab)

May 18, 2007

Intrinsic functional architecture in the anaesthetized monkey brain.

Vincent JL, et al., Raichle ME.

Nature. 2007 May 3;447(7140):83-6. Supplement

Presented by Christian Luhmann (Wang Lab)

May 4, 2007

Switching from automatic to controlled action by monkey medial frontal cortex.

Isoda M, Hikosaka O.

Nat Neurosci. 2007 Feb;10(2):240-8. Supplement

Presented by Chung-Chuan Lo (Wang Lab)

April 20, 2007 - Canceled

Speed-accuracy tradeoff in olfaction.

Rinberg D, Koulakov A, Gelperin A.

Neuron. 2006 Aug 3;51(3):351-8.

Presented by Larry Cohen

April 6, 2007

Adaptive filtering enhances information transmission in visual cortex.

Sharpee TO, Sugihara H, Kurgansky AV, Rebrik SP, Stryker MP, Miller KD.

Nature. 2006 Feb 23;439(7079):936-42. Supplement

Presented by Jon Touryan (Mazer Lab)

March 23, 2007

Response anticipation and response conflict: an event-related potential and functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

Fan J, Kolster R, Ghajar J, Suh M, Knight RT, Sarkar R, McCandliss BD.

J Neurosci. 2007 Feb 28;27(9):2272-82.

Presented by Matt Johnson (Marcia Johnson lab)

March 9, 2007

Enhancement of object representations in primate perirhinal cortex during a visual working-memory task.

Lehky SR, Tanaka K.

J Neurophysiol. 2007 Feb;97(2):1298-310.

Presented by Moran Furman (Wang Lab)

February 9, 2007

Optical recording of fast neuronal membrane potential transients in acute mammalian brain slices by second-harmonic generation microscopy.

Dombeck DA, Sacconi L, Blanchard-Desce M, Webb WW.

J Neurophysiol. 2005 Nov;94(5):3628-36.
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Overcoming photodamage in second-harmonic generation microscopy: real-time optical recording of neuronal action potentials.

Sacconi L, Dombeck DA, Webb WW.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Feb 28;103(9):3124-9.

Presented by Michael Levene

January 26, 2007

High-resolution imaging reveals highly selective nonface clusters in the fusiform face area.

Grill-Spector K, Sayres R, Ress D.

Nat Neurosci. 2007 Jan;10(1):133. Supplement & Corregiendum

Presented by Julie Golomb (Chun Lab)

Commentary:
News&Views by Haxby
Subsequent Editorial
Reply by Baker, Hutchison, & Kanwisher
Reply by Simmons, Bellgowan, & Martin

January 12, 2007

Time is a rubberband: neuronal activity in monkey motor cortex in relation to time estimation.

Renoult L, Roux S, Riehle A.

Eur J Neurosci. 2006 Jun;23(11):3098-108.

Presented by Mark Laubach

December 15, 2006

Dynamic shifts of visual receptive fields in cortical area MT by spatial attention.

Womelsdorf T, Anton-Erxleben K, Pieper F, Treue S.

Nat Neurosci. 2006 Sep;9(9):1156-60. Supplement

Presented by Jamie Mazer

December 1, 2006

Influence of the thalamus on spatial visual processing in frontal cortex.

Sommer MA, Wurtz RH.

Nature. 2006 Nov 16;444(7117):374-377. Supplement

Presented by Kumar Narayanan (Laubach Lab)

November 17, 2006

Unique features of action potential initiation in cortical neurons.

Naundorf B, Wolf F, Volgushev M.

Nature. 2006 Apr 20;440(7087):1060-3. Supplement

Presented by David McCormick

Commentary:

Neurophysiology: Hodgkin and Huxley model--still standing?

McCormick DA, Shu Y, Yu Y.

Nature. 2007 Jan 4;445(7123) Reply

November 3, 2006

Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value.

Padoa-Schioppa C, Assad JA.

Nature. 2006 May 11;441(7090):223-6.

Presented by Nicole Horst (Laubach Lab)

October 6, 2006

Whole-cell recordings in freely moving rats.

Lee AK, Manns ID, Sakmann B, Brecht M.

Neuron. 2006 Aug 17;51(4):399-407.

Presented by Tim Allen (Brown Lab)

September 22, 2006

Learning induces long-term potentiation in the hippocampus.

Whitlock JR, Heynen AJ, Shuler MG, Bear MF.

Science. 2006 Aug 25;313(5790):1093-7.

Presented by Eyal Kimchi (Laubach Lab)

September 8, 2006

Drosophila DPM neurons form a delayed and branch-specific memory trace after olfactory classical conditioning.

Yu D, Keene AC, Srivatsan A, Waddell S, Davis RL.

Cell. 2005 Dec 2;123(5):945-57.

Presented by Adam Claridge-Chang (Miesenbock Lab)

August 22, 2006

A cognitive signal for the proactive timing of action in macaque LIP

Maimon G, Assad JA.

Nat Neurosci. 2006 Jun 4.

Presented by Mark Laubach

August 8, 2006

Selective and quickly reversible inactivation of mammalian neurons in vivo using the Drosophila allatostatin receptor.

Tan EM, et al., Callaway EM.

Neuron. 2006 Jul 20;51(2):157-70.

Presented by Kumar Narayanan (Laubach Lab)

July 25, 2006

Cortex is driven by weak but synchronously active thalamocortical synapses.

Bruno RM, Sakmann B.

Science. 2006 Jun 16;312(5780):1622-7.

Presented by Bilal Haider (McCormick Lab)

July 11, 2006

Activity in prefrontal cortex during dynamic selection of action sequences

Averbeck BB, Sohn JW, Lee D.

Nat Neurosci. 2006 Feb;9(2):276-82.

Presented by Matthew Krause (Mazer Lab)

June 27, 2006

Encoding social signals in the mouse main olfactory bulb.

Lin da Y, Zhang SZ, Block E, Katz LC.

Nature. 2005 Mar 24;434(7032):470-7.

Presented by Eyal Kimchi (Laubach Lab)

June 13, 2006

Visualizing the Cortical Representation of Whisker Touch: Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging in Freely Moving Mice

Ferezou I, Bolea S, Petersen CC.

Neuron. 2006 May 18;50:616-29.

Presented by Douglas Davis (Pieribone Lab)