Journal Club 2011
Schedule of Brainworks and BCF Journal Clubs
| Week | Date | The Brainworks | Date | The BCF Theory Journal Club Thursday 9-11h, BCF Hansastr. 9a |
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| 50 | Dec 13 | Walter F. Heine and Christopher L. Passaglia Spatial Receptive Fields properties of rat retinal ganglion cells Visual Neuroscience (2011), 28, 403-417 Anna | Dec 15 | Lazar A, Pipa G and Triesch J (2009) SORN: a self-organizing recurrent neural network, Front. Comput. Neurosci. 3:23 (suggested by Moritz) |
| 48 | Nov 29 | Ito J, Maldonado P, Singer W and Grün S (2011) Saccade-Related Modulations of Neuronal Excitability Support Synchrony of Visually Elicited Spikes. Cerebral Cortex 21:2482-249 Clemens | Dec 1 | A Renart, MC van Rossum (2011) Transmission of Population-Coded Information (suggested by Volker) |
| 43 | Nov 8 | Alexander S. Ecker, et al. (2010) Decorrelated Neuronal Firing in Cortical Microcircuits Science 2010 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5965/584.short Alejandro | Nov 10 | M.Benayoun, J.D.Cowan, W.Drongelen , E.Wallace (2010) Avalanches in a Stochastic Model of Spiking Neurons (suggested and presented by Taskin) |
| 43 | Oct 25 | Yizhar et al (2011) Neocortical excitation/inhibition balance in information processing and social dysfunction. Nature 2011, Vol. 477, 171-178 Mick | ||
| 41 | Oct 11 | Ch’ng YH and Reid RC (2010) Cellular imaging of visual cortex reveals the spatial and functional organization of spontaneous activity. Front integrative Neurosci 4:20 Katharina | ||
| 38 | Sep 20 | Onat, König, Jancke Natural scene evoked population dynamics across cat primary visual cortex captured with voltage sensitive dye imaging Dymphie | ||
| 34 | Aug 23 | Matthias Kaschube, et al. Universality in the evolution of orientation columns in the visual cortex, Science 330, 1113 (2010) Phil | Aug 25 | |
| 33 | Aug 16 | Aug 18 | ||
| 32 | Aug 9 | Aug 11 | Shew WL, Yang H, Yu S, Roy R, Plenz D. Information capacity and transmission are maximized in balanced cortical networks with neuronal avalanches. (suggested and presented by Sarah) | |
| 31 | Aug 2 | Bartoletti A, Medini P, Beradi N and Maffei L (2004) Environmental enrichment prevents effects of dark-rearing in the rat visual cortex. Nature 7:215-6 Clemens | Aug 4 | Roxin (2011) The role of degree distribution in shaping the dynamics in networks of sparsely connected spiking neurons (suggested and presented by Sarah) |
| 30 | Jul 26 | |||
| 29 | Jul 19 | Vyazovskiy et al ((2011) Local sleep in awake rats Anna | Jul 21 | Erwan Ledoux and Nicolas Brunel (2011) Dynamics of networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in response to time-dependent inputs (suggested by Stefan, featured by Volker) |
| 23 | Jun 7 | S Atkinson and SR Williams (2009) Postnatal Development of Dendritic Synaptic Integration in Rat Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons Mick | ||
| 22 | May 31 | Jon Cafaro & Fred Rieke (2010) Noise correlations improve response fidelity and stimulus encoding Nature 468, 964–967 Imke | Jun 2 | Bogaard et al. (2009) Interaction of cellular and network mechanisms in spatiotemporal pattern formation in neuronal networks. (suggested by Sarah, to be presented by Ajith) |
| 21 | May 24 | Berkes et al (2011) Spontaneous Cortical Activity Reveals Hallmarks of an Optimal Internal Model of the Environment Alejandro | ||
| 18 | May 2 | Phoka E et al (2010) A New Approach for Determining Phase Response Curves Reveals that Purkinje Cells Can Act as Perfect Integrators Dymphie | May 5 | Martin Boerlin, Sophie Denève (2011) Spike-Based Population Coding and Working Memory (suggested by Volker) |
| 16 | Apr 19 | Branco T; Hausser M Synaptic Integration Gradients in Single Cortical Pyramidal Cell Dendrites Neuron doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.02.006 (volume 69 issue 5 pp.885 - 892) Kosmas | Apr 21 | Kreuz et al. (2009) Measuring multiple spike train synchrony Journal of Neuroscience Methods 183 (2009) 287–299. (suggested by Taskin) |
| 15 | Apr 13 | Lefort et al 2009 The Excitatory Neuronal Network of the C2 Barrel Column in Mouse Primary Somatosensory Cortex Phil | Apr 15 | Churchland et al (2011) Variance as a Signature of Neural Computations during Decision Making Neuron 69(4) 818-831 (suggested by Arvind) |
| 13 | Mar 29 | Eggermont (2006) Properties of Correlated Neural Activity Clusters in Cat Auditory Cortex Resemble Those of Neural Assemblies Anna | Mar 31 | |
| 12 | Mar 22 | Mar 24 | Gal et al | |
| 11 | Mar 15 | Ohiorhenuan et al. (2010) Sparse coding and high-order correlations in fine-scale cortical networks Nature 466, 617–621 Stefan | Mar 17 | Pillow, J. and Ahmadian, Y. and Paninski, L. (2011). Model-Based Decoding, Information Estimation, and Change-Point Detection Techniques for Multineuron Spike Trains. (suggested by Moritz) |
| 10 | Mar 8 | Mar 10 | Berkes et al Fiser Spontaneous Cortical Activity Reveals Hallmarks of an Optimal Internal Model of the Environment (suggested by Volker) | |
| 9 | Mar 1 | Remy S, Csicsvari J, Beck H. (2009) Activity-dependent control of neuronal output by local and global dendritic spike attenuation. Neuron 2009, Mar 26;61 (6) : 906-16 Mick | ||
| 8 | Feb 22 | J. Schiller, G. Major, H.J. Koester, Y. Schiller (2000) NMDA spikes in basal dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons Nature 404 (6775) 285-289 Kosmas | Feb 24 | Deco, G. et al (2010) Key role of coupling, delay, and noise in resting brain fluctuations+ Supporting information (suggested by Volker) |
| 7 | Feb 15 | Kohn & Smith (2005) | Feb 17 | Brunel and Ostojic (2011) From Spiking Neuron Models to Linear-Nonlinear Models (suggested by all folks, Stefano in charge) |
| 6 | Feb 8 | Yassin L et al (2010) An embedded subnetwork of highly active neurons in the neocortex. Neuron. 2010 Dec 22;68(6):1043-50. Mick | Feb 10 | Brunel and Ostojic (2011) From Spiking Neuron Models to Linear-Nonlinear Models (suggested by all folks, Stefano in charge) |
| 5 | Feb 1 | Willmore et al Neural Representation of Natural Images in Visual Area V2 http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/full/30/6/2102 Alejandro | Feb 3 | Mazor, O. and Laurent, G. (2005) Transient dynamics versus fixed points in odor representations by locust antennal lobe projection neurons. Neuron 48(4): 661-673. (suggested by Arvind) |
| 4 | Jan 25 | Silver RA, Lubke J, Sakmann B, Feldmeyer D. (2003) High-probability uniquantal transmission at excitatory synapses in barrel cortex. Science. 2003 Dec 12;302(5652):1981-4. Phil | ||
| 3 | Jan 18 | |||
| 2 | Jan 11 | Biel M et al (2009) Hyperpolarization-activated cation channels: from genes to function. Physiol Rev. 2009 Jul;89(3):847-85. Dymphie | Jan 13 | Cafaro & Rieke (2010). Noise correlations improve response fidelity and stimulus encoding. Nature 468,964–967 (suggested by Arvind) |