This journal club aims to provide a forum for those interested in theoretical and computational approaches to understanding neurons, brains, and behavior. Weekly meetings will focus on a paper relevant to a theoretical understanding of some neuroscientific problem or system.
Wednesdays, 4:00pm
NMS 1.120
If you'd like to be added to the email list, please contact Michael Buice
| Date | Designated readers | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 1.25.2012 |
Ila Fiete Jonathan Pillow Michael Buice Abhinav Singh | Peter E. Latham, Sheila Nirenberg. Synergy, Redundancy, and Independence in Population Codes, Revisited. The Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 25, No. 21. (25 May 2005), pp. 5195-5206. pdf |
| 2.2.2012 |
Ila Fiete Jonathan Pillow Abhinav Singh | Schneidman, Bialek, Berry II. Synergy, Redundancy, and Independence in Population Codes. Journal of Neuroscience, December 17, 2003 23(37):11539 –11553 pdf |
| 2.9.2012 |
Youngseok Yoo Michael Buice O. Ozan Koyluoglu John Widloski |
Chen, B.; Wornell, G.W.;
Analog error-correcting codes based on chaotic dynamical systems.
IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 46, no. 7, July 1998
pdf Scott Hayes, Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott. Communicating with Chaos. Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 3031–3034 (1993) pdf |
| 2.16.2012 |
Keegan Hines Kenneth Latimer Sari Andoni | Sean Escola, Alfredo Fontanini, Don Katz, Liam Paninski. Hidden Markov Models for the Stimulus-Response Relationships of Multistate Neural Systems. Neural Computation 23, 1071–1132 (2011) pdf |
| 2.22.2012 | Bring your own (COSYNE) poster day | |
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| COSYNE | |
| 3.7.2012 | COSYNE recap | |
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| Spring break | |
| 3.21.2012 |
Dana Ballad Jonathan Pillow Michael Buice | Afsheen Afshar, Gopal Santhanam, Byron M. Yu, Stephen I. Ryu, Maneesh Sahani, Krishna V. Shenoy. Single-Trial Neural Correlates of Arm Movement Preparation. Neuron, Volume 71, Issue 3, 555-564, 11 August 2011 pdf |
| 3.28.2012 |
Jacob Yates Mary Hayhoe Il Memming Park | Justin N. J. McManus, Wu Li, Charles D. Gilbert. Adaptive shape processing in primary visual cortex. PNAS, Vol. 108, No. 24. (14 June 2011), pp. 9739-9746, doi:10.1073/pnas.1105855108 pdf |
| 4.4.2012 |
Kim Luke Jonathan Pillow Max Snodderly Kenneth Latimer | Petri Ala-Laurila, Martin Greschner, E J Chichilnisky and Fred Rieke. Cone photoreceptor contributions to noise and correlations in the retinal output. pp 1309-1316 Nature Neuroscience 2011 pdf |
| 4.11.2012 |
Andrew Tan Il Memming Park Sari Andoni | Toyoizumi T, Abbott LF. Beyond the edge of chaos: amplification and temporal integration by recurrent networks in the chaotic regime. Phys Rev E 84:051908, 2011 pdf |
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| Cancelled | |
| 4.25.2012 |
Ila FIete Michael Buice Il Memming Park Jonathan Pillow | Karl Friston. Hierarchical Models in the Brain. PLoS comp biol. 2008 pdf |
| 5.2.2012 |
Special Lecture by Shiva Sinha
Location: SEA 5.106 | Optimal Visual Motion Estimation in a Natural Environment. abstract |
Designated Readers are people who have committed to reading the article or paper in question and would like to contribute to the discussion on that paper. You can add yourself to the list of Designated Readers by emailing Memming and/or Michael. Each week we will select the paper for the following week from the website which has the largest group of Designated Readers. We will try to finalize this selection (for the following week) at the beginning of each week's meeting, before that week's discussion.
In order to be eligible for selection, each paper will need a minimum of three (3) Designated Readers. If possible, we would like to insure that each week there are at least one or two "senior" people on the Designated Reader list. This format should be a great opportunity for people to bring articles to the group for which they would like the expertise of others, e.g. getting an experimentalist's input if you are largely a computational person and vice versa. To that effect, please, recruit people into the Designated Reader list for papers in which you are interested! Students, in particular, don't be afraid to ask a more senior person to be on the Designated Reader list with you for an article in which you are interested. One aim of this format is to encourage those questions about methodology, concepts, and literature which may seem to be of an elementary nature.