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Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club
Fall 2016 - APPL 595B
Organizers: Jean-Marc Fellous, Ozan Koyluoglu, Kevin Lin and Calvin Zhang

Meetings are in Math 102, Fridays 11:00am-11:50am.

Aug 22, 2016: Organizational Meeting
Aug 29th: Presenter: Jean-Marc - Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
Optional papers: T. J. Sejnowski , C. Koch , P. S. Churchland, "Computational Neuroscience", Science, New Series, vol. 241, no. 4871, pp. 1299-1306, 1988. <PUBMED> <PDF>
L. F. Abbott, "Theoretical Neuroscience Rising," Neuron, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 489 - 495, 2008. <PUBMED> <PDF>
R. Picard, "Affective Computing" IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing,1(1):11-17, 2010.<PDF>
W. Gerstner, H. Sprekeler, G Deco, "Theory and Simulation in Neuroscience", Science, 338(6103):60-5, 2012. <PUBMED> <PDF>
R. Yuste, "From the Neuron Doctrine to Neural Networks" Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16(8):487-97, 2015. <PUBMED><PDF>
Sept 12th: Presenter: Todd
Paper: McDonnell, M. D., & Ward, L. M. (2011). The benefits of noise in neural systems: bridging theory and experiment. Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 12(7), 415–426. <PUBMED> <PDF>
Sept 19th: Bojan
Paper: J. Allan Hobson and Edward F. Pace-Schott (2002), "The cognitive neuroscience of sleep: neuronal systems, consciousness and learning," Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 3.9. <PUBMED> <PDF>
Sept 26th: Stephanie
Paper: Axel Kammerer, Alvaro Tejero-Cantero, and Christian Leibold, "Inhibition enhances memory capacity: optimal feedback, transient replay and oscillations," J Comput Neurosci (2013) 34:125–136. <PUBMED> <PDF>
Oct 3rd: David
Paper: Christos Papadimitriou, "On the optimality of grid cells," 2016. <PDF>
Oct 17th: Zhengzhong and Jiashu
Paper: Wulfram Gerstner and Werner M. Kistler, ''Mathematical formulation of Hebbian learning,'' Biol. Cybern. 87, 404–415 (2002). <PUBMED><PDF>.
Oct 24th: Erik
Paper: Mohrmann, de Witt, Verhage, Neher and Sørensen, Fast Vesicle Fusion in Living Cells Requires at Least Three SNARE Complexes. Science, 2010. <PUBMED><PDF>.
Oct 31st: David
Paper: Bendor. The Role of Inhibition in a Computational Model of an Auditory Cortical Neuron during the Encoding of Temporal Information. PLOS, 2015. <PUBMED><PDF>.
Nov 7th: Bojan
Paper: Olasagasti, Bouton & Giraud. Prediction across sensory modalities: A neurocomputational model of the McGurk effect. Cortex (2015). <PUBMED><PDF>.
Nov 21st: Zhengzhong
Paper: Shaowen Bao, ''Perceptual learning in the developing auditory cortex,'' European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 41, pp. 718–724, 2015. <PUBMED><PDF>.
Nov 28th: Erik
Paper: Li Y, Grosh K (2016) The Coda of the Transient Response in a Sensitive Cochlea: A Computational Modeling Study. PLoS Comput Biol 12(7). <PUBMED><PDF>.
Dec 5th: Stephanie
Paper: Solstad T, Yousif HN, Sejnowski TJ (2014). Place Cell Rate Remapping by CA3 Recurrent Collaterals. PLoS Comput Biol 10(6). <PUBMED><PDF>.

Useful links

Organization for Computational Neuroscience
Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation
Some Computational Neuroscience Journals:

Previous Journal Club Pages can be found here