Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club
Spring 2018 - APPL 595B
Organizers: Jean-Marc Fellous, Calvin Zhang and Kevin Lin

• April 30th: Rohin
  Paper: From Understanding Computation to Understanding Neural Circuitry. Marr and Poggio, 1976. <PDF>
• April 23rd: Allison
  Paper: Neural Syntax: Cell Assemblies, Synapsembles, and Readers. Buzsaki, 2010. <LINK> <PDF>
• April 16th: Kyli
  Paper: Mechanistic Mathematical Modeling Tests Hypotheses of the Neurovascular Coupling in fMRIs. Lundengrad et al, 2016. <LINK> <PDF>
• April 9th: Michael
  Paper: Dynamic Stochastic Synapses as computational units. Maass and Zador, 1999. <PUBMED> <PDF>
• April 2nd: Lola
  Paper: Synaptic depression: a dynamic regulator of synaptic communication with varied functional roles. O'Donovan and Rinzel, 1997. <PUBMED> <PDF>
  
• March 26th: David
  Paper: The hippocampus as a stable memory allocator for cortex, L. Vaillant, Neural Computation 24 (2012). <PUBMED> <PDF>
• March 19th: Kyli
  Paper: Computational principles of memory. Rishidev Chaudhuri and Ila Fiete. Nature Neuroscience 19 pp. 394--403 (2016). <LINK> <PDF>.
  Other: What must a global theory of cortex explain?. Leslie G Valiant, Current Opinion in Neurobiology 25 pp. 15--19 (2014). <LINK> <PDF>.
• March 12th: Canceled
• Feb 26th: Allison
  Paper: Maintaining a Cognitive Map in Darkness: The Need to Fuse Boundary Knowledge with Path Integration. Cheung et al. 2012. <PUBMED> <PDF>. Supporting Information.
• Feb 19th: Rohin
  Paper: Cognitive memory and mapping in a brain-like system for robotic navigation. Tang et al, 2017. <PUBMED> <PDF>
  Other: Learning in and from brain-based devices. Edelman, 2007. <PUBMED> <PDF>.
  Podcast: Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious
• Feb 12th: Lola
  Paper: From grid cells and visual place cells to multimodal place cell: a new robotic architecture. Jauffret et al, 2015. <PUBMED> <PDF>
  Other: Neurobiologically inspired mobile robot navigation and planning. Cuperlier et al, 2007 <PUBMED> <PDF>
• Feb 5th: Michael-V
  Paper: Automatic Training of Rat Cyborgs for Navigation. Yu et al, 2016. <PUBMED> <PDF>
  Other: Enrichment of Human-Computer Interaction in Brain-Computer Interfaces via Virtual Environments. Luz et. al, 2017. <PUBMED> <PDF>
  The promise of cyborg intelligence. Brown and Brown. 2017 <PUBMED> <PDF>
• Jan 29th, 2018: Jean-Marc
  Introduction to Computational Neuroscience
  

 

Useful links and where to find additional information

• Organization for Computational Neuroscience
• Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation
• Some Computational Neuroscience Journals:
  • Journal of Computational Neuroscience
  • Neural Computation
  • Network: Computation in Neural Systems
  • Biological Cybernetics
  • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neuroengineering
  • Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
• Some good books:
  • David Hubel: 'Eye, Brain, Vision' (available for free at http://hubel.med.harvard.edu/)
  • Bruce Goldstein: 'Sensation and Perception'
  • Ermentrout and Terman: 'Mathematical Foundations of Neuroscience'
  • Dayan and Abbott: Theoretical Neuroscience
  • David Marr: Vision
  • Minsky and Papert: Perceptrons

Previous Journal Club Pages can be found here