Meetings are in Math 102, Fridays 11:00am-11:50am.
Jan 22nd, 2016: Organizational Meeting
Jan 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>
Feb 5th: Presenter: Naresh Papers: -
O. Sporns, "
Contributions and challenges for network models in cognitive neuroscience", Nature Neuroscience, 17(5):652-60, 2014. <PUBMED> <PDF>
- Chapter 2 of D. Hubel's book.
Feb 12th: Presenter Devin Paper: Giocomo, Moser and Moser "
Computational models of grid cells", Neuron, 2011 <PUBMED> <PDF>
Feb 19th: Presenter - Michael Paper:
Raymond P. Kesner, Edmund T. Rolls, ``A computational theory of hippocampal function, and tests of the theory: New developments,'' Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 48 (2015) 92–147. <PUBMED> <PDF>.
Feb 26th: Presenter - Lijuan Paper:
Same as last week. We'll finish it up.
March 4th: Presenter - David Paper:
Wu X, Foster DJ. "Hippocampal replay captures the unique topological structure of a novel environment". J Neurosci. 2014 May 7;34(19):6459-69. <PUBMED> <PDF>.
March 11th: Presenter - Kim Paper:
Humphries MD, Stewart RD, Gurney KN. "A physiologically plausible model of action selection and oscillatory activity in the basal ganglia". J Neurosci. 2006 Dec 13;26(50):12921-42.. <PUBMED> <PDF>.
March 18th: Spring Break
March 25th: Presenter : Jinyan Paper:
Tamas Madl, Stan Franklin, Ke Chen, Daniela Montaldi, Robert Trappl, ``Bayesian Integration of Information in Hippocampal Place Cells'', PLOS ONE, vol. 9, no. 3, Mar. 2014. <PUBMED> and correction. <PDF>.
April 1st:Presenter Qi Paper:
Andrey Stepanyuk, ``Self-organization of grid fields under supervision of place cells in a neuron model with associative plasticity'', arXiv, Jun. 2015. <PDF> <arxiv>
April 8th: Presenter Lijuan Paper: Silver et. al. "
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search" Nature. 2016 Jan 28;529(7587):484-9. <PUBMED> <PDF>
April 15th: Presenter Devin Paper:
Xiao-Jing Wang, ``Probabilistic Decision Making by Slow Reverberation in Cortical Circuits '', Neuron, Vol. 36, 955–968, 2002. <PUBMED> <PDF>
April 22nd: Presenter Kim Paper:
Gwendal Le Masson, Serge Przedborski, L.F. Abbott. "A Computational Model of Motor Neuron Degeneration", Neuron, 83, pp975-988, 2014. <PUBMED> <PDF>
April 29th: Presenter David Paper:
L. Muessig, J. Hauser, T. Wills, and F. Cacucci, "A Developmental Switch in Place Cell Accuracy Coincides with Grid Cell Maturation", 2015, Neuron 86, 1167–1173, 2015. <PUBMED> <PDF>