TA
Cindy Chiu : cnchiucaltech.edu
(Beckman Institute Basement Rm.29 x2799)

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Jan 4: (lecture)
First meeting & Introduction

Jan 11: (lecture)
Neuroscience techniques

Jan 18: (student presentation - Group 1: Jingli*, Brian, Dirk, John)
More is Different
1, Anderson(1972), More is Different
2, Strogatz(2001), Exploring Complex Networks

Jan 25: (student presentation - Group 2: Michael*, Earl, Mayra, Tiffany)
Brain maps
1, Cohen and Knudsen(1999), Maps versus clusters: different representations of auditory space in the midbrain and forebrain
2, Kohonen and Hari(1999), Where the abstract feature maps of the brain might come from
3, Hafting et al.(2005), Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

Feb 1: (student presentation - Group 1: Jingli, Brian*, Dirk, John)
Attractors for memory?
1, Leutgeb et al.(2005), Progressive transformation of hippocampal neuronal representations in "morphed" environments
2, Wills et al.(2003), Attractor dynamics in the hippocampal representation of the local environment

Feb 8: (student presentation - Group 2: Michael, Earl*, Mayra, Tiffany)
Spike timing dependent plasticity
1, Markram et al.(1997), Regulation of Synaptic Efficacy by Coincidence of Postsynaptic APs and EPSPs
2, Froemke and Dan(2002), Spike-timing-dependent synaptic modification induced by natural spike trains
3, Roberts and Bell(2002), Spike timing dependent synaptic plasticity in biological systems

Feb 15: (student presentation - Group 1: Jingli, Brian, Dirk*, John)
Dopamine and learning
1, Schultz(2002), Getting formal with Dopamine and Reward
2, Pan et al.(2005), Dopamine cells repond to predicted events during classical conditioning: evidence for eligibility traces in the reward-learning network
3, Horvitz(2000), Mesolimbocortical and nigrostriatal dopamine responses to salient non-reward events

Feb 22: (student presentation - Group 2: Michael, Earl, Mayra*, Tiffany)
Neural rhythms
1, Soto-Trevino et al.(2001), Activity-dependent modification of inhibitory synapses in models of rhythmic neural networks
2, Prinz et al.(2004), Similar network activity from disparate circuit parameters

Mar 1: (student presentation - Group 1: Jingli, Brian, Dirk, John*)
Neural oscillation
1, Shadlen and Movshon(1999), Synchrony Unbound: A Critical Evaluation of the Temporal Binding Hypothesis
2, Perez-Orive et al.(2002), Oscillations and Sparsening of Odor Representations in the Mushroom Body
3, Buzsaki and Draguhn(2004), Neuronal Oscillations in Cortical Networks

Mar 8: (student presentation - Group 2: Michael, Earl, Mayra, Tiffany*)
Sleep
1, Louie and Wilson(2001), Temporally Structured Replay of Awake Hippocampal Ensemble Activity during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep
2, Siegel(2001), The REM Sleep-Memory Consolidation Hypothesis
3, Crick and Mitchison(1983), The function of dream sleep