Cognitive Neuroscience Journal Club
Archive of Past Meetings
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Fall 2011
September 7, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Expertise
Leading discussion: Ryan McKendrick
Yarrow, K., Brown, P., & Krakauer, J. W. (2009). Inside the brain of an elite athlete: the neural processes that support high achievement in sports. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10(8), 585-596.
Optional recommended reading: Wan, X., Nakatani, H., Ueno, K., Asamizuya, T., Cheng, K., & Tanaka, K. (2011). The Neural Basis of Intuitive Best Next-Move Generation in Board Game Experts. Science, 331(6015), 341-346.
September 14, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Individual Differences - Structural
Leading discussion: George Buzzell and John Fedota
Kanai, R., & Rees, G. (2011). The structural basis of inter-individual differences in human behaviour and cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 12(4), 231-242.
September 21, 2011
No Meeting (HFES Conference)
September 28, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Brian Falcone - Augmenting and Dissociating Verbal and Spatial Working Memory Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Daniel Gartenberg - A Predictive Model of Time Critical Events Using Memory for Goals
October 5, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Individual Differences - Genetics
Leading discussion: Elisabeth Ploran
Lovden, M., Schaefer, S., Noack, H., Kanowski, M., Kaufmann, J., Tempelmann, C., Bodammer, N. C., et al. (2011). Performance-Related Increases in Hippocampal N-acetylaspartate (NAA) Induced by Spatial Navigation Training Are Restricted to BDNF Val Homozygotes. Cerebral Cortex, 21(6), 1435-1442.
October 12, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Jaris Oshiro - Examining the Role of Navigational Strategies in a Virtual 3D Environment
Christian Gonzalez - Applied Auditory Warning Design
October 19, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Individual Differences - Functional Connectivity
Leading discussion: Ashley Safford
van Leeuwen, T. M., den Ouden, H. E. M., & Hagoort, P. (2011). Effective Connectivity Determines the Nature of Subjective Experience in Grapheme-Color Synesthesia. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(27), 9879 -9884.
October 26, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Daniel Roberts - Event-Related Spectral Perturbation During a Working Memory Task
Andre Garcia - Multimodal Waypoint Navigation
November 2, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Individual Differences - Functional (Resting State)
Leading discussion: George Buzzell
Wei, L., Duan, X., Yang, Y., Liao, W., Gao, Q., Ding, J.-rong, Zhang, Z., et al. (2011). The synchronization of spontaneous BOLD activity predicts extraversion and neuroticism. Brain Research, 1419(0), 68-75.
November 9, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Bobby Azarian - Facial Threat and Anxiety
Bridget Lewis - Subjective Alert Mapping: A Validation Study
November 16, 2011
SFN Wrap Up
November 23, 2011
No Meeting (Thanksgiving)
November 30, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Ryan McKendrick - TBA
Melissa Smith - TBA
December 7, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Individual Differences - Training
Leading discussion: Ryan McKendrick
Summer 2011
June 9, 2011
Topic Area: Methods - TMS/Faces
Mattavelli, G., Cattaneo, Z., & Papagno, C. (2011). Transcranial magnetic stimulation of medial prefrontal cortex modulates face expressions processing in a priming task. Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 992-998.
Leading discussion: Ashley Safford
June 23, 2011
Topic Area: Methods - Implants (Cyborgs!)
Leading discussion: Kristine Siembedia
Krusienski, D. J., Shih, J. J. (2011). Control of a brain-computer interface using stereotactic depth electrodes in and adjacent to the hippocampus. Journal of Neural Engineering, 8, 025006
July 7, 2011
Topic Area: Methods - Optical genetics
Leading discussion: Liz Hussey
Covington, H. E., Lobo, M. K., Maze, I., Vialou, V., Hyman, J. M., Zaman, S., LaPlant, Q., et al. (2010). Antidepressant Effect of Optogenetic Stimulation of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(48), 16082-16090.
Optional recommended reading: Kravitz, A. V., & Kreitzer, A. C. (In Press). Optogenetic manipulation of neural circuitry in vivo. Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
July 21, 2011
Topic Area: Methods - tDCS (How it works)
Leading discussion: Brian Falcone
Fritsch, B., Reis, J., Martinowich, K., Schambra, H. M., Ji, Y., Cohen, L. G., & Lu, B. (2010). Direct Current Stimulation Promotes BDNF-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity: Potential Implications for Motor Learning. Neuron, 66(2), 198-204.
August 4, 2011
Topic Area: Methods - DTI
Leading discussion: Jim Thompson
Yassa, M. A., Muftuler, L. T., & Stark, C. E. L. (2010). Ultrahigh-resolution microstructural diffusion tensor imaging reveals perforant path degradation in aged humans in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(28), 12687-12691.
August 18, 2011
Topic Area: Dorsal/ventral stream processing in an impaired patient
Leading discussion: Wendy Baccus
Konen, C. S., Behrmann, M., Nishimura, M., & Kastner, S. (2011). The Functional Neuroanatomy of Object Agnosia: A Case Study. Neuron, 71(1), 49-60.
Spring 2011
February 10, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: ERP Methods
Ding, J., Sperling, G., & Srinivasan, R. (2006). Attentional Modulation of SSVEP Power Depends on the Network Tagged by the Flicker Frequency. Cerebral Cortex, 16(7), 1016-1029.
Leading discussion: Jim Thompson
February 17, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Ashley Safford - The role of attention in biological motion perception: A biased-competition perspective
February 24, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Synesthesia
Banissy, M. J., Garrido, L., Kusnir, F., Duchaine, B., Walsh, V., & Ward, J. (2011). Superior Facial Expression, But Not Identity Recognition, in Mirror-Touch Synesthesia. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(5), 1820-1824.
Leading discussion: Ashley Safford and Jill Hardee
March 3, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Adam Emfield and Jaris Oshiro - Learning and landmarks: navigating virtual environments
Laura Chubb - An electrophysiological correlate of rapid attentional capture by biological motion
March 10, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Neuroethics
Moll, J., Zahn, R., de Oliveira-Souza, R., Krueger, F., & Grafman, J. (2005). The neural basis of human moral cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6(10), 799-809.
Leading discussion: George Buzzell
March 17, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Alternative Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
Jacobs, J., & Kahana, M. J. (2010). Direct brain recordings fuel advances in cognitive electrophysiology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(4), 162-171.
Miller, K. J., denNijs, M., Shenoy, P., Miller, J. W., Rao, R. P. N., & Ojemann, J. G. (2007). Real-time functional brain mapping using electrocorticography. NeuroImage, 37(2), 504-507.
Leading discussion: Devin McCorry and Elisabeth Ploran
March 24, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Wendy Baccus and Sarah Dziura - The Effect of Contrast on Motion Perception in Brain Regions MT and V1
Kristine Siembieda - Handedness Related to Language Lateralization
March 31, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Neuroethics
Farah, M. J. (2005). Neuroethics: the practical and the philosophical. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(1), 34-40.
Leading discussion: Maren Strenziok
April 7, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Brian Falcone - The Effects of Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on a Threat Detection Task
Dan Roberts - Event-Related EEG and Pupillometry Measures During a Working Memory Task
April 14, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Creativity
Fink, A., Grabner, R. H., Gebauer, D., Reishofer, G., Koschutnig, K., & Ebner, F. (2010). Enhancing creativity by means of cognitive stimulation: Evidence from an fMRI study. NeuroImage, 52(4), 1687-1695.
Leading discussion: Wendy Baccus
April 21, 2011 (Presentation Week)
Devin McCorry - Towards a Cognitive Framework for Control of a Robotic Arm: Assessing Object Identity and Location Information in the Ventral and Dorsal Streams
Elizabeth Hussey - Continuous Flash Suppression and Object Processing
April 28, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Alternative Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
Wessel, J. R., Danielmeier, C., & Ullsperger, M. (2011). Error Awareness Revisited: Accumulation of Multimodal Evidence from Central and Autonomic Nervous Systems. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, In Press.
Leading discussion: Devin McCorry and Elisabeth Ploran
May 5, 2011 (Presentation Week)
George Buzzell - Physiological Indices of Conflict in an Auditory Spatial Stroop Task
Jim Thompson and Matt Peterson will be presenting their VSS Posters
May 12, 2011 (Paper Discussion Week)
Topic Area: Neural Correlates of Personality Traits/Individual Differences
Fleming, S. M., Weil, R. S., Nagy, Z., Dolan, R. J., & Rees, G. (2010). Relating Introspective Accuracy to Individual Differences in Brain Structure. Science, 329(5998), 1541 -1543.
Optional recommended reading: Kanai, R., Feilden, T., Firth, C., & Rees, G. (2011). Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults. Current Biology, 21(8), 677-680. (see this blog post for the interesting background on this study)
Leading discussion: Craig McDonald and Devin McCorry