Journal Clubs

2008

05/02/08 – Marc Velasco – Reading Hidden Intentions in the Human Brain, Haynes, J.D., Sakal, K.. Rees, G., Gilbert, S., Frith, C., Passingham, R.E., Current Biology 17, 323-328 (2007) and Identifying natural images from human brain activity, Kay, K.N., Naselaris, T., Prenger, R.J., & Gallant, J.L., Nature Letters, Vol.452 (2008).

04/18/08 – Jeanna Winchester – Resting-State Functional Connectivity Reflects Structural Connectivityin the Default Mode Network. Greicius, M. D., Supekar, K., Menon, V., Daughterty, R.F., Cerebral Cortex (2008).

03/28/08 – Denis Perdykis – Large-scale model of mammalian thalamocortical systems. Izhikevich, E.M., Edelman, G.M., PNAS, vol. 105, no. 9, pp. 3593-3598, (2008).

03/21/08 – Wei Tang – Centroid estimation in discrete high-dimensional spaces with applications in biology. Carvalho, L.E. & Lawrence, C.E. PNAS, vol. 105, no. 9, pp 3209-3214. (2008).

03/14/08 – Mahalingam, Muhilan – A shift of visual spatial attention is selectively associated with human EEG alpha activity. Sauseng, P., Klimesch, W., Stadler, W., Schabus, M., Doppelmayr, M., Hansimayr, S., Gruber, W.R. and Birbaumer, N. European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 22, pp. 2917-2926, (2005).

02/29/08 – Sedita, Stephen – The Effects of Emotions on Short-Term Power Spectrum Analysis of Heart Rate Variability. McCraty, R., Atkinson, M., Tiller, W.A., Rein, G. & Watkins, A.D. (1995). The American Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 76, pp 1089-1093.

02/22/08 – Dr. Patricia Gray, guest speaker. Musicking in Bonobos (Pan paniscus): Co-Creation of Meaning and Culture

02/01/08 - Dr. Tognoli, Emmanuelle – Zero-lag synchronization in neural populations, where are the strong evidences?. (2007).Science, Womelsdorf, et al.

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2004

Apr 16, 2004 - Ajay Pillai | Hasson, U., Nir, Y., Levy, I., Fuhrmann, G., and Malach, R. (2004). Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision. Science, 303, 1634-1640.

Apr 9, 2004 - Yan Zhang (Rachel) | Pre-stimulus oscillations correlate with reaction times during a visual discrimination task (Unpublished research)

Mar 26, 2004 - Young-Ah Rho (Angela) | Ravasz, E., Somera, A. L., Mongru, D. A., Oltvai, Z. N., and Barabási, A.-L. (2002). Hierarchical Organization of Modularity in Metabolic Networks. Science, 297, 1551-1555.

Mar 19, 2004 - Craig Richter | Swindale, N. V. (2003). Neural synchrony, axonal path lengths, and general anesthesia: A hypothesis. The Neuroscientist, 9(6), 440-445.

Mar 5, 2004 - Mohammad Dastjerdi | Sharpee, T., Rust, N. C., and Bialek, W. (in press). Analyzing neural responses to natural signals: Maximally informative dimensions. Neural Computation.

Feb 27, 2004 - Jeanna Winchester | Bartzokis, G. (2004). Age-related myelin breakdown: a developmental model of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 25, 5–18. AND Noble, M. (2004). The possible role of myelin destruction as a precipitating event in Alzheimer’s disease. Neurobiology of Aging, 25, 25–31.

Feb 20, 2004 - Di Sha | Beg, A. A., and Jorgensen, E. M. (2003). EXP-1 is an excitatory GABA-gated cation channel. Nature Neuroscience, 6(11), 1145-1152.

Feb 13, 2004 - Heather Chapin | Levitin, D. J., Menon, V., Schmitt, J. E., Eliez, S., White, C. D., Glover, G. H., Kadis, J., Korenberg, J. R., Bellugi, U. and Reiss, A. L. (2003). Neural Correlates of Auditory Perception in Williams Syndrome: An fMRI Study. NeuroImage, 18, 74–82.

Feb 6, 2004 - Summer Rankin | Pfordresher, P. Q. (2003). Auditory Feedback in Music Performance: Evidence for a Dissociation of Sequencing and Timing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29(5), 949–964.

Jan 30, 2004 - Mike Marshall | Marshall, M. L., Fuchs, A., Zanto, T. P., and Modestino, E. J. (2003, November). Short- and long-duration needle stimulation of acupoint GB37 - an EEG study. Poster session presented at the Society for Neuroscience 33rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

2003

Nov 21, 2003 - Debra Taylor | Stenneken, P., Aschersleben, G., Cole, J., and Prinz, W. (2002). Self-induced versus reactive triggering of synchronous movements in a deafferented patient and control subjects. Psychological Research, 66, 40-49.

Oct 24, 2003 - Ed Modestino | Muller, M. M., Malinowski, P., Gruber, T., Hillyard, S.A. (2003). Sustained division of the attentional spotlight. Nature, 424(6946), 309-12.

Oct 17, 2003 - Dr. Emmanuelle Tognoli | Medvedev, A. V. (2002). Epileptiform spikes desynchronize and diminish fast (gamma) activity of the brain: An "anti-binding" mechanism? Brain Research Bulletin, 58 (1), 115-128.

Oct 10, 2003 - Heng Wu | Wu, H. (unpublished research). Mode of Taurine’s Neuroprotective Effect.

Oct 3, 2003 - Blake Simpson | Thompson, J. K., Peterson, M. R., and Freeman, R. D. (2003). Single-Neuron Activity and Tissue Oxygenation in the Cerebral Cortex. Science, 299, 1070-1072.

Sept 26, 2003 - Balazs Szemes | Arthurs, O. J., & Boniface, S. J. (2003). What aspect of the fMRI BOLD signal best reflects the underlying electrophysiology in human somatosensory cortex? Clinical Neurophysiology, 114, 1203–1209. AND Arthurs, O.J., Williams, E.J., Carpenter, T.A., Pickard, J.D., and Boniface, S.J. (2000). Linear coupling between functional magnetic resonance imaging and evoked potential amplitude in human somatosensory cortex. Neuroscience, 101, 803–806.

Sept 19, 2003 - Dr. Phil Fink | Shaffer, D. M., & McBeath, M. K. (2002). Baseball Outfielders Maintain a Linear Optical Trajectory When Tracking Uncatchable Fly Balls. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28(2), 335–348.

Sept 12, 2003- Dr. David Lewkowicz | Lewkowicz, D. J. (In Press). Perception of Serial Order in Infants. Developmental Science. AND Lewkowicz, D. J. (In Press). Learning and Discrimination of Audiovisual Events in Human Infants: The Hierarchical Relation Between Intersensory Temporal Synchrony and Rhythmic Pattern Cues. Developmental Psychology.

Apr 11, 2003 - Walter Hoover | Paul Gabbott, Anthony Headlam and Sarah Busby, Morphological evidence that CA1 hippocampal afferents monosynaptically innervate PV-containing neurons and NADPH-diaphorase reactive cells in the medial prefrontal cortex (Areas 25/32) of the rat, Brain Research, Vol 946, Issue 2, 16 August 2002, 314-322.

Apr 4, 2003 - Anil Bollimunta | Tiesinga PH, Fellous JM, Sejnowski TJ, Attractor reliability reveals deterministic structure in neuronal spike trains. Neural Comput 2002 Jul;14(7):1629-50

Mar 28, 2003 - Balazs Szemes | Fischl B, Sereno MI, Tootell RBH, Dale AM, High-resolution intersubject averaging and a coordinate system for the cortical surface. Human Brain Mapping (1999) 8 (4): 272-284

Mar 21, 2003 - Julien Lagarde| Antoine Lutz, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Jacques Martinerie, and Francisco J. Varela, Guiding the study of brain dynamics by using first-person data: Synchrony patterns correlate with ongoing conscious states during a simple visual task. PNAS, Feb 5 2002, Vol 99, no 3, 1586-1591

Mar 14, 2003 - Collins Assisi | Silvia De Monte, Francesco d'Ovidio and Erik Mosekilde, Coherent Regimes of Globally Coupled Dynamical Systems. Physical Review Letters, 7 Feb 2003, Vol 90, No 5

Feb 28, 2003 - Carey Witkov| R. Quian Quiroga and H. Garcia, Single-trial event-related potentials with wavelet denoising. Clinical Neurophysiology (February 2003),114: 376-390

Feb 21, 2003 - Ted Zanto | Olivier Bertrand & Catherine Tallon-Baudry, Oscillatory gamma activity in humans: a possible role for object representation . Int J Psychophysiol; 2000 Dec, 38(3): 211-223

Feb 7, 2003 - Andrea Brovelli | Michael S. A. Graziano, Charlotte S. R. Taylor and Tirin Moore, Complex movements evoked by microstimulation of Precentral Cortex . Neuron, Vol. 34, 841–851, May 30, 2002

Jan 31, 2003 - Arpan Banerjee | Shannon R. Campbell and DeLiang Wang, Relaxation oscillators with time delay coupling. Physica D, 111(1998) 151-178

Jan 24, 2003 - Felix Almonte | Michael H. Herzog and Manfred Fahle, Effects of grouping in context modulation . Nature, 415(6870):433-6, 24th Jan 2002

Jan 17, 2003- Yonghong Chen | M. Breakspear and J. R. Terry, Topographic Organization of Nonlinear Interdependence in Multichannel Human EEG. NeuroImage 16, 822–835 (2002)

2002

Nov 22, 2002 - Mohammad Dastjerdi | Discussion of SfN 2002 poster M. Dastjerdi and D.W Dong. Independent Component Analysis of natural time-varying xxx

Nov 15, 2002 - Mike Marshall | Christian M. Siedentopf, Stefan M. Golaszewski, Felix M. Mottaghy, Christian C. Ruff, Stephan Felber and Andreas Schlager. Functional magnetic resonance imaging detects activation of the visual association cortex during laser acupuncture of the foot in humans. Neuroscience Letters, 327 (2002) 53–56

Oct 25, 2002 - Lina Shehadeh | D'Haeseleer P, Wen X, Fuhrman S, Somogyi R. Linear modeling of mRNA expression levels during CNS development and injury. Pac Symp Biocomput 1999; 41-52

Oct 18, 2002 - Mukesh Dhamala | 1. Analysis of short chaotic transients and 2. fMRI experiment in which we investigated the variation in dynamical complexity of the human brain activity for different mental loads

Oct 4, 2002 - Anders Ledberg | Pesaran B, Pezaris JS, Sahani M, Mitra PP, Andersen RA. Temporal structure in neuronal activity during working memory in macaque parietal cortex. Nat. Neurosci. 2002 Aug; 5(8): 805-11

Sep 27, 2002 - Olivier Oullier | Meyer-Lindenberg, A., Ziemann, U., Hajak, G., Cohen, L., & Berman, K. F. Transitions between dynamical states of differing stability in the human brain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99(17): 10948-53, Aug 20, 2002

Sep 20, 2002 - Stacey Nash | Haxby J, Gobbini M.I., Furey M.L., Ishai A., Schouten J.L., Pietrini P. Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex. Science, Vol. 293, pages 2425 - 2430, September 2001.

Sep 13, 2002 - K.J. Jantzen | Review of safety measures while doing functional MRI experiments.

Sep 6, 2002 - Dinesh Nair | Discussion of the paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, in July 2002

Aug 30, 2002 - Dr. Ed Large and Shelrie Houlton | Discussion of papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, in July 2002.

Apr 19, 2002 - Debbie Taylor | Sannita, WG, Bandini, F, Beelke, M. (2001). Time dynamics of stimulus- and event-related gamma band activity: contrast-VEPs and the visual P300 in man. Clinical Neurophysiology 112, 2241-2249.

Apr 5, 2002 - Mike Marshall | Hui, KK, Liu, J, Makris, N. et al (2000). Acupuncture modulates the limbic system and subcortical gray structures of the human brain: evidence from fMRI studies in normal subjects. Human Brain Mapping 9(1), 13-25.

Mar 29, 2002 - Collins Assisi | Hoppensteadt, F.C., & Izhikevich, E.M. (1996). Synaptic organizations and dynamical properties of weakly connected neural oscillators. I. Analysis of a canonical model. Biological Cybernetics 75, 117-127.

Mar 1, 2002 - Ed Modestino | Just, M.A., et al. (2001). Interdependence of Nonoverlapping Cortical Systems in Dual Cognitive Tasks. Neuroimage 14, 417-426.

Feb 22, 2002 - Ted Zanto | Rodriguez, E., et al. (1999). Perception's Shadow: Long Distance Synchronization of Human Brain Activity. Nature 397, 430-433.

Jan 25, 2002 - Gautam Vallabha | Self-imitation as a window into vowel organization

2001

Nov 30, 2001 - Fred Carver | Sakai K, Hikosaka O, Miyauchi S, Takino R, Tamada T, Iwata NK, Nielsen M. (1999). Neural representation of a rhythm depends on its interval ratio . Journal of Neuroscience, 19(22), 10074-81.

Oct 26, 2001 - Lina Shehadeh | H. Jeong, B. Tombor, A.-L. Barabasi, and Z.N. Oltvai, The global organization of cellular networks. (Computation of biochemical pathways and genetic networks workshop proceeding, Heidelberg, 2001).

Oct 12, 2001 - Dr. K.J. Jantzen | Logothetis, N.K, Pauls, J., Augath, M. Trinath, T., & Oeltermann, A. (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the MRI signal, Nature, 412, 150-157.

Oct 5, 2001 - Zhiyi Zhou | Rao, S.M., Harrington, D.L, et al. (1997). Distributed neural systems underlying the timing of movements. Journal of Neuroscience, 17(4), 5528-5535.

Sep 21, 2001 - Olivier Oullier |

Sep 7, 2001 - Dr. Jeffrey Bradstreet |

Apr 20, 2001 - Felix Almonte | Feldman, J. (2000). Minimization of Boolean complexity in human concept learning. Nature, 407, 572-573.

Apr 13, 2001 - Matt Woods | Tenenbaum JB, de Silva V, Langford JC (2000). A global geometric framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction. Science, 290, 2319-2323.

Mar 30, 2001 - Xiaomin Yue | Platt ML, Glimcher PW (1999). Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex. Nature, 400, 233-238.

Mar 9, 2001 - Wilson Truccolo | Rao, RPN, and Ballard, DH (1999). Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects. Nature Neuroscience, 2(1), 79-87.

Mar 2, 2001 - Debbie Taylor | Neuromagnetic correlates of sensorimotor synchronization Muller K.; Schmitz F.; Schnitzler A.; Freund H.-J.; Aschersleben G.; Prinz W. Neurologische Klinik, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, MEG-Labor, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225 Dusseldorf, Germany.

Feb 23, 2001 - Collins Assisi | Geoffrey B West et al. (1997). A general model for the origin of allometric scaling laws in Biology. Science, 276, 122-126.

Feb 16, 2001 - Gautam Vallabha | Brooks, R.A., Breazeal, C., Irie, R. et al. (1998). Alternative Essences of Intelligence. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 961-968. (Menlo Park, Calif.: AAAI Press).

Feb 12, 2001 - Shelrie Houlton | Belin, P., Zatorre, R.J., Lafaille, P., Ahad, P. and Pike, B. (2000) Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex. Nature, 403, 309-312.

Feb 2, 2001 - Dinesh Nair | Blood, A.J., Zatorre, R.J., Bermudez, P., and Evans, A.C. (1999) Emotional responses to pleasant and unpleasant music correlate with activity in paralimbic brain regions. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 382-387.

2000

11/17/00 - Taube Lubart | Morris, J.S., et al (1996). A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions. Nature, 383:812-815.

10/20/00 - Miao Tan | Kochetkov, K.V. et al. (1999). Non-Markovian Gating of Ca2+ activated K+ channels in cultured kidney cells vero Rescaled Range analysis . Journal of Biological Physics, 25:211-222.

10/13/00 - Roger Sambrook | Bookheimer S Y et al. (2000). Patterns of brain activation in people at risk for Alzheimer's disease, New England Journal of Medicine, 343(7):450-456.

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