Journal Clubs

In this Journal Club, Chenyan Zhang highlights a 2005 study that showed that the amplification of task-relevant information makes a key contribution to cognitive control.

In this Journal Club, Edwin Robertson discusses a study published in 2000 that found a link between sleep and enhancement of visual memory.

In this Journal Club, Nina Rzechorzek explores a 2003 article showing that, during hibernation, ground squirrels reversibly accumulate highly phosphorylated tau in the brain (a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease) without developing neurofibrillary tangle pathology.

In this Journal Club, Benjamin Cowley discusses a 2009 tour-de-force that provided a recipe for constructing closed-loop algorithms by letting predictive models speak for themselves.

In this Journal Club, Olivia Gold discusses a 2003 study showing in rats that respiratory depression caused by the synthetic opioid fentanyl could be pharmacologically reversed without compromising its analgesic effects.

In this Journal Club, Mariam Aly discusses a 2000 study that attempted to settle the debate about whether implicit memories are lost or retained in amnesia.

In this Journal Club, Juan Gallego discusses a 2014 article that provided a first causal hint that neural manifolds may not only be a convenient way to interpret neural population activity.

In this Journal Club, Michaela Fencková discusses a study published in 2020 that examined the effects of acute systemic inflammation on brain glucose metabolism in the context of delirium.

In this Journal Club, Anna Gillespie discusses how the discovery of hippocampal replay during the awake state reshaped our understanding of its role in memory function.

In this Journal club, Teruhiro Okuyama discusses the 2005 article that demonstrated the existence of ‘concept cells’ in the medial temporal lobe that show selective responses to specific individuals and play a key role in social memory.

Philip Tovote describes the 1980 paper in which Michael Fanselow systematically investigated freezing as a defensive response in rodents

In this Journal Club, Danqian Liu describes the 1953 paper that reported the discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.

Sabine Krabbe describes a 1993 study of classical conditioning in the honeybee that provided early insights into the mechanisms of predictive learning.

In this Journal Club, Adrien Peyrache highlights a 1998 paper that showed memory formation as a dynamic process involving multiple brain areas.

In this Journal Club, Izumi Fukunaga discusses John Hopfield’s 1995 paper, which proposed a mechanism by which a continuously variable sensory stimulus can be transformed into a timing-based code.

In this Journal Club, Tina Liu describes a 1988 paper that revealed the capacity of the sensory cortex for functional reorganization

Ning-long Xu discusses a 1999 paper that outlined a mechanism by which cortical pyramidal neurons integrate layer-specific inputs.

In this Journal Club, Valeria Della-Maggiore highlights a 2017 paper that provided key evidence for a role for the hippocampus in motor skill learning

Federica De Lazzari describes Arvid Carlsson’s 1957 paper, which provided evidence for the importance of dopamine in brain function.

In this Journal Club, Nathan Anthony Smith discusses a 2008 paper that documented a link between the noradrenergic modulatory network in the locus coeruleus and cortical astrocytes in vivo.