Oct
02 Dean Buonomano
"What
is Memory? It's Different in Recurrent Networks"
Relv. Papers
: 1. Sussillo and Abbott,
Neuron 2009
09
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16 SFN
23 SFN recap
30 Marwan Maalouf
"The
Role of Hippocampal CA3 Output in
Learning and Memory"
Papers and Supplement:
1. a) Nakashiba et al Science
2008
1.b) Nakashiba-Science2008
supplement
2. a) Nakashiba
et al Neuron 2009 2.b) Neuron2009 supplement
Nov
06 Tom O’Dell
“The
role of SK type potassium channels in regulating
NMDA receptor activation and
LTP"
Relv. Papers
: 1. Lin et al Nat. Neuro 2008
13 Anu Goel
“Place cells revisited”
The
navigational skills of a rat form an integral part of most experimental
paradigms designed to study learning and memory. It is therefore, of interest
to know the spatio temporal dynamics involved in this
behavior. As the rat navigates through space there is activation of hippocampal place cell circuitry and both rate and temporal
aspects of the place cell firing contribute to determine the rat’s location. As
a result of a combination of electrophysiological and computational approaches
various models have been proposed to explain how the hippocampal
place cells encode this information.
However these models are based on data collected from either acute
slices or from anesthetized rats. The authors of this paper (Harvey et al., Nature
2009) make a heroic attempt to obtain whole cell recordings from an awake rat while it navigates a virtual reality
environment. Using this strategy they
give us a better insight into the intracellular dynamics of hippocampal
place cells.
Relv. Papers: 1.
Harvey etal_placecells_nature_2009.pdf
20 Peyman Golshani
27 Thanksgiving
Dec
04 Vacant__________
11 Vacant__________ (exams end)