Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club

Meeting in the Northwest Building, most Fridays at 3 pm in room 243.

Questions, comments, charitable contributions, etc. should be addressed to Yoram Burak (yburak NOSPAM at fas dot harvard dot edu). Write to Yoram if you would like to be added to the mailing list to be notified about our upcoming meetings. Also write to us if you'd like to suggest a paper or vote for one of the papers in our "inbox."

Distinguished participants: Yoram Burak, Neal Dach, Alexis Dubreuil, Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer, Keiji Miura, Eran Mukamel, Rajesh Poddar, Rebecca Shafee, Haim Sompolinsky, Quan Wen

Drawing of a section through the optic tectum of a sparrow, from "Structure of the nervous centres of the birds", by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1905.

This week's paper:

Diesmann M, Gewaltig MO, Aertsen A. Stable propagation of synchronous spiking in cortical neural networks . Nature: 1999 vol. 402 (6761) pp. 529-33 11/20/09

Suggestions/ideas for future papers:

Song, S, Sjostrom PJ, Reigl M, Nelson S, Chklovskii DB. Highly non-random features of synapic connectivity in local circuits. PLoS Biol 3:e68. 2005
Buonomano DV A learning rule for the emergence of stable dynamics and timing in recurrent networks. J. Neurophysiol 94: 2275-2283. 2005
D. Mumford, TS Lee Hierarchical Bayesian Inference in the Visual Cortex J. Opt. Soc. Am. A / Vol. 20, No. 7 / July 2003.
Henrik Alle, Arnd Roth, Jörg R. P. Geiger Energy-Efficient Action Potentials in Hippocampal Mossy Fibers. Science (2009) vol. 325 (5946) pp. 1405-1408
Smith and Lewicki, Nature 2006. Efficient Auditory Coding
A. Hyvarinen, E. Oja Independent component analysis: algorithms and applications Neural Netw, 2000 vol. 13 (4-5) pp. 411-30
N Brunel and JP Nadal Mutual information, Fisher information, and population coding Neural Comput, 1998 vol. 10 (7) pp. 1731-57
Sebastian Seung Reading the Book of Memory: Sparse Sampling versus Dense Mapping of Connectomes (NB: erratum) Neuron, Volume 62, Issue 1, 16 April 2009, Pages 17-29
Kong-Fatt Wong, Alexander C. Huk , Michael N. Shadlen, and Xiao-Jing Wang Neural circuit dynamics underlying accumulation of time-varying evidence during perceptual decision making
Olivier Faugeras, Jonathan Touboul and Bruno Cessac A constructive mean-field analysis of multi population neural networks with random synaptic weights and stochastic inputs
M Rudolph and Z Piwkowska and M Badoual and T Bal and A Destexhe A method to estimate synaptic conductances from membrane potential fluctuations. Journal of Neurophysiology (2004) vol. 91 (6) pp. 2884-96

Previous papers:

Y.S. Liu, C.F. Stevens, and T.O. Sharpee Predictable irregularities in retinal receptive fields PNAS 106, 16499-16504 (2009) 11/13/09
J.K. Liu and D.V. Buonomano Embedding Multiple Trajectories in Simulated Recurrent Neural Networks in a Self-Organizing Manner. J. Neurosci. 2009 Oct 21;29(42):13172-81. 10/30/09
Wen Q, Stepanyants A, Elston GN, Grosberg AY, Chklovskii DB Maximization of the connectivity repertoire as a statistical principle governing the shapes of dendritic arbors. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2009) vol. 106 (30) pp. 12536-41 10/23/09
Marcelo O. Magnasco,1 Oreste Piro,2 and Guillermo A. Cecchi3 Self-Tuned Critical Anti-Hebbian Networks PRL 102, 258102 (2009) 10/16/09?
D Sussillo and LF Abbott Generating Coherent Patterns of Activity from Chaotic Neural Networks Neuron 63, 544 (2009) 9/25/09
G. Gilboa, R. Chen, and N. Brenner History-Dependent Multiple-Time-Scale Dynamics in a Single-Neuron Model J. Neuroscience 25, 6479-6489 (2005) 9/11/09
Tatyana O. Sharpee, Hiroki Sugihara, Andrei V. Kurgansky, Sergei P. Rebrik, Michael P. Stryker, & Kenneth D. Miller Adaptive filtering enhances information transmission in visual cortex Nature Vol 439|23 February 2006|doi:10.1038/nature04519 8/28/09
Brunel, N Dynamics of sparsely connected networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons J. Comput. Neurosci 8, 183-208 (2000) 8/21/09
Schneidman, E, Bialek, W, Berry, MJ Synergy, Redendancy, and Independence in population codes J. Neuroscience 23, 11553-11539 (2003) 8/14/09
Abbott, LF and Dayan, P The Effect of Correlated Variability on the Accuracy of a Population Code Neural Computation 11, 91 (1999) 6/17/09
Jaime de la Rocha, Brent Doiron, Eric Shea-Brown, Kreimir Josi & Alex Reyes Correlation between neural spike trains increases with firing rate Nature 448, 802 (2007) 7/29/09
Benjamin Lindner Superposition of many independent spike trains is generally not a Poisson process Phys. Rev. E 73, 022901 (2006) 8/7/09
John Hopfield Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. -USA Vol. 81, pp. 3088-3092, May 1984 6/25/09
G. Mongillo, O. Barak, and M. Tsodyks Synaptic theory of working memory Science 319, 1543 (2008) 6/10/09
Hosoya, Baccus and Meister Dynamic predictive coding by the retina 2005, Nature, 436:71-77 6/4/09
Olveczky, Baccus, Meister Retinal adaptation to object motion Neuron, 56:689-700 6/4/09
Solages, Szapiro, Brunel et al., High Frequency Organization and Synchrony of Activity in the Purkinje Cell Layer of the Cerebellum Neuron 58:775(2008) 5/28/09
Middleton, Racca, Cunningham, Traub et al High-Frequency Oscillations in Cerebellar Cortex Neuron 58:763(2008) 5/28/09
W. Maass, T. Natschläger, and H. Markram Real-time computing without stable states: A new framework for neural computation based on perturbations Neural Computation, 14(11):2531-2560, 2002 5/8/09
Brendan K. Murphy1, 2 and Kenneth D. Miller2 Balanced Amplification: A New Mechanism of Selective Amplification of Neural Activity Patterns Neuron Volume 61, Issue 4, 26 February 2009, Pages 635-648 5/8/09
Vogels and Abbott Gating multiple signals through detailed balance of excitation and inhibition in spiking NATURE NEUROSCIENCE VOLUME 12 [ NUMBER 4 [ APRIL 2009 3/31/09
Demian Battaglia, Nicolas Brunel, and David Hansel Temporal Decorrelation of Collective Oscillations in Neural Networks with Local Inhibition and Long-Range Excitation Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 238106 (2007) 2/1/09
Ma, WJ, Beck, JM, Latham, PE, Pouget, A Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes Nature Neuroscience 9, 1432-1438 (2006) 7/10/09
Mulliken, GH, Musallam, S, Andersen, RA Forward estimation of movement state in posterior parietal cortex PNAS 105, 8170-8177 (2008) 7/17/09

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