Discussing computational and theoretical neuroscience publications
For the AI & NS J Club, there are no official presenters each time; instead, we present and discuss the paper in turns. This requires every attendee to read the paper in advance.
When: 10:00a on Fridays (monthly; dates to be determined each time)
Where: Noted below
Organizer: Kaining Zhang (Tavoni lab, WashU Neuroscience) and Zeyuan Ye (Wessel lab, WashU Physics)
Note that individual events are listed on the ONR Calendar.
2025 Spring Schedule
Check back for the next scheduled journal club!
For inquiries contact Kaining Zhang at kaining@wustl.edu. Additionally, go here to add and/or view a list of potential papers to be discussed in the future.
January 24, 2025
Location: Fort Neuroscience Research Building 8102 (NRB 8th floor; Medical Campus)
“The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?” Neuron (2024)
February 21, 2025
Location: Fort Neuroscience Research Building 10102 (NRB 10th floor; Medical Campus)
“Language Models Use Trigonometry to Do Addition” arXiv (2025)
March 21, 2025 – NOTE time 4:00p
Location: Fort Neuroscience Research Building 10102 (NRB 10th floor; Medical Campus)
“Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus” Nature (2025)
April 25, 2025 – NOTE time 4:00p
Location: Fort Neuroscience Research Building 10102 (NRB 10th floor; Medical Campus)
“Constructing future behavior in the hippocampal formation through composition and replay” Nature Neuroscience (2025)
June 7, 2024
“Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior” arXiv:2304.03442v2 [cs.HC] (2023)
July 5, 2024
“Task-dependent optimal representations for cerebellar learning” eLife (2023)
August 2, 2024
NOTE location: Fort Neuroscience Research Building 1100 (NRB 1st floor; Medical Campus)
“The hippocampus as a predictive map” Nature Neuroscience (2017)
September 13, 2024
NOTE location: Fort Neuroscience Research Building 9300 (NRB 9th floor; Medical Campus)
“Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans” Nature Human Behavior (2024)
November 1, 2024
“Schema formation in a neural population subspace underlies learning-to-learn in flexible sensorimotor problem-solving” Nature Neuroscience (2023)
December 13, 2024
“Loss of plasticity in deep continual learning” Nature (2024)