Discussing recent systems neuroscience papers covering sensory, motor and cognitive issues
If you have any questions or would like to be added to the mailing list, contact Camillo Padoa-Schioppa or Larry Snyder (WashU Neuroscience).
When: 12:00p, Fridays (11:45a for pizza!)
Where: Neuroscience Research Building (NRB) 10101, Medical Campus (unless noted below)
Organizers: Dan Moran, Ilya Monosov, Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Larry Snyder
Note that individual events are listed on the ONR Calendar.
2024 Fall Schedule
Yuma Kanazawa and Waleed Babar will help with organization issues. If you have questions about schedule, food, computer setup, and the like, please email them.
November 1, 2024
JeongJun Park (Snyder lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“Structure in neural population recordings: An expected byproduct of simpler phenomena?” Nature Neuroscience (2017)
November 8, 2024
Kaining Zhang (Tavoni lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“Intrinsic neural diversity quenches the dynamic volatility of neural networks” PNAS (2023)
November 15, 2024
Fatemeh Didehvar (Franken lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“Neuronal and Behavioral Responses to Naturalistic Texture Images in Macaque Monkeys” The Journal of Neuroscience (2024)
November 22, 2024
Miguel Barretto-Garcia (Padoa-Schioppa lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“Direct observation of the neural computations underlying a single decision” eLife (2024)
December 6, 2024
Alex Lagaria (Kravitz lab, WashU Psychiatry), Waleed Babar (Chen lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“Dopamine dynamics are dispensable for movement but promote reward responses” Nature (2024)
CANCELLED – December 13, 2024
Moran lab (WashU Biomedical Engineering)
August 30, 2024
Mengxi Yun (Monosov lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“Cortical regulation of helping behaviour towards others in pain” Nature (2024)
September 6, 2024
Unmukt Gupta (Kepecs lab, WashU Neuroscience)
- “Distinct value computations support rapid sequential decisions” Nature Communications (2023)
- “Dopamine transients encode reward prediction errors independent of learning rates” bioRxiv (2024)
September 13, 2024
Aritra Das (Franken lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“Neuronal representation of visual working memory content in the primate primary visual cortex” Science Advances (2024)
September 20, 2024
Zahra Dhanerawala, Bo Jiang (Han lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“An opponent striatal circuit for distributional reinforcement learning” bioRxiv (2024)
September 27, 2024
Junxiao Hou (Padoa-Schioppa lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“Causal evidence of a line attractor encoding an affective state” Nature (2024)
October 4 – No journal club SfN, Chicago
October 11, 2024
“SfN Debrief”
October 18, 2024
Fatih Sogukpinar (Monosov lab, WashU Neuroscience)
“A feature-specific prediction error model explains dopaminergic heterogeneity” Nature Neuroscience (2024)
CANCELLED – October 25, 2024
Kepecs lab (WashU Neuroscience)