CNS 247: Cerebral Cortex

Required Reading:

• Week 2: Vision
  
  
  • Smirnakis SM, Brewer AA, Schmid MC, Tolias AS, Schuz A, Augath M, Inhoffen W, Wandell BA, Logothetis NK (2005). "Lack of long-term cortical reorganization after macaque retinal lesions." Nature. 435: 300-307.
  
  
  • Li W, Piech V, Gilbert CD (2007). "Learning to Link Visual Contours." Neuron. 57: 442-451.
  
  
  • Nadler JW, Angelaki DE, DeAngelis GC (2008). "A neural representation of depth from motion parallax in macaque visual cortex." Nature. 452: 642-646.
  
  
  • Maier A, Wilke M, Aura C, Zhu C, Ye FQ, Leopold DA (2008). "Divergence of fMRI and neural signals in V1 during perceptual suppression in the awake monkey." Nature Neuroscience. 11(10): 1193-1200.


• Week 3: Attention
  
  
  • Ekstrom LB, Roelfsema PR, Arsenault JT, Bonmassar G, Vanduffel W (2008). "Bottom-Up Dependent Gating of Frontal Signals in Early Visual Cortex." Science. 321: 414-417.
  
  
  • Mitchell JF, Sundberg KA, Reynolds JH (2007). "Differential Attention-Dependent Response Modulation across Cell Classes in Macaque Visual Area V4." Neuron. 55: 131-141.
  
  
  • Silver MA, Ress D, Heeger DJ (2007). "Neural correlates of sustained spatial attention in human early visual cortex." J Neurophys. 97(1): 229-237.


• Week 4: Object Recognition
  
  
  • Tsao DY, Freiwald WA, Tootell RBH, Livingstone MS (2006). "A Cortical Region Consisting Entirely of Face-Selective Cells." Science. 311: 670-674.
  
  
  • Quiroga RQ, Reddy L, Kreiman G, Koch C, Fried I (2005). "Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain." Nature 453: 1102-1107.
  
  
  • Li N & DiCarlo JJ (2008). "Unsupervised Natural Experience Rapidly Alters Invariant Object Representation in Visual Cortex." Science 321:1502-1507.


• Week 5: Memory
  
  
  • Leutgeb S, Leutgeb JK, Barnes CA, Moser EI, McNaughton BL, Moser M-B (2005). "Independent Codes for Spatial and Episodic Memory in Hippocampal Neuronal Ensembles." Science. 309: 619-623.
  
  
  • Ji D, Wilson MA (2007). "Coordinated memory replay in the visual cortex and hippocampus during sleep." Nat Neuro. 10(1): 100-107.
  
  
  • Siapas AG, Lubenov EV, Wilson MA (2005). "Prefrontal Phase Locking to Hippocampal Theta Oscillations." Neuron. 46: 141-151.


• Week 6: Audition
  
  
  • Hahnloser RHR, Kozhevnikov AA, Fee MS (2002). "Ultra sparse code underlies generation of neural sequences in a songbird." Nature. 419: 65-70.
  
  
  • Woolley SC & Doupe AJ (2008). "Social Context-Induced Song Variation Affects Female Behavior and Gene Expression." PLOS Bio. 6(3): 0525-0537.


• Week 7: Motor and Premotor Systems
  
  
  • Graziano MS, Taylor CS, Moore T (2002). “Complex movements evoked by microstimulation of precentral cortex.” Neuron. 34(5): 841-851.
  
  
  • Buschman TJ& Miller EK (2007). "Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Control of Attention in the Prefrontal and Posterior Parietal Cortices." Science. 315: 1860-1862.
  
  
  • Pesaran B, Nelson MJ, Andersen RA (2008). "Free choice activates a decision circuit between frontal and parietal cortex." Nature. 453(7193): 406-U61


• Week 8: Somatosensory and Mirror Neurons
  
  
  • Fogassi L, Ferrari PF, Gesierich B, Rozzi S, Chersi F, Rizzolatti G (2005). "Parietal Lobe: From Action Organization to Intention Understanding." Science. 308: 662-667.
  
  
  • Luna R, Hernandez A, Brody CD, Romo R (2005). "Neural codes for perceptual discrimination in primary somatosensory cortex." Nat. Neuro. 8(9): 1210-1219.
  
  
  • Houweling AR, Brecht M (2008). "Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex." Nature. 451(7174): 65-U8.


• Week 9: Decision-Making and Reward
  
  
  • Padoa-Schioppa C, Assad JA (2006). "Neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex encode economic value." Nature. 441: 223-226.
  
  
  • Beck JM, Ma WJ, Kiani R, Hanks T, Churchland AK, Roitman J, Shadlen MN, Latham PE, Pouget A (2008). "Probabilistic Population Codes for Bayesian Decision Making." Neuron. 60: 1142-1152.
  
  
  • Yang T & Shadlen MN (2007). "Probabilistic reasoning by neurons." Nature. 447: 1075-1082.


• Week 10: BMIs: Neuroengineering and the Future in the Clinic
  
  
  • Hochberg LR, Serruya MD, Friehs GM, Mukand JA, Saleh M, Caplan AH, Branner A, Chen D, Penn RD, Donoghue JP (2006). "Neuronal ensemble control of prosthetic devices by a human with tetraplegia." Nature. 442: 164-171.
  
  
  • Moritz CT, Perlmutter SI, Fetz EE (2008). "Direct control of paralyzed muscles by cortical neurons." Nature. 456: 639-643.
  
  
  • Velliste M, Perel S, Spalding MC, Whitford AS, Schwartz AB (2008). "Cortical control of a prosthetic arm for self-feeding." Nature. 453: 1098-1101.

Supplementary Reading:

• Vision
  
  
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• Attention
  
  
  • Moore T & Armstrong KM (2003). " Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex." Nature. 421: 370-373.


• Object Recognition
  
  
  • Sereno ME, Trinath T, Augath M, Logothetis NK (2002). "Three-dimensional shape representation in monkey cortex." Neuron. 33(4): 635-652.


• Memory
  
  
  • Shrager Y, Kirwan CB, Squire LR (2008). "Neural basis of the cognitive map: Path integration does not require hippocampus or entorhinal cortex." PNAS. 105(33): 12034-12038.
  
  
  • Grid Cell paper: Fyhn M, Hafting T, Treves A, Moser M-B, Moser EI (2007). "Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex." Nature. 446: 190-194.


• Audition
  
  
  • Froemke RC, Merzenich MM, Schreiner CE (2007). " A synaptic memory trace for cortical receptive field plasticity." Nature. 450: 425-429.


• Motor and Premotor Systems
  
  
  • Jackson A, Mavoori J, Fetz EE (2006). "Long-term motor cortex plasticity induce by an electronic neural implant." Nature. 444: 56-60.


• Somatosensory and Mirror Neurons
  
  
  • Nelissen K, Luppino G, Vanduffel W, Rizzolatti G, Orban GA (2005). "Observing Others: Multiple Action Representation in the Frontal Lobe." Science. 310: 332-336.


• Decision-Making and Reward
  
  
  • Cui H & Andersen RA (2007). "Posterior Parietal Cortex Encodes Autonomously Selected Motor Plans." Neuron. 56: 552-559.


• BMIs: Neuroengineering and the Future in the Clinic
  
  
  • Andersen Lab Publications

Additional Resources

Introduction to Sensorimotor Cortical Anatomy and Function