CNS247 Speaker Schedule

Week 1: Course Introduction (01/08/2009)

Week 2: Vision (01/15/2009)

	Smirnakis et al. 2005 V1 Plasticity	Li et al. 2007 V1 Contours	Maier et al. 2008 fMRI diverges from neural	Nadler et al. 2008 Motion Perception
Presenter	John Schulman	Andreas Hoenselaar	Xiaodi Hou	Nicholas Rosa
Questioner	Shay Ohuyon	Xiaodi Hou	Lauren Lee	Omer Durak
Questioner				Helen Bermudez

Week 3: Attention (01/22/2009)

	Ekstrom et al. 2008 Bottom-up Gating PFC	Mitchell et al. 2007 Attentional Modulation Across Cell Classes	Silver et al. 2007 Early visual attention w/o stim
Presenter	Shabnam Hakimi	Helen Bermudez	Lauren Lee
Questioner			John Schulman
Questioner	John Schulman	Kim Scott	Dan Leighton

Week 4: Object Recognition (01/29/2009)

	Tsao et al. 2006 Cortical Face Patches	Quiroga et al. 2005 Sparse Object Coding	Li & DiCarlo 2008 Neuronal Object Preference Plasticity
Presenter	Shabnam Hakimi	Shay Ohayon	Calvin Yu
Questioner		Xiaodi Hou	Shabnam Hakimi
Questioner	Shay Ohayon	Simon Kornblith

Week 5: Memory (02/05/2009)

	Leutgeb et al. 2005 Independent hippocampal codes	Ji & Wilson 2007 Memory Replay in Sleep	Siapas et al. 2005 Theta Oscillations and PFC
Presenter	Christin Montz	Xiaodi Hou	Shay Ohayon
Questioner	Dan Leighton	Vu Dinh	Christin Montz
Questioner	Simon Kornblith	Lauren Lee	Omer Durak

Week 6: Audition (02/12/2009)

	Hahnloser et al. 2002 Ultra Sparse Code Generates Birdsong	Woolley & Doupe 2008 Socially Induced Genetic Changes in Songbird
Presenter	Zak Singer	Alice Lin
Questioner	Andreas Hoenselaar	Nick Rosa
Questioner	Helen Bermudez	Shabnam Hakimi

Week 7: Motor and Premotor Systems (02/19/2009)

	Pesaran et al. 2008 Free Choice in FrontoParietal Circuit	Buschman & Miller 2007 Prefrontal and Parietal Control of Attention
Presenter	Lauren Lee	Christin Montz
Questioner	Jerry Kwong	Kim Scott
Questioner	Dan Leighton	Zak Singer

Week 8: Somatosensory and Mirror Neurons (02/26/2009)

	Fogassi et al. 2005 Monk IPL Neurons Code Intention Understanding	Houweling & Brecht 2007 Single Somato Neuron Stim	Luna et al. 2005 Somatosensory Discrimination
Presenter	Kim Scott	Omer Durak	Vu Dinh
Questioner	Simon Kornblith	Calvin Yu	Nick Rosa
Questioner	Jerry Kwong	Alice Lin	Christin Monz

Week 9: Decision-Making and Reward (03/05/2009)

	Padoa et al. 2006 Economic Value in Orbitofrontal	Beck et al. 2008 Bayesian Decision Making	Yang 2007 Probabilistic Parietal Reasoning
Presenter	Alice Lin	Jerry Kwong	Simon Kornblith
Questioner	Omer Durak	Calvin Yu	Vu Dinh
Questioner	Nicholas Rosa	Alice Lin	Andreas Hoenselaar

Week 10: BMIs: Neuroengineering and the Future in the Clinic (03/12/2009)

	Hochberg et al. 2006 Neuronal Ensemble Control of Prostheses	Moritz et al. 2008 Direct Cortical Control of Paralyzed Muscles	Velliste et al. 2008 Cortical Control of Robotic Arm
Presenter	Jerry Kwong	Dan Leighton	Andreas Hoenselaar
Questioner	Kim Scott	Zak Singer	John Schulman
Questioner	Calvin Yu	Vu Dinh	Zak Singer

CNS 247: Cerebral Cortex