Medial Temporal Lobe Journal Club


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Upcoming Meetings and Articles

    2/23/12: Stranahan et al. Cerebral Cortex (2011) Cognitive decline is associated with reduced reelin expression in the entorhinal cortex of aged rats.
    2/16/12:
    Mednick et al, Trends in Neuroscience (2011) An opportunistic theory of cellular and systems consolidation.
    2/9/12: No meeting.
    2/2/12:
    Smith et al, Hippocampus (2011) Complimentary roles of the hippocampus and retrosplenial cortex in behavioral context discrimination.
    1/26/12: Voss and Paller, Nature Neuroscience (2009) An electrophysiological signature of unconscious recognition memory.
    1/19/12: Jezek et al., Nature (2011) Theta-paced flickering between place-cell maps in the hippocampus.
    1/12/12: Suh et al., Science (2011) Entorhinal cortex layer III input to the hippocampus is crucial for temporal association memory.

    Holiday Break

    12/8/11:
    Diekelmann et al., Nature Neuroscience (2011) Labile or stablie: Opposing consequences for memory when reactivated during making and sleep.
    12/1/11:
    SFN round-up
    11/24/11:
    No meeting. Thanksgiving holiday
    11/17/11:
    No meeting. Society for Neuroscience
    11/10/11:
    Naya et al., Science (2011) Integrating what and when across the primate medial temporal lobe.
    11/3/11:
    No MTL JC - Marcelo Wood’s Tenure Lecture at 3:00pm
    10/27/11:
    GIgg, J., Behavioral Brain Research (2006) Constraints on hippocampal processing imposed by the connectivity between CA1, subiculum and subicular targets.
    10/20/11: Rose et al., J Neurosci (2011) Functional dissociation of hippocampal mechanism during implicit learning based on domains of association.
    10/13/11: DeVito et al., J Neurosci (2009) Vasopressin 1b receptor knockout impairs memory for temporal order.
    10/6/11: MacDonald et al., Neuron (2011) Hippocampal “time cells” bridge the gap in memory for discontiguous events.
    9/29/11: Tayler et al., Frontiers in Beh Neuroscience (2011) Characterization of NMDAR-independent learning in the hippocampus.
    9/22/11: Brandon et al. Science (2011) Recution of theta rhythm dissociates grid cells spatial periodicity from directional tuning.
    9/15/11: Jones & McHugh, TINS (2011) Updating hippocampal representations: CA2 joins the circuit.
    8/25/11: Presentation by Andrea Morris: Further defining the functional properties of the dentate gyrus: Contributions to spatial representations.
    8/18/11: Maurer et al., Hippocampus (2011) Greater running speeds result in altered hippocampal phase sequence dynamics.
    8/11/11: Costanzi et al., Learning and Memory (2011) Extinction after retrieval: Effects on the associative and nonassociative components of remote contextual fear memory.
    8/4/11: Legenstein & Maass, The Journal of Neuroscience (2011) Branch-specific plasticity enables self-organization of nonlinear computation in single neurons.
    7/28/11: Farovik et al., Learning and Memory (2010) Distinct roles for dorsal CA3 and CA1 in memory for sequential nonspatial events.
    7/21/11: Tse et al., Science (2011) Schema-dependent gene activation and memory encoding in neocortex.
    7/14/11: Orlov et al., Nature (2000) Macaque monkeys categorize images by their ordinal number.
    7/7/11: Iordanova et al., The Journal of Neuroscience (2011) Retrieval-mediated learning involving episodes requires synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus.
    6/30/11: Konkel et al., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2008) Hippocampal amnesia impairs all manner of relational memory.
    6/23/11: Devito & Eichenbaum, The Journal of Neuroscience (2011) Memory for the order of events in specific sequences: contributions of the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex.
    6/16/11: Duncan et al., Hippocampus (2011) Evidence for area CA1 as a match/mismatch detector: A high-resolution fMRI study of the human hippocampus.
    6/9/11: Burke et al., Hippocampus (2011) The influence of objects on place field expression and size in distal hippocampal CA1.
    6/2/11: Dragoi & Tonegawa, Nature (2011) Preplay of future place cell sequences by hippocampal cellular assemblies.
    5/26/11 Inda, Muravieva, & Alberini, The Journal of Neuroscience (2011) Memory retrieval and the passage of time: From reconsideration and strengthening to extinction
    5/19/11 Garrett, et al., The Journal of Neuroscience (2011) The importance of being variable.
    5/12/11 Itskov et al., The Journal of Neuroscience (2011) Cell assembly sequences arising from spike threshold adaptation keep track of time in the hippocampus.
    5/5/11 Litman, Awipi, & Davachi, Hippocampus (2009) Category-specificity in the human medial temporal lobe cortex.
    4/28/11 Daselaar, et al., Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (2010) Experience-dependent alterations in conscious resting state activity following perceptuomotor learning.
    4/21/11 -- NO Meeting due to CNLM Spring Meeting (but here is a Preston paper for those interested in reading one before her colloquia......) Dudukovic, Preston, et al., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2010) High-resolution fMRI reveals match enhancement and attentional modulation in the human medial temporal lobe.
    4/14/11 Presentation by Jennifer Czerniawski, prospective post-doc for Guzowski lab: “NMDA receptor-mediated ARC expression in dorsal and ventral hippocampus contributes to the acquisition of contextual and trace conditioning.”
    4/7/11 Ezzyat & Davachi, Psychological Science (2011) What constitutes an episode in episodic memory?
    3/31/11 Lesburgueres et al., Science (2011) Early tagging of cortical networks is required for the formation of enduring associative memory
    3/24/11 Ginther et al., Journal of Neuroscience (2011) Hippocampal neurons encode different episodes in an overlapping sequence of odors task
    3/17/11 Rauchs et al., Journal of Neuroscience (2011) Sleep contributes to the strengthening of some memories over others, depending on hippocampal activity at learning
    3/10/11 Ulanovsky & Moss, Hippocampus (2010) Dynamics of hippocampal spatial representation in echolocating bats
    3/3/11 Wang et al., Neuron (2010) The medial temporal lobe supports conceptual implicit memory
    2/24/11 Alberi et al., Neuron (2011) Activity-induced notch signaling in neurons require Arc/Arg3.1 and is essential for synaptic plasticity in hippocampal networks
    2/17/11 Fenton et al., J Neurosci (2011) Unmasking the CA1 Ensemble Place Code by Exposures to Small and Large Environments: More Place Cells and Multiple, Irregularly Arranged, and Expanded Place Fields in the Larger Space
    2/10/11 (Rescheduled from 2/3/11) Vartiainen et al., J Neurosci (2011) Functional magnetic resonance imaging blood oxygenation level-dependent signal and magnetoencephalography evoked responses yield different neural functionality reading
    1/27/11 Fouquet et al., Behavioral Brain Research (2010) A new approach for modeling episodic memory from rodents to humans: The temporal order memory
    1/20/11 McTighe et al., Science (2010) Paradoxical false memory for objects after brain damage
    1/13/11 Zeithamova and Preston, J Neurosci (2010) Flexible memories: Differential roles for medial temporal lobe and prefrontal cortex in cross-episode binding

    Recently Past Meetings and Articles (the distant past, certainly not based on episodic memory can be found here)