[TNJC] Neuro Journal Club this week (4/4, 2pm, Friday)

[Ben Dongsung Huh]

Dear all, 

For this week's TNJC, Vincent Adam will present the following paper. 

Title: Learned spatiotemporal sequence recognition and prediction in primary visual cortex

Jeffrey P Gavornik & Mark F Bear

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.3683.html

Abstract:
Learning to recognize and predict temporal sequences is fundamental to sensory perception and is impaired in several neuropsychiatric disorders, but little is known about where and how this occurs in the brain. We discovered that repeated presentations of a visual sequence over a course of days resulted in evoked response potentiation in mouse V1 that was highly specific for stimulus order and timing. Notably, after V1 was trained to recognize a sequence, cortical activity regenerated the full sequence even when individual stimulus elements were omitted. Our results advance the understanding of how the brain makes 'intelligent guesses' on the basis of limited information to form visual percepts and suggest that it is possible to study the mechanistic basis of this high-level cognitive ability by studying low-level sensory systems.

Please note that starting next week TNJC will move to Tuesday 2pm.

See you then!

Next presenter list:

Kristin	8/4/2014
Carsen	15/4/2014
Easter Week	22/4/2014
PeterL	29/4/2014

coming soon: Gergo, Joana, Tom, Federico, Mehdi, Kyo 

Ben Dongsung Huh
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit