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Fine Lab Undergraduate Journal Club

Welcome to the (pop-up) Fine Lab Undergraduate Cognitive Neuroscience Journal Club

This is a weekly, informal journal club for the undergraduate or post-bac members of VisCog designed with the aim of getting them ready for grad school.

Registration

If you are a member of the Fine/Boynton laboratory, please register for PSYCH 560 K (Instructor: Ione Fine).

Program Modules

  1. Demystifying Grad School: Panels and workshops providing practical information about the graduate school application process.
  2. Plasticity: Discussions on seminal journal articles about neural plasticity.
  3. Methods: Exploration of various neuroscience methods through journal articles.
  4. Experimental Programming: Hands-on workshops on programming a 2-AFC experiment using MATLAB.

Session Format

  • For journal article discussions, a student will lead the session with guidance from the organizers.
  • Ezgi and Kelly will lead panel discussions and workshops.

Collaborative Meeting Notes

Etherpad

Contact Information

For questions about the journal club, please contact:

Student Responsibilities

  1. Read the assigned paper(s) before each discussion session.
  2. Post one question or discussion comment on the provided Google document by the day before the journal club meeting.

Schedule

Dates

Date Module Title
WEEK 1 09-27-24 Demystifying Grad School Graduate Student Panel
WEEK 2 10-04-24 Demystifying Grad School How to read/write a scientific article

Carey, M. A., Steiner, K. L., & Petri Jr, W. A. (2020). Ten simple rules for reading a scientific paper. PLoS computational biology, 16(7), e1008032. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008032
Carandini, M. (2022). Some Tips for Writing Science. eNeuro, 9(6).  https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0497-22.2022
WEEK 3 10-11-24 Demystifying Grad School Graduate School Application Workshop
WEEK 4 10-18-24 Postponed Postponed!
WEEK 5 10-25-24 Misc. Guest Speakers: Emily Iannazzi and Gillian Grennan

Talk Title: Translational Neuroscience & Neuroendocrinology for Treatment Improvements in Anxiety and OCD-Related Disorders
WEEK 6 11-01-24 Plasticity Fine, I., Wade, A. R., Brewer, A. A., May, M. G., Goodman, D. F., Boynton, G. M., Wandell, B. A., & MacLeod, D. I. A. (2003). Long-term deprivation affects visual perception and cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 6(9), 915–916. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1102
WEEK 7 11-08-24 Plasticity Dehaene, S., & Cohen, L. (2007). Cultural Recycling of Cortical Maps. Neuron, 56(2), 384–398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2007.10.004
WEEK 8 11-15-24 Methods/Misc Jonas, E., & Kording, K. P. (2017). Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? PLOS Computational Biology, 13(1), e1005268. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268
WEEK 9 11-22-24 Demystifying Grad School Graduate School Application Workshop (Crunch Time!)
WEEK 10 12-06-24 Final Meeting Final Meeting!