Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club
Spring 2009
Organizers: Tony Lewis and Ann Revill

• And to finish on a high note, an interesting paper to ponder about during the summer!
  Theoretical Neuroscience Rising. Abbott L.F. Neuron 60(3):489-495, 2008. <PubMedLink><PDF>.
• Thursday April 30th: David
  Modelling general anaesthesia as a first-order phase transition in the cortex Moira L. Steyn-Rossa, D.A. Steyn-Ross, J.W. Sleigh, 2004. <PubMedLink>.
• Thursday April 8th: TBD
  The minimum information principle and its application to neural code analysis. Globerson et. al. 2008. <PubMedLink>
  Supporting paper(s): Information Theory Review. Quiroga and Panzeri 2009. <PDF>
  and more information on information theory.
• Thursday, Feb 26th: Aaron Beyerlein
  A universal model for spike-frequency adaptation. BendaJ Hertz AV. Neural computation 2003. <PubMedLink>
  Spike frequency adaptation: Phenomenological model and experimental tests. Benda et al, 2001. <PDF>
  Supporting paper(s): Spike frequency adaptation generates intensity invariance in a primary auditory interneuron. Benda et al. 2008. <PubMedLink>
• Thursday, Feb 12th: Ian Fasel
  Efficient Auditory Coding, Smith and Lewicki, Nature 2006. <PubMed Link>
  Supporting paper(s): Efficient coding of time-relative structure using spikes, Smith and Lewicki, Neural Computation, 2005. <PubMed Link>
• Monday, Jan 26th: Organizational meeting

Useful links

• A very quick tour of some of the main facts of the brain. a 'primer on the brain and nervous system', put out by the Society for Neuroscience.
• Very simple (yet mostly correct!) presentation of the major facts about the brain. Yes, it is for kids, but don't be ashamed... it's really useful!

The Fall 2008 page can be found here
The Spring 2008 page can be found here