GRUM - Gardner Research Unit Meetings

General Info

What: A biweekly lab meeting to discuss papers related to GRU research interests and to discuss lab issues.
Where: GRU Meeting Room (BSI East Bld. 207)
mailing list:grum@brain.riken.jp
(current member of this mailing list: Justin, Andrea Benucci, Arman, Ilias, Steeve, Lifeng, Johan, Kenji)

Next meeting :Jun 19th(Thr), 13:30-

Bayesian sampling in visual perception
Authors: Moreno-Bote, R., Knill, D. C. & Pouget, A.
PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1101430108

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Papers to read

Add to this list if you have a possibility for a paper we should read in lab meeting

WhoPaper
JustinOn the Role of Suppression in Spatial Attention: Evidence from Negative BOLD in Human Subcortical and Cortical Structures
JustinMarcos, E., Pani, P., Brunamonti, E., Deco, G., Ferraina, S., and Verschure, P. (2013). Neural Variability in Premotor Cortex Is Modulated by Trial History and Predicts Behavioral Performance. Neuron 78, 249–255.
JustinRahnev, D.A., Bahdo, L., De Lange, F.P., and Lau, H. (2012). Prestimulus hemodynamic activity in dorsal attention network is negatively associated with decision confidence in visual perception. J Neurophysiol 108, 1529–1536.
Justin Masse NY, Herrington TM and Cook EP (2012) Spatial attention enhances the selective integration of activity from area MT. J Neurophysiol 108:1594–1606.
Arman Corey N. White, Jeanette A. Mumford, and Russell A. Poldrack (2012). Perceptual Criteria in the Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(47)
Arman Wendelken C, Ditterich J, Bunge SA, Carter CS. (2009). Stimulus and response conflict processing during perceptual decision making. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. Dec 9(4):
Arman Kim H, Lee D, and Jung MW (2013). Signals for previous goal choice persist in the dorsomedial, but not dorsolateral striatum of rats. Journal of Neuroscience. Jan 2;33(1):52-63.
Steeve Wang, M., Arteaga, D. & He, B. J. (2013) Brain mechanisms for simple perception and bistable perception. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110, E3350–9.
Steeve d'Acremont, M., Schultz, W. & Bossaerts, P. (2013).The Human Brain Encodes Event Frequencies While Forming Subjective Beliefs. Journal of Neuroscience 33(26): 10887-10897.
Steeve Hohl, S. S., Chaisanguanthum, K. S. & Lisberger, S. G. (2013).Sensory population decoding for visually guided movements. Neuron 79, 167–179.
Steeve Fischer, J., & Whitney, D. (2012).Attention gates visual coding in the human pulvinar. Nature Communications, 3, 1051.
Steeve Bejjanki, V. R., Beck, J. M., Lu, Z.-L., & Pouget, A. (2011).Perceptual learning as improved probabilistic inference in early sensory areas. Nature Neuroscience, 14(5), 642–648.
Steeve Jazayeri, M. & Movshon, J. A. (2006).Optimal representation of sensory information by neural populations. Nat Neurosci 9, 690–696.
Steeve Houlsby, N. M. T. et al(2013).Cognitive Tomography Reveals Complex, Task-Independent Mental Representations. Current Biology 23, 2169–2175.
Steeve Jiang, J., Summerfield, C. & Egner, T. Attention sharpens the distinction between expected and unexpected percepts in the visual brain. Journal of Neuroscience 33, 18438–18447 (2013).
Steeve Carnevale, F., de Lafuente, V., Romo, R. & Parga, N. An Optimal Decision Population Code that Accounts for Correlated Variability Unambiguously Predicts a Subject's Choice. Neuron 80, 1532–1543 (2013).
Steeve Lee, J. & Lisberger, S. G. Gamma Synchrony Predicts Neuron-Neuron Correlations and Correlations with Motor Behavior in Extrastriate Visual Area MT. Journal of Neuroscience 33, 19677–19688 (2013).
LifengHowe MW, Tierney PL, Sandberg SG, Phillips PEM, Graybiel AM (2013). Prolonged dopamine signalling in striatum signals proximity and value of distant rewards. Nature, 500, 575–579
LifengTodd MT, Nystrom LE, Cohen JD. (2013). Confounds in multivariate pattern analysis: Theory and rule representation case study. Neuroimaging, 77, 157-165
Katha Nishimoto, S., Vu, A.T., Naselaris, T., Benjamini, Y., Yu, B., and Gallant, J.L. (2011). Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies. Current Biology, 21, 1641-1641.
Katha Dima, D., Stephan, K.E., Roiser, J.P, Friston, K.J., and Frangou, S. (2011). Effective connectivity during processing of facial affect: evidence for multiple parallel pathways. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(40), 14378-14385.

previous meetings

DateTopicReferencePDF
Jun 12th(Thr)Processing multiple visual objects is limited by overlap in neural channelsMichael A. Cohena, Talia Konklea, Juliana Y. Rheeb, Ken Nakayama, and George A. AlvarezPNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1317860111PDF
Jun 5th(Thr)A normalization model of multisensory integrationOhshiro, T., Angelaki, D. E. & DeAngelis, G. CNature, Vol.14, Num.6, 775-782(2011)mainsupplimental
May 29(Thr)Attention Sharpens the Distinction between Expected and Unexpected Percepts in the Visual Brain. Jiang, J., Summerfield, C., & Egner, T.The Journal of Neuroscience, 33(47), 18438-18447 (2013)PDF
May. 23(Fri)Serial dependance in visual perceptionJason Fischer & David WhitneyNature Neuroscience 17, 738–743 (2014)nn.3689.pdf
Mar. 27(Thr)The emergence of functional microcircuits in visual cortex.Ko, H. et al.Nature 496, 96–100 (2013)PDF1PDF2
Mar. 13(Thr)Dissociation between Neural Signatures of Stimulus and Choice in Population Activity of Human V1 during Perceptual Decision-Making.Choe, K. W., Blake, R., & Lee, S. H. (2014)The Journal of Neuroscience. 1606-13.2014PDF
Feb. 13(Thr)Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codesMa, W. J., Beck, J. M., Latham, P. E. & Pouget (2006).Nature Neuroscience 9, 1432–1438.pdf
Feb. 13(Thr)Optimal representaion of sensory information by neural populationsJazayeri, M. & Movshon, J. A (2006).Nature Neuroscience 9, 690–696. pdf
Feb. 13(Thr)Probabilistic brains: Knowns and unknownsPouget, A., Beck, J. M., Ma, W. J. & Latham, P. E.(2013)Nature Publishing Group 16, 1170–1178pdf

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