The Attention and Perceptual Learning Journal Club.

The Attention and Perceptual Learning Journal Club is a paper discussion group with meetings held fortnightly. The group focuses on attention and perceptual learning from a neuroscience perspective. Meetings are organised by Peggy Series and Hannes Saal, and are generally held on Mondays at 5pm in room 1.16 in the Informatics Forum unless noted otherwise.

In weeks we aren't meeting there is the Neural Coding and Bayesian Methods Journal Club at the same time and place.

Schedule

• 10 November 08

• 27 October 08

• 13 October 08

• 29 September 08 session cancelled.

• 8 September 08 Graeme Phillipson: Rory Sayres and Kalanit Grill-Spector. Relating Retinotopic and Object-Selective Responses in Human Lateral Occipital Cortex. J Neurophysiol 100: 249-267, 2008.

• 28 July 08 David Acunzo: J. Storbeck et al. (2006) Semantic Processing Precedes Affect Retrieval: The Neurological Case for Cognitive Primacy in Visual Processing. Review of General Psychology, 10(1), pp. 41-55

• 30 June 08 Hugh Pastoll, Ardid, A., Wang, X. and Compte, A. 2007. An Integrated Microcircuit Model of Attentional Processing in the Neocortex. J Neurosci. 2007 Aug 8;27(32):8486-95. note new venue: room 1.16 in the Informatics Forum

• 16 June 08 Matthew Chalk: Huang, X. Albright, T. D. Stoner, G. R. Adaptive Surround Modulation in Cortical Area MT., Neuron, Vol 53. pg 761-770, 2007.

• 2 June 08 Graeme Phillipson: Wu Li and Valentin Piëch and Charles D Gilbert: Perceptual learning and top-down influences in primary visual cortex. Nat Neurosci 7(6): 651--657, 2004.

• 12 May 08 Peggy Series: Yu & Dayan: Uncertainty, neuromodulation, and attention. Neuron. 2005 May 19;46(4):681-92.

Suggested topics

• Freeman E, Sagi D, Driver J: Lateral interactions between targets and flankers in low-level vision depend on attention to the flankers. Nat Neurosci. 4(10):1032-6, 2001.

• Herrero JL, Roberts MJ, Delicato LS, Gieselmann MA, Dayan P, Thiele A: Acetylcholine contributes through muscarinic receptors to attentional modulation in V1 Nature. 2008 Jul 16. [Epub ahead of print].

• Chen Y, Martinez-Conde S, Macknik SL, Bereshpolova Y, Swadlow HA & Alonso J-M: Task difficulty modulates the activity of specific neuronal populations in primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 11, 974 - 982 (2008).