Interesting (Computational) Neuroscience Papers

Interesting Papers for Week 22, 2012 

Analysis of a Random Forests Model. Biau, G. (2012). Journal of Machine Learning Research, 13(April), 1063−1095.

The effect of neural adaptation on population coding accuracy. Cortes, J. M., Marinazzo, D., Series, P., Oram, M. W., Sejnowski, T. J., & Rossum, M. C. W. (2012). Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 32(3), 387-402.

Sequence learning and the role of the hippocampus in rodent navigation. Foster, D. J., & Knierim, J. J. (2012). Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 22(2), 294-300.

Action controls dopaminergic enhancement of reward representations. Guitart-Masip, M., Chowdhury, R., Sharot, T., Dayan, P., Duzel, E., & Dolan, R. J. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(19), 7511-7516.

Plasticity in d1-like receptor expression is associated with different components of cognitive processes. Herold, C., Joshi, I., Chehadi, O., Hollmann, M., & Güntürkün, O. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(5), e36484.

Perceptual learning, roving and the unsupervised bias. Herzog, M. H., Aberg, K. C., Frémaux, N., Gerstner, W., & Sprekeler, H. (2012). Vision Research, 61, 95–99.

Neuronal Learning of Invariant Object Representation in the Ventral Visual Stream Is Not Dependent on Reward. Li, N., & DiCarlo, J. J. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(19), 6611-6620.

Clonally related visual cortical neurons show similar stimulus feature selectivity. Li, Y., Lu, H., Cheng, P.-lin, Ge, S., Xu, H., Shi, S.-H., & Dan, Y. (2012). Nature, advanced online.

Dynamics of unconscious contextual effects in orientation processing. Mareschal, I., & Clifford, C. W. G. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(19), 7553-7558.

Relative spike time coding and STDP-based orientation selectivity in the early visual system in natural continuous and saccadic vision: a computational model. Masquelier, T. (2012). Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 32(3), 425-441.

Bayesian Defogging. Nishino, K., Kratz, L., & Lombardi, S. (2011). International Journal of Computer Vision, 98(3), 263-278.

Fast visual prediction and slow optimization of preferred walking speed. O’Connor, S. M., & Donelan, J. M. (2012). Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(9), 2549-2559.

Influence Fields: A Quantitative Framework for the Representation and Analysis of Active Dendrites. Rathour, R. K., & Narayanan, R. (2012). Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(9), 2313-2334.

Dynamic integration of information about salience and value for saccadic eye movements. Schütz, A. C., Trommershäuser, J., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(19), 7547-7552.

Positive Semidefinite Metric Learning Using Boosting-like Algorithms. Shen, C., Kim, J., Wang, L., & van den Hengel, A. (2012). Journal of Machine Learning Research, 13(April), 1007−1036.

Bats use a neuronally implemented computational acoustic model to form sonar images. Simmons, J. A. (2012). Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 22(2), 311-319.

Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Individual Differences in Human Effort-Based Decision-Making. Treadway, M. T., Buckholtz, J. W., Cowan, R. L., Woodward, N. D., Li, R., Ansari, M. S., Baldwin, R. M., et al. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(18), 6170-6176.

Population coding in sparsely connected networks of noisy neurons. Tripp, B. P., & Orchard, J. (2012). Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 6, 23.

Long-Lasting Potentiation of Hippocampal Synaptic Transmission by Direct Cortical Input Is Mediated via Endocannabinoids. Xu, J.-Y., Zhang, J., & Chen, C. (2012). Journal of Physiology, 590(Pt 10), 2305-15.

Recurrent coupling improves discrimination of temporal spike patterns. Yuan, C.-W., & Leibold, C. (2012). Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 6, 25.

Interesting Reviews for Week 21, 2012 

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Model-based learning and the contribution of the orbitofrontal cortex to the model-free world. McDannald, M. A., Takahashi, Y. K., Lopatina, N., Pietras, B. W., Jones, J. L., & Schoenbaum, G. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 991-996.

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A computational framework for the study of confidence in humans and animals. Kepecs, A., & Mainen, Z. F. (2012). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1594), 1322-1337.

How can a Bayesian approach inform neuroscience? O’Reilly, J. X., Jbabdi, S., & Behrens, T. E. J. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1169-1179.

Metacognition in human decision-making: confidence and error monitoring. Yeung, N., & Summerfield, C. (2012). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367(1594), 1310-1321.

Interesting Papers for Week 21, 2012 

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Clustered Dynamics of Inhibitory Synapses and Dendritic Spines in the Adult Neocortex. Chen, J. L., Villa, K. L., Cha, J. W., So, P. T. C., Kubota, Y., & Nedivi, E. (2012). Neuron, 74(2), 361-373.

Synergistic Actions of Metabotropic Acetylcholine and Glutamate Receptors on the Excitability of Hippocampal CA1 Pyramidal Neurons. Park, J.-Y., & Spruston, N. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(18), 6081-6091.

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The Effects of Auditory Information on 4-Month-Old Infants’ Perception of Trajectory Continuity. Bremner, J. G., Slater, A. M., Johnson, S. P., Mason, U. C., & Spring, J. (2012). Child Development, 83(3), 954-964.

Storage of Correlated Patterns in Standard and Bistable Purkinje Cell Models. Clopath, C., Nadal, J.-P., & Brunel, N. (2012). PLoS Computational Biology, 8(4), 10. Public Library of Science.

BINDING AND SEGMENTATION VIA A NEURAL MASS MODEL TRAINED WITH HEBBIAN AND ANTI-HEBBIAN MECHANISMS. CONA, F., ZAVAGLIA, M., & URSINO, M. (2012). International Journal of Neural Systems, 22(02), 1250003-1.

Prefrontal Contributions to Metacognition in Perceptual Decision Making. Fleming, S. M., Huijgen, J., & Dolan, R. J. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(18), 6117-6125.

Distinct muscarinic acetylcholine receptor subtypes mediate pre- and postsynaptic effects in rat neocortex. Gigout, S., Jones, G. A., Wierschke, S., Davies, C. H., Watson, J. M., & Deisz, R. A. (2012). BMC Neuroscience, 13(1), 42.

Electrical Advantages of Dendritic Spines. Gulledge, A. T., Carnevale, N. T., & Stuart, G. J. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(4), e36007.

Evidence for two distinct mechanisms directing gaze in natural scenes. Mackay, M., Cerf, M., & Koch, C. (2012). Journal of Vision, 12(4), 9.

GABAergic Inhibition Regulates Developmental Synapse Elimination in the Cerebellum. Nakayama, H., Miyazaki, T., Kitamura, K., Hashimoto, K., Yanagawa, Y., Obata, K., Sakimura, K., et al. (2012). Neuron, 74(2), 384-396.

Interactions between Behaviorally Relevant Rhythms and Synaptic Plasticity Alter Coding in the Piriform Cortex. Oswald, A.-M. M., & Urban, N. N. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(18), 6092-6104.

Link between orientation and retinotopic maps in primary visual cortex. Paik, S.-B., & Ringach, D. L. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(18), 7091-7096.

A New Perceptual Bias Reveals Suboptimal Population Decoding of Sensory Responses. Putzeys, T., Bethge, M., Wichmann, F., Wagemans, J., & Goris, R. (2012). PLoS Computational Biology, 8(4), e1002453.

Effects of Cue-Triggered Expectation on Cortical Processing of Taste. Samuelsen, C. L., Gardner, M. P. H., & Fontanini, A. (2012). Neuron, 74(2), 410-422.

Predictive Features of Persistent Activity Emergence in Regular Spiking and Intrinsic Bursting Model Neurons. Sidiropoulou, K., & Poirazi, P. (2012). PLoS Computational Biology, 8(4), 15.

Dopaminergic Mechanisms of Individual Differences in Human Effort-Based Decision-Making. Treadway, M. T., Buckholtz, J. W., Cowan, R. L., Woodward, N. D., Li, R., Ansari, M. S., Baldwin, R. M., et al. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(18), 6170-6176.

Power-Law Inter-Spike Interval Distributions Infer a Conditional Maximization of Entropy in Cortical Neurons. Tsubo, Y., Isomura, Y., & Fukai, T. (2012). PLoS Computational Biology, 8(4), e1002461.

The eye limits the brain’s learning potential. Zhou, J., Zhang, Y., Dai, Y., Zhao, H., Liu, R., Hou, F., Liang, B., et al. (2012). Scientific Reports, 2, 364.

Delay for the capacity-simplicity dilemma in associative memory attractor networks. Zou, S., Chen, Y., Ma, J., & Wu, J. (2012). Neural Networks, 29-30, 37-51.

Elimination of Inhibitory Synapses Is a Major Component of Adult Ocular Dominance Plasticity. van Versendaal, D., Rajendran, R., Saiepour, M. H., Klooster, J., Smit-Rigter, L., Sommeijer, J.-P., De Zeeuw, C. I., et al. (2012). Neuron, 74(2), 374-383.

Interesting Reviews for Week 20, 2012 

Calcium Signaling in Dendritic Spines. Higley, M. J., & Sabatini, B. L. (2012). Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 4(4).

GluN3 subunit-containing NMDA receptors: not just one-trick ponies. Pachernegg, S., Strutz-Seebohm, N., & Hollmann, M. (2012). Trends in Neurosciences, 35(4), 240–249.

The function of the anterior temporal lobe: A review of the empirical evidence. Wong, C., & Gallate, J. (2012). Brain Research, 1449, 94–116.

The hippocampus and inferential reasoning: building memories to navigate future decisions. Zeithamova, D., Schlichting, M. L., & Preston, A. R. (2012). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, 70.

Interesting Papers for Week 20, 2012 

Cellular Basis for Response Diversity in the Olfactory Periphery. Bobkov, Y., Park, I., Ukhanov, K., Principe, J., & Ache, B. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(4), e34843.

Setting the Time Course of Inhibitory Synaptic Currents by Mixing Multiple GABAA Receptor  Subunit Isoforms. Eyre, M. D., Renzi, M., Farrant, M., & Nusser, Z. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(17), 5853-5867.

Effects of memory colour on colour constancy for unknown coloured objects. Granzier, J. J. M., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2012). i-Perception, 3(3), 190-215.

Time in action contexts: learning when an action effect occurs. Haering, C., & Kiesel, A. (2012). Psychological Research, 76(3), 336-344.

The neural representation of time: an information-theoretic perspective. Hass, J., & Herrmann, J. M. (2012). Neural Computation, 24(6), 1519-52.

Audiovisual time perception is spatially specific. Heron, J., Roach, N. W., Hanson, J. V. M., McGraw, P. V., & Whitaker, D. (2012). Experimental Brain Research, 218(3), 477-85.

Impaired auditory discrimination learning following perinatal nicotine exposure or β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit deletion. Horst, N. K., Heath, C. J., Neugebauer, N. M., Kimchi, E. Y., Laubach, M., & Picciotto, M. R. (2012). Behavioural Brain Research, 231(1), 170-80.

Neuronal adenosine release, and not astrocytic ATP release, mediates feedback inhibition of excitatory activity. Lovatt, D., Xu, Q., Liu, W., Takano, T., Smith, N. A., Schnermann, J., Tieu, K., et al. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(16), 6265-6270.

Transcranial direct-current stimulation modulates synaptic mechanisms involved in associative learning in behaving rabbits. Marquez-Ruiz, J., Leal-Campanario, R., Sanchez-Campusano, R., Molaee-Ardekani, B., Wendling, F., Miranda, P. C., Ruffini, G., et al. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(17), 6710-6715.

Parallel Coding of First- and Second-Order Stimulus Attributes by Midbrain Electrosensory Neurons. McGillivray, P., Vonderschen, K., Fortune, E. S., & Chacron, M. J. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(16), 5510-5524.

Astrocyte signaling controls spike timing–dependent depression at neocortical synapses. Min, R., & Nevian, T. (2012). Nature Neuroscience, 15(5), 746-753.

Restoration of vision after transplantation of photoreceptors. Pearson, R. A., Barber, A. C., Rizzi, M., Hippert, C., Xue, T., West, E. L., Duran, Y., et al. (2012). Nature, advance online.

Correlated neural variability in persistent state networks. Polk, A., Litwin-Kumar, A., & Doiron, B. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(16), 6295-6300.

Grid cells in rat entorhinal cortex encode physical space with independent firing fields and phase precession at the single-trial level. Reifenstein, E. T., Kempter, R., Schreiber, S., Stemmler, M. B., & Herz, A. V. M. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(16), 6301-6306.

Willingness to Wait and Altered Encoding of Time-Discounted Reward in the Orbitofrontal Cortex with Normal Aging. Roesch, M. R., Bryden, D. W., Cerri, D. H., Haney, Z. R., & Schoenbaum, G. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(16), 5525-5533.

Control of timing, rate and bursts of hippocampal place cells by dendritic and somatic inhibition. Royer, S., Zemelman, B. V., Losonczy, A., Kim, J., Chance, F., Magee, J. C., & Buzsáki, G. (2012). Nature Neuroscience, 15(5), 769-775.

Relative luminance and binocular disparity preferences are correlated in macaque primary visual cortex, matching natural scene statistics. Samonds, J. M., Potetz, B. R., & Lee, T. S. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(16), 6313-6318.

Serotonin Selectively Modulates Reward Value in Human Decision-Making. Seymour, B., Daw, N. D., Roiser, J. P., Dayan, P., & Dolan, R. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(17), 5833-5842.

Lateralized reward-related visual discrimination in the avian entopallium. Verhaal, J., Kirsch, J. A., Vlachos, I., Manns, M., & Güntürkün, O. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(8), 1337-43.

Visual extrapolation under risk: human observers estimate and compensate for exogenous uncertainty. Warren, P. A., Graf, E. W., Champion, R. A., & Maloney, L. T. (2012). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1736), 2171-2179.

Interesting Reviews for Week 19, 2012

Purinergic modulation of granule cells. Courjaret, R., Miras-Portugal, M. T., & Deitmer, J. W. (2012). Cerebellum, 11(1), 62-70.

Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations. Giraud, A.-L., & Poeppel, D. (2012). Nature Neuroscience, 15(4), 511-517.

Steroid modulation of hippocampal plasticity: switching between cognitive and emotional memories. Maggio, N., & Segal, M. (2012). Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 6, 12.

A tutorial on approximate Bayesian computation. Turner, B. M., & Van Zandt, T. (2012). Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 56(2), 69-85. 

Interesting Papers for Week 19, 2012

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Gating the Polarity of Endocannabinoid-Mediated Synaptic Plasticity by Nitric Oxide in the Spinal Locomotor Network. Song, J., Kyriakatos, A., & El Manira, A. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(15), 5097-5105.

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Dopamine Modulation of Ih Improves Temporal Fidelity of Spike Propagation in an Unmyelinated Axon. Ballo, A. W., Nadim, F., & Bucher, D. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(15), 5106-5119.

Not Noisy, Just Wrong: The Role of Suboptimal Inference in Behavioral Variability. Beck, J. M., Ma, W. J., Pitkow, X., Latham, P. E., & Pouget, A. (2012). Neuron, 74(1), 30-39.

From prediction error to incentive salience: mesolimbic computation of reward motivation. Berridge, K. C. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1124-1143.

Predictive Properties of Visual Adaptation. Chopin, A., & Mamassian, P. (2012). Current Biology, 22(7), 622–626.

Instrumental vigour in punishment and reward. Dayan, P. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1152-1168.

Uncertainty in action-value estimation affects both action choice and learning rate of the choice behaviors of rats. Funamizu, A., Ito, M., Doya, K., Kanzaki, R., & Takahashi, H. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1180-1189.

Adenosine Release during Seizures Attenuates GABAA Receptor-Mediated Depolarization. Ilie, A., Raimondo, J. V., & Akerman, C. J. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(15), 5321-5332.

Mechanism of Voltage Gating in Potassium Channels. Jensen, M. O., Jogini, V., Borhani, D. W., Leffler, A. E., Dror, R. O., & Shaw, D. E. (2012). Science, 336(6078), 229-233.

Optimal control as a graphical model inference problem. Kappen, H. J., Gómez, V., & Opper, M. (2012). Machine Learning, 87(2), 159-182.

Optogenetic Mimicry of the Transient Activation of Dopamine Neurons by Natural Reward Is Sufficient for Operant Reinforcement. Kim, K. M., Baratta, M. V., Yang, A., Lee, D., Boyden, E. S., & Fiorillo, C. D. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(4), e33612.

Hierarchical processing of complex motion along the primate dorsal visual pathway. Mineault, P. J., Khawaja, F. A., Butts, D. A., & Pack, C. C. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(16), E972-980.

Bistability and Spatiotemporal Irregularity in Neuronal Networks with Nonlinear Synaptic Transmission. Mongillo, G., Hansel, D., & van Vreeswijk, C. (2012). Physical Review Letters, 108(15), 158101.

A Reverse Engineering Approach to the Suppression of Citation Biases Reveals Universal Properties of Citation Distributions. Radicchi, F., & Castellano, C. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(3), e33833.

Surprise! Neural correlates of Pearce-Hall and Rescorla-Wagner coexist within the brain. Roesch, M. R., Esber, G. R., Li, J., Daw, N. D., & Schoenbaum, G. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1190-1200.

Frontostriatal White Matter Integrity Mediates Adult Age Differences in Probabilistic Reward Learning. Samanez-Larkin, G. R., Levens, S. M., Perry, L. M., Dougherty, R. F., & Knutson, B. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(15), 5333-5337.

Decomposing effects of dopaminergic medication in Parkinson’s disease on probabilistic action selection - learning or performance? Smittenaar, P., Chase, H. W., Aarts, E., Nusselein, B., Bloem, B. R., & Cools, R. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1144-1151.

A demonstration of “broken” visual space. Svarverud, E., Gilson, S., & Glennerster, A. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(3), e33782.

Alignment of Multimodal Sensory Input in the Superior Colliculus through a Gradient-Matching Mechanism. Triplett, J. W., Phan, A., Yamada, J., & Feldheim, D. A. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(15), 5264-5271.

Simple models of human brain functional networks. Vertes, P. E., Alexander-Bloch, A. F., Gogtay, N., Giedd, J. N., Rapoport, J. L., & Bullmore, E. T. (2012). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(15), 5868-5873.

Interesting Reviews for Week 18, 2012 

A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods. Browne, C., Powley, E., Whitehouse, D., Lucas, S., Cowling, P., Rohlfshagen, P., Tavener, S., et al. (2012). IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, 4(1), 1-43.

Learning, Attentional Control, and Action Video Games. Green, C. S., & Bavelier, D. (2012). Current Biology, 22(6), R197-R206.

The ageing cortical synapse: hallmarks and implications for cognitive decline. Morrison, J. H., & Baxter, M. G. (2012). Nature Reviews. Neuroscience, 13(4), 240-250.

The 5-HT(7) receptor in learning and memory. Roberts, A. J., & Hedlund, P. B. (2012). Hippocampus, 22(4), 762-71.

Interesting Papers for Week 18, 2012 

Different types of feedback change decision criterion and sensitivity differently in perceptual learning. Aberg, K. C., & Herzog, M. H. (2012). Journal of Vision, 12(3), 3.

Polymorphisms in the 5-HTTLPR Gene Mediate Storage Capacity of Visual Working Memory. Anderson, D. E., Bell, T. A., & Awh, E. (2012). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(5), 1069-1076.

Dissociating hippocampal and striatal contributions to sequential prediction learning. Bornstein, A. M., & Daw, N. D. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1011-1023.

Modulating the Precision of Recurrent Bursts in Cultured Neural Networks. Choi, J., Kim, J., Heo, R., & Lee, K. (2012). Physical Review Letters, 108(13), 138103.

How much of reinforcement learning is working memory, not reinforcement learning? A behavioral, computational, and neurogenetic analysis. Collins, A. G. E., & Frank, M. J. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1024-1035.

Habits, action sequences and reinforcement learning. Dezfouli, A., & Balleine, B. W. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1036-1051.

Synaptic Activity Unmasks Dopamine D2 Receptor Modulation of a Specific Class of Layer V Pyramidal Neurons in Prefrontal Cortex. Gee, S., Ellwood, I., Patel, T., Luongo, F., Deisseroth, K., & Sohal, V. S. (2012). Journal of Neuroscience, 32(14), 4959-4971.

Different dorsal striatum circuits mediate action discrimination and action generalization. Hilario, M., Holloway, T., Jin, X., & Costa, R. M. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1105-1114.

Attention and Conscious Perception in the Hypothesis Testing Brain. Hohwy, J. (2012). Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 96.

Controlling Conflict from Interfering Long-term Memory Representations. Jost, K., Khader, P. H., Düsel, P., Richter, F. R., Rohde, K. B., Bien, S., & Rösler, F. (2012). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(5), 1173-1190.

Selective optogenetic stimulation of cholinergic axons in neocortex. Kalmbach, A., Hedrick, T., & Waters, J. (2012). Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(7), 2008-2019.

Approximate Invariance of Metabolic Energy per Synapse during Development in Mammalian Brains. Karbowski, J. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(3), e33425.

Algebraic Geometric Comparison of Probability Distributions. Király, F. J., von Bünau, P., Meinecke, F. C., Blythe, D. A. J., & Müller, K.-R. (2012). Journal of Machine Learning Research, 13(Mar), 855−903.

Neural Mechanisms of Foraging. Kolling, N., Behrens, T. E. J., Mars, R. B., & Rushworth, M. F. S. (2012). Science, 336(6077), 95-98.

A theoretical account of cognitive effects in delay discounting. Kurth-Nelson, Z., Bickel, W., & Redish, A. D. (2012). European Journal of Neuroscience, 35(7), 1052-1064.

Reduced sampling efficiency causes degraded Vernier hyperacuity with normal aging: Vernier acuity in position noise. Li, R. W., Brown, B., Edwards, M. H., Ngo, C. V., Chat, S. W., & Levi, D. M. (2012). Scientific Reports, 2, 300.

The role of passive normalization, voltage-gated channels and synaptic scaling in site-independence of somatic EPSP amplitude in CA1 pyramidal neurons. Moradi, K., Kaka, G., & Gharibzadeh, S. (2012). Neuroscience Research, 73(1), 8-16.

Recurrent interactions in spiking networks with arbitrary topology. Pernice, V., Staude, B., Cardanobile, S., & Rotter, S. (2012). Physical Review E, 85(3), 031916.

Accurate Detection of Interaural Time Differences by a Population of Slowly Integrating Neurons. Vasilkov, V., & Tikidji-Hamburyan, R. (2012). Physical Review Letters, 108(13), 138104.

Relationships between spike-free local field potentials and spike timing in human temporal cortex. Zanos, S., Zanos, T. P., Marmarellis, V., Ojemann, G. A., & Fetz, E. E. (2012). Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(7), 1808-1821.

Interesting Reviews for Week 17, 2012 

GPCR mediated regulation of synaptic transmission. Betke, K. M., Wells, C. A., & Hamm, H. E. (2012). Progress in Neurobiology, 96(3), 304-321.

The role of calcium in synaptic plasticity and motor learning in the cerebellar cortex. Lamont, M. G., & Weber, J. T. (2012). Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(4), 1153-1162.

The role of visual experience for the neural basis of spatial cognition. Pasqualotto, A., & Proulx, M. J. (2012). Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(4), 1179-87.

Decision making under stress: A selective review. Starcke, K., & Brand, M. (2012). Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 36(4), 1248-1228.