Cognitive Neuroscience Journal Club
Fall 2012 - Schedule of Meetings
Unless otherwise noted, all meetings will be held weekly on Mondays from 12:00-1:00pm in the Arch Lab Conference Room.
(Click here to see an archive of our past meetings)
September 10, 2012 (Paper Discussion Week)
Development and Attention
Leading discussion: Wendy Baccus
Posner, Michael I. (2012). Imaging Attention Networks. Neuroimage, 61, 450-456.
September 17, 2012 (Paper Discussion Week)
Disorders of Attention
Leading discussion: Sarah Dziura
Hanna Mulder MSc, Nicola J. Pitchford, Martin S. Hagger & Neil Marlow (2009). Development of Executive Function and Attention in Preterm Children: A Systematic Review. Developmental Neuropsychology, 34:4, 393-421
September 24, 2012 (Paper Discussion Week)
The Role of Executive Control and Attention
Leading discussion: George Buzzell
Fair et al. (2007). Development of distinct control networks through segregation and integration. PNAS, 104(33), 13507–13512.
October 1, 2012 (Paper Discussion Week)
Inattention
Leading discussion: Chris Cooper
F. Xavier Castellanos; Patti P. Lee; Wendy Sharp; et al. (2002). Developmental Trajectories of Brain Volume Abnormalities in Children and Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. JAMA, 288(14), 1740-1748.
November 5, 2012 (Paper Discussion Week)
Long-Term Memory Consolidation
Leading discussion: Kristine Siembieda and David Revilla
Squire, L.R., & Wixted, J.T. (2011). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Memory Since H.M. Annual Rev Neurosci, 34, 259–288.
November 12, 2012 (Paper Discussion Week)
Autobiographical Memory
Leading discussion: David Hawkins
Cabeza, R., & St. Jacques, P. (2007). Functional neuroimaging of autobiographical memory. TICS, 11(5), 219-227.
November 19, 2012 (Paper Discussion Week)
Long-Term Memory and Sleep
Leading discussion: Melissa Scheldrup and Dan Roberts
Diekelmann, S., & Born, J. (2010). The memory function of sleep. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11, 114-126.
November 26, 2012
No Cognitive Neuroscience Journal Club meeting. Instead, the Students in Neuroscience group is hosting Dr. Avrama Blackwell for a talk entitled "Dopamine, Parkinson's Disease, & Habit Learning" at 1:30 PM in the Arch Lab Conference Room. RSVP to Lorenzo Bozzelli (pbozzell@masonlive.gmu.edu) if interested.