Readings for Neurobiology of Animal Cognition

Week 1 &

Optional Background

Kandel, E.R., 2001. Nobel Lecture: the molecular biology of memory storage: a dialog between genes and synapses. PDF VIDEO NOTE: Please read pages 392 - 403; 430-432, you can skip/skim the rest

Brenner, S., 2003. Nobel lecture: nature's gift to science.  PDF VIDEO

Von Frisch, K., 1967. The dance language and orientation of bees. Chapter 1. PDF

Benzer, S., 1971. From the gene to behavior. Jama, 218(7), pp.1015-1022. PDF

Brainard, M.S. and Doupe, A.J., 2002. What songbirds teach us about learning. Nature, 417(6886), pp.351-358.

Week 2

Dave, A.S. and Margoliash, D., 2000. Song replay during sleep and computational rules for sensorimotor vocal learning. Science, 290(5492), pp.812-816. PDF

Hahnloser, R.H., Kozhevnikov, A.A. and Fee, M.S., 2002. An ultra-sparse code underliesthe generation of neural sequences in a songbird. Nature, 419(6902), pp.65-70.

Week 3

Ölveczky, B.P., Andalman, A.S. and Fee, M.S., 2005. Vocal experimentation in the juvenile songbird requires a basal ganglia circuit. PLoS biology, 3(5), p.e153. WEB

Andalman, A.S. and Fee, M.S., 2009. A basal ganglia-forebrain circuit in the songbird biases motor output to avoid vocal errors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(30), pp.12518-12523. PDF

Week 4

 

Schultz, W., Dayan, P. and Montague, P.R., 1997. A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science, 275(5306), pp.1593-1599. PDF

Gadagkar, V., Puzerey, P.A., Chen, R., Baird-Daniel, E., Farhang, A.R. and Goldberg, J.H., 2016. Dopamine neurons encode performance error in singing birds. Science, 354(6317), pp.1278-1282. WEB

Week 5

Tolman, E.C., 1948. Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological review, 55(4), p.189. PDF

Week 6

Dusek, J.A. and Eichenbaum, H., 1997. The hippocampus and memory for orderly stimulus relations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94(13), pp.7109-7114. PDF

Foster, D.J. and Wilson, M.A., 2006. Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature, 440(7084), p.680. PDF

Week 9

Clayton, N.S. and Dickinson, A., 1998. Episodic-like memory during cache recovery by scrub jays. Nature, 395(6699), pp.272-274.

Payne, H.L., Lynch, G.F. and Aronov, D., 2021. Neural representations of space in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird. Science, 373(6552), pp.343-348.

Week 10

Chettih SN*, Mackevicius EL*, Hale S, Aronov D. (2024) Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird. Cell 187(8): 1922-35.

Week 11

Shepard, R.N. and Metzler, J., 1971. Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171(3972), pp.701-703. PDF

Georgopoulos, A.P., Lurito, J.T., Petrides, M., Schwartz, A.B. and Massey, J.T., 1989. Mental rotation of the neuronal population vector. Science, 243(4888), pp.234-236. PDF

Gutnick, T., Rokhsar, D.S. and Kuba, M.J., 2023. Cephalopod behaviour. Current Biology, 33(20), pp.R1083-R1086.

Week 12

Albertin, C.B. and Katz, P.S., 2023. Evolution of cephalopod nervous systems. Current Biology, 33(20), pp.R1087-R1091.

Week 13

Weissbourd, B., Momose, T., Nair, A., Kennedy, A., Hunt, B. and Anderson, D.J., 2021. A genetically tractable jellyfish model for systems and evolutionary neuroscience. Cell, 184(24), pp.5854-5868.

Pophale, A., Shimizu, K., Mano, T., Iglesias, T.L., Martin, K., Hiroi, M., Asada, K., Andaluz, P.G., Van Dinh, T.T., Meshulam, L. and Reiter, S., 2023. Wake-like skin patterning and neural activity during octopus sleep. Nature, pp.1-6.

Week 14

Laurent, G.: On the value of model diversity in neuroscience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 21 (8), pp. 395 - 396 (2020)