Readings for Neurobiology of Animal Cognition

Week 1 & 2

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

Week 3

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 4

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 5

 

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 7

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

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

Week 8

O'Keefe, J. and Dostrovsky, J., 1971. The hippocampus as a spatial map: preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain research.

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

Miller, K.J., Botvinick, M.M. and Brody, C.D., 2017. Dorsal hippocampus contributes to model-based planning. Nature neuroscience, 20(9), pp.1269-1276.

Barron, H.C., Reeve, H.M., Koolschijn, R.S., Perestenko, P.V., Shpektor, A., Nili, H., Rothaermel, R., Campo-Urriza, N., O’Reilly, J.X., Bannerman, D.M. and Behrens, T.E., 2020. Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice. Cell, 183(1), pp.228-243.

Week 10

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 12

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

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

Final projects