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Readings

Readings consist of chapters in the course textbook and assigned papers. In each class, two assigned articles will be presented by students, followed by class discussion.

Textbook

Squire, L. R., and E. R. Kandel. Memory: From Mind to Molecules. New York, NY: Scientific American Library, 2000. ISBN: 0716760371.


Lec # Topics TEXTBOOK READINGS PAPERS
1 Explanation of course requirements and syllabus

H. M. Lecture
Chapter 1 Corkin, S. "What's new with the amnesic patient H.M.?" Nat Rev Neurosci 3, no. 2 (2002): 153-60.
2 Cells and Synapses Chapter 2
3 The Aplysia Model/Habituation Chapter 2 Martin, K. C., A. Casadio, H. Zhu, E. Yaping, J. C. Rose, M. Chen, C. H. Bailey, and E. R. Kandel. "Synapse-specific, long-term facilitation of aplysia sensory to motor synapses: a function for local protein synthesis in memory storage." Cell 91, no. 7 (Dec 26, 1997): 927-38.

Antonov, I., I. Antonova, E. R. Kandel, and R. D. Hawkins. "Activity-dependent presynaptic facilitation and hebbian LTP are both required and interact during classical conditioning in Aplysia." Neuron 37, no. 1 (Jan 9, 2003): 135-47.

Martin, K. C., and Kosik K. S. "Synaptic tagging -- who's it?" Nat Rev Neurosci 3, no. 10 (Oct 2002): 813-20.
4 The Aplysia Model/Sensitization Chapter 2 Sutton, M. A., J. Ide, S. E. Masters, and T. J. Carew. "Interaction between amount and pattern of training in the induction of intermediate - and long-term memory for sensitization in aplysia." Learn Mem 9, no. 1 (Jan-Feb 2002): 29-40.

Cohen, T. E., S. W. Kaplan, E. R. Kandel, and R. D. Hawkins. "A simplified preparation for relating cellular events to behavior: mechanisms contributing to habituation, dishabituation, and sensitization of the Aplysia gill-withdrawal reflex." J Neurosci 17, no. 8 (Apr 15, 1997): 2886-99.

Pittenger, C., and E. R. Kandel. "In search of general mechanisms for long-lasting plasticity: Aplysia and the hippocampus." Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 358, no. 1432 (Apr 29, 2003): 757-63.
5 The Drosophila Model Chapter 3 McGuire, S. E., P. T. Le, and R. L. Davis. "The role of Drosophila mushroom body signaling in olfactory memory." Science 293, no. 5533 (Aug 17, 2001): 1330-3.

Liu, L., R. Wolf, R. Ernst, and M. Heisenberg. "Context generalization in Drosophila visual learning requires the mushroom bodies." Nature 400, no. 6746 (Aug 19, 1999): 753-6.

Heisenberg, M. "Mushroom body memoir: from maps to models." Nat Rev Neurosci 4, no. 4 (Apr 2003): 266-75. (Review.)
6 LTP and the NMDA Receptor Chapter 3 Bliss, T. V. P., and G. L. Collingridge. "A synaptic model of memory: long-term potentiation in the hippocampus." Nature 361, no. 6407 (Jan 1993): 31-9.

Markram, H., J. Lubke, M. Frotscher, and B. Sakmann. "Regulation of synaptic efficacy by coincidence of postsynaptic APs and EPSPs." Science 275, no. 5297 (Jan 10, 1997): 213-5.

Bi, G. Q., and M. M. Poo. "Synaptic modification by correlated activity: Hebb's postulate revisited." Annu Rev Neurosci 24 (2001): 139-166.
7 Synaptic Activity and Remodeling Chapter 3 Turrigiano, G. G., K. R. Leslie, N. S. Desai, L. C. Rutherford, and S. B. Nelson. "Activity-dependent scaling of quantal amplitude in neocortical neurons." Nature 391, no. 6670 (Feb 26, 1998): 892-6.

Passafaro, M., T. Nakagawa, C. Sala, and M. Sheng. "Induction of dendritic spines by an extracellular domain of AMPA receptor subunit GluR2." Nature 424, no. 6949 (Aug 7, 2003): 677-81.

Dudai, Y. "Molecular bases of long-term memories: a question of persistence." Curr Opin Neurobiol 12, no. 2 (Apr 2002): 211-6.
8 Encoding and Storage Chapter 4 Strange, B. A., L. J. Otten, O. Josephs, M. D. Rugg, and R. J. Dolan. "Dissociable human perirhinal, hippocampal, and parahippocampal roles during verbal encoding." J Neurosci 22, no. 2 (Jan 15, 2002): 523-8.
9 Retrieval and Forgetting Chapter 4 Dobbins, I. G., H. J. Rice, A. D. Wagner, and D. L. Schacter. "Memory orientation and success: separable neurocognitive components underlying episodic recognition." Neuropsychologia 41, no. 3 (2003): 318-33.

Levy, B. J., and M. C. Anderson. "Inhibitory processes and the control of memory retrieval." Trends Cogn Sci 6, no. 7 (Jul 1, 2002): 299-305.
10 Dynamics of the Hippocampal Ensemble Code for Space Chapter 6 Wilson, M. A., and B. L. McNaughton. "Dynamics of the hippocampal ensemble code for space." Science 261, no. 5124 (Aug 20, 1993): 1055-8.

Nakazawa, K., M. C. Quirk, R. A. Chitwood, M. Watanabe, M. F. Yeckel, L. D. Sun, A. Kato, C. A. Carr, D. Johnston, M. A. Wilson, and S. Tonegawa. "Requirement for hippocampal CA3 NMDA receptors in associative memory recall." Science 297, no. 5579 (Jul 12, 2002): 211-8.
11 Trajectory Encoding in the Hippocampus and Entorhinal Cortex Chapter 6 Mehta, M. R., A. K. Lee, and M. A. Wilson. "Role of experience and oscillations in transforming a rate code into a temporal code." Nature 417, no. 6890 (Jun 13, 2002): 741-6.

Mednick, S. C., K. Nakayama, J. L. Cantero, M. Atienza, A. A. Levin, N. Pathak, and R. Stickgold. "The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration." Nat Neurosci 5, no. 7 (Jul 2002): 677-81.

Maquet, P. "The role of sleep in learning and memory." Science 294, no. 5544 (Nov 2, 2001): 1048-52.

Mehta, M. R., M. C. Quirk, and M. A. Wilson. "Experience-dependent asymmetric shape of hippocampal receptive fields." Neuron 25, no. 3 (Mar 2000): 707-15.
12 Temporally Structured Replay of Awake Hippocampal Ensemble Activity During Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Chapter 6 Louie, K., and M. A. Wilson. "Temporally structured replay of awake hippocampal ensemble activity during rapid eye movement sleep." Neuron 29, no. 1 (Jan 2001): 145-56.

Frank, M. G., N. P. Issa, and M. P. Stryker. "Sleep enhances plasticity in the developing visual cortex." Neuron 30, no. 1 (Apr 2001): 275-87.

Stickgold, R., J. A. Hobson, R. Fosse, and M. Fosse. "Sleep, learning, and dreams: off-line memory reprocessing." Science 294, no. 5544 (Nov 2, 2001): 1052-7.

Nakazawa, K., L. D. Sun, M. C. Quirk, L. Rondi-Reig, M. A. Wilson, and S. Tonegawa. "Hippocampal CA3 NMDA receptors are crucial for memory acquisition of one-time experience." Neuron 38, no. 2 (Apr 24, 2003): 305-15.

Frank, L. M., E. N. Brown, and M. Wilson. "Trajectory encoding in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex." Neuron 27, no. 1 (Jul 2000): 169-78.

Moser, E. I., and O. Paulsen. "New excitement in cognitive space: between place cells and spatial memory." Curr Opin Neurobiol 11, no. 6 (Dec 2001): 745-51.
13 Mid-term Test Chapters 1-4, 6, and required readings
14 Short-term Memory, Immediate Memory, and Working Memory Chapter 5 Wallis, J. D., K. C. Anderson, and E. K. Miller. "Single neurons in prefrontal cortex encode abstract rules." Nature 411, no. 6840 (Jun 21, 2001): 953-6.

Petrides, M. "Dissociable roles of mid-dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior inferotemporal cortex in visual working memory." J Neurosci 20, no. 19 (Oct 1, 2001): 7496-503.

Baddeley, A. "Working memory: looking back and looking forward." Nat Rev Neurosci 4, no. 10 (Oct 2003): 829-39.
15 Semantic and Episodic Memory and Amnesia Chapter 5 Teng, E., and L. R. Squire. "Memory for places learned long ago is intact after hippocampal damage." Nature 400, no. 6745 (Aug 12, 1999): 675-7.

Chun, M. M., and E. A. Phelps. "Memory deficits for implicit contextual information in amnesic subjects with hippocampal damage." Nat Neurosci 2, no. 9 (Sep 1999): 844-7.
16 Animal Models of Amnesia Chapter 5 Wirth, S., M. Yanike, L. M. Frank, A. C. Smith, E. N. Brown, and W. A. Suzuki. "Single neurons in the monkey hippocampus and learning of new associations." Science 300, no. 5625 (Jun 6, 2003): 1578-81.

Malkova, L., M. Mishkin. "One-trial memory for object-place associations after separate lesions of hippocampus and posterior parahippocampal region in the monkey." J Neurosci 23, no. 5 (Mar 1, 2003): 1956-65.
17 Perceptual Learning Chapter 8 Karni, A., D. Tanne, B. S. Rubenstein, J. J. Askenasy, and D. Sagi. "Dependence on REM sleep of overnight improvement of a perceptual skill." Science 265, no. 5172 (Jul 29, 1994): 679-82.

Fahle, M., and I. Daum. "Perceptual learning in amnesia." Neuropsychologia 40, no. 8 (2002): 1167-72.
18 Emotional Learning Chapter 8 Canli, T., Z. Zhao, J. Brewer, J. D. Gabrieli, and L. Cahill. "Event-related activation in the human amygdala associates with later memory for individual emotional experience." J Neurosci 20, no. 19 (Oct 1, 2000): RC99.

Buchanan, T. W., and W. R. Lovallo. "Enhanced memory for emotional material following stress-level cortisol treatment in humans." Psychoneuroendocrinology 26, no. 3 (Apr 2001): 307-17.

Cahill, L., and J. L. McGaugh. "Modulation of memory storage." Curr Opin Neurobiol 6, no. 2 (Apr 1996): 237-42.
19 Priming Chapter 8 van Turennout, M., L. Bielamowicz, and A. Martin. "Modulation of neural activity during object naming: effects of time and practice." Cereb Cortex 13, no. 4 (Apr 2003): 381-91.

Henson, R., T. Shallice, and R. Dolan. "Neuroimaging evidence for dissociable forms of repetition priming." Science 287, no. 5456 (Feb 18, 2000): 1269-72.
20 From STM to LTM Chapter 7
21 From STM to LTM (cont.) Chapter 7 Lee, A. K., and M. A. Wilson. "Memory of sequential experience in the hippocampus during slow wave sleep." Neuron 36, no. 6 (Dec 19, 2002): 1183-94.

Mednick, S. C., K. Nakayama, J. L. Cantero, M. Atienza, A. A. Levin, N. Pathak, and R. Stickgold. "The restorative effect of naps on perceptual deterioration." Nat Neurosci 5, no. 7 (Jul 2002): 677-81.

Maquet, P. "The role of sleep in learning and memory." Science 294, no. 5544 (Nov 2, 2001): 1048-52.
22 From STM to LTM (cont.) Chapter 7 Louie, K., and M. A. Wilson. "Temporally structured replay of awake hippocampal ensemble activity during rapid eye movement sleep." Neuron 29, no. 1 (Jan 2001): 145-56.

Frank, M. G., N. P. Issa, and M. P. Stryker. "Sleep enhances plasticity in the developing visual cortex." Neuron 30, no. 1 (Apr 2001): 275-87.

Stickgold, R., J. A. Hobson, R. Fosse, and M. Fosse. "Sleep, learning, and dreams: off-line memory reprocessing." Science 294, no. 5544 (Nov 2, 2001): 1052-7.
23 Memory for Skills and Habits Chapter 9 Willingham, D. B., J. Salidis, and J. D. Gabrieli. "Direct comparison of neural systems mediating conscious and unconscious skill learning." J Neurophysiol 88, no. 3 (Sep 2002): 1451-60.

Knowlton, B. J., L. R. Squire, J. S. Paulsen, N. R. Swerdlow, M. Swenson, and N. Butters. "Dissociations within nondeclarative memory in Huntington's disease."N Neuropsychology 10, no. 4 (Oct 1996): 538-548.
24 Conditioning Chapter 9 Welzl, H., P. D'Adamo, and H. P. Lipp. "Conditioned taste aversion as a learning and memory paradigm." Behav Brain Res 125, nos. 1-2 (Nov 1, 2001): 205-13.

Gottfried, J. A., J. O'Doherty, and R. J. Dolan. "Appetitive and aversive olfactory learning in humans studied using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging." J Neurosci 22, no. 24 (Dec 15, 2002): 10829-37.
25 Modifying the Brain through Experience Chapter 10 Moore, C. I., C. E. Stern, C. Dunbar, S. K. Kostyk, A. Gehi, and S. Corkin. "Referred phantom sensations and cortical reorganization after spinal cord injury in humans." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97, no. 26 (Dec 19, 2000): 14703-8.

Wang, X., M. M. Merzenich, K. Sameshima, and W. M. Jenkins. "Remodelling of hand representation in adult cortex determined by timing of tactile stimulation." Nature 378, no. 6552 (Nov 2, 1995): 71-5.
26 Age-Related Memory Loss, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Alzheimer's Disease Chapter 10 Killiany, R. J., B. T. Hyman, T. Gomez-Isla, M. B. Moss, R. Kikinis, F. Jolesz, R. Tanzi, K. Jones, and M. S. Albert. "MRI measures of entorhinal cortex vs hippocampus in preclinical AD." Neurology 58, no. 8 (Apr 23, 2002): 1188-96.

Logan, J. M., A. L. Sanders, A. Z. Snyder, J. C. Morris, and R. L. Buckner. "Under-recruitment and nonselective recruitment: dissociable neural mechanisms associated with aging." Neuron 33, no. 5 (Feb 28, 2002): 827-40.

Small, S. A., W. Y. Tsai, R. DeLaPaz, R. Mayeux, and Y. Stern. "Imaging hippocampal function across the human life span: is memory decline normal or not?" Ann Neurol 51, no. 3 (Mar 2002): 290-5.
27 Final Examination Chapters 5, 7-10, and required readings