Final exam
Your final exam will be to write one referee’s report and
one commentary, each on a different paper assigned by the faculty at the end of
the course. The ground rules are
identical to those for the weekly homework assignments. A detailed description of the guidelines for
the two formats can be found here.
Links to the papers appear below. Your
write-ups are due on Monday, May 4 by 10am.
Please e-mail them to Andy as per usual with the following labeling
convention: 204_Final_
For example, if Barb Smith chose to write her
commentary on the Ling & Carrasco paper, it would be
Commentaries (choose one):
Quian Quiroga R, Reddy
L, Kreiman G, Koch C & Fried I (2005) "Invariant visual representation
by single neurons in the human brain." Nature,
435:1102-1107. [pdf]
Ling S & Carrasco
M (2006) "When sustained attention impairs perception." Nat. Neurosci., 9:1243-1245. [pdf]
von Dassow G, Meir E,
Munro EM & Odell GM (2000) "The segment polarity network is a robust
developmental module." Nature, 406:188-192. [pdf]
Micheva KD & Smith
SJ (2007) "Array tomography: A new tool for imaging the molecular
architecture and ultrastructure of neural circuits." Neuron, 55:25-36. [pdf]
Gollisch T &
Meister M (2008) "Rapid neural coding in the retina with relative spike
latencies." Science, 319:1108-1111. [pdf]
Referee's
Report (choose one):
Yamane Y, Carlson ET,
Bowman KC, Wang Z & Connor C (2008) "A neural code for
three-dimensional object shape in macaque inferotemporal cortex." Nat Neurosci., 11:1352-60. [pdf]
Lee S-H, Blake R,
& Heeger DJ (2007) "Hierarchy of cortical responses underlying
binocular rivalry." Nat Neurosci.,
10:1048-1054. [pdf]
Sundberg KA, Mitchell
JF & Reynolds JH (2009) "Spatial attention modulates center-surround
interactions in macaque visual area V4." Neuron, 61:952-963. [pdf]
Wickersham IR, Lyon
DC, Bamard RJO, Mori T, Finke S, Conzelmann K-K, Young JAT & Callaway EM
(2007) Monosynaptic restriction of transsynaptic tracing from single,
genetically targeted neurons." Neuron,
53:639-647. [pdf]
Verhagen JV, Wesson
DW, Netoff TI, White JA & Wachowiak M (2007) "Sniffing controls an
adaptive filter of sensory input to the olfactory bulb." Nat. Neurosci., 10:631-639. [pdf]
Good Luck!