NB204 Final Exam

Handed out: 30 April 2008; DUE: 14 May 2008

Please choose one article from each of the two categories below and write the corresponding type of paper. The format for each of these is identical to that for your normal, weekly write-ups, including the recommended word limits. NOTE: The double listing of Kim et al. (2008) means that you can choose to write either a referee’s report or a commentary. But you may not write both types on this one paper and have it count for two write-ups. Please e-mail both papers to Andy (andreasliu[at]gmail.com).

Commentary

Fiorillo CD, Tobler PN and Schultz W (2003) Discrete coding of reward probability and uncertainty by dopamine neurons. Science. 299:1898-1902.

Kim I, Zhang Y, Yamagata M, Meister M and Sanes JR (2008) Molecular identification of a retinal cell type that responds to upward motion. Nature. 452:478-484.

Law C and Gold JI (2008) Neural correlates of perceptual learning in a sensory-motor, but not a sensory, cortical area. Nat. Neurosci. 11:505-513.

Micheva KD and Smith SJ (2007) Array tomography: a new tool for imaging the molecular architecture and ultrastructure of neural circuits. Neuron. 55:25-36.

Verhagen JV, Wesson DW, Netoff TI, White JA and Wachowiak M (2007) Sniffing controls an adaptive filter of sensory input to the olfactory bulb. Nat. Neurosci. 10:631-639.

Yang, T., and M. N. Shadlen (2007) Probabilistic reasoning by neurons. Nature 447:1075-1080.

Referee's Report

Luo M and Katz LC (2001) Response correlation maps of neurons in the mammalian olfactory bulb, Neuron. 32:1165-79.

Kawagoe R, Takikawa Y and Hikosaka O (1998) Expectation of reward modulates cognitive signals in the basal ganglia. Nat. Neurosci. 1:411-416.

Kim I, Zhang Y, Yamagata M, Meister M and Sanes JR (2008) Molecular identification of a retinal cell type that responds to upward motion. Nature. 452:478-484.

Leingärtner A, Thuret S, Kroll TT, Chou S-J, Leasure JL, Gage FH, and O’Leary DM (2007) Cortical area size dictates performance at modality-specific behaviors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 104:4153-4158.

Palmer, C., S. Y. Cheng, and E. Seidemann (2007) Linking neuronal and behavioral performance in a reaction-time visual detection task. J. Neurosci. 27:8122-8137.