The Brain Club 2008 First Half

2008 First half: April-September 2008

1st(#165) :2008/4/11(Fri): Journal Club

• Spending Money on Others Promotes Happiness.
  Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lara B. Aknin, and Michael I. Norton
  Science 319, 1687-1688. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report K. Mogi

• Chimpanzees Are Rational Maximizers in an Ultimatum Game
  Keith Jensen, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello
  Science 318, 107-109. (2007) [Abstract]
  Report T. Sekine

• Social Comparison Affects Reward-Related Brain Activity in the Human Ventral Striatum
  K. Fliessbach, B. Weber, P. Trautner, T. Dohmen, U. Sunde, C. E. Elger, and A. Falk
  Science 318, 1305-1308. (2007) [Abstract]
  Report T. Sekine

• The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education, Chap. 5: the literate brain
  Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, and Uta Frith
  Blackwell Publishing. (2005) [Link]
  Report M. Toshima

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

2nd(#166) :2008/4/24(Thu): Journal Club

• Knowledge of Visual Attributes in the Right Hemisphere
  Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Ronald Peeters, Katrien Fannes, and Rik Vandenberghe
  Nature Neuroscience 9, 964-970. (2006) [Abstract]
  Report E. Hoshino

• Preparing and Motivating Behavior Outside of Awareness
  Henk Aarts, Ruud Custers, and Hans Marien
  Science 319, 1639. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report H. Takagawa

• Responses to Lightness Variations in Early Human Visual Cortex
  Huseyin Boyaci, Fang Fang, Scott O. Murray, and Daniel Kersten
  Current Biology 17(11), 989-993. (2007) [Abstract]
  Report Q. Zhang

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

3rd(#167) :2008/5/8(Thu): Trip Report

• Wonderful United Kingdom
  Report F. Taya

• The Savant Universe
  Reference: Inside the Mind of a Savant
  Darold A. Treffert and Daniel D. Christensen
  Scientific American 293(6), 108-113. (2005) [PDF]
  Report K. Mogi

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog, THE QUALIA JOURNAL

4th(#168) :2008/5/9(Fri): Joint Workshop: Communication and Decision Making

Joint Workshop collaborated with Oomori lab. and Okada lab. held at Tamagawa University.

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

5th & 6th(#169&170) :2008/5/12-13(Mon&Tue): Discussion

We discussed for the conferences, annual meetings of ASSC and/or SfN.

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog (5/13), (5/14)

7th(#171) :2008/5/14(Fri): Journal Club & Progress Report

• Using Sentence and Picture Clues to Solve Verbal Insight Problems
  Patricia M. Schwert
  Creativity Research Journal 19(2 & 3), 293-306. (2007) [Abstract], [PDF]
  Report M. Kato

• The Perception of Rational, Goal-Directed Action in Nonhuman Primates
  Justin N. Wood, David D. Glynn, Brenda C. Phillips, Marc D. Hauser
  Science 317, 1402-1405. (2007) [Abstract], [PDF]
  Report A. Onzo

• Neural dynamics in human imitation revealed by ERP surface topography
  Fukushima, Hirokata; Hirai, Masahiro; Arita, Akiko; Kamewari, Kazunori; Hiraki, Kazuo
  Neuroreport 15(13), 2129-2132. (2004) [Abstract]
  Progress Report T. Sudo

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

8th(#172) :2008/5/21(Wed): Progress Report & Journal Club

• Review: "One-shot" learning
  Progress Report T. Ishikawa

• Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory
  Edward K. Vogel, Andrew W. McCollough and Maro G. Machizawa
  Nature 438, 500-503. (2005) [Abstract]
  Report F. Taya

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

9th(#173) :2008/5/26(Mon): Journal Club

• Episodic-Like Memory in Rats: Is It Based on When or How Long Ago?
  William A. Roberts, Miranda C. Feeney, Krista MacPherson, Mark Petter,
  Neil McMillan, Evanya Musolino, and Patricia M. Schwert
  Science 320, 113-115. (2007) [Abstract]
  Report F. Tanabe

• Winners don't punish
  Anna Dreber, David G. Rand, Drew Fudenberg, and Martin A. Nowak
  Nature 452, 348-351. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report K. Mogi

• Compatibilism and Scepticism
  In "Free Will: A Very Short Introduction"
  Thomas Pink
  Oxford University Press. (2004) [Link]
  Report K. Mogi

• Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain
  Chun Siong Soon, Marcel Brass, Hans-Jochen Heinze, and John-Dylan Haynes
  Nature Neuroscience 11, 543-545. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report S. Nozawa

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

10th & 11th(#174&175) :2008/6/13, 16(Fri&Mon): Progress report & Discussion

We prepared to make presentations at the upcoming conference, ASSC and discussed about ongoing projects.

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[Conference] :June 19-22, 2008: ASSC 12

Some of us tripped to Taipei for the conference presentation at 12th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Related Link: ASSC 12

12th(#176) :2008/6/27(Fri): Brain Club

Christof Koch and Naotsugu Tsuchiya at Caltech visited our laboratory. Dr. Koch gave us exciting talk. Some of our lab. members also gave them presentation about intersting results of experiments and we disscussed these findings animatedly.

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

13th(#177) :2008/7/1(Tue): Joint Workshop at NCNP

Joint Workshop collaborated with Honda lab. of Department of Cortical Function Disorders held at National Institute of Neuroscience.

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

14th(#178) :2008/7/18(Fri): Journal Club

• Capacity limit of visual short-term memory in human posterior parietal cortex
  J. Jay Todd and René Marois
  Nature 428, 751-754. (2004) [Abstract], [PDF]
  Report E. Hoshino

• Hemispheric specialization of human inferior temporal cortex during coarse-to-fine and fine-to-coarse analysis of natural visual scenes
  Peyrin C, Schwartz S, Seghier M, Michel C, Landis T, and Vuilleumier P.
  Neuroimage 28(2), 464-73. (2005) [Abstract], [Poster]
  Report Q. Zhang

15th(#179) :2008/7/25(Fri): Journal Club

• Measuring consciousness: relating behavioural and neurophysiological approaches
  Seth AK, Dienes Z, Cleeremans A, and Overgaard M, Pessoa L.
  Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(8), 314-321. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report T. Yanagawa

• Self in Time: Imagined Self-Location Influences Neural Activity Related to Mental Time Travel
  Shahar Arzy, Istvan Molnar-Szakacs, and Olaf Blanke
  Journal of Neuroscience 28(25), 6502-6507. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report T. Herai

[Special Meeting] :2008/7/26(Sat): Garden Party at Ueno

We spent a summer evening in a beer garden by the Shinobazu-no-ike(Lotus Pond) at Ueno to enjoy the cool of the evening. We argued heatedly about the contemporary state of neural science, art, and philosophy....

16th(#180) :2008/8/1(Fri): Journal Club

• Emotional Contagion Revisited: Effects of Social Comparison and Expressive Style on Mood Convergence
  Ellen S. Sullins
  Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 17(2), 166-174. (1991) [Abstract]
  Report H. Takagawa

• The Right and the Good: Distributive Justice and Neural Encoding of Equity and Efficiency
  Ming Hsu, Cédric Anen, and Steven R. Quartz
  Science 320, 1092-1095. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report T. Sekine

17th(#181) :2008/8/8(Fri): Journal Club

• Unconscious Masked Priming Depends on Temporal Attention
  Lionel Naccache, Elise Blandin, and Stanislas Dehaene
  Psychological Science 13(5), 416-424. (2002) [Abstract]
  Report M. Kato

• The natural order of events: How speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally
  Susan Goldin-Meadow, Wing Chee So, Aslı Özyürek and Carolyn Mylander
  PNAS 105(27), 9163-9168. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report M. Toshima

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

18th(#182) :2008/8/29(Fri): Journal Club

• A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage
  Ralph Adolphs, Frederic Gosselin, Tony W. Buchanan, Daniel Tranel, Philippe Schyns and Antonio R. Damasio
  Nature 433, 68-72. (2005) [Abstract]
  Report T. Takano (for the first time!)

• How We See Ourselves and How We See Others
  Emily Pronin
  Science 320, 1177-1180. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report A. Onzo

• Social diversity promotes the emergence of cooperation in public goods games
  Francisco C. Santos1, Marta D. Santos and Jorge M. Pacheco
  Nature 454, 213-216. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report K. Mogi

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

19th(#183) :2008/9/1(Mon): Journal Club

• Volitional control of neural activity: implications for brain-computer interfaces
  Eberhard E Fetz
  Journal of Physiology 579(3), 571-579. (2007) [Abstract]
  Report S. Nozawa

• A Hierarchy of Temporal Receptive Windows in Human Cortex
  Uri Hasson, Eunice Yang, Ignacio Vallines, David J. Heeger, and Nava Rubin
  Journal of Neuroscience 28(10), 2539-2550. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report T. Herai

• Egalitarianism in young children
  Ernst Fehr, Helen Bernhard and Bettina Rockenbach
  Nature 454, 1079-1083. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report F. Taya

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

20th(#184) :2008/9/10(Wed): Journal Club & Progress Report

• Graded recall success: an event-related fMRI comparison of tip of the tongue and feeling of knowing
  Anat Marila, Jon S. Simonsa, Josh J. Weavera and Daniel L. Schacter
  NeuroImage 24(4), 1130-1138. (2005) [Abstract]
  Report T. Ishikawa

• The Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learning
  Jeffrey D. Karpicke and Henry L. Roediger, III
  Science 319, 966-968. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report F. Tanabe

T. Takano and Q. Zhang reported their ongoing results and discussed the future research.

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

21st(#185) :2008/9/12(Fri): Journal Club

• Internal brain state regulates membrane potential synchrony in barrel cortex of behaving mice
  James F. A. Poulet and Carl C. H. Petersen
  Nature 454, 881-885. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report T. Yanagawa

• The role of the orbitofrontal cortex in the pursuit of happiness and more specific rewards
  Kathryn A. Burke, Theresa M. Franz, Danielle N. Miller and Geoffrey Schoenbaum
  Nature 454, 340-344. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report Q. Zhang

• Persistence of visual memory for scenes
  David Melcher
  Nature 412, 401. (2001) [Abstract]
  Report E. Hoshino

• Analysis of a spatial orientation memory in Drosophila
  Kirsa Neuser, Tilman Triphan, Markus Mronz, Burkhard Poeck and Roland Strauss
  Nature 453, 1244-1247. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report E. Hoshino

Related Link: Dr. Mogi's blog

22nd(#186) :2008/9/19(Fri): Journal Club

• Imitative Responses and Verbally Reported Emotional Contagion from Spontaneous, Unconscious to Emotionally Regulated, Conscious Information-processing Levels
  Marianne Sonnby-Borgström, Peter Jönsson and Owe Svensson
  Neuro-Psychoanalysis 10, 81-98. (2008) [Abstract]
  Report H. Takagawa

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23rd(#187) :2008/9/24(Wed): Discussion

We reported on progress and discussed research planning or results of ongoing study.

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