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SUMMARY:Computational Neuroscience Journal Club - Alejandro Tabas and Theo
 klitos Amvrosiadis
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CONTACT:Luke Johnston
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our fortnightly Computational Neuroscience 
 journal club on Tuesday 25th April at 2pm UK time in the CBL seminar room\
 , or online on zoom. The title is ‘Non-necessary activity in cortex’\,
  presented by Alejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis.\n\nSummary:\n\nN
 europhysiologists often hypothesise that neural tuning to animal choices i
 n decision making experiments indicates that the studied cortical area pla
 ys a causal role in task performance. In this journal club we will discuss
  several studies that challenge this assumption. We will first discuss two
  studies showing that animal decisions can be decoded from cortical areas 
 whose deactivation does not impair or alter behavioural performance. We wi
 ll then examine the role that uninstructed movements plays in the generati
 on of this so-called non-necessary activity.\n\nReferences:\n\nTremblay\, 
 S.\, Testard\, C.\, Inchauspé\, J\, Petrides\, M. Non-necessary neural ac
 tivity in the primate cortex. bioRxiv 2022.09.12.506984\; https://doi.org/
 10.1101/2022.09.12.506984\n\nKatz\, L.\, Yates\, J.\, Pillow\, J. et al. D
 issociated functional significance of decision-related activity in the pri
 mate dorsal stream. Nature 535\, 285–288 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038
 /nature18617\n\nTremblay\, S.\, Testard\, C.\, DiTullio\, R.W. et al. Neur
 al cognitive signals during spontaneous movements in the macaque. Nat Neur
 osci 26\, 295–305 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01220-4\n\n
 Musall\, S.\, Kaufman\, M.T.\, Juavinett\, A.L. et al. Single-trial neural
  dynamics are dominated by richly varied movements. Nat Neurosci 22\, 1677
 –1686 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0502-4
LOCATION:In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom
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