A fortnightly journal club on how memory is physically encoded
Graduate students, postdocs, academics, and practitioners across neuroscience, biophysics, psychology, cognitive science, engineering, mathematics, and computer science.
About the Journal Club
Our Neuroscience of Learning and Memory (NLM) Journal Club meets roughly fortnightly, depending on schedules. Meeting invites are sent out via email and Google Calendar. Membership is reserved for neuroscience students, postdocs, and practicing researchers.
We seek to help each other understand the knowns and unknowns in the neuroscience of learning and memory by evaluating classic and recent papers, models, experiments, and open questions. Our focus is the “big question” of what high-level information can eventually be retrieved from high-resolution static connectome imagery and structure–function relationships, and represented in computer simulations.
We are especially interested in the physical and informational bases of perception, encoding, storage, and recall of hippocampal and long-term memories; in high-resolution connectomics; in neural imaging and recording; in engram manipulation tools; and in computational neuroscience.
To encourage frank discussion, we use Chatham House rules — each member is free to use what is discussed, but sources remain confidential unless permission is granted.
Meeting formats
In-depth presentation and discussion of a particular paper (typically more formal).
Comparing two models or techniques (less formal).
A specific educational goal or research question (less formal).
Multiple topics, discussions led by several members (informal).
Open conversation across current questions in the field.
Previous journal clubs
42 meetings — many with recorded videos. Filter by year.
Apply to join
Membership is reserved for neuroscience students, postdocs, and practicing researchers. Students, academics, and practitioners in related fields are welcome to apply.
We review applications individually to keep discussion focused and collegial.