Columbia/NKI Brain Oscillations Journal Club

organized by Charlie Schroeder
administered by Joe Isler

The Brain Oscillations Journal Club consists of a core group of scientists in Charles Schroeder's laboratory and others at the Nathan Kline Institute and researchers in Columbia's Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Pediatrics. We've been meeting weekly since early 2005 to discuss papers relevant to our interests in the mechanisms and functional significance of neuronal membrane potential oscillations, across scales from single cell studies to scalp EEG and MEG.

We meet Wednesdays at 4PM in room 4002 of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Below is a partial roster of members and a list of papers we've discussed with links to their entries in PubMed. To be added to the mailing list, send an email to jri2101@columbia.edu.


Partial list of members
Nathan Kline Institute
Charles Schroeder
Pejman Sehatpour
Manuel Gomez-Ramirez

Columbia Psychiatry
Charles Schroeder
Angel Peterchev
Craig Tenke, Psychophysiology
Alayar Kangarlu

Columbia Pediatrics
Joe Isler
Phil Grieve
Buddy Stark

Columbia Neurology
Ron Emerson
Cathy Schevon

Columbia Neuroscience
Simon Kelly
Papers
  • 15 February 2012
    Theta coupling between V4 and prefrontal cortex predicts visual short-term memory performance Liebe S et al., 2012.


  • 1 February 2012
    Direct electrical stimulation of human cortex - the gold standard for mapping brain functions? Borchers S et al., 2011.

  • 26 January 2012
    What is the Functional Relevance of Prefrontal Cortex Entrainment to Hippocampal Theta Rhythms? Hyman JM et al., 2011.

  • 19 January 2012
    Oscillations in the prefrontal cortex: a gateway to memory and attention Benchenane K et al., 2011.

  • 12 January 2012
    How local is the local field potential? Kajikawa Y and Schroeder CE, 2011.
    Modeling the Spatial Reach of the LFP Linden H et al., 2011.

  • 15 December 2011
    Ready, set, reset: stimulus-locked periodicity in behavioral performance demonstrates the consequences of cross-sensory phase reset Fiebelkorn IC et al., 2011.

  • 8 December 2011
    A 4 Hz oscillation adaptively synchronizes prefrontal, VTA, and hippocampal activities Fujisawa S and Buzsaki G, 2011.

  • 1 December 2011
    Early gamma oscillations synchronize developing thalamus and cortex Minlebaev M et al., 2011.

  • 25 August 2011
    Functional brain network characterization and adaptivity during task practice in healthy volunteers and people with schizophrenia Weiss SA et al., 2011.

  • 18 August 2011
    Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: a widespread cortical phenomenon Churchland MM et al., 2010.

  • 11 August & 28 July 2011
    Neuronal synchrony reveals working memory networks and predicts individual memory capacity Palva JM et al., 2010.

  • 7 July 2011
    Endogenous electric fields may guide neocortical network activity Frohlich F and McCormick DA, 2010.

  • 30 June 2011
    Theta-gamma coupling increases during the learning of item-context associations Tort AB et al., 2009.

  • 9 & 16 June 2011
    The functional role of cross-frequency coupling Canolty RT and Knight RT, 2010.

  • 2 June 2011
    Oscillatory synchronization in large-scale cortical networks predicts perception Hipp JF et al., 2011.

  • 25 May 2011
    Large-scale microelectrode recordings of high-frequency gamma oscillations in human cortex during sleep Le Van Quyen, M et al., 2010.

  • 28 April 2011
    Frequency of gamma oscillations routes flow of information in the hippocampus Colgin, LL et al., 2011.

  • 21 April 2011
    Differences in gamma frequencies across visual cortex restrict their possible use in computation Ray and Maunsell, 2010.

  • 6 April 2011 (note we'll meet on Wednesday one last time in room 4002)
    Spatial spread of the local field potential and its laminar variation in visual cortex Xing, D et al., 2009.

  • 24 March 2011 (note we meet Thursday this week)
    Entrainment of neocortical neurons and gamma oscillations by the hippocampal theta rhythmn Sirota, A et al., 2008.

  • 9 March 2011
    Utility of independent component analysis for interpretation of intracranial EEG Whitmer, D et al., 2010.

  • 2 March 2011
    Local origin of field potentials in visual cortex Katzner S et al., 2009.
    Membrane potential and firing rate in cat primary visual cortex Carandini M and Ferster D, 2000.

  • 8 December 2010
    Local origin of field potentials in visual cortex Katzner S et al., 2009.

  • 1 December 2010
    Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Affects behavior by Biasing Endogenous Cortical Oscillations Hamidi M et al., 2009.

  • 27 & 20 October 2010
    The temporal structures and functional significance of scale-free brain activity He BJ et al., 2010.

  • 13 October 2010
    Special Seminar: Functional brain networks from human ECOG and fMRI data, Mingzhou Ding, PhD

  • 6 October 2010
    Stimulus contrast modulates functional connectivity in visual cortex Nauhaus I et al., 2009.

  • 10 June 2009
    Inhibition-based rhythms: experimental and mathematical observations on network dynamics Whittington MA et al., 2000.
    A beta2-frequency (20-30 Hz) oscillation in nonsynaptic networks of somatosensory cortex Roopun AK et al., 2006.

  • 27 May 2009
    Rhythm generation through period concatenation in rat somatosensory cortex Kramer MA et al., 2008.

  • 15 & 22 April 2009
    Temporal Interactions between Cortical Rhythms Roopun AK et al., 2008.

  • 1 April 2009
    The organizing principles of neuronal avalanches: cell assemblies in the cortex? Plenz D and Thiagarajan TC, 2007.

  • 18 March 2009
    Neuronal avalanches organize as nested theta- and beta/gamma-oscillations during development of cortical layer 2/3 Gireesh ED and Plenz D, 2008.

  • 11 March 2009
    Dynamic cross-frequency couplings of local field potential oscillations in rat striatum and hippocampus during performance of a T-maze task Tort AB et al., 2008.

  • 4 March 2009
    Local origin of field potentials in visual cortex Katzner S et al., 2009.

  • 25 February 2009
    Testing for nested oscillation Penny WD et al., 2008.

  • 18 February 2009
    Sharp edge artifacts and spurious coupling in EEG frequency comodulation measures Kramer MA et al., 2008.

  • 4 February 2009
    Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex Hafting T et al., 2005. (Also continued discussion of Burgess et al., 2007.)

  • 21 & 7 January 2009
    An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing Burgess N et al., 2007.

  • 14 January 2009
    Phase relationship between hippocampal place units and the EEG theta rhythm O'Keefe J and Recce ML, 1993.

  • 3 & 10 December 2008
    Dynamics of event-related causality in brain electrical activity Korzeniewska A et al., 2008.

  • 5 November 2008
    Electrocorticographic gamma activity during word production in spoken and sign language Crone NE et al., 2001.

  • 22 October 2008
    Intelligence and EEG phase reset: a two compartmental model of phase shift and lock Thatcher RW et al., 2008.

  • 15 October 2008
    ECoG gamma activity during a language task: differentiating expressive and receptive speech areas Towel VL et al., 2008.

  • 8 October 2008
    A human intracranial study of long-range oscillatory coherence across a frontal-occipital-hippocampal brain network during visual object processing Sehatpour P et al., 2008.

  • 1 October 2008
    Interhemispheric correlations of slow spontaneous neuronal fluctuations revealed in human sensory cortex Nir Y et al., 2008.

  • 24 September 2008
    Good Vibrations: Cross-frequency Coupling in the Human Nucleus Accumbens during Reward Processing Cohen MX et al., 2008.

  • 17 September 2008
    High-frequency gamma activity (80-150Hz) is increased in human cortex during selective attention Ray S et al., 2008.

  • 20 August 2008
    Effect of stimulus intensity on the spike-local field potential relationship in the secondary somatosensory cortex Ray S et al., 2008.

  • 13 August 2008
    Cross-frequency phase coupling of brain rhythms during the orienting response Isler JR et al., 2008.

  • 23 July 2008
    Very slow EEG fluctuations predict the dynamics of stimulus detection and oscillation amplitudes in humans. Monto S et al., 2008.

  • 16 July 2008
    Mapping the Structural Core of Human Cerebral Cortex Hagmann P et al., 2008.

  • 9 July 2008
    Transient induced gamma-band response in EEG as a manifestation of miniature saccades Yuval-Greenberg S et al., 2008.

  • 2 July 2008
    Reduced Evoked Gamma Oscillations in the Frontal Cortex in Schizophrenia Patients: A TMS/EEG Study Ferrarelli F et al., 2008.

  • 25 June 2008
    Reference-free quantification of EEG spectra: combining current source density (CSD) and frequency principal components analysis (fPCA) Tenke CE and Kayser J, 2005.

  • 11 June 2008
    Phase patterns of neuronal responses reliably discriminate speech in human auditory cortex Luo H and Poeppel D, 2007.

  • 4 June 2008
    Interactions between membrane conductances underlying thalamocortical slow-wave oscillations Destexhe A and Sejnowski TJ, 2003.

  • 14 May 2008
    Reduced spike-timing reliability correlates with the emergence of fast ripples in the rat epileptic hippocampus Foffani G et al., 2007.

  • 7 May 2008
    Dynamic causal modelling of induced responses Chen CC et al., 2008. (note: not in PubMed yet, so link is to Science Direct.)

  • 30 April 2008
    Analysis of LFP phase predicts sensory response of barrel cortex Haslinger R et al., 2006.

  • 23 April 2008
    Topographic localization of electrocortical activation in newborn and two- to four-month-old infants in response to head-up tilting Grieve PG et al., 2005.

    Electrocortical functional connectivity in infancy: response to body tilt Grieve PG et al., 2007.

  • 16 April 2008
    Interictal high-frequency oscillations (100-500 Hz) in the intracerebral EEG of epileptic patients Urrestarazu E et al., 2007.

    Quantitative analysis of high-frequency oscillations (80-500 Hz) recorded in human epileptic hippocampus and entorhinal cortex Staba RJ et al., 2002.

  • 12 March 2008
    Large-scale gamma-band phase synchronization and selective attention Doesburg SM et al., 2007.


    • Some papers prior to March 2008
    The many faces of the gamma band response to complex visual stimuli Lachaux JP et al., 2005.

    Is perception discrete or continuous? VanRullen R and Koch C, 2004.

    A mechanism for cognitive dynamics: neuronal communication through neuronal coherence Fries P, 2005.

    New vistas for alpha-frequency band oscillations Palva S and Palva JM, 2007.