Thursday January 17
First Day of Classes
A kind of impalpability to this whole business
Tuesday January 22
What’s It Like to Be a Bat?
Tuesday January 29
Philosophy and Our Mental Life
Thursday January 31
Marr’s Three Levels of Inquiry
Tuesday February 5
Marr’s Computational Vision
Thursday February 7
Information and Physical Computation
Tuesday February 12
Neural integrators (e.g.,VOR and head direction)
Thursday February 14
Line attractor networks
Tuesday February 19
Temporal information processing
(e.g., interaural time difference coding
and sound localization)
Thursday February 21
Evolutionary trends in directional hearing
Tuesday February 26
How the brain solves object recognition
Thursday February 28
Neural Networks and Grandmother Cells
Tuesday March 5
Spring Break
Thursday March 7
Spring Break
Tuesday March 12
Octopus reading complete
Thursday March 14
Neuroethology of olfaction
Tuesday March 19
Cephalopod escape and defense
Mid term projects due
Thursday March 21
Cephalopod brains
Tuesday March 26
Hebbian synapses and STDP
Thursday March 28
Synaptic scaling and redistribution
Tuesday April 2
Guest lecture: Dan Borrus on breathing,
the preBötC, eupnea, and sighs.
Thursday April 4
Hippocampal place cells
Tuesday April 9
Chomsky: language is not learned – part 1
Final project proposals due
Thursday April 11
Chomsky: language is not learned – part 2
Tuesday April 16
Chomsky without language
Thursday April 18
Theory of Mind
Tuesday April 23
Artificial Intelligence – part 1
Thursday April 25
Artificial Intelligence – part 2
Last Day of Classes
Tuesday May 7
Final projects due
Computational Neuroscience 