Wednesday January 22 – First Day of Classes – A kind of impalpability to this whole business
Friday January 24 – Is your brain a computer?
Monday January 27 – What’s it like to be a bat?
Wednesday January 29 – The problem of qualia
Friday January 31 – Add/Drop Deadline – Philosophy and our mental life
Monday February 3 – Information and Physical Computation – Part 1
Bring Assignment #1 Draft to Class
Wednesday February 5 – Information and Physical Computation – Part 2
Friday February 7 – Marr’s Three Levels of Inquiry
Assignment #1 Due
Monday February 10 – Marr’s Computational Vision
Wednesday February 12 – Neural integrators (e.g.,VOR and head direction)
Friday February 14 – Line attractor networks
Monday February 17 – Continued
Wednesday February 19 – Continued
Friday February 21 – Snow Day
Monday February 24 – Temporal information processing (e.g., interaural time difference coding and sound localization)
Wednesday February 26 – How the brain solves object recognition
Friday February 28 – Continued
Monday March 2 – Discussion of midterm projects
Wednesday March 4 – Genealogy of the “grandmother cell”
Friday March 6 – No class … Email me your midterm project book choice
Spring Break … Reading for midterm project
Covid-19 Spring Break Extension … Continue reading for midterm project
Monday March 23 – Midterm reading complete. Class resumes via Zoom videoconferencing. Here is a link to the Class Discussion Monday March 23
Wednesday March 25 – The recent excitement about neural networks
Friday March 27 – Hebbian synapses and spike-time dependent plasticity (STDP)
Work on midterm projects … these are due in 1 week.
Monday March 30 – Continued discussion of Hebbian synapses and spike-time dependent plasticity (STDP). Example: Our psychiatric future by Nikolas Rose
Wednesday April 1 – Human and artificial intelligence
Friday April 3 – Language is not learned – the transformation of linguistics under Chomsky
Midterm projects due Friday April 3
Monday April 6 – No reading
Wednesday April 8 – The faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?
Friday April 10 – The evolution of language systems in the human brain
Monday April 13 – No reading. Please provide peer-to-peer feedback on midterm projects by Sunday April 12.
Wednesday April 15 – Theory of mind
Friday April 17 – Artificial Intelligence – History
Monday April 20 – No reading. Please have a topic and media chosen for your final project by Sunday April 19. Here is link to google doc where you can share your topic.
Wednesday April 22
Friday April 24
Monday April 27
Wednesday April 29
Friday May 1
Last Day of Classes
9am-12noon Monday May 4
Final project due (target date)
5pm Wednesday May 13
Final projects due (deadline)
Computational Neuroscience 