Thursday January 23 – First Day of Classes – A kind of impalpability to this whole business
Tuesday January 28 – Is your brain a computer?
Thursday January 30 – What’s it like to be a bat?
Friday January 31 – Last day to add/drop
Tuesday February 4 – Philosophy and our mental life, The problem of qualia, and The organization of the brain.
Thursday February 6 – Information, representation, and physical computation
Tuesday February 11 – Marr’s Three Levels of Inquiry
Thursday February 13 – Neural integrators (e.g.,VOR and head direction) – Part 1
Tuesday February 18 – Neural integrators (e.g.,VOR and head direction) – Part 2
Thursday February 20 – W&M Closed for Winter Storm Kingston
Tuesday February 25 – Line attractor network (or how the brain keeps the eyes still)
Thursday Febrary 27 – Attractor and integrator networks in the brain. [PDF]
Tuesday March 4 – Temporal information processing (e.g., interaural time difference coding and sound localization).
Thursday March 6 – Feature detectors – What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain and Genealogy of the “grandmother cell”
March 8 – 16 Spring Break … nothing assigned.
Tuesday March 18 – Welcome back!
Thursday March 20 – The recent excitement about neural networks
Tuesday March 25 – Hebbian synapses and spike-time dependent plasticity (STDP)
Thursday March 27 – Synaptic scaling and synaptic computation
Tuesday April 1 – Thalamus: Firing model and synaptic interactions
Wednesday April 2 – Final project proposals target date
Thursday April 3 – EEG, local field potentials Hippocampal place cells
Tuesday April 8 – Hippocampal place cells
Thursday April 10 – Olfactory coding
Tuesday April 15 – Language is not learned – Linguistics turned computational with Chomsky
Thursday April 17 – Theory of mind
Tuesday April 22 – No assignment before class. Work on your final project.
Thursday April 24 – No assignment before class. Work on your final project.
Tuesday April 29 – No assignment before class. Work on your final project.
Thursday May 1 – Last Day of Classes
Wednesday, May 14 – Final projects due
Computational Neuroscience 