Computational Neuroscience
a 400-level discussion/capstone course at William & Mary
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Calendar – Spring 2025
Foundations
A kind of impalpability to this whole business
Is the brain a computer?
What’s it like to be a bat?
The problem of qualia
Philosophy and our mental life
Information, representation, and physical computation
Marr’s three levels of inquiry
Neural Computations
Neural integrators (e.g., the vestibulo-ocular reflex and head direction cells)
Line attractor networks (or how the brain keeps the eyes still)
Temporal information processing (e.g., interaural time difference coding and sound localization)
Evolutionary trends in directional hearing
Feature detectors – What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain
The recent excitement about neural networks
Object Recognition
Hebbian synapses and spike-timing-dependent plasticity
Hippocampal place cells
Olfactory coding
Olfactory network dynamics
Synaptic scaling and synaptic computation
Cephalopod brains and behavior
Synaptic Learning Rules – Cerebellum
Basal ganglia and action selection
Biosonar
Resources
Readings
Books
Links
Courses
Movies
Themes
Language is not learned – linguistics turned computational with Chomsky
The faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how did it evolve?
The evolution of language systems in the human brain
Chomsky without language: Are there perceptual-cognitive universals?
Theory of mind
History of AI and story understanding
Consciousness without cortex
Evolution of human cognition
Social Intelligence
Thought beyond words
Projects
Spring 2025
Spring 2025 Final Project Statement
Spring 2023
Spring 2023 – Midterm Project
Spring 2020
Spring 2020 Midterm Project Statement
Spring 2020 Midterm Projects – Peer-to-peer discussion
Spring 2020 Final Project Statement
Spring 2020 Final Projects
Spring 2018
Example Midterm Projects
Example Term Projects
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