Office hours: make an appointment or catch me after the lecture.
In the tutorials we use MatLab and NEURON (a special purpose simulator). No prior experience with either is required, however MatLab skills are valuable for many courses.
More information on
Matlab and how to make graphs and write reports.
Assignment 2 Deadline April Mar 4 at noon.
Week 2; week of Jan 14
Tuesday lecture: Chapter 3: Hodgkin-Huxley
Friday lecture: Chapter 3: Hodgkin-Huxley
Wednesday Practical: 1. The NEURON simulator: Passive properties
Week 3; week of Jan 21
Tuesday lecture: Chapter 4: Synapses
Friday lecture: Chapter 4: Synapses
Wednesday Practical: 2. The NEURON simulator: Hodgkin-Huxley model
Week 4; week of Jan 28
Tuesday lecture: Chapter 5: Integrate and Fire
Friday lecture: Chapter 6: Firing statistics
Wednesday Practical: 3. NEURON: Interactions of synapses on
dendrites
Week 5; week of Feb 4
Tuesday lecture: Chapter 7: Retina and V1
Friday lecture: NO LECTURE
Wednesday Practical: Time to work on assignement
Week 6; week of Feb 11
Tuesday lecture: Chapter 7: Retina and V1
Friday lecture: Chapter 8: Population codes
Wednesday Practical: 4. Matlab: AMPA receptor simulation.
Script (will appear later): ampa.m
Week 7; week of Feb 18
Tuesday lecture: Chapter 8: Coding
Friday lecture: Chapter 9: Higher visual processing
Wednesday Practical: 5. Matlab: Mutual information of a Poisson spiker
Script (will appear later): bits.m
Week 8; week of Feb 25
Tuesday lecture: Chapter 10: Networks
Friday lecture: Chapter 11+12: Decisions
Wednesday Practical: 6. Matlab:
Ben-Yishai network Script: ben2.m
Week 9; week of Mar 3
Tuesday lecture: Chapter 13: Hebbian Learning
Friday lecture: Chapter 13: Hebbian Learning
Wednesday Practical: 7. Matlab: Hebbian learning with
constraints
Script (will appear later):
hebb.m
Week 10; week of Mar 10
Tuesday lecture: Chapter 14: Spike timing dependent plasticity
Friday lecture: no lecture
No practical.
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