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Introduction to Computational Neuroscience

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2004

Topics

  • Visual Receptive Fields 2
  • Operant Matching 1
  • Operant Matching 2
  • Games 1
  • Games 2
  • Project Meeting 2
  • Project Meeting 3
  • Project Meeting 4
  • Project Presentations 1
  • Project Presentations 2
  • Ion Channels, Nernst Equation, Passive Electrical Properties of Neurons
  • The Action Potential, Hodgkin-Huxley Model 1
  • Hodgkin-Huxley Model 2
  • A-type Potassium Channels, Calcium-Dependent Potassium Channels
  • Synapses
  • Associative Memory 1
  • Associative Memory 2
  • Decisionmaking
  • Projects
  • Projects (cont.)

Readings

  • We will follow the first six chapters of the book very closely, and the later chapters more sketchily.
    Listed reading
  • Dayan, Peter, and L. F. Abbott. Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262041997.
    Listed reading
  • Wessel, R., C. Koch, and F. Gabbiani. “Coding of time-varying electric field amplitude modulations in a wave-type electric fish.” J of Neurophysiology 75, no. 6 (1996): 2280-93.
    Listed reading
  • Press, William H., Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, and William T. Vetterling. “Fitting Data to a Straight Line.” In Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780521431088.
    Listed reading
  • Press, William H., Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, and William T. Vetterling. “Convolution and Deconvolution Using the FFT.” In Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780521431088.
    Listed reading
  • Optional Lecture 1
    Listed reading
  • Press, William H., Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, and William T. Vetterling. “Correlation and Autocorrelation Using the FFT.” In Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780521431088.
    Listed reading
  • Palmer, Stephen E. Vision Science - Photons to Phenomenology_ ._ Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999, pp. 146-154. ISBN: 9780262161831.
    Listed reading
  • Optional Lecture 2
    Listed reading
  • Optional Lecture 3
    Listed reading
  • Gallistel, C., T. Mark, A. King, and P. Latham. “The Rat Approximates an Ideal Detector of Changes in Rates of Reward.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 27 (2001): 354-372.
    Listed reading
  • Herrnstein, R. “On the Law of Effect.” Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 13, no. 2 (March 1970): 243-266.
    Listed reading
  • Seung, H. S. “Matching and maximizing are two ends of a spectrum of policy search algorithms.” Manuscript (January 2, 2004.) ( PDF ) ↗
    Listed reading
  • Herrnstein, R., and D. Prelec. Melioration: A Theory of Distributed Choice. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 5, no. 3 (Summer, 1991): 137-156.
    Listed reading
  • Lec #: 8 · TOPICS: Games 1 · READINGS: Camerer, Colin F. Behavioral Game Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780691090399.
    Reading assignment
  • Optional Lecture 4
    Listed reading
  • Sanfey, A., J. Rilling, J. Aronson, L. Nystrom, and J. Cohen. “The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game.” Science 300, no. 5626 (June 13, 2003): 1755-8.
    Listed reading
  • Camerer, C. “Strategizing in the Brain.” Science 300, no. 5626 (June 13, 2003): 1673-5.
    Listed reading
  • Johnston, Daniel, and Samuel Miao-Sin Wu. Foundations of Cellular Neurophysiology . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994, chapter 2. ISBN: 9780262161831.
    Listed reading
  • Koch, Christof. Biophysics of Computation, Information Processing in Single Neurons. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780195181999.
    Listed reading
  • Lec #: 19 · TOPICS: A-type Potassium Channels, Calcium-Dependent Potassium Channels · READINGS: Dayan, and Abbott. Section 6.2.
    Reading assignment
  • Lec #: 20 · TOPICS: Synapses · READINGS: Dayan, and Abbott. Section 5.8.
    Reading assignment
  • Optional Lecture 5
    Listed reading
  • Hopfield, J. J. “Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 79: 2554-58.
    Listed reading
  • Miyashita, Y. “Neuronal correlate of visual associative long-term memory in the primate temporal cortex.” Nature 335 (1988): 817-20.
    Listed reading
  • Griniasty, M., M. V. Tsodyks, and D. J. Amit. “Conversion of temporal correlations between stimuli to spatial correlations between attractors.” Neural Comput 5 (1993): 1-17.
    Listed reading
  • Amit, D. J. “The Hebbian paradigm reintegrated: local reverberations as internal representations.” Behav Brain Sci 18 (1995): 617-26.
    Listed reading
  • Nakazawa, K., M. C. Quirk, R. A. Chitwood, et al. “Requirement for Hippocampal CA3 NMDA Receptors in Associative Memory Recall.” Science 297 (2002): 211-218.
    Listed reading
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