Biology of Memory in Mammals: Processes, Developmental Evolution, Diseases

(4 Credits)

This course will present the fundamentals of the fields of sensory perception, and an introduction to sequential decisions and reinforcement learning as it applies to navigation. The emphasis is on understanding core principles and ideas about how neural systems work and how we can start to understand how neural activity gives rise to behavior. There will be lectures with background mandatory reading, mostly reviews or classical papers. Course material does not come from textbooks, thus attendance is mandatory and critical for success in the course. Simply memorizing facts without a deep understanding will generally not yield good performance.