15-883 Computational Models of Neural Systems

           Provisional Lecture Assignments

Redish/Touretzky (CS)
02/03   2.4 Hippocampus as a cognitive map

Nikovski (RI) and Rohde (CS) 
02/05   2.5 Pattern completion/separation (O'Reilly and McClelland)
02/10   2.6 Pattern completion/separation (Hasselmo)
02/12   2.6 Phase precession

Uther (CS), Broadhead (LTI), Berzhanskaya(Neurosci) 
02/17  3.1 Learning rules
02/19  3.2 LTP/NMDA
02/24  3.3 Invertebrate learning

Touretzky, Czuba (LTI), Heffernan (CS)
02/26  4.1 Cerebellar anatomy
03/05  4.2 Table lookup models
03/10  4.3 Motor learning

Saksida(RI), Lapata (LTI), Brandt (CS)

03/12  5.1 Rescorla-Wagner
03/17  4.4 Cerebellum and conditioning
03/19  5.2 Predictive Hebbian Learning

Touretzky, Jang (LTI)
03/31  6.1 BG anatomy
04/02  6.2 BG models


Goodridge (CNBC), Zitnick (RI), Tolliver (CS)
04/07 7.1 Population Vectors and the Motor System
04/09 7.2 Attractor Model of the Rodent Head Direction System (Goodridge)
04/14 7.3 Coordinate Transformations in Parietal Cortex (Zitnick)
04/16 7.4 The Nervous System of C. Elegans (Tolliver)

Feidler (CNBC), Pan (LIS), Clark (LTI)
04/21 8.1 Neuroanatomy of the Visual System
04/23 8.2 Ocular Dominance and Orientation Columns in V1 (Pan)
04/28 8.3 Direction Selectivity in V1 (Feidler)
04/30 8.4 A Microcircuit for Visual Cortex (Clark)