When

*** THIS CLASS WILL NOT BE OFFERED IN THE FALL 2012 TERM ***

Where

Broad 200 (2nd floor conference room)
   

What

Introduction to current research and types of projects done in Computation and Neural Systems labs.
Each class will be dedicated to a different scientist's work, their recent publications, and the current projects available in their fields of research.
   

Head Professor

Christof Koch
   

TA

Yazan Billeh

   

Grading
  • Pass/Fail
  • 9 points required to pass the class
  • Students earn one point for each lecture they attend
  • Students can earn make-up points by:
    a. Asking for one or two relevant papers to read from a missed lecture
    b. Informing Erik when those papers have been read
    c. At most two lectures can be missed
   

Syllabus

Wed 09.28

Colin Camerer

Supplementary Readings: Shared visual attention reduces hindsight bias

Wed 10.05

Pietro Perona

Supplementary Readings: Optimal reward harvesting in complex perceptual environments, The multidimensional wisdom of crowds, High-throughput ethomics in large groups of drosophilia

Wed 10.12

Peter Bossaerts

Supplementary Readings: Decision neuroscience and financial decision Making (review), Reward correlations in the human brain

Wed 10.19

Doris Tsao

Supplementary Readings: Mechanisms of face perception (review), A cortical region consisting entirely of face-selective cells

Wed 10.26

Ralph Adolphs

Supplementary Readings: The amygdala and social cognition (review), The amygdala and personal space, Cells selective for whole faces in the human amygdala

Wed 11.02

Christof Koch

Supplementary Readings: Ephaptic coupling of cortical neurons

Wed 11.09

Thanos Siapas

Supplementary Readings: Decoupling through synchrony Hippocampal theta oscillations are travelling waves

Wed 11.16

David Anderson

Supplementary Readings: Genetic dissection of an amygdala microcircuit that gates conditioned fear Functional identification of an aggression locus in the mouse hypothalamus

TUES 11.29

Henry Lester

Supplementary Readings: Neural Systems Governed by Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (review)

Wed 11.30

John O'Doherty

Supplementary Readings: Two reviews on model-based fMRI and its application to reward learning and decision making - Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
 
 

Note

First-year CNS graduate students will have lunch at the Athenaeum every week with the corresponding faculty member. Please email Erik Schomburg () to subscribe.