MATLAB
Some of the homeworks require a moderate amount of programming in MATLAB. A MATLAB tutorial will be given for those who have never used it before (announcement on the class mailinglist and in class). Furthermore, a MATLAB introduction is available here. The script of the tutorial is available here.

Policy
All homeworks are due by the beginning of class (2:00 pm) on their due date. Homeworks should be turned in in class or to "Spot 1" (box in front of the mailboxes outside Prof. Christof Koch's suite (Room 200 BBB), in the 2nd floor of Beckman Behavioral Biology).

Each student is allowed 5 free late days for the entire term, to be used in any combination on the five homeworks. Weekends days count as late days: if you turn in your homework on Saturday instead of Friday, that's 1 late day. If you turn it in on Monday, that's 3 late days. Homeworks that are late beyond the 5 free late days will be assessed a linear 20% penalty per 24-hour period (i.e., after 1 day, your maximum grade is 80%, after 2 days it's 60%, etc).

The deadline for the proposal is 2:00 pm on Friday, June 1. 2007 and is unalterable.

We expect you to use a wordprocessor for your homework. Points will be deducted for illegible writing.

Two students can collaborate on any homework, but every student is expected to hand in his/her own answers. We do not want to find identical texts nor identical plots. However, you must acquire your own data for the psychophysical experiments (that is, you need to record the performance of your visual system). You can NOT collaborate on the proposal.

Please address questions regarding the homework sets directly to the primary TA, who is indicated below for each set.
 

#	Homework	%final  grade	Date  assigned	Due date	Primary TA
1.	On neuroanatomy, 1. part [pdf]	6%	3/28/07	4/4/07	Steve
2.	On cortical maps and Enabling factor [pdf] Download those 5 files. 1. For the problem 2.1 [pdf] 2. Horton & Hoyt 91 [pdf] 3. matlab code m-file 4. sample jpeg file 5. For the enabling factor and consciousness bloom.pdf You don't need to download the following. 6. David Hockney's picture 7. Photograph corresponding to the picture	6%	4/4/07	4/13/07	Tamara
3.	On neuroanatomy, 2. part [pdf]	6%	4/13/07	4/20/07	Tamara
4.	Neuronal Coding [pdf] You will need these two datafiles: N1.mat    (right-click to download) N2.mat	10%	4/20/07	5/4/07	Steve
5.	On bistable perception [pdf] * The code you will need *   Blake and Logothetis 2002 reveiw	13%	5/4/07	5/18/07	Julien
6.	Abstract for proposal	4%		5/16/07	Prof. Koch
7.	Proposal	40%		6/1/07	Prof. Koch