About this Course
This course gives an introduction to fundamental computational strategies for understanding what nervous methods do and for figuring out how they operate. We’ll discover the computational ideas governing numerous features of imaginative and prescient, sensory-motor management, studying, and reminiscence. Particular matters that will likely be coated embody illustration of data by spiking neurons, processing of data in neural networks, and algorithms for adaptation and studying. We’ll make use of Matlab/Octave/Python demonstrations and workouts to achieve a deeper understanding of ideas and strategies launched within the course. The course is primarily aimed toward third- or fourth-year undergraduates and starting graduate college students, in addition to professionals and distance learners taken with studying how the mind processes info.
SKILLS YOU WILL GAIN
- Computational Neuroscience
- Synthetic Neural Community
- Reinforcement Studying
- Organic Neuron Mannequin
Syllabus – What you’ll study from this course
4 hours to finish
Introduction & Primary Neurobiology (Rajesh Rao)
This module consists of an Introduction to Computational Neuroscience, together with a primer on Primary Neurobiology.
4 hours to finish
What do Neurons Encode? Neural Encoding Fashions (Adrienne Fairhall)
This module introduces you to the fascinating world of neural info coding. You’ll study in regards to the applied sciences which are used to report mind exercise. We’ll then develop some mathematical formulations that enable us to characterize spikes from neurons as a code, at rising ranges of element. Lastly we examine variability and noise within the mind, and the way our fashions can accommodate them.
3 hours to finish
Extracting Info from Neurons: Neural Decoding (Adrienne Fairhall)
On this module, we flip the query of neural encoding round and ask: can we estimate what the mind is seeing, intending, or experiencing simply from its neural exercise? That is the issue of neural decoding and it’s enjoying an more and more vital position in functions resembling neuroprosthetics and brain-computer interfaces, the place the interface should decode an individual’s motion intentions from neural exercise. As a bonus for this module, you get to get pleasure from a visitor lecture by well-known computational neuroscientist Fred Rieke.
3 hours to finish
Info Idea & Neural Coding (Adrienne Fairhall)
This module will unravel the intimate connections between the venerable subject of data principle and that equally venerable object known as our mind.
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