| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
| 01/17 |
Introduction, course goals |
Ch 1 |
| SECTION I: Sensory Representations & Neural Coding |
| 01/22 |
Retinal design principles |
Ch 11 |
| 01/24 |
Receptive fields & geniculo-cortical transformations (LGN → V1) |
Ch 12, pp. 257-265, 269-272 ("Division of Labor...") |
| 01/29 |
Early visual cortex: architecture, maps, & coding schemes |
Ch 12, pp. 265-269;
Tucker & Fitzpatrick, Ch 46, The Visual Neurosciences |
| 01/31 |
Higher-level visual form processing (V4, IT) |
Ch 12, pp. 272-275;
Connor, Brincat, & Pasupathy, Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2007 |
| 02/05 |
Discussion I |
Kamitani & Tong, Nature Neuroscience 2005 |
| 02/07 |
Constructing 3D representations: disparity & visual depth cues |
Parker, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2007;
DeAngelis, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2000 |
| 02/12 |
Constructing 3D representations: auditory sound localization |
Ch 13 |
| 02/14 |
Discussion II |
Knudsen, Nature 2002;
Linkenhofer & Knudsen, Nature 2002 |
| 02/19 |
Midterm Exam I |
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| SECTION II: Linking Neural Activity to Behavior |
| 02/21 |
Concepts of psychophysical measurement & signal detection theory |
Appendix A, Goldstein, Sensation & Perception |
| 02/26 |
Dorsal stream & visual motion processing (MT, MST) |
Andersen, Neuron 1997 |
| 02/28 |
Comparison of Neuronal and Behavioral Sensitivity |
Britten et al., J. Neuroscience 1992 |
| 03/05 |
Correlation of Neuronal Activity with Perceptual Decisions |
Britten et al., J. Neuroscience 1996 |
| 03/07 |
Causal manipulations: microstimulation & inactivation |
Salzman et al., J. Neuroscience 1992 |
| 03/11 |
Spring Break: No Class |
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| 03/15 |
Spring Break: No Class |
|
| 03/19 |
Discussion III |
Purushothaman & Bradley, Nature Neuroscience 2005;
Nienborg & Cumming, Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2010 |
| 03/21 |
Midterm exam II (in-class portion) |
|
| SECTION III: Motor Planning & Decision-Making |
| 03/26 |
Oculomotor system basics |
Ch 20 |
| 03/28 |
Saccade planning: intention, salience, target selection |
Schall, Phil Trans. R. Soc. London 2002 |
| 04/02 |
Sensori-motor transformations & reference frames |
Cohen & Andersen, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2002 |
| 04/04 |
Neural correlates of decision-making I |
Gold & Shadlen, Annual Review of Neuroscience 2007 |
| 04/09 |
Discussion IV |
Roitman & Shadlen, J. Neuroscience 2002;
Yang & Shadlen, Nature 2007 |
| 04/11 |
Somatosensory system basics |
Ch 9 |
| 04/16 |
Neural correlates of decision-making II |
Romo & Salinas, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2003 |
| 04/18 |
Discussion V |
Romo et al. Neuron 2004 |
| 04/23 |
Attention: concepts & behavior |
Ashcraft, Cognition, Ch 4 |
| 04/25 |
Attention: physiology |
Reynolds & Chelazzi, Annual Review of Neuroscience 2004 |
| 04/30 |
Review session |
|
| 05/06-05/13 |
Final Exam, date TBA |
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