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BCS 504: Lecture Schedule
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- 9/2: Organizational meeting
I: VISUAL SYSTEM, Part 1
- 9/9: Visual System I: Retinal design principles and LGN | pdf
- Background Reading: Chapter 11, Purves et al., especially pp. 254-264, 269-286
- Visual System II: Receptive fields and geniculo-cortical transformations
- Background Reading: Chapter 12, Purves et al., especially pp. 289-298, 303-307
- 9/16: Visual System III: Early visual cortex: architecture, maps, and coding schemes | pdf
- Background Reading: Chapter 12, Purves et al., pp. 299-303
- Paper for Discussion: Busse et al., "Representation of concurrent stimuli by population activity in visual cortex", Neuron, 2009
II: AUDITORY SYSTEM
- 9/23: Auditory System I (Carney) | pdf
- Background Reading: Carney 2002 book chapter, Handbook of Experimental Psychology
- Paper for Discussion: Cedolin and Delgutte, "Spatiotemporal Representation of the Pitch of Harmonic Complex Tones in the Auditory Nerve", Journal of Neuroscience, 2010.
- 9/30: Auditory System II (Carney)
- Background Reading: Carney 2002 book chapter, Handbook of Experimental Psychology
- Papers for Discussion: Bendor and Wang, "The neuronal representation of pitch in primate auditory cortex", Nature, 2005.
- Bendor and Wang, "Neural Coding of Periodicity in Marmoset Auditory Cortex", Journal of Neurophysiology, 2010.
- 10/7: Exotic Sensory Systems (Tadin) | pdf
- Background Reading: TBA
- Paper for Discussion: TBA
III: VISUAL SYSTEM, cont.
- 10/14: Visual System IV: Higher-level visual form processing in the ventral stream | pdf
- Background Readings: Chapter 12, Purves et al., pp. 307-310
- Kourtzi and Connor, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2011
- Paper for Discussion: Kamitani and Tong 2005, Yamane et al. 2008
IV: LINKING NEURONS TO PERCEPTION
- 10/21: Linking Neurons To Perception I: Concepts of psychophysical measurement and signal detection theory | pdf
- Background Reading: Appendix A, Goldstein, Sensation and Perception
- Linking Neurons To Perception II: Dorsal visual stream, motion, and depth
- Background Reading: Born and Bradley, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2005
- 10/28: Linking Neurons To Perception III: Neurometrics and Choice Probabilities | pdf
- Required readings: Britten et al., J. Neuroscience 1992, 1996
- Paper for Discussion: Purushothaman & Bradley 2004
- 11/4: Linking Neurons To Perception IV: Microstimulation and inactivation | pdf
- Required reading: Salzman et al., J. Neuroscience, 1992; Salzman et al. Science 1994; Nichols & Newsome, J Neuroscience 2002
- Paper for Discussion: Clark et al. Proc Royal Soc 2011 (optional)
- Final Paper topics Due
V: NEURAL BASIS OF SIMPLE DECISION MAKING
- 11/11: Decisions I: Oculomotor planning circuitry
- Take-home Midterm exams Due
- Reading: Bisley and Goldberg 2010; Cohen and Anderson 2002
- 11/18: Decisions II: Diffusion to bound models and physiology
- Readings: Gold and Shadlen 2007; Roitman and Shadlen 2002; Yang and Shadlen 2007
- 11/25: Thanksgiving break – NO CLASS
- 12/2: Decisions III: Somatosensory frequency discrimination
- Required Readings: Romo & Salinas 2003; Romo et al 2004
Optional Reading: Purves Ch 9
VI: MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION
- 12/9: Multisensory Integration I
- Reading:
- 12/16: Multisensory Integration II
- Reading: Angelaki et al 2009; Fetsch et al 2011
- 12/XX: Final Papers Due
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