| Date | Discussion leader (food) | Topic & Readings | Assignment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03/30 | Course overview & intro to retina (slides) | ||
| 04/01 | Jake Olson | Retina (reading, slides) | Assignment 1 (due 04/08) |
| 04/01 (272) | Ben Cipollini (Angela) | Ising model of retina ganglion cells (reading, slides) | |
| 04/06 | Vicente Malave | Neurophysiology in LGN and V1 (reading, slides 1, slides 2) | |
| 04/08 | Vicente Malave | Bionocular rivalry and human V1 response (reading, slides 1, slides 2) | Assignment 2 (due 04/16) |
| 04/14 5-6 PM (272) | Doug Yovanovich (Ben Cipollini) | Overcomplete, sparse coding in V1 (reading, slides) | |
| 04/13 | Doug Yovanovich | Attentional modulation of visual processing (reading part 1, slides 1, slides 2) | |
| 04/15 | Doug Yovanovich | Attentional modulation of visual processing (reading part 2, slides) | Assignment 3 (due 04/23) |
| 04/15 (272) | Jake Olson (Doug Yovanovich) | Attentional modulation of population correlation (reading, slides) | |
| 04/20 | Crane Huang | Neurobiology of choice behavior (reading, slides 1, slides 2) | |
| 04/22 | Crane Huang | LIP and perceptual decision-making (reading, slides) | Assignment 4 (due 04/30) |
| 04/22 (272) | Vicente Malave (Vikram Gupta) | Attention and decision-making in LIP (reading, slides) | |
| 04/27 | Joseph Schilz | Neural basis of auditory processing (reading, slides 1, demo, slides 2) | |
| 04/29 | Pradeep Shenoy | Neural coding in auditory cortex (reading, slides) | Assignment 5 (due 05/07) |
| 04/29 (272) | Tomoki Tsuchida (Walter Talbott) | Limitation of linear models of neural coding in auditory cortex (reading, slides) | |
| 05/04 | Tomoki Tsuchida | Syntactic learning by songbirds (reading, slides) | |
| 05/06 | Tomoki Tsuchida | Optimal stimuli for auditory neurons (reading, slides) | Assignment 6 (due 05/14) |
| 05/06 (272) | Walter Talbott (Crane Huang) | Efficient coding of natural sounds (reading, slides) | |
| 05/11 | Ben Cipollini | Olfaction (reading, slides) | |
| 05/11 | Ben Cipollini | Olfaction (reading, slides) | Assignment 7 (due 05/21) |
| 05/13 (272) | Katherine Naimark (Jake Olson) | Olfactory decision-making (reading, slides) | |
| 05/18 | Vikram Gupta | Barrel cortex and somatosensory processing (reading, slides) | |
| 05/20 | Vikram Gupta | Neural codes in somatosensory cortex (reading, slides) | Assignment 8 (due 06/02) |
| 05/20 (272) | Crane Huang (Pradeep Shenoy) | Modeling of barrel cortex (reading, slides) | |
| 05/25 | Walter Talbott | Crossmodal interactions (reading, slides, sound-induced flash illusion demo) | |
| 05/25 | Walter Talbott | Neural basis of the ventriloquist illusion (reading, slides) | |
| 05/27 (272) | Vikram Gupta (Tomoki Tsuchida) | Bayesian integration of visual and auditory inputs (reading, slides) | |
| 06/01 | Pradeep Shenoy | Perceptual illusion of body swapping (reading, slides) | |
| 06/03 | CANCELED | CANCELED | |
| 06/03 (272) | CANCELED | CANCELED | |
| 06/08 | Final assignment (due today) |
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