WINTER 2001 (go here for current/latest version)

Professor:

Marty Sereno -- sereno@cogsci,

class: MWF 2:30-3:20 PM, HSS 1330 (curr enroll: ~120), office hours: M 12:00-2:00 PM, CSB 171

Assistants:

TA: Lucas Molfese -- dmolfese@cogsci, office hours: TBA

TA: Matthew Blurton-Jones -- mblurton@ucsd, office hours: TBA

IA: Ingrid Skei, TBA

Sections: CSB 102

(392348) M 1:25-2:15 (Matthew)

(392349) T 4:40-5:30 (Matthew)

(392350) W 9:05-9:55 (Lucas)

(392351) R 10:10-11:00 (Lucas)

(392352) F 3:35-4:25 (Lucas)

Readings and Tests: (go here for test averages, keys)

Zigmond, Bloom, Landis, Roberts, & Squire, Fundamental Neuroscience (ISBN 0-12-780870-1)

2 midterms and final -- all short-answer (worst midterm:15%, best midterm:45%, final:40%)

Lecture Topics: (Winter 2001 -- this page: http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~sereno/107B/syll.html)

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1/08 -- Introduction -- membrane potential, action potential (Chap. 6)

1/10 -- Neurons -- postsynaptic potentials, dendritic propagation (Chap. 5)

1/12 -- Neurons -- NMDA channels and learning (Chap. 55 [LTP])

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1/15 -- [HOLIDAY]

1/17 -- Networks -- feedforward learning (lecture-only)

1/19 -- Networks -- recurrent networks (lecture-only)

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1/22 -- Networks -- Hebbian learning networks (lecture-only)

1/24 -- Development -- neural tube segments, cortical determination (Chap. 2,15,16)

1/26 -- Visual System -- exam review, intro to sensory systems

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1/29 -- 1ST EXAM

1/31 -- Visual System -- retina, LGN (Chap. 24 [photoreceptors], 28)

2/02 -- Visual System -- edges, visual maps (Chap. 28, lecture-only)

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2/05 -- Visual System -- visual processing streams (lecture-only, Chap. 28, 50)

2/07 -- Visual System -- motion (lecture-only, Chap. 28)

2/09 -- Visual System -- attention, objects (Chap. 52, 53, 54)

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2/12 -- Somatosensory System -- receptors and brainstem (Chap. 26)

2/14 -- Somatosensory System -- somatosensory cortex (lecture-only, Chap. 26)

2/16 -- Auditory/Vestibular System -- transduction (Chap. 24 [hair cells], 27)

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2/19 -- [HOLIDAY]

2/21 -- Auditory System -- sound localization (lecture-only, Chap. 22 [owls], Chap. 27)

2/23 -- Auditory System -- echolocation and speech sounds (lecture-only, pp. 815-816, Chap. 27)

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2/26 -- Motor System -- gaze stabilization (Chap. 36)

3/28 -- 2ND EXAM

3/02 -- Motor System -- gaze and coordinate transformations (lecture-only, Chap. 36)

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3/05 -- Motor System -- striatum, cerebellum (Chap. 34, 35, 55[cereb])

3/07 -- Motor System -- spinal cord pattern generation, motor cortex (Chap. 32,33)

3/09 -- Limbic System -- connections, sex, emotion (Chap. 37)

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3/12 -- Limbic System -- egocentric place and direction (lecture-only, Chap 56 [hippocampus])

3/14 -- Human Brain Imaging -- structural and functional MRI (lecture-only, Chap. 14)

3/16 -- Human Brain Imaging -- language (lecture-only, Chap. 57)

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3/24 -- FINAL EXAM (Sat) 3:00-6:00 PM