WINTER 2003 (go here for current/latest version)

Professor:

Marty Sereno -- sereno@cogsci

class: MWF 2:00-2:50 PM, Center 115

extra graduate lectures: [one hour/week: time TBA, CSB 180, and during ugrad tests]

office hours: MF 12:15-1:15 PM, CSB 171, and by email appt

Assistants:

TA: Flavia Filimon -- ffilimon@cogsci.ucsd.edu (section handouts)

TA: Jelena Jovanovic -- jjovanov@cogsci.ucsd.edu

IA: Nathan Rosecrans -- nrosecra@ucsd.edu

Undergraduate Sections (455917) -- [one more section will be dropped]

(A01) Mon 10:00-10:50 (TBA) TM103 => CSB 102

(A02) Tue 1:00-1:50 (TBA) York 4050A => cancelled

(A03) Wed 12:00-12:50 (TBA) HSS 2152 => CSB 102

(A04) Thu 2:00-2:50 (TBA) Center 220 => CSB 102

(A05) Fri 11:00-11:50 (TBA) HSS 1305 => CSB 102

Readings & Tests--Undergraduate: (test keys: here)

Required: Rosenzweig, Breedlove, Leiman Biological Psychology, 2002

Full attendence crucial to pass this class!

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

Readings & Tests--Graduate:

Required: two-volume xeroxed reader of original articles

Recommended: Zigmond et al. Fundamental Neuroscience (ISBN 0-12-780870-1)

3 short-answer homeworks, 4-7 page final paper (topic from assigned list)

Graduate readings

Graduate homework: quiz1, quiz2, quiz3

Lecture Topics: (Winter 2003 -- this page: http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~sereno/107B)

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1/06 -- Neurons -- membrane potential, action potential (Chap. 1-3)

1/08 -- Neurons -- post-synaptic, dendritic propagation (Chap. 4)

1/10 -- Neurons -- NMDA channels and learning (Ch. 18)

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1/13 -- Networks -- backpropagation learning (lecture-only)

1/15 -- Networks -- attractor networks (lecture-only)

1/17 -- Networks -- Hebbian feedfoward learning (lecture-only)

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1/20 -- [HOLIDAY]

1/22 -- Development -- neural tube, cortical areas (lecture-only)

1/24 -- Visual System -- exam review, intro to sensory systems

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1/27 -- 1ST EXAM

1/29 -- Visual System -- retina, dLGN (Chap. 10)

2/31 -- Visual System -- edges, visual maps (Chap. 10)

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2/03 -- Visual System -- visual processing streams (Chap. 10)

2/05 -- Visual System -- visual motion (Chap. 10)

2/07 -- Visual System -- attention, objects (Chap. 10)

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2/10 -- Somatosensory System -- receptors, brainstem (Chap. 8)

2/12 -- Somatosensory System -- somatosensory cortex (Chap. 8)

2/14 -- Auditory/Vestibular System -- transduction (Chap. 9)

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2/17 -- [HOLIDAY]

2/19 -- Auditory System -- sound localization (Chap. 9)

2/21 -- Auditory System -- echolocation, speech sounds (lecture-only)

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2/24 -- Motor System -- gaze stabilization (lecture-only)

2/26 -- 2ND EXAM

2/28 -- Motor System -- coordinate transformations (lecture-only)

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3/03 -- Motor System -- striatum, cerebellum (Chap. 11)

3/05 -- Motor System -- pattern generators, motor cortex (Chap. 11)

3/07 -- Limbic System -- anatomy (Chap. 12,15)

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3/10 -- Limbic System -- egocentric place, direction (lecture-only)

3/12 -- Human Brain Imaging -- structural/functional MRI (lecture-only)

3/14 -- Human Brain Imaging -- EEG/MEG (Chap. 19)

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3/17 -- FINAL EXAM (Mon) 3:00-6:00 PM