WINTER 2004 (go here for current/latest version)

Professor:

Marty Sereno -- sereno -AT- cogsci

class: MWF 3:00-3:50 PM, Center 214

graduate-only lectures: M 4:00-4:50, Center 203 [this is new day & room], and during ugrad tests

office hours: M 11:00-1:00 PM, CSB 171, and by email appt

Assistants:

TA: Flavia Filimon -- ee mail: ffilimon -at- cogsci -- section notes

TA: Jing-Jing Evans -- ee mail: levans -at- cogsci -- website

IA: Eve Landen -- ee mail: elanden -at- ucsd

Undergraduate Sections for 107B: 487593

(A01,02) Mon 11:00-11:50 (York 3050A), 12:00-12:50 (Center 217B)

(A03,04) Wed 1:00-1:50 (WLH 2209), 2:00-2:50 (WLH 2209)

Readings & Tests--Undergraduate: (test keys)

Required: Squire et al., 2003 Fundamental Neuroscience (ISBN 0-12-660303-0)

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

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

Graduate readings

Graduate homework: quiz1, quiz2, quiz3

Lecture Topics: (Winter 2004 -- this page: http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~sereno/107B)

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1/05 -- Neurons -- membrane potential, action potential (Chap 6)

1/07 -- Neurons -- post-synaptic, dendritic propagation (Chap 5)

1/09 -- Neurons -- NMDA channels and learning (Chap 50, lecture-only)

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1/12 -- Networks -- backpropagation learning (lecture-only)

1/14 -- Networks -- attractor networks (lecture-only)

1/16 -- Networks -- Hebbian feedfoward learning (lecture-only)

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1/19 -- [HOLIDAY]

1/21 -- Development -- neural tube, cortical areas (Chap 14, 18)

1/23 -- Visual System -- exam review, intro to sensory systems

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1/26 -- 1ST EXAM [postponed till Fri, 1/30]

1/28 -- Visual System -- retina, dLGN (Chap 23)

1/30 -- Visual System -- edges, visual maps (Chap 27, lecture-only)

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2/02 -- Visual System -- visual processing streams (Chap 27, lecture-only)

2/04 -- Visual System -- visual motion (Chap 27, lecture-only)

2/06 -- Visual System -- attention, objects (Chap 47, 49)

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2/09 -- Somatosensory System -- receptors, brainstem (Chap 23)

2/11 -- Somatosensory System -- somatosensory cortex (Chap 25)

2/13 -- Auditory/Vestibular System -- transduction (Chap 23)

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2/16 -- [HOLIDAY]

2/18 -- Auditory System -- sound localization (Chap 26, lecture-only)

2/20 -- Auditory System -- echolocation, speech sounds (Chap 26, lecture-only)

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2/23 -- Motor System -- gaze stabilization (Chap 33)

2/25 -- 2ND EXAM [postponed till Mon, 3/1]

2/27 -- Motor System -- coordinate transformations (Chap 33, 48, lecture-only)

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3/01 -- Motor System -- striatum, cerebellum (Chap 31, 32)

3/03 -- Motor System -- pattern generators, motor cortex (Chap 29, 30)

3/05 -- Limbic System -- anatomy (Chap 34, lecture-only)

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3/08 -- Limbic System -- egocentric place, direction (Chap 51, lecture-only)

3/10 -- Human Brain Imaging -- structural/functional MRI (lecture-only)

3/12 -- Human Brain Imaging -- EEG/MEG (lecture-only)

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