Spring 2021
lecture01 -- Introduction, Folk Theories of Brain Function
lecture02 -- Resting Potential, Nernst Equation, Neurons
lecture03 -- Action Potential, Voltage-Gated Channels
lecture04 -- Voltage-Sensitive Dendritic Currents, Transient Ca++, Bursting
lecture05 -- Post-Synaptic Potentials, Chan Families, NMDA Chan, LTP/STDP
lecture05b -- Hodgkin-Huxley, Integrate-and-Fire Models
lecture06 -- Simple Circuits, Cable Theory, Dendritic Current Flow
lecture07 -- Hebbian Model of the Origin of Orientation Selectivity
lecture08 -- Simple Attractor Networks, Energy Analysis
lecture08b -- Covariance/Eigenvector Analysis of Hebbian Learning
lecture09 -- Early Development: Blastula, Gastrula, Neurula, Eyes
lecture10 -- Later Development: 4th,3rd Ventricle, Brainstem, Forebrain, Rule of Sereno
lecture11 -- Devel Expts, Gyrification/Allometry, Cortical Subplate/Maps/Reeler
lecture12 -- Processing Streams, Retinal Circuity, Direction Selectivity
lecture13 -- Retina to dLGN as an Approximately Conformal Map
lecture14 -- Visual Cortical Maps: V1, V2, MT, and all the rest
lecture14b -- Som/Vis Transplant, Mutant Belgian Sheepdog, Back Propagation
lecture15 -- Orientation/Brightness/Direction Streams in V1
lecture16 -- V1->V2, Simple/Complex/Hypercomplex, Midterm1 Review
[Midterm #1]
lecture17 -- Gabor Filter Model, Aperture Problem for Pattern Translation
lecture18 -- Complex Motion in MSTd, Position Invariance, Contour Analog
lecture19 -- V4 Attention, Stimulus Competition, Init Feedforward Pass
lecture19b -- Aperture Model Review, Horn and Schunck Gradient Model
lecture20 -- Somatosensory Receptors, Spinal Cord, Laminae of Rexed
lecture20b -- Smoothness Constraint, Horn/Schunck Line Processes, Stereo Aperture Problem
lecture21 -- Muscle Spindle Operation, Somatosensory Ascending Pathways
lecture21b -- Higher Level Vision: Color, Depth and Motion, Object Recognition
lecture22 -- Somatosensory Cortex, Somato-vs-Visual Maps, Somatosensory Plasticity
lecture23 -- Auditory Hair Cell Receptors, Cochlea/Vestib/LateralLine/Electric
lecture24 -- Cochlear Transduction, 1D vs. 2D, Auditory Brainstem Nuclei
lecture24b -- View Trading Relations At Diff Levels of Organization, Pitch, fMRI Mapping
lecture25 -- Cochlear Nuclei, Owl Auditory Brainstem Connections
lecture26 -- Nucleus Laminaris Binaural Coincidence Detection
lecture27 -- Construction of the Auditory Space Map in ICx
lecture27b -- Auditory Thalamus and Cortex, 'Higher Level' Processing
lecture28 -- Bat Echolocation and Speech Sounds
lecture29 -- Stabilizing Eye Movements: VOR, OKN, Smooth Pursuit
lecture29b -- Bat FM-FM, Vowels/Consonants, Attention-o-topy, Freq vs Pitch Mapping
lecture30 -- Superior Colliculus: Orienting, Double-Step Saccade Remapping
lecture31 -- Multisensory Map Alignment, Preemptive Updating
lecture32 -- Motor System Overview, Evolution of Pattern Generators
lecture32b -- SpatioTemporal/TemporoSpatial, Isthmi WTA, Human VIP fMRI Face-Centered Map
lecture33 -- Motor Cortex Organization and Function
lecture34 -- Midterm #2 Review
[Midterm #2]
lecture35 -- Cerebellum Structure, Fractured Maps, Classical Conditioning
lecture36 -- Striatum Connections, Hierarchical Motor Behavior, Up/Down State
lecture37 -- Limbic System Summary Diagram, Olfactory, Limbic Functions
lecture37b -- Primate/Human Evol, Ape Lang, Birdsong, Language Preadaption #1
lecture38 -- Hippocampus Anatomy, Place Cells, H.M., Intermediate Term Memory
lecture39 -- Place Cells, Head Direction Cells, and Grid Cells, Attractor Models
lecture40 -- Cortical Sources of EEG/MEG, MRI Hardware, MRI Bloch Equation
lecture40b -- Language and Scene Comprehension, Language Preadaptation #2
lecture41 -- Fourier Transform in Relation to MRI Image Formation
lecture42 -- General Review
Spring 2020
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