Lecture Videos (52 one-hour lectures)
('b' indicates advanced/graduate section)
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 for 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
lecture10b - - Devel Expts, Gyrification/Allometry, Cortical Subplate/Maps/Reeler
lecture11 - - Processing Streams, Retinal Circuity, Direction Selectivity
lecture12 - - Retina to dLGN as an Approximately Conformal Map
lecture13 - - Visual Cortical Maps: V1, V2, MT, and all the rest
lecture13b - - Som/Vis Transplant, Mutant Belgian Sheepdog, Back Propagation
lecture14 - - Orientation/Brightness/Direction Streams in V1
lecture15 - - V1->V2, Simple/Complex/Hypercomplex, Midterm #1 Review
lecture16 - - Gabor Filter Model, Color, Aperture Problem for Pattern Translation
lecture17 - - Complex Motion in MSTd, Position Invariance, Contour Analog
lecture18 - - Explicit Neural Aperture Model, Horn and Schunck Gradient Model
lecture18b - - Smoothness Constraint, Horn/Schunck Line Processes, Stereo Aperture Problem
lecture19 - - V4 Attention, Stimulus Competition, Init Feedforward Pass
lecture19b - - Higher Level Vision: True Color, Depth and Motion, Object Recognition
lecture20 - - Somatosensory Receptors, Spinal Cord, Laminae of Rexed
lecture21 - - Muscle Spindle Operation, Somatosensory Ascending Pathways
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
lecture25 - - Cochlear Nuclei, Owl Auditory Brainstem Connections
lecture26 - - Nucleus Laminaris Binaural Coincidence Detection
lecture27 - - Construction of the Auditory Space Map in ICx
lecture27b - - Explanation Levels, Auditory Thalamus/Cortex, What Pitch Is
lecture28 - - Bat Echolocation and Speech Sounds
lecture29 - - Stabilizing Eye Movements: VOR, OKN, Smooth Pursuit
lecture30 - - Superior Colliculus: Orienting, Double-Step Saccade Remapping
lecture30b - - Bat FM-FM and Vowels/Consonants, Attention-o-topy, Freq vs Pitch Mapping
lecture31 - - Full Eye Movement Diagram, Multisensory Map Alignment, Updating
lecture32 - - Motor System Overview, Evolution of Pattern Generators
lecture33 - - Motor Cortex Organization and Function, Midterm #2 Review
lecture33b - - SpatioTemporal/TemporoSpatial, Isthmi WTA, Human VIP fMRI Face-Centered Map
lecture34 - - Cerebellum Connections, Structure, Classical Conditioning
lecture35 - - Striatum Connections, Hierarchical Motor Behavior, Up/Down State
lecture35b - - Primate/Human Evol, Ape Lang, Birdsong, Language Preadaption #1
lecture36 - - Limbic System Summary, Olfactory/Taste, Limbic Functions
lecture37 - - Hippocampus Anatomy, Place Cells, H.M., Intermediate Term Memory
lecture38 - - Place Cells, Head Direction Cells, and Grid Cells, Attractor Models
lecture38b - - Language and Scene Comprehension, Language Preadaptation #2
lecture39 - - Cortical Sources of EEG/MEG, MRI Hardware, MRI Bloch Equation
lecture40 - - Fourier Transform in Relation to MRI Image Formation
lecture41 - - General Review
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