339.623 Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics

Week 2: Introduction

Brief introduction
Lecture 1: Introduction lecture (Chapter 1 of the textbook)
Practical: Introduction to Matlab

Week 3: Neurons and conductance-based models

Lecture 2: Neurons and conductance-based models (Chapter 2 of the textbook)
Practical: Matlab - Getting started
Practical: work sheet
Practical: Matlab code for the work sheet
Seminar papers:
Bojak2010.pdf
Carhart-Harris2010.pdf
Gomez-Gardenez2010.pdf
Gong2009PLoSCB.PDF
Honey2007PNAS.pdf
Lee2009.PDF
Miller2009.PDF
Perez-Escudero2009PNAS.pdf
Plenz2010.PDF
vanDellen2009.pdf

Week 4: Simplified neuron and population models

Lecture 3: Simplified neuron and population models (Chapter 3 of the textbook)
Practical: work sheet

Week 5: Information theory and neural coding

Lecture 4: Information theory and neural coding (Appendix D of the textbook)
Practical: work sheet

Week 6: Associators and synaptic plasticity

Lecture 5: Associators and synaptic plasticity (textbook chapter 4)
Practical: work sheet