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Syllabus
Computational Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience BIOS 24232, CPNS 33200,
Spring 2015
Instructor: Nicholas Hatsopoulos, Anatomy 202, 2-5595, nicho@uchicago,edu
T.A.: Albert Wildeman, albert.wildeman@gmail.com
Lectures: Tues. & Thurs., 3:30-5:00, BSLC 240
Laboratory: Wed. 3:00-5:00, BSLC 401
Readings: Pdfs on chalk.uchicago.edu
Suggested textbook: Cognitive Neuroscience, 3rd Edition by Gazzaniga et al.(2009)
Grading: Lab Projects: 50%
Final Project: 20%
In-class test: 20%
In-class participation & presentation: 10%

Tues. March 31, Lecture 1: Introduction

Sign up for in-class presentations

Wednesday April 1 No lab

Thurs. April 2, Lecture 2: Methods of Cognitive Neuroscience

Pdfs: Goense & Logothetis (2008), Singh (2012), Nir et al. (2007)

Tues. April 7, Lecture 3: Feature perception

Wednesday April 8, Lab #1: Visual Search

Thurs. April 9, Lecture 4: High-level perception

Pdfs: Yau et al. (2013); Haxby et al. (2001); Sato et al. (2013)

Tues. April 14, Lecture 5: Attention

Wednesday April 15, Lab #2: Attention lab (Posner Spatial Cuing Task)

Thursday April 16, Lecture 6: Attention

Pdfs: Cohen & Maunsell (2009); Poort & Roelfsema (2009); Gregoriou et al. (2012)

Tues. April 21, Lecture 7: Learning

Wednesday April 22, Lab #3: Neural Network I

Thurs. April 23, Lecture 8: Learning & Memory

Pdfs: Caporale & Dan (2008); Jackson et al. (2006); Intro. to ANN; Abbott & Nelson
(2000);
Tues. April 28, Lecture 9: Memory

Wednesday April 29, Lab #4: Neural Network II

Thurs. April 30, Lecture 10: Motor control I

Pascual-Leone et al. (1994); Wagner et al. (1998)

Tues. May 5, Lecture 11: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Guest lecturer: Lisa Sprute

Wednesday May 6, Lab #5: Design of fMRI experiment lab

with Dr. Konstantinos Arfanakis

Thurs. May 7, Lecture 12: Motor control II

Pdfs: Schwartz et al. (2004); Kakei et al. (2001)

Tues. May 12, Lecture 13: Population Coding & Decoding

Pdfs: Oram et al. (1998); Naselaris et al. (2009)

Wednesday May 13, Lab #6: Neural data analysis I

Thurs. May 14, Lecture 14: Executive Functioning & Prefrontal Cortex
Pdfs: Miller & Cohen (2001)

Tues. May 19, In-class test

Wednesday May 20, Lab #7: Running of fMRI experiment

Thurs. May 21, Lecture 15: Decision making

Pdfs: Gold & Shadlen (2007); Mante et al. (2013)

Tues. May 26, Lecture 16: Cerebral lateralization & Language

Pdfs: Skipper et al. (2009)

Wednesday May 27, Lab #8: Neural data analysis II

Thurs. May 28, Lecture 17: Coding: Temporal vs. rate coding
Pdfs: deCharms & Zador (2000); Panzeri et al. (2010)

Tues. June 2, Lecture 18: Neural basis of consciousness

Wed June 3, Final Project due for graduating seniors & other graduating students

Thurs. June 4, Presentation of fMRI results

Pdfs: Rees et al. (2002); Tononi (2004); Melloni et al. (2007)
Wed June 10, Final Project due