| Date | Topic | Lecturers | Reading session |
| 15.6 / 17.6. 12.10 - 13.10 (!!!) | Excitatory neurotransmission | Stuart
Cull-Candy | Lili and Dmitry |
| | reading session |
- Cull-Candy and Brickley (2001): NMDA receptors
[pdf]
- Cull-Candy, Brickley and Farrant (2001): NMDA receptor subunits: diversity, development and disease
[pdf]
|
| 24.5. / 27.5. | Cerebellum | Chris Yeo | Misha and
Reza |
| | reading session |
- Attwell, Cooke and Yeo (2002): Cerebellar function in consolidation of a motor memory.
[pdf]
- Hesslow, Svensson and Ivarsson (1999): Learned movements elicited by direct stimulation of cerebellar mossy fiber afferents.
[pdf]
- Medina, Nores and Mauk (2002): Inhibition of climbing fibres is a signal for the extinction of conditioned eyelid responses.
[pdf]
|
| 26.4. / 29.4. | Neuroelectronics | Mickey London | Richard and Misha |
| | reading session |
- Stuart et al. (1994): Active propagation of somatic action potentials into neocortical pyramidal cell dendrites
[pdf]
Rich's slides [pdf]
- Larkum et al. (1999): A new cellular mechanism for coupling inputs arriving at different cortical layers
[pdf]
Rich's slides [pdf]
- Poirazi et al. (2003): Pyramidal neurone as two-layer neural network
[pdf]
- Polsky et al. (2004): Computational subunits in thin dendrites of pyramidal cells
[pdf] and news & views
[pdf]
|
| 19.4. / 22.4. | Hippocampus | Mate Lengyel | Reza and Richard |
| | lecture materials |
lecture slides [pdf]
|
| | reading session |
- Mehta et al. (2000): Experience-dependent asymmetric shape of hippocampal place fields. [pdf]
- Mehta et al. (1997): Experience-dependent, asymmetric expansion of hippocampal place fields. [pdf]
- Freund and Buzsaki (1996): Interneurons of the hippocampus. [HUGE pdf (>100Mb)]
Rich's slides [pdf]
- Santhakumar and Soltesz (2004): Plasticity of interneuronal species and parameter variance in neurological diseases
[pdf]
- Whittington and Traub (2003): Interneuron diversity series: Inhibitory interneurones and network oscillations
in vivo. [pdf]
|
| 12.4. / 15.4. | Neuromodulation | Peter Dayan | Quentin and Dmitry |
| | lecture materials |
lecture slides
[ppt]
[pdf]
|
| | reading session |
- Sarter et al. (2004): Unravelling the attentional functions of cortical colinergic inputs: interactions between signal-driven and cognitive modulation of signal detection.
[pdf]
- Bouret and Sara (2004): Reward expectation, orientation of attention and locus coeruleus-medial frontal cortex interplay during learning
[pdf]
- Marder and Thirumulai (2002): Cellular, synaptic and network effects of neuromodulation
[pdf]
|
| 5.4. / 8.4. | Olfaction | Zhaoping Li | Kika and Ian |
| | lecture materials |
lecture slides [pdf]
|
| | reading session |
- Richard Axel (2004):
[Nobel lecture].
- Kauer and White (2001): Imaging and coding in the olfactory system
[pdf]
|
| 30.3.(!!) / 1.4. | Somatosensation | Rasmus Petersen | Yael and Quentin |
| | lecture materials |
lecture slides [pdf part I]
[pdf part II]
|
| | reading session |
- Hernandez et al. (2000): Neuronal correlates of sensory discrimination in the somatosensory cortex
[pdf]
Quentin's slides [pdf]
- Romo et al. (2000): Sensing without Touching: Psychophysical Performance Based on Cortical Microstimulation
[pdf]
- Romo et al. (1998): Somatosensory discrimination based on cortical microstimulation.
[pdf]
Yael's slides [pdf]
| 8.3. / 11.3. | Motor cortex | Roger Lemon | Ian, Lili and Quentin |
| | lecture materials |
lecture slides on corticospinal tract [pdf]
|
| | reading session |
- Todorov (1999): Direct control of muscle activation in voluntary arm movements: a model
[pdf] Ian's slides [pdf]
- Riehle et al. (1997): Spike synchronization and rate modulation differentially involved in motor cortical
function [pdf] Lili's slides [pdf]
- Jackson et al. (2003): Synchrony between neurones with similar muscle fields in monkey motor cortex
[full text / pdf]
- Kargo and Nitz (2003): Early skill learning is expressed through selection and tuning of
cortically represented muscle synergies.
[pdf]
Quentin's slides [pdf]
|
| 1.3 / 4.3. | Striatum | Nathaniel Daw | Reza and Kika |
| | lecture materials |
lecture slides on striatum [pdf]
|
| | reading session |
- Modeson et al. (1980): From motivation to action: functional interface between the limbic system and the motor
system. Progr. Neurobiol. 14: 69-97 [pdf]
- Wilson (1993): The generation of natural firing patterns in neostriatal neurons. Progr. Brain Res. 99: 277
[pdf]
- Ikemoto and Panksepp (1999): The role of nucleus accumbens dopamine in motivated behavior: a unifying interpretation with
special reference to reward-seeking. Brain Res. Rev. 31:6-41 [pdf]
|
| 15.2. / 18.2. | Audition | Maneesh Sahani and Jennifer Linden | Richard and Misha |
| | reading session |
- Chapter 1 from Bregman (1990): Auditory scene analysis
Misha's slides [pdf] [ppt]
- McAlpine and Grothe (2003): Sound localization and delay lines: do mammals fit
the model? [pdf]
Richard's slides [pdf]
- Schreiner and Langner (1997): Laminar fine structure of frequency organization in
auditory midbrain [pdf]
Misha's slides [pdf] [ppt]
- Lewicki (2002): Efficient coding of natural sounds [pdf]
Richard's slides [pdf]
|
| 8.2. / 11.2. | Vision | Zhaoping Li | Ian and Dmitry |
| | lecture materials |
Vision tutorial,
Infomax lecture [pdf],
Saliency map [ppt]
|
| | reading session |
- Mishkin et al. (1982): Object vision
and spatial vision: Two cortical pathways [pdf]
Ian's slides [pdf]
- Wertheimer (1923). Untersuchungen zur Lehre von der Gestalt, II
[Laws of organization in perceptual forms]. Psycholoche Forschung, 4,
301-350.
(in Yantis (ed.) 2000: Visual Perception: Essential readings)
Dmitry's slides [pdf]
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