Materials
Lecture outlines, notes and other supplementary materials will be uploaded here after each lecture.Term 1
Systems Basics
| Date | Subject | Lecturer | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 October | Measuring activity in neurons | Tom Otis | slides(19/20) slides(20/21) |
| 6 October | Introduction to Theoretical Neuroscience | Peter Latham | slides(20/21) |
| 9 October | -- | -- | |
| 12 October | Voltage-Gated Channels | Tiago Branco | |
| 13 October | Dendritic Integration | Michael Hausser | |
| 16 October | Plasticity | Troy Margrie |
Sensory Systems
| Date | Subject | Lecturer | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 October | Principles of sensory systems | Tom Mrsic-Flogel | |
| 20 October | Organisation of Cortical Circuits | Tom Mrsic-Flogel | |
| 23 October | Perception as Signal Processing | Maneesh Sahani | slides(18/19) |
| 26 October | Abstract representation in sensory systems | Neil Burgess | slides(19/20) slides(20/21) |
| 27 October | Perception as Inference | Maneesh Sahani | slides (20/21) |
| 30 October | Influence of behaviour and context on sensory processing | Sonja Hofer |
Action Systems
| Date | Subject | Lecturer | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 November | Motor control | Andrew Murray | |
| 3 November | Pattern Generation | Peter Latham |
notes(19/20) |
| 6 Novembers | Computational Control | Maneesh Sahani |
slides(19/20) |
| 9 November | Cerebellum | Tom Otis | slides(19/20) |
| 10 November | Basal Ganglia | Marcus Stephenson-Jones | |
| 13 November | Neocortex | Maneesh Sahani and Andrew Murray |
Social and Affective Systems
| Date | Subject | Lecturer | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 November | Block introduction | John O'Keefe | |
| 17 November | Implementation of Innate Circuits | Yoh Isogai, Christina Mazuski, Lennart Oettl | |
| 20 November | Parental/Pup-Directed Behaviours | Yoh Isogai | |
| 23 November | Amygdala | John O'Keefe | |
| 24 November | Defensive Behaviours | Tiago Branco | |
| 27 November | -- | -- |
Cognitive Systems, Decision Making, Learning
| Date | Subject | Lecturer | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 November | Decision-Making I - From Sensation to Action | Sonja Hofer | |
| 1 December | Decision-Making II - Evidence Integration | Peter Latham | |
| 4 December | Reinforcement Learning | Marcus Stephenson-Jones | |
| 7 December | TBA | TBA | |
| 8 December | Synaptic plasticity and BCM theory | Claudia Clopath | |
| 11 December | Neural dynamics of working memory and cognitive control | Anthena Akrami | |
| 14 December | Navigation and Reinforcement Learning in the Hippocampus | Kim Stachenfeld | |
| 15 December | Neural correlates of engrams and learning | Sonja Hofer | |
| 18 December | Neuromodulation and state changes | Marcus Stephenson-Jones |