Bi250b
Topics in Systems Neuroscience
Winter, 2005
Class Time
: Monday 11:00-12:55 in 151Braun
Instructors
Gilles Laurent : laurentg@caltech.edu
Thanos Siapas : thanos@caltech.edu
TA
Hiroshi Ito : hiroshi@caltech.edu
(Office hours: Friday 4pm at Broad 2nd floor x2140)
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Jan 3: (lecture)
First meeting & Introduction
Jan10: (lecture)
Neuroscience techniques
Jan17: (student presentation)
Brain connectivity
1, Stevens(2001),
An evolutionary scaling law for the primate visual system and its basis in cortical function
2, Braitenberg(2001),
Brain Size and Number of Neurons: An Exercise in Synthetic Neuroanatomy
3, Marr(1969),
A Theory of Cerebellar Cortex
Jan24: (student presentation)
Brain map
1, Cohen and Knudsen(1999),
Maps versus clusters: different representations of auditory space in the midbrain and forebrain
2, Kohonen and Hari(1999),
Where the abstract feature maps of the brain might come from
Jan31: (student presentation)
Synaptic plasticity
1, Sanes and Lichtman(1999),
Can molecules explain long-term potentiation?
2, Lisman et al.(2003),
LTP: perils and progress
3, Brown and Milner(2003),
The legacy of Donald O. Hebb: more than the Hebb Synapse
Feb7: (student presentation)
Spike timing dependent plasticity
1, Markram et al.(1997),
Regulation of Synaptic Efficacy by Coincidence of Postsynaptic APs and EPSPs
2, Abbott and Nelson(2000),
Synaptic plasticity: taming the beast
3, Roberts and Bell(2002),
Spike timing dependent synaptic plasticity in biological systems
Feb14: (student presentation)
Dopamine and learning
1, Schultz et al.(1997),
A Neural Substrate of Prediction and Reward
2, Waelti et al.(2001),
Dopamine responses comply with basic assumptions of formal learning theory
3, Wise(2004),
DOPAMINE, LEARNING AND MOTIVATION
Feb21: (student presentation)
Neural rhythm
1, Soto-Trevino et al.(2001),
Activity-dependent modification of inhibitory synapses in models of rhythmic neural networks
2, Prinz et al.(2004),
Similar network activity from disparate circuit parameters
Feb28: (student presentation)
Neural oscillation
1, Shadlen and Movshon(1999),
Synchrony Unbound: A Critical Evaluation of the Temporal Binding Hypothesis
2, Perez-Orive et al.(2002),
Oscillations and Sparsening of Odor Representations in the Mushroom Body
3, Buzsaki and Draguhn(2004),
Neuronal Oscillations in Cortical Networks
Mar7: (student presentation)
Sleep
1, Steriade and Timofeev(2003),
Neuronal Plasticity in Thalamocortical Networks during Sleep and Waking Oscillations
2, Sejnowski and Destexhe(2000),
Why do we sleep?