Advanced Topics in Systems Neuroscience 2014

Course on Advanced Topics in Systems Neuroscience. Spring semester 2014.
Course number: 278307
Lecture day and time:  Tuesday 14:30-16:30
Location: Rappaport 8th floor
Course teachers:
Yoram Gutfreund  yoramg@tx.technion.ac.il
Omri Barak  omri.barak@gmail.com

#	Date	Speaker	Title & Video	Paper	Presenter
1	11/3	Larry Abbott	Sensory Gating, Integration and Prediction	Kennedy et al 2014 (Supporting)	Omri Barak
2	18/3	Alexander Borst	In Search of the Holy Grail of Fly Motion Vision	Eichner et al 2011	Yoram Gutfreund
3	25/3	Carla Schatz	Brain Circuit Tuning During Developmental Critical Periods	Tagawa et al 2005	Eyal
4	1/4	Cori Bergmann	Neuromodulatory Circuits and Motivated Behavior	Kato et al 2014 (Supporting)	Uri
5	22/4	Michael Shadlen	Time and Belief: A Neural Mechanism of Decision Making	Churchland et al 2008	Dante
6	29/4	Stanislas Dehaene	Reading the brain	Vinckier et al 2007	Oded
7	13/5	Krishna Shenoy	Motor cortical control and Prostheses: a dynamical systems perspective	Kaufman 2014 (Supporting ) (News&Views)	Gilad
8	20/5	Itzhak Fried	Memories and Volitions: Insights from single neuron recordings in the human brain	Quiroga 2005 (Supporting)	Tie
9	27/5	Karel Svoboda	Cortical circuits underlying object localization	Guo 2014	Yael
10	10/6	Catherine Dulac	Sex battles in the brain	Wu 2014	Rebeka
11	17/6	Allison Doupe	What Songbirds Can Teach Us About Learning and the Brain	Kojima 2013	Tom
12	24/6	John Searle	Consciousness and causality

 

The course will constitute 12 meetings of two hours each. During the first
hour we will watch together an online lecture by a prominent neuroscientist.
In the second hour we will introduce and discuss a relevant paper.

Each student will be responsible for one meeting: selecting a relevant
paper, presenting it, and writing a short report on the subject.

• Presentation: Only the PDF of the paper can be used, no powerpoints.
• Short report: The report is in a format of a review of a paper. Some helpful links are here: review sample #1, review sample #2,

Additionally, all students are expected to read the papers prior to the
meeting, and participate in the discussion.
Course will be given in English.
Grading will be based primarily on the meeting for which the student is
responsible, and also on the participation throughout the semester.

Basic background in neuroscience is a requirement to participate in the
course.