This course focuses on the treatment of information
in primate
cortex. We will learn about the sensory, motor, and cognitive systems
that underlie human behavior. In addition to the lectures, we have one
hour of exercises each week.
These will consist in readings you have to do, as well as practical
excercises. You will be informed about
these requirements in the course of the lectures. There will be a
final exam that covers the material covered in
the lectures, and the additional readings given as exercises.
If you'd like to consult a good text book, I
recommend: "Principles of Neural Science", edited by Kandel, Schwartz
and Jessell, 4th edition.
Language: English (but you can speak german...)
EXAMS: The exam
will be a written
exam, made of multiple choice and short questions.
The exam will take place on Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011 during the last
lecture.
As promised a while
ago (!), here is a copy of last year's exam.
Sept. 21-28, 2011: Visual system. Here are the slides.
Here is the paper by
D. Hubel and T. Wiesel you have to read as an exercise. It's a bit
long, but a classical paper in field.
This counts as the exercises for the first AND second lectues.
Oct. 5, 2011: End of vision. Auditory system, here
are the slides. Here is the assigned reading for next week.
Oct. 12, 2011: End of audition.
Oct. 19, 2011: The chemical senses. Here are the slides. I will explain the homework during class.
Oct. 26, 2011: The somatosensory system. Here are
the slides.
Nov. 2, 2011. End of somatosensory system. Here is
the additonal reading.
Nov. 9, 2011: Motor systems, here are the slides.
Nov. 16, 2011: End of motor systems. Here is the homework.
Autonomic Nervous
System , here are the slides.
Nov. 23, 2011: The limbic system. Here are the slides.
Nov. 30, 2011: Memory. Here are the slides.
Dec. 7, 2011: Language processing. Here are the slides.
Dec. 14, 2011: Vestibular system. Here are the slides (sorry for the delay...).