Lectures
Lecture notes, week by week. Last updated: July 30, 2015 Please bear in mind that lectures in the later weeks of the class might be modified from what is currently posted.
- Week 1 - Class intro, Electricity, Ohms law, Circuits
- Week 2 - Cable properties
- Week 3a - Ionic gradients
- Week 3b - Ion channels - Part 1 (Function)
- Week 4 - Ion Channels - Part 1 (Structure)
- Week 5 - The action potential
- Week 6 - Ion channels - Part 2
- Week 7-8 - Spike patterning and information coding
- Week 9 - Exam and Intro to second half of course
- Week 10 - Synaptic transmission
- Week 11 - Dendrites and dendritic processing
- Week 12 - Context and general principles of sensory processing
- Week 13a - Sensory processing: Hearing Part I
- Week 13b - Sensory processing: Hearing Part II
- Week 14a - Sensory Processing: Vision Part 1
- Week 14b - Sensory Processing: Vision Part II
- Week 15 - Learning and Memory - Types of Learning and Memory
- Week 16 - Learning and Memory - Biological Mechanisms