CSCI 564 Fall 2002 Timetable

Lecture Date Reading Notes
01 Introduction & Overview 08/27/02TMB 1  
02 Charting the brain 08/29/02TMB 2.4  
03 The brain as a network of neurons 09/03/02TMB 2.3  
04 Experimental techniques 09/05/02None  
05 Introduction to vision 09/10/02None HW1 out
06 Schemas 09/12/02TMB 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2  
07 Didday model of winner-take-all 09/17/02TMB 4.3, 4.4  
08 Hopfield networks 09/19/02TMB 8.2  
09 Adaptive networks: Hebbian learning, Perceptrons; Landmark learning 09/24/02TMB 3.4 HW1 due
10 Adaptive networks: Gradient descent and backpropagation 09/26/02TMB 8.2 HW2 out
11 Reinforcement learning 10/01/02Handout  
12 Competition and cooperation 10/03/02TMB 4.1, 4.2, 4.3  
13 Visual plasticity; Self-organizing feature maps; Kohonen maps 10/08/02Handout  
MIDTERM EXAM 10/10/02All of the above  
14 Systems concepts 10/15/02TMB 3.1 HW2 due
15 Saccades 1 10/17/02TMB 6.2 HW3 out
16 Saccades 2 10/22/02TMB 6.2  
17 Feedback an the spinal cord; mass-spring model of muscle 10/24/02TMB 3.2  
18 Early visual processing 10/29/02TMB 3.3  
19 Depth perception 10/31/02TMB 7.1  
20 Optic flow 11/05/02TMB 7.2 HW3 due
21 Visual attention 11/07/02Handout HW4 out
22 Object recognition 11/12/02TMB 5.2  
23 Scene perception 11/14/02None  
24 Reaching, grasping and affordances 11/19/02TMB 2.2, 5.3  
25 Cerebellar adaptation 11/21/02None  
26 Memory and consciousness 11/26/02TMB 8.3 HW4 due
Thanksgiving Recess 11/28/02    
27 Towards highly-capable robots 12/03/02None  
28 Overview and summary 12/05/02All of the above  
FINAL EXAM -- 11:00am-1:00pm 12/17/02All of the above