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