Computational Neuroscience, Fall 2009

The course is for 3rd year undergraduates and graduate students of CS, and is an introduction to mathematical and computational models in the area of brain research. We will mostly deal with models in Visual Perception.

Course plan:

• Historical background: what are nice CS persons like us doing in this course ?
• The Mind-Body/Free Will problem CS believes in Materialistic Monism
• The Brain: main sturctures and modules
• Nerve cells, Synapses, Action Potentials, Modelling single neurons
• Formal Neurons and formal networks
• Using MATLAB for image processing. MATLAB primer.ps
• The Visual system: anatomy and physiology
• Visual Psychophysics: methodology
• From Edges to Shapes
• Models of Stereoscopic Vision

Course handouts: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part5

Course projects: Omri Perez

Matlab primer Sample code

Task1: document datasets

Task 2: document