Theoretical neuroscience I

Based on Chapters 5-­6 and Chapters 1-­4 of Dayan & Abbott. Electrochemical equilibrium and Nernst Equation, equivalent circuits for single-­compartment model, leaky integrate-­and-­fire model, Hodgkin-­Huxley and Connor-­Stevens models of action potential, cable equation and neuron morphology, characterizing neuronal responses with tuning curves and receptive fields, signal-­ detection theory and psychometric function, comparison of neuronal and behavioural responses with neurometric function, population coding, statistically efficient decoding with maximum likelihood and maximum a posteriori likelihood, introduction to Shannon information, application of Shannon information to neural responses.