Magdeburg | Theoretical Neuroscience | Running lecture |
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Theoretical neuroscience IBased 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. |
Type of the course |
Lecture, exercise, tutorial, weekly |
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Target audience | MSc, PhD | |
Prerequisites |
BSc level algebra and calculus, Matlab programming |
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Institution(s) |
Institute for Biology, OvGU Magdeburg |
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Time / ETCS | Winter, 2h+2h+2h per week / 5 ECTS | |
Weblink | Visit the course website |