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Fall 2020 Biomedical-Electrical Engineering-Biology W4020 section 001 COMP NEURO: CIRCUITS IN BRAIN | |
Call Number | 10598 |
Day & Time Location |
T 7:00pm-9:30pm ONLINE ONLY |
Points | 3 |
Grading Mode | Standard |
Approvals Required | Department |
Instructor | Aurel A Lazar - e-mail, homepage |
Type | LECTURE |
Method of Instruction | On-Line Only |
Course Description | Prerequisites: (ELEN E3801) or (BIOL UN3004) The biophysics of computation: modeling biological neurons, the Hodgkin-Huxley neuron, modeling channel conductances and synapses as memristive systems, bursting neurons and central pattern generators, I/O equivalence and spiking neuron models. Information representation and neural encoding: stimulus representation with time encoding machines, the geometry of time encoding, encoding with neural circuits with feedback, population time encoding machines. Dendritic computation: elements of spike processing and neural computation, synaptic plasticity and learning algorithms, unsupervised learning and spike time-dependent plasticity, basic dendritic integration. Projects in MATLAB. |
Web Site | Vergil |
Department | Electrical Engineering |
Enrollment | 16 students (80 max) as of 7:34PM Wednesday, February 24, 2021 |
Subject | Biomedical-Electrical Engineering-Biology |
Number | W4020 |
Section | 001 |
Division | School of Engineering and Applied Science: Graduate |
Campus | Morningside |
Section key | 20203BMEB4020W001 |
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