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Spring 2007
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| WEEK
1 |
| Sensory Worlds: Input Specializations (retinal and acoustic fovea; visual and auditory filters); Receptive Fields (visual and auditory, center-surround); Tuning; Maps; Abstraction; Feature Analyzers; Coincidence Detection. |
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Tuesday
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1/16
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Chap 1 Course Introduction: Cells and Circuits, and Fundamental Concepts in Neuroethology |
Mesce |
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Thursday
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1/18
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Chap 4 Visual systems: Feature Analysis in Toads; Concept of Feature Abstraction
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Mesce
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| WEEK
2 |
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Tuesday
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1/23
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Chap 9 Visual systems and navigation in invertebrates and plane-polarized light detection in bees and ants (color and UV vision; matched filters)
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Mesce
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Thursday
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1/25
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Chap 9 Sophisticated Computational Problems solved by simpler nervous systems: vision, navigation, learning and communication among honeybees
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Mesce
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| WEEK
3 |
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Tuesday
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1/30
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Chap 3 Visual/Auditory Space in Barn Owls: (center-surround; tonotopy; coincidence detection, plasticity)
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Nick |
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Thursday
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2/1
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Chap 2 Auditory Systems: Echolocation in Bats (tuning; feature detection) |
Nick |
| WEEK
4 |
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Tuesday
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2/6
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Chemoreception: Olfactory Codes and Mating Systems in Fish |
Sorensen |
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Thursday
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2/8
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Chemoreception: Pheromones, sexual dimorphism in insects (across-fiber patterning, filters and tuning) |
Mesce |
| WEEK
5 |
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Tuesday
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2/13
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Pheromones in mammals |
Sorensen |
| Motor Strategies: Reciprocal inhibition; Proprioception; Reflex vs. Central Pattern Generators; Command Systems; Shared Circuitry; Efferent Copy; Sequencing and Integration; Decision-Making Processes; Polymorphic Networks; Context-Dependency |
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Thursday
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2/15
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Chap 5 Sensory-motor integration: Cricket ears, mate location and mate calling |
Mesce |
| WEEK
6 |
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Tuesday
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2/20
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Chap 6 Motor Control: Flight behavior in locusts, and concept of the ‘Central Pattern Generator’ (CPG) |
Mesce |
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Thursday
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2/22
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Chap 7 Command-like systems; "Gating" of Information Flow, Decision-Making Processes |
Mesce |
| WEEK
7 |
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Tuesday
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2/27
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Chap 7 Social and Aminergic Modulation of the Crayfish Escape; 'Command' and Motor Functions are Context Dependent |
Mesce |
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Thursday
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3/1
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Brain, Space, Cortical Mechanisms of Motor Function |
Pellizzer |
| WEEK
8 |
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Tuesday
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3/6
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Brain, Space, Cortical Mechanisms of Motor Function |
Pellizzer / Chafee |
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Thursday
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3/11
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Spatial Cognition, Working Memory and Disease |
Chafee |
| WEEK
9 |
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Tuesday
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3/13
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SPRING BREAK
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Thursday
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3/15
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SPRING BREAK
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| WEEK
10 |
| Hormonal Regulation and Neuromodulation of Behavior, Neural Plasticity, Learning and Memory |
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Tuesday
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3/20
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Exam |
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Thursday
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3/22
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Chemical Modulation of Small Neural Networks- the STG (Polymorphic Networks) |
Mesce |
| WEEK
11 |
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Tuesday
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3/27
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Hormones and Social Attachment in Voles; Pair-Bonding and Reward |
Mesce |
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Thursday
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3/29
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Reward Systems and the Role of Dopamine in Mammals |
Thomas |
| WEEK
12 |
| Tuesday |
4/3 |
Chap 8 Song Communication, Development and Learning in Songbirds |
Nick |
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Thursday
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4/5
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Chap 8 Bird Song Continued |
Nick |
| WEEK
13 |
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Tuesday
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4/10
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Chap 12 Spatial Learning and Navigation in Mammals |
Redish |
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Thursday
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4/12
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Chap 12 Spatial Learning and Navigation continued |
Redish |
| WEEK
14 |
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Tuesday
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4/17
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Chap 10 Learning and Memory: Cell and Molecular Bases of Learning in the Model System Aplysia |
Mesce |
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Thursday
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4/19
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Chap 11 Learning and Memory: Cell and Molecular Bases of Learning in the Fruitfly Drosophila |
Mesce |
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WEEK 15 |
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Tuesday
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4/24
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Cognitive-Human Brain Imaging and BOLD |
MacDonald |
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Thursday
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4/26
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Schizophrenia |
MacDonald |
| WEEK 16 |
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Tuesday
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5/1
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Cognitive-Human Brain Imaging |
Jose Pardo |
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Thursday
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5/3
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TBA |
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| Final Exam: Thursday May 10th, 10:30am - 12:30pm (Moos1-450A). |
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