Office Hours: Friday 3-4pm or by appointment
Office: CSB 721
Extension: 5-3772
e-mail: dana@cs.rochester.edu
OCT 9 RAMACHANDRAN
NOV 6 DAMASIO
NOV 20 MILLER
DEC 14 WEGNER
TAs:
Ross Messing
Matt Post Office Hours: TBD
Office: CSB
Extension:
One of our major scientific challenges of the century is to understand the functioning of the human brain. Computational models play a vital role in a complete picture of brain function, particularly at modeling more macroscopic structures that more directly relate to our everyday behavior. The goal of this course is to describe computational models of intelligent behavior and how they relate to structures in the brain.
Course Credit: Credit will be based on twelve papers each of 2-3 pages in length. The papers will be due Thurday midnight of every week. The papers must be submitted using HTML format.
| Week | Date | Read | Topic | Assignment | Text | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 7 Sep | E:Gopen | Introduction | Ballard | ||
| 1 | 12 Sep | E:Penrose | Brain Computation | Penrose Commentary | Chap 1 Godel1 | Ballard |
| 2 | 19 Sep | E:Kelly Class Notes | A Brain Primer | Levels of Analysis | Chap 2 | Ballard |
| 3 | 26 Sep | E:Nichols | Neurons | Adequacy of Standard Model | Chap 3 Model | Ballard |
| 4 | 3 Oct | Backpropagation algorithm | Backpropagation | What does the cortex do? TANIFUJI | Chap 4 ClassPPT | Ballard |
| 5 | 10 Oct | Ramachandran Book | Networks II | Book Review RAMACHANDRAN | Messing | |
| 8 | 24 Oct | |||||
| 7 | 31 Oct | Reading LectureSlides | Secondary Reward | What is the role of secondary reward? Schultz Paper | Chap 5 | Lee |
| 10 | 7 Nov | Descartes' Error | Emotions | Book Review | Ballard | |
| 9 | 14 Nov | Pashler Walter | Brain OS | binding problem | Chap 6 | Ballard |
| 13 | 21 Nov | Games | Cooperation | Write a N&V for the Hauert paper(Games) | Ballard | |
| 11 | 28 Nov | Miller | Hominids | Book Rev MILLER | Ballard | |
| 12 | 5 Dec | Wegner Book | Memes and Conscousness | Book Review WEGNER | Koch | Ballard |
| 14 | 12 Dec | Review |