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The Computational Brain

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This week: Book review Damasio

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Instructor: Dana H. Ballard

Office Hours: Friday 3-4pm or by appointment

Office: CSB 721

Extension: 5-3772

e-mail: dana@cs.rochester.edu

BOOK REVIEW TURN IN DATES

OCT 9 RAMACHANDRAN

NOV 6 DAMASIO

NOV 20 MILLER

DEC 14 WEGNER

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR HOMEWORK

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LAB ROTATIONS

Lab Info

PAPER GRADING

Paper Grading

Teaching Assistants

TAs:

Ross Messing

Matt Post Office Hours: TBD

Office: CSB

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Course Overview

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 DateRead Topic Assignment TextInstructor
0 7 Sep E:Gopen Introduction Ballard
112 Sep E:Penrose Brain Computation Penrose Commentary Chap 1 Godel1Ballard
2 19 Sep E:Kelly Class NotesA Brain Primer Levels of Analysis Chap 2Ballard
3 26 Sep E:NicholsNeurons Adequacy of Standard Model Chap 3 ModelBallard
4 3 Oct Backpropagation algorithm Backpropagation What does the cortex do? TANIFUJI Chap 4 ClassPPTBallard
5 10 Oct Ramachandran BookNetworks II Book Review RAMACHANDRANMessing
8 24 Oct
7 31 Oct Reading LectureSlidesSecondary Reward What is the role of secondary reward? Schultz Paper Chap 5Lee
10 7 Nov Descartes' Error Emotions Book Review Ballard
9 14 Nov Pashler Walter Brain OS binding problem Chap 6Ballard
13 21 Nov GamesCooperationWrite a N&V for the Hauert paper(Games)Ballard
11 28 Nov Miller Hominids Book Rev MILLERBallard
12 5 Dec Wegner BookMemes and Conscousness Book Review WEGNERKochBallard
14 12 Dec Review