Lecture Slides and Reading: 01/03/2005 Introduction and Basic Neurobiology 01/05/2005 What is the neural code? 01/10/2005 What is the language of a single cell? 01/12/2005 Functional models of neural computation 01/19/2005 Biophysical Models of Neurons and Synapses 01/24/2005 Biophysical Models of Neurons II 01/26/2005 Population Coding 01/31/2005 Neural Mechanisms of Decision-Making (Mike Shadlen's Guest Lecture) 02/02/2005 Information Theory and Neural Coding 02/07/2005 Modeling Networks of Neurons 02/09/2005 Recurrent Networks 02/14/2005 Learning Networks 02/16/2005 Unsupervised Learning 02/23/2005 Supervised Learning 02/28/2005 Learning in Cortical Neurons (Guest Lecture by Bharathi Jagadeesh) 03/02/2005 Reinforcement Learning