Lecture Slides: 04/02/2013 Introduction and Basic Neurobiology 04/04/2013 Neural Encoding Models (Part I) 04/09/2013 Neural Encoding Models (Part II) 04/11/2013 Guest Lecture: Noisy Integration and Signal Detection in Neurons (Fred Rieke) Related Paper 04/16/2013 Neural Decoding and Signal Detection Theory 04/18/2013 Population Decoding and Bayesian Estimation 04/23/2013 Information Theory and Neural Coding 04/25/2013 Biophysical Models of Neurons 04/30/2013 Modeling Synapses and Networks of Neurons 05/02/2013 Guest Lecture: Modeling Visual Cortical Neurons (Wyeth Bair) 05/07/2013 Guest Lecture: Brain-Computer Interfaces (Jeremiah Wander) 05/09/2013 Recurrent Networks 05/14/2013 Plasticity and Learning 05/21/2013 Unsupervised Learning 05/23/2013 From Unsupervised to Reinforcement Learning 05/30/2013 Course Summary