Course Identification

Title:

Systems neuroscience reading seminar

Code:

20243033

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky

TA's:

Shaked Palgi, Pritish Patil

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2024

Semester:

Full Year

When / Where:

Monday, 14:15 - 16:00, Benoyzio, Rm 113

First Lecture:

11/12/2023

End date:

08/07/2024

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Life Sciences: Seminar; 2.00 points
Life Sciences (Brain Sciences: Systems, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Track): Seminar; Core; 2.00 points
Life Sciences (ExCLS Track): Elective; 2.00 points

Comments

This course will be held frontal only

Prerequisites

Background in Neuroscience.

Restrictions

Participants:

20

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Pass / Fail

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Seminar:

100%

Evaluation Type

Seminar

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

1

Syllabus

A reading seminar in Systems Neuroscience, focusing on recent interesting papers on mammalian neural circuits that mediate behavior, cognition, and perception. Particular emphasis will be given to papers using Neurophysiology, Optogenetics and Imaging methods in vivo, as well as to theoretical/modeling papers.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

Read critically and discuss the current literature in systems neuroscience.
Demonstrate knowledge of cutting-edge topics in the field.

Reading List

N/A

Website

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