D533:  Neural Substrate for Sensori-Motor Control 

Tentative Outline of Topics 

1           - Overview

2           - Quantitative Underpinnings for Course Topics

3           - Hodgkin-Huxley Model

4         - Ion Channels

5           - Information Processing at the Cellular Level

6           - Biophysics & Neurochemistry of Synaptic Communication

7           - Adaptive Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Behavior

8         - Neural Substrate for Homeostatic Control Mechanisms

9       -          EXAMINATION  #1

10            - Neural Substrate for Sensory Information Acquisition and Processing

11           - Methodological Foundations for Studying Behavior-related Neuronal Mechanisms

12       - Feature Extraction  - “Primitive” Neuronal Mechanisms

13       - Feature Extraction  - “Higher-order” Neuronal Mechanisms

14          - Vestibular Determinants of Sensori-motor Behavior 

15        - Somatosensory & Proprioceptive Determinants of Sensori-motor Behavior

16          - Auditory Determinants of Sensori-motor Behavior

17         - Control System Models:  role of sensory information in controlling Sensori-motor Behavior

18     -          EXAMINATION #2

19          - Computational Neuroscience

20          - Neural Substrates for Motor Control

21            - Oculomotor Behavior and Control Mechanisms

22       - Cerebral Cortical Substrates for Motor Control

23         - Subcortical Substrates for Motor Control

24          - Cerebellum

25           - Basal Ganglia

26          - Sensori-motor Integration

27          - Higher-order functions:  Learning/Adaptation/Plasticity

-        EXAMINATION #3

There will be no classes during the week of the Annual Mtg of the Society for Neuroscience