GenPsych Course 2020, Neuroscience 1: Neuron as Detector
Channel: Randall O'Reilly
Date: 2020-10-15

Lecture 1 of 8 for Chapter 2: Neuroscience
Principles of Psychology & Neuroscience Textbook: https://PrinciplesOfPsych.org

How can something so (relatively) simple as a neuron underlie everything that our brain does, including all of our subjective experience?  First we discuss emergence, then how neurons work as detectors, and how they compress information.