Students will participate in weekly discussions of original papers and relevant reviews, and will write a paper that reviews a research problem. Topics include cortical columnar organization, feature detection, population coding, dynamic receptive field properties, local circuits and mutliple representations. Students will read primary source articles as well as some theoretical monographs. There will be no formal lectures or student presentations. Grades are based on class participation and a final paper.
Class size is limited, and permission of the instructor is required.
The class will meet once per week, preferably on Mondays, at a time to be determined. Thackeray 704 1. This course will introduce the student to new concepts from dynamical systems. Some global analysis will also be described. Numerical tools and methods for analyzing local bifurcations will also be discussed.