Materials for Kenneth Harris' yearly course on Neuroinformatics.
Lectures will be delivered in person 11am-1pm Wednesdays in the ground floor lecture room of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre and will be recorded for those accessing remotely - zoom links are on the class moodle page. Workshops will be at 1:30pm Wednesdays in the same place.
Powerpoints | Worksheets | ||
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Week 1 | Introduction Experimental Methods | ||
Week 2 | Statistical Inference Nonsense Correlations | Randomization tests: IBL behavior data | |
Week 3 | Rate coding: human concept cell data | ||
Week 4 | Tuning functions | Relating visual cortex and deep network responses to images | |
Week 5 | Temporal coding Take-home summative assessment: Information theory | ||
Reading week 19/02/2025 | Reading week | ||
Week 6 | Point Processes Oscillations | Point processes and oscillations | |
Week 7 | Population coding: visualization Population coding: decoding models | Decoding image responses | |
Week 8 | Population coding: Sparse and dense codes | Sparse and dense codes | |
Week 9 | Neural field theory Combining multiple inputs | Neural fields | |
Week 10 | Spontaneous activity Variability and correlations |
Archived slides from 2024: