Evaluation during the course: independent projects, presentation
Concluding evaluation: exam
Brief curriculum of the subject:
1.
Introduction to brain and neurobiology of neurons.
2. The
importance of computational modeling, levels of abstraction in cognitive
modeling.
3. Problem
of neural code. Introduction to spiking neuron
models.
4.Structure
of cortical networks, neural representations, interactions between neurons.
5.
Biological mechanisms of memory and learning, long-term potentiation and
depression of synaptic efficacy, models based on hebbian learning.
6.
Synchronous oscilations in the cerebral cortex, visual perception. Modeling
perception and attention.
7.
Topographic maps in the brain, model of primary visual cortex.
8. Neural
correlates of language, modeling language functions.
9.
Higher-level cognition: role of the frontal cortex
10. Neural
correlates of primary and secondary consciousness.
Literature:
Benuskova L. (2002) Kognitivna
neuroveda. In: Rybar J, Benuskova L, Kvasnicka V (eds) Kognitivne vedy. Kalligram,
Bratislava, pp. 47-104.
Gerstner W. and Kistler W.: Spiking
Neuron Models. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2002.
Papers to individual topics
Language in which the subject is
taught: Slovak
Date of the last sheet revision: 7.8.2007