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Professor Andreas G. Andreou,, Stieff 120, 410-516-8361 Arun Sripati, sparun@jhu.edu
Schedule and Syllabus
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Lecture topics (tentative) |
Reading Assignment |
Homework Assignment |
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Organizational meeting Wednesday January 28th, 2 p.m., Stieff 120. |
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Sensation and perception. (Andreou) |
Bialek, 1987. | |
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Methods: classification and discriminant
analysis. (Andreou) |
Wandell (Appendix C) (pdf) Kumar and Andreou,1998. |
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Modeling biology at different levels of abstraction. (Andreou) |
Abshire and Andreou, 2001. |
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Information theory primer; estimating the information from discrete & continuous
data. Biophysical models of the neuron; how neurons work, and modeling their behavior at different levels of detail. Estimating the information content in a neural code. (Sripati) |
Strong, Koberle, de Ruyter van Steveninck, and
Bialek, 1998. A nice website that qualitatively explains how neurons work. |
Poisson processes & building simple firing rate models (pdf) [ due March 12 ] |
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Overview of the somatosensory system and tactile perception Types of neurons in the somatosensory system. Peripheral and cortical neural representations. Reverse correlation techniques. (Sripati) |
Hsiao, Johnson, and Yoshioka, 2003. |
Receptive field estimation & building a population activity estimate (pdf) [ due April 2 ] |
| 6 | Spring Break | ||
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Mechanoreceptors and how they work. Modeling responses to vibratory stimuli ( Dr. Sliman Bensmaia) |
Freeman and Johnson, 1982. | |
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Modeling receptor responses using skin mechanics
Discussion on how to extend this to general stimuli (Sripati) |
Phillips and Johnson, 1981. | |
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Haptic perception (Andreou) |
Johnson, 2004. | |
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Somethesis (Andreou) |
Hsiao, Yoshioka, Johnson, 2002. | |
| 11-13 | Class project: A model of the somatosensory pathway, from skin to cortex. |
Reading References:
[1] W. Bialek, Physical limits to sensation and perception, Ann. Rev. Biophys. Chem., 16:455--478, 1987 (pdf).[2] N. Kumar and A.G. Andreou, Heteroscedastic discriminant analysis and reduced rank HMMs for improved speech recognition, Speech Communication, Vol. 26, pp. 283-297,1998 (pdf).
[3] P. Abshire and A.G. Andreou, A communication channel model for information transmission in the blowfly photoreceptor, Biosystems, Vol. 62, pp. 113-133, 2001 (pdf).
[4] S. P. Strong, R. Koberle, R. R. de Ruyter van Steveninck, and W. Bialek, Entropy and information in neural spike trains, Phys. Rev. Lett., 80:197-200, 1998 (pdf).
[5] S.S. Hsiao, K.O. Johnson, T. Yoshioka, Neural mechanisms of tactile perception, In: Handbook of Psychology, Volume 3, Biological Psychology, Michela Gallagher (Editor), Randy Nelson (Editor), Wiley, New York, January 2003 (pdf ).
[6] A.O. Freeman and K.O. Johnson, Cutaneous mechanoreceptors in macaque monkey; temporal discharge patterns evoked by vibration and receptor model, J. Physiology, 323, pp. 21-41,1982 (pdf).
[7] J.R. Phillips and K.O. Johnson, Tactile spatial resolution III: A continuum mechanics model of skin predicting mechanoreceptor responses to bars, edges and gradings, J. Neurophysiology, vol. 46, no. 6, 1981 (pdf)
[8] K.O. Johnson, Neural basis of haptic perception, Chapter 13, In: Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology, 3rd Edition, Volume 1, Hal Pashler, Ph.D. (Editor), Steven Yantis, Ph.D. (Editor), Douglas L. Medin, Ph.D. (Editor), Randy Gallistel, Ph.D. (Editor), John Wixted, Ph.D. (Editor), Wiley, New York, February 2004 (pdf).
[9] S.S. Hsiao, T. Yoshioka, K.O. Johnson, Neural basis for somesthesis, In: Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 2002 (pdf).
Bibliography:
[1] Sensory Communication, W.A. Rosenblith, editor, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1961.[2] Mathematical Theory of Communication, C.E. Shannon and W. Weaver, University of Illinois Press, 1963. This book is a reprint of the original paper with corrections and an introduction by W. Weaver. The original version of the Bell System Technical Journal paper can be downloaded from here (pdf). See also the discussion on the Shannon web site at Bell labs.
[3] Elements of Information Theory, T.M. Cover and J.A. Thomas, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1991.
[4] Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code, F. Rieke, D. Warland, R. de Reuter van Steveninck, W. Bialek, MIT Press, 1997.
[5] Foundations of Vision, B.A. Wandell, Sinauer Associates Inc. Publishers, MA 1995.
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Theoretical Neuroscience: Computational and
Mathematical Modeling of Neural Systems, P. Dayan and L.F. Abbott. MIT
Press, Cambridge MA, 2001.
Useful Local Links:
Sensory Communication and Microsystems Lab (Andreou Lab)
Mind Brain Institute (Johnson, Hsiao, Niebur Labs)
Other Links to Interesting Sites:
Neuro-IT.org (Neuro Information Technologies in Europe)
ROSANA (somatosensory prosthesis project)
CYBERHAND (neural prosthesis project with somatosensory feedback)
, Last update:
Monday, July 12, 2004
