Fall 2018: Neuro 130 / Neuro 230 - Harvard College/GSAS: 78454

Reading Assignment Reference Discussion Date Homework Due
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Olshausen, B. A. & Field, D. J. Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images. Nature 381, 607-609 (1996). PDF

Monday September 17, 2018 (Kreiman) Paper Due Monday September 24, 2018
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Warrington, E., and Shallice, T. Category specific semantic impairments. Brain. 107:829-854 (1984). PDF

Monday September 24, 2018 (Kreiman) Paper Due Monday October 1, 2018 [Sample Homework Link Coming Soon]
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Thorpe, S., Fize, D., and Marlot, C. Speed of processing in the human visual system. Nature. 381: 520-522 (1996). PDF

Monday October 1, 2018 (Szpiro) Paper Due Tuesday October 9, 2018
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Hubel and Wiesel. Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. Journal of Physiology. 160:106-154 (1962). PDF Monday October 15, 2018 (Hartmann) Paper Due Monday October 22, 2018
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Pasupathy, A., and Connor, C.E. Population coding of shape in area V4. Nature Neuroscience. 5:1332-1338 (2002). PDF Comment

Monday October 22, 2018 (Azevedo) Paper Due Monday October 29, 2018
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Hung, C., Kreiman, G., Poggio, T., and DiCarlo, J. Fast read-out of object identity from macaque inferior temporal cortex. Science. 310:863-866 (2005) PDF Monday October 29, 2018 (Mendoza-Halliday) Paper Due Monday November 5, 2018
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Afraz, S.R., Kiani, R., and Esteky, H. Microstimulation of inferotemporal cortex influences face categorization. Nature. 422:692-695. (2006). PDF

Monday November 5, 2018 (Isik)

Paper Due Monday November 12, 2018
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Sheinberg, D.L., and Logothetis, N.K. Noticing familiar objects in real world scences: the role of temporal cortical neurons in natural vision. Journal of Neuroscience. 21(4):1340-1350 (2001). PDF Monday November 12, 2018 (Kreiman) Paper Due Monday November 19, 2018
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Freeman, J. and E. P. Simoncelli (2011). "Metamers of the ventral stream." Nat Neurosci 14(9): 1195-1201. PDF Monday November 19, 2018 (Kreiman) Paper Due Monday November 26, 2018
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Krizhevsky, Sutskever, Hinton. ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25 (2012). PDF Monday November 26, 2018 (Lotter) Paper Due Monday December 3, 2018
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Yang, G., Song, H., Newsome, W. & Wang, X. Clustering and compositionality of task representations in a neural network trained to perform many cognitive tasks. Biorxiv, 183632 (2017). PDF

Monday December 3, 2018 (Boix) Paper Due Thursday December 6, 2018
FINAL EXAM

Instructions

No discussion of final exam DUE Thursday Dec 13th, 2018 at Noon. NO EXTENSIONS. Send final exam by email to: emmagiles@g.harvard.edu

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