Principles of Neuroscience NESC6100 (winter 2002)

Module on Computational Neuroscience

Time: Friday, March 28 and Wednesday, April 3

Location: Physiology Library (Room 3A-1, Tupper Building)

Required Reading:

`Introduction’; Trappenberg T., Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford University Press; pp 1-12; 2002.

`Associators and Synaptic Plasticity’; Trappenberg T., Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford University Press; pp 146-173; 2002.

`Synaptic Plasticity’; Abbott LF, Nelson SB, Nature Neuroscience Supplement 3:1178-1183, 2000.

Presentation Papers:

`Stable Hebbian Learning from Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity’; van Rossum MCW, Bi GQ, Turrigiano GG; Journal of Neuroscience, 20:8812-8821, 2000.

`Competitive Hebbian Learning Through Spike-Timing-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity’; Song S, Miller KD, Abbott LF; Nature Neuroscience 3:919-926; 2000.