Math 5447
Mathematical Neuroscience
Fall 2008, University of Minnesota
General Information
Lecture Time: MW 3:35 PM - 4:50 PM
Classroom: Ford Hall 115
Instructor: Duane Nykamp
Office: 202 Vincent Hall
E-mail: nykamp@math.umn.edu
Phone: 625-0338
Office hours: MW 2:25 PM - 3:25 PM, F 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM or by appointment
Course Material:
- Syllabus
- List of homework assignments and due dates
- Basic introduction to Matlab
- Solutions to
pre-class quiz
- Reference: Christof Koch and Idan Segev, editors. Methods in
Neuronal Modeling: From Ions to Networks. MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, second edition, 1998.
Chapter 7 is available in interactive form on the web.
- Information theory and population coding references
- B. Averbeck, P. E. Latham and A. Pouget. Neural correlations, population coding and computation.
Nature Reviews Neurosci. 7:358-366, 2006. Link
to paper
- Synergy, redundancy, and independence in population codes, revisited.
P. E. Latham and S. Nirenberg.
J. Neurosci. 25:5195-5206, 2005. Link
to paper
- S. Nirenberg and P. E. Latham. Decoding neuronal spike trains: how
important are correlations? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.,
100:7348-7353, 2003. Link
to paper
- E. Schneidman, W. Bialek, and M. J. Berry 2nd. Synergy,
redundancy, and independence in population codes. J Neurosci,
23:11539-11553,
2003. Link
to paper