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

• 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