Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 10:30

Monday, January 12

Lecture 1: Elements of Neural Systems
Lecturer: David Dickman

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Wed., January 14

Lecture 2: Synaptic organization of the brain
Lecturer: Andreas Burkhalter

Purves: Chapter 1, Chapter 2(25-28)
Chapter 5(112-117), Chapter 11(277-286)
Lecture Movie

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., January 14

Lab 1: Human Gross Anatomy; Human Brain Overview, Dissection I
Lecturers: Joel Price, Woolsey, Galvin

Woolsey: Part I
AND
Purves: pages 815-819, 827-836, 839-842, 844-845
Lab 1 instructions

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, January 16

Lecture 3: Early development of NS and PNS/spinal cord
Lecturer: Joel Price

Purves: Chapter 22

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

N/A

Monday, January 19

MLK Holiday--no class

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Wed., January 21

Lecture 4: Brainstem & crainial nerves
Lecturer: Joel Price

Purves: Chapter 20; Pages 822-827, 854-855

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., January 21

Lab 2: Spinal cord & brainstem, primate & mouse
Lecturers: Joel Price, Andreas Burkhalter

Woolsey: Pp. 40-45, 138-149, 170-177

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, January 23

Lecture 5: Receptor/Neural coding
Lecturer: David Dickman, Larry Snyder

KSJ: Chapter 21
AND
Fundamental Neuroscience: Chapter 23

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 9:20

Monday, January 26

QUIZ 1

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Monday, January 26

Lecture 6: Cerebellum
Lecturer: Joel Price

Purves: Chapter 19
Lecture Movie

9:00 - 10:30

Wed., January 28

Lecture 7: Midbrain & specific transmitter systems
Lecturer: Joel Price

Purves: Chapters 6
Lecture Movie

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., January 28

Lab 3: Forebrain, primate & mouse
Lecturers: Joel Price, Andreas Burkhalter

Woolsey: Pp. 20-38, 155-166, 212-226
Slides from Joel's lab presentation

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, January 30

Lecture 8: Hypothalamus and basal ganglia
Lecturer: Joel Price

Purves: Chapter 18, 21
Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 9:20

Monday, February 2

QUIZ 2

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Monday, February 2

Lecture 9: Thalamus
Lecturer: Joel Price

Purves: chapter 10

9:00 - 10:30

Wed., February 4

Lecture 10: Cortex
Lecturer: Joel Price

Purves: chapter 10

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., February 4

Lab 4: Tools for investigating neuronal circuits
Lecturers: Andreas Burkhalter, Joel Price, Tim Holy

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, February 6

Lecture 11: Population coding principles
Lecturer: Larry Snyder
Part 2 of lecture

Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 9:20

Monday, February 9

QUIZ 3

QUIZ 3 answer key

9:20 - 10:30

Monday, February 9

Lecture 12: Measurement of behavior
Lecturer: Steve Petersen

Lecture Movie

9:00 - 10:30

Wed., February 11

Lecture 13: Maps, columns, hierarchies
Lecturer: Steve Petersen

Felleman DJ, Van Essen DC. Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex. Cereb Cortex, 1991, 1: 1-47.

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., February 13

Lab 5: Eye, visual pathway, blobs, receptive fields
Lecturers: Andreas Burkhalter, Joel Price

Douglas RJ and Martin KAC (2007), The butterfly and the loom. Brain Res. Reviews, 55: 314-328.
Lab Handout part 1
Lab Handout Part 2

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, February 13

Lecture 14: Cortical Networks
Lecturer: Andreas Burkhalter

Purves, Chapter 10
Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 10:30

Monday, February 16

Lecture 15: Functional organization of visual cortex
Lecturer: Andreas Burkhalter

Purves: Chapter 11
Lecture Movie

9:00 - 9:20

Wednesday, February 18

QUIZ 4

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Wed., February 18

Lecture 16: Development and plasticity of visual cortex
Lecturer: Andreas Burkhalter

Purves: Chapter 23, Chapter 24(599-602)
Lecture Movie

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., February 18

Lab 6: Monkey/bird sensory neurophysiology
Lecturers: Larry Snyder
Dora Angelaki
David Dickman
Location: East Mcdonnell and CID

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, February 20

Lecture 17: Auditory receptors and processing
Lecturer: David Dickman

Purves: Chapter 13
Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 10:30

Monday, February 23

Lecture 18: Sound Localization
Lecturer: David Dickman, Mark Warchol

Purves: Chapter 13
AND
McAlpine J Physiol 05
Lecture Movie

9:00 - 9:20

Wed., February 25

QUIZ 5

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Wed., February 25

Lecture 19: Vestibular System
Lecturer: David Dickman

Purves: Chapter 14
Lecture movie

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., February 25

Lab 7: Inner ear/Audiogram
Lecturers: David Dickman, Mark Warchol, Tim Hullar

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, February 27

Lecture 20: Somatosensory system
Lecturer: David Dickman

Purves: Chapter 9
Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 10:30

Monday, March 2

Lecture 21: Electric Fish
Lecturer: Bruce Carlson

Rose et al. 2004
Lecture Movie

9:00 - 9:20

Wed, March 4

QUIZ 6

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Wed., March 4

Lecture 22: Chemical Senses CANCELED
Lecturer: David Dickman

Purves: Chapter 15

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., March 4

Lab 8: Electric fish
Lecturers: Bruce Carlson
Dan Moran
Location: Whitaker Hall, Danforth Campus

Electric fish lab manual

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, March 6

Lecture 23: Oculomotor system
Lecturer: Larry Snyder

Purves: Chapter 20
Eye Movement handout
Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

N/A

Monday, March 10

SPRING BREAK

N/A

N/A

Wed., March 12

SPRING BREAK

N/A

N/A

Friday, March 14

SPRING BREAK

N/A

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00

Monday, March 16

TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM Due back at 9:00 am on March 20

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Monday, March 16

Lecture 24: Chemical Senses
Lecturer: David Dickman

Purves: Chapter 15
Lecture Movie

9:00 - 10:30

Wed., March 18

Lecture 25: Spinal reflexes and patterns
Lecturer: Thomas Thach

Purves: Chapter 16
Lecture Movie

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., March 18

Lab 9: Oculomotor System
Lecturers: Larry Snyder
Dan Moran
Location: Whitaker Hall, Danforth Campus

N/A

9:00

Friday, March 20

TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM DUE

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, March 20

Lecture 26: Motor Cortex I
Lecturer: Thomas Thach

Purves: Chapter 17
Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 10:30

Monday, March 23

Lecture 27: Motor cortex II
Lecturer: Dan Moran

Purves: Chapter 17
Lecture Movie

9:00 - 9:20

Wed, March 25

QUIZ 6

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Wed., March 25

Lecture 28: Cerebellum
Lecturer: Thomas Thach

Lecture Movie

12:00 - 3:30

Wed., March 25

Lab 10: Frog nerve conduction: NOTE NEW TIME!
Lecturers: Dan Moran

Location: Whitaker Hall, Danforth Campus

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, March 27

Lecture 29: Plasticity/prosthesis
Lecturer: Dan Moran

Purves: Chapter 19
Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 9:20

Monday, March 30

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Monday, March 30

Lecture 30: Basal ganglia
Lecturer: Tom Thach

Purves: Chapter 18
Lecture Movie

9:00 - 9:20

Wed., April 1

QUIZ 7

N/A

9:00 - 9:20

Wed., April 1

Lecture 31: Motor injury - recovery of function
Lecturer: Tom Thach

Purves: Chapter 25
Lecture Movie

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., April 1

Lab 11: Cerebellum/basal ganglia
Lecturers: Joel Price
Tom Thach

Woolsey: Pp. 46-47, 136-137, 155-162, 206-212

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, April 3

Lecture 32: Visceral motor
Lecturer: Joel Price

Purves: Chapter 21
Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 10:30

Monday, April 6

Lecture 33: Limbic system
Lecturer: Joel Price

Lecture Movie

9:00 - 9:20

Wednesday, April 8

QUIZ 8

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Wed., April 8

Lecture 34: Multisensory integration
Lecturer: Dora Angelaki

Lecture video

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., April 8

Lab 12: Limbic system
Lecturers: Joel Price

Woolsey: Mystery pages!Lecture video

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, April 10

Lecture 35: Neural representation of space
Lecturer: Larry Snyder

Bisley paper
Bisley supplementLecture video

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:20 - 10:30

Monday, April 13

Lecture 36: Advanced population coding
Lecturer: Larry Snyder

Avillac et al.
Lecture video

9:00 - 9:20

Wednesday, April 15

QUIZ 9

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Wed., April 15

Lecture 37: Interpreting Imaging Studies
Lecturer: Steve Petersen

Lecture video

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., April 15

Lab 13: CANCELLED
Lecturers: Larry Snyder
Kurt Thoroughman
Location: Whitaker 135, Danforth Campus

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Fri., April 17

Lecture 38: Orientation/navigation
Lecturers: David Dickman
Larry Snyder

Taube 2007
Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:20 - 10:30

Monday, April 20

Lecture 39: Cognition I: Learning & Memory
Lecturer: Steve Petersen

Lecture Movie

9:00 - 9:20

Wednesday, April 22

QUIZ 10

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Wed., April 22

Lecture 40: Cognition II: Selective Attention
Lecturer: Steve Petersen

No Movie was recorded today

1:00 - 4:00

Wed., April 22

Lab 14: Imaging Demonstration
Lecturer: Steve Petersen

N/A

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, April 24

Lecture 41: Cognition III
Lecturer: Steve Petersen

Lecture Movie

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:20 - 10:30

Monday, April 27

Lecture 42: Cognition IV
Lecturer: Steve Petersen

Lecture Movie

9:00 - 9:20

Wednesday, April 29

QUIZ 11

N/A

9:20 - 10:30

Wed., April 29

Lecture 43: Emotion
Lecturer: Joel Price

Purves: Chapter 29

9:00 - 10:30

Friday, May 1

Lecture 44: Reward & Value
Lecturer: Padoa-Schioppa

Fellows AND
Schultz

Time

Date

Title + Lecturer

Readings

9:00 - 10:30

Monday, May 4

Lecture 45: Sleep
Lecturer: Paul Shaw

Purves: Chapter 28

10:30

Monday, May 4

Take-home Final Exam Handout: Due Monday, May 11, 9:00 am

N/A