NESC6102

Principles of Neuroscience 2013

Instructors

 Dr. Thomas Trappenberg   

 Office: Room 4216 in Mona Campbell Building on Coburg RD (main) and Room 313 in Goldberg building (office hour) 

 Office hour: TBA

Course Reading

• Principles of Neural Science, Kandel, Schwartz & Jessell, 4th edition: Chapter 20

• Zhou, X., & Merzenich, M. M. (2007). Intensive training in adults refines a1 representations degraded in an early postnatal critical period. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 104, 4423-4428.

• T. Trappenberg, P. Hartono, and D. Rasmusson (2009), [Top-down control of learning in biological self-organizing maps], Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5629, WSOM 2009, J. Principe and R. Miikkulainen (eds), 316-324, Springer.

As additional material I can suggest the TED talk by Ramachandran at [[1]] and the section 7.2 of my book.

Matlab Program

A Matlab program for a self organizing map is given here.