BCSC 280: Schedule
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Lightning Quizzes marked with ‘Q'
Date
Topic
New Methods
08/27
Class overview & fMRI primer
fMRI
08/29
Concepts and categories
psychophysics, EEG
09/03
Neuroscience of vision: retinotopic maps
linear regression, GLM
population receptive fields
09/05
Neuroscience of vision: selectivity
09/09
Impressions #1 due
09/10
Seminar #1 – The Basic Level: Rosch et al. (1976)
09/12
Object perception: MVPA, decoding models (Q)
MVPA, RSA, SVM
09/16
Moderator write-up for seminar #1 due
09/17
Object perception: encoding & decoding models (Q)
ridge regression, PCA
09/18
Impressions #2 due
09/19
Seminar #2 – fMRI: Swisher et al. (2010), Jacques et al.
(2016)
ECoG
09/24
Object perception: neural networks & other models (Q)
vision models & networks
09/25
Moderator write-up for seminar #2 due
09/26
Scene perception (Q)
MEG
09/30
Impressions #3 due
10/01
Seminar #3 – Category Selectivity: Mur et al. (2012),
Konkle & Caramazza (2013)
10/03
Face perception (Q)
DTI
10/08
Fall Break – No Class
10/09
Moderator write-up for seminar #3 due
10/10
Attention: top-down modulation, tuning (Q)
10/15
Language & semantics (Q)
language models & networks
10/16
Impressions #4 due
10/17
Seminar #4 – Alignment and Connectivity: Haxby et al.
(2011), Baldassano et al. (2013)
functional connectivity
10/21
Impressions #5 due
10/22
Seminar #5 – Visual Attention and Production: Fan et al.
(2020), Keller et al. (2022)
10/23
Moderator write-up for seminar #4 due
10/24
Memory & event perception (Q)
memory models, HMM
10/28
Moderator write-up for seminar #5 due
10/29
Narratives & neural coupling (Q)
ISC
10/31
Halloween topics: dreams, illusions, psychotropics
pharmacological
interventions
11/04
Impressions #6 due
11/05
Seminar #6 – Event Schemas: Baldassano et al. (2018),
Masis-Obando et al. (2022)
11/06
Impressions #7 due
11/07
Seminar #7 – Neural Network Models of Brain Activity:
Pereira et al. (2018), Rajalingham et al. (2018)
11/11
Moderator write-up for seminar #6 due
11/12
Guest lecture: speaker and topic TBD
11/13
Moderator write-up for seminar #7 due
11/14
Guest lecture: speaker and topic TBD
11/19
Neurofeedback: emotion, perception, attention (Q)
neurofeedback
11/21
Neurofeedback: learning & neural stimulation (Q)
EBS
11/25
Impressions #8 due
11/26
Seminar #8 – Neurofeedback: Ramot et al. (2017), Oblak
et al. (2021)
11/28
Thanksgiving Break – No Class
12/03
Targeted neural inactivation and neural stimulation
TMS
12/04
Moderator write-up for seminar #8 due
12/05
Student topics & course wrap-up
12/13
Final paper due