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NEU/PSY 502

502A

Syllabus
Lectures
Paper Presentation Rubric
1 Introduction and History
2 Perception and Constraint Satisfaction
3 Associative Learning and Topography
4 Sequences and Predictions
5 Dynamics of Integration and Decision Making
6 Cerebellum and Error-driven Learning
7 Reinforcement Learning
8 Dopamine and Basal Ganglia
9 Basics of Motor System + Motor Cortex
10 Explore/exploit and noradrenergic neuromodulation
11 Interactive Activation, Statistical Learning, and Language Processing
12 Language, Context and LLMs
Class 13: Episodic Memory and Hippocampal Function
Class 14: Automaticity and Control
Class 15: Working memory and Prefrontal Function
Class 16: Representation and Capacity Limits
Class 17: Higher Level Cognition
Class 18: Optimization and Control
Class 19: Motor Representations and Planning
Class 20: Motor Control, Learning and Cerebellar Function
Class 21: Development
Class 22: Social Cognition
Class 23: Cognitive Neuropsychology and the Origins of Computational Psychiatry
Class 24: Modern Computational Psychiatry

502B

Syllabus

502B Computation

Introduction
1 Primer
2 Dynamics in Perception
3 Decision Making
- 3.1 Drift Diffusion Models
4 Reinforcement Learning
- 4.1 Reinforcement Learning
5 Statistical Learning and Backpropagation
- 5.1 Rumelhart Semantic Network
6 Episodic Memory
- 6.1 Episodic Memory
- 6.2 Episodic Generalization Optimization - EGO
7 Selective Attention, Automaticity, and Control
- 7.1 Stroop Model
8 Conflict Monitoring, Effort, and Control
- 8.1 Conflict Monitoring
9 Integration, Attention, Context, and Control
- 9.1 ISC-CI Model

502B Empirical

Introduction

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9 Basics of Motor System + Motor Cortex

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Basics of Motor System + Motor Cortex
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Motor Systems: Luo Chapter 8
Modular organization of motor behavior in the frog’s spinal cord: Bizzi et al., (1995)
Complex Movements Evoked by Microstimulation of Precentral Cortex: Graziano et al., (2002)

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By Jonathan Cohen, Samuel Nastase, Alexander Ku & Younes Strittmatter

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