Lectures related to Competition in Kohonen Maps

Explores the engineering of neurons using light, chemicals, and sound to modulate neural activity and behavior.

Biophysical Understanding of Neuronal Electrical Behavior

Explores the biophysical understanding of neuronal electrical behavior, including challenges in modeling neurons, the generation of action potentials, and the impact of dendritic structure on firing patterns.

Understanding Synaptic Transmission

Explores synaptic transmission, neurotransmitters, and neural plasticity principles.

Synaptic Transmission: Electrical vs Chemical

Compares electrical and chemical synapses, emphasizing their properties and behavior, including the neuromuscular junction and synapses in the CNS.

Modeling synaptic transmission: Stochastic Dynamics

Explores stochastic synaptic transmission modeling, parameters, inhibitory effects, and synaptic reliability.

Modeling the synaptic potential

Explores the modeling of synaptic potentials and the factors influencing their amplitude.

Computational Neuroscience: Biophysics

Covers modern neuroscience synthesis, biophysical modeling, and brain building blocks with practical applications.

Synaptic Transmission: Electrical vs. Chemical

Explores the differences between electrical and chemical synapses, synaptic plasticity, and receptor behavior.

Rall's Cable Model

Explores Rall's cable model, synaptic potential spread in dendrites, and compartmental modeling for neural simulations.

Simple Hebbian learning rules and correlated inputs

Explains how weight vectors converge to identical values and how correlated input units dominate the activity of the output neuron.

Analyzing Kohonen maps

Covers the learning of sensory representations and the principles of competition, cooperation, and synaptic adaptation in Kohonen maps.

Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Function

Series explores the biophysics of neurons and synapses, synaptic transmission, and brain function.

Synaptic transmission: Structure and Mechanisms

Explores the structure and function of synapses, including neurotransmitter diversity and the role of AMPA and NMDA receptors.

Neuronal Signaling: Action Potentials and Conduction

Covers the terminology, generation, and conduction of action potentials in neuronal signaling, along with bioelectric signals and synaptic currents.

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Synaptic Transmission: Neuron Communication

Covers the process of fast chemical synaptic transmission between neurons.

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Network Simulation and Activity Dynamics

Explores neural network simulation, activity dynamics, and validation processes to ensure accurate predictions.

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Paper Planes Contest: Design and Flight Analysis

Explores the design and flight analysis of paper planes for a contest.