Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience

A survey of experimental & theoretical approaches to understanding how cognition arises in the brain. This complements 501, focusing on the mechanisms responsible for perception, attention, decision making, memory, cognitive & motor control, and planning, with emphasis on the representations involved & their transformations in the service of cognitive function. Source material spans neuroscience, cognitive science, & work on artificial systems. Relevance to neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders is also discussed. This is the 2nd term of a double-credit core lecture course required of all Neuroscience Ph.D. students.