NEUR30004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cerebral Cortex, Action Potential, Big Data
13 Aug 2018
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To be able to formulate ideas about, and discuss proposals and hypotheses about, how the brain works. Used to have a section of sensation, motor control and higher function, really. In term of the functions that we appreciate and need. Pain and how we conceptualize objects, visual and abstract. Maximum understanding, meant to supplement the lectures. Mst is quite late, and so the final exam is about the whole subject. Group assignment is tweaked for this semester last year the assignment was on a paper on pain, this year the paper will change. Workshops irl doesn"t start till week 3 imaging brain activity, done online during week 1. Workshop 2: split brain, w3: language, w4: vision. Workshops has a worksheet, done in a group of two or more. When everyone"s finished answers will come up. How does the brain acquire information and aggregate it into useful structures (knowledge)
