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The module discusses the auditory and visual systems, covering sensory conduction in the sensory periphery to neural cording in sensory cortex. Multiple animal models (rodent, ferret, and humans) and techniques (electrophysiology, 2-photon microscopy, optogenetics, MEG and fMRI) will be discussed. Students will become familiar with the cutting-edge research into Systems and Circuit based analysis in Neuroscience.
Indicative lecture list
Week 1: Vision: receptors, subcortical, developmental
- Development of the primate area of high visual acuity
- Learning to integrate the senses
- Visual optics, rods and cones and retinal processing
- Parallel pathways for vision
Week 2: Vision: cortex, perception
- Cortical circuits for vision
- Sensation in action
- Canonical Computations in Visual Cortex
- Seeing through the clutter: Crowding and peripheral vision
Week 3: Mechanotransduction and spatial hearing
- Hearing with antennae: acoustic communication in fruit flies and disease-transmitting mosquitoes
- Hearing or how the cochlea does a hard job with soft parts
- Sound localisation - an example of subcortical auditory processing
- Learning to hear sounds in space
Week 4: Audition: cortex, perception
- Audiovisual integration in auditory cortex
- Putting sounds in context
- Studying temporal patterns with MEG
- Speech processing in the auditory system
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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