Pre-start

Announcements

Course website: http://neuralsignalprocessing.github.io
- previous website was elec548.github.io
HW 1 released! Available on course website. Discuss on Piazza!
- Please take a look before Thurs! Are the instructions clear?
Office hours poll posted!
- Tuesday 4pm-6pm BRC Hollywood Cafe (2nd floor)
- Friday 10am-12pm BRC Hollywood Cafe (2nd floor)
  - NOT THIS WEEK THOUGH!
I changed my mind about the derivation videos b/c I can and b/c I can just do it during the lecture it follows pretty well

ELEC/BIOE 548 | ELEC 483

Fall 2022

Episode 4: Cellular Neuroanatomy Pt. 2

How does it work?

Introduction. Class & brains

Fundamental neurobiology. How do neurons fire? How/what do we record?

Modeling spike trains. First bit of analysis work and understanding firing properties of neurons.

Classification. Making machines learn. Which direction is a monkey trying to reach? Bayesian decoding.

Point processes. Continued modeling work of neurons.

Clustering/Mixture models. Making machines learn some more. Spike sorting.

Continuous decoding. Kalman filters. Machines continue to learn.

Spectral analysis? LFP interpretation in spectral domain. But also kinda in clustering.

Introduction to Neuroscience
- Ch 1: The brain and behavior
- Ch 2: Nerve cells and behavior
How are neural signals generated?
- Ch 7: Membrane potential - TODAY
- Ch 9: Propagated Signaling: the action potential - Thurs
How do neurons communicate with each other? - Thurs
- Ch 10: Overview of synaptic transmission
- Ch12: Synaptic integration

What are glial cells? What are something that they do?
Neurons! What are the basic anatomical parts?
What happens when you inject current into some frog leg tissue? What about the frog sciatic nerve?
Action potentials! When you inject current into a neuron and record the intracellular voltage, these show up.