Seminar: Neuroinformatics 4
| Year | Semester | Date | Period | Language | In charge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | spring | 18.01-25.04. | 3-4 | English | Aapo Hyvärinen |
Lectures
| Time | Room | Lecturer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 14-16 | B119 | Aapo Hyvärinen | 18.01.2012-22.02.2012 |
| Wed 14-16 | B119 | Aapo Hyvärinen | 14.03.2012-25.04.2012 |
Information for international students
The seminar will be in English.
General
This year's topic for the neuroinformatics seminar is
Consciousness in brains and machines
We will investigate the phenomenon of consciousness in a truly multidisciplinary fashion. A bit more emphasis will be placed on computational models of consciousness developed in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience, but the basic ideas of the philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology of consciousness will be equally represented.
Completing the course
To get the credit points, you are supposed to
- Participate in all the sessions of the seminar. One absence is OK, more than one if you have a very good reason.
- Give a talk based on given material, typically a scientific article. Who gets what will be decided in the first seminar session.
- Write, in the end, a short report on what you learned at the seminar (something like 10 lines per presentation).
Deadline for the report is 15th May.
There is no overlap with the previous neuroinformatics seminars, so you can do this seminar every year.
Literature and material
The articles considered in the seminar are being gathered here. (Not all of the papers on that page will actually be considered.)
Schedule of presentations:
25.1. Kaj (Baars)
1.2. Fabian (Dehaene)
8.2. Athanasios (Tononi)
15.2. Sanchez (Chella)
22.2. Mikko (Hesslow), Javad (Fountas)
14.3. Heini (Railo)
21.3. Dmitri (Schurger and the other paper)
28.3. No seminar!
4.4. Marko (Marti), Matthew (Anathanarayanan)
18.4. Ben (Itti Koch)
25.4. Ksenia (Sloman)
General guidelines on the length of the talks:
Ordinary session (one speaker): 45 min talk + discussion 30min
Shared session (two speakers): 30min talk + discussion 15 min + 30 min talk + discussion 15 min
Here's an example of what the slides could look like
Please send your slides to me after your talk. Slides from past talks are available here but they can be accessed only from UH and Aalto computers.