CALENDAR

Discussion

Lecture

Exam

Vacation Day

#	Dat	Date	Title	Lecturer	Reading	Notes	Links
			I. INTRODUCTION
01	F	08/28	Neuroethology: an Introduction	Hopkins
02	M	08/31	Roots in Ethology	Hopkins	Carew 1:3-13
03	W	09/2	Roots in Cellular Neurobiology I	Hopkins	Carew 1:13-31
			II. SENSORY NEUROETHOLOGY: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE SENSING
04	F	09/4	Journal club and discussion Ultrasonic hearing in nocturnal butterfies	Hopkins	Yack, Kalko and Surlykke (2007)
05	M	09/07 Labor Day	Echolocation I: Behavior	Hopkins	Carew 2:35-47
06	W	09/09	Echolocation II Neurobiology	Hopkins	Carew 2: 48-58 Neuweiler (2003) Jones & Teeling (2006)
07	F	09/11	Discussion: Hippocampal cellular and network activity in freely moving echolocating bats	Greg Peters	Ulanovsky& Moss
08	M	09/14	Doppler Shift Compensation in echolocation	Hopkins	Hiryu et al. (2008)
09	W	09/16	Sound Localization in Owls I: Behavior	Hopkins	Carew: 3 (61-70)
	Th,F	0917 & 18	WORKSHOP: The WIKIPEDIA Neuroethology Project	Hopkins	Thursday 9:05 or Friday 9:15 AM
10	F	09/18	Discussion: Hyperacute directional hearing in a microscale auditory system	Krishan Chhiba	Mason, Oshinski, Hoy 2001
11	M	09/21	Sound Localization in Owls II Neural basis	Hopkins	Carew 3, 70-92 Carr & Konishi ('88)
12	W	09/23	Sound Localization in Owls III Development	Hopkins	Knudsen (1983), Knudsen (1985)
13	F	09/25	Discussion: Delay line models of sound localization in the barn owl	Ingrid Kiehl and Maria Huss	Carr, C. E. (1993) Amer. Zool. 33:79. background reading
14	M	09/28	Visual Processing: Temporal Processing in Linear Systems	Hopkins	Knight et al., 1970
15	W	09/30	Temporal Processing in Linear Systems	Hopkins	Ratliff (1980)
--	Th,F	10/01-10/02	WikiNeuroethology - choose project subject	Hopkins
16	F	10/02	Temporal and Spatial processing in Linear Systems
17	M	10/05	Spatial processing in Linear Systems	Hopkins
18	W	10/07	Feature analysis in toad vision	Hopkins	Carew 4: 95-119	Film
19	F	10/09	Discussion: Sexual Dimorphism in the Visual System of Flies	Gregory Horn and Isabelle Hutchings	Zeil, J. (1983)
	M	10/12	FALL BREAK
21	W	10/14	Jamming Avoidance Response		Heiligenberg '89
22	F	10/16	Society for Neuroscience - no class
23	M	10/19	PRELIM. EXAMINATION DUE Jamming Avoidance Response II
			III. MOTOR SYSTEMS AND CONTROL
24	W	10/21	Jamming Acoidance III		Kawasaki, 2009
25	F	10/23	Discussion	Ellen Wahlig-Cole and Kevin Wong	Yang et al (2009) Neuron
26	M	10/26	Command neurons for Escape	Hopkins	Carew (2000) Ch. 7, pp. 187-223
27	W	10/28	Mate calling in Animal Communication	Hopkins	Carew (2000) Ch. 5 especially. 127-136
28	F	10/30	Discussion	Tom Kraft Paul Shamble	Corollary discharge in cricket song , View, Review
29	M	11/02	Producing Song: vocal apparatus of birds	Hopkins	Suthers & Zollinger ('04)
			IV. PLASTICITY IN BEHAVIORAL AND NEURONAL SYSTEMS
30	W	11/04	Song Learning	Hopkins	Leonardo & Konishi (1999); Brainard and Doupe (2002)
31	F	11/06	Discussion:	Ana Lopezulloa & Christina Masco	Sleep and sensorimotor integration
32	M	11/09	Expectation Generators	Hopkins	Cullen (2004) Bell (2001)
33	W	11/11	Spike timing dependent plasticity	Hopkins	Roberts and Bell (2002)
34	F	11/13	Learning and Memory in Aplysia	Hopkins	Carew (2000) Ch. 10, pages 303-344) Kandel (2001)
			V. SENSORY GUIDANCE
35	M	11/16	Sensory Guidance of Oriented Behavior	Hopkins	Hopkins (2005)
36	W	11/18	Spatial Navigation	Hopkins	Land and Collett
37	F	11/20	Discussion	Vance Gao	Eckstrom et al. McGuire et al.
38	M	11/23	Spatial navigation in rats	Hopkins	Carew (2000) Chapter 12
39	W	11/25	Spatial navigation in birds	Hopkins
	F	11/27	THANKSGIVING
			VI. COMPUTATIONAL NEUROETHOLOGY
40	M	11/30	Neural networks and behavior	Hopkins	Barlow ('93)
41	W	12/02	Computational Neuroethology	Hopkins
42	F	12/04	Discussion	James Golden Junping Shao
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