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In this course students learn to apply computational modelling techniques for different aspects of behaviour: Decision making, Motor control, and Early vision.
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- Models of decision making (e.g. diffusion models). Material: research papers
- Principles of motor control: state-space estimation, multi-joint control, optimal feedback control, Kalman filter approaches. Material: book Shadmehr and Mussa-Ivaldi: “Biological Learning and Control”, MIT Press, 2012, Chapters 2,3,4,10 and part of 11 (this book is also used in Psychophysics 2, and therefore highly recommended).
- Early vision: how quantum-mechanical principles (single-photon detection) underly the first stages of vision. Material: book Nelson: “From photon to neuron”, Princeton Univ Press, 2017. Chapters 9 and 11 (if time permits)
Instructional Modes
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Master level physics. The course is obligatory for the Neurophysics master specialisation.
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Psychophysics 1 is recommended (not obligatory). Students can preview video lectures of the Psychophysics 1 course, if they wish
(contact AJ van Opstal).
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Written exam (2 hours) will finish the course.
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