INF1-CG: Week 2
Tasks
Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:
- Work on Assignment 0. This assignment is for practising Python, and is not for credit.
- Attend lectures 4, 5 and 6.
- Attend your tutorial group.
- Attend one of the drop-in labs.
- Read the readings for this week.
Lectures
| No | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 04 | 20 Jan | The Human Brain |
| 05 | 22 Jan | Neurons |
| 06 | 23 Jan | Modelling the Brain |
All lectures will be livestreamed and recorded on Echo Video. You may have to log on through Learn before this link works.
Readings
The links below direct you to the University Library or to Piazza. You will need to log on to access the full text.
Readings come in two flavours: recommended and suggested.
| Gage and Baars 2018 | Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience (Second Edition): Chapter 2 - The Brain | Recommended |
| Ward 2019 | The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience: Chapter 2 - Introducing the brain | Recommended |
| Brooks, R., Hassabis, D., Bray, D., & Shashua, A. (2012) | Is the brain a good model for machine intelligence? Nature, 482(7386), 462. | Suggested |
Assignments
Assignment 0 is a programming assignment that teaches some basic Python. Python is the programming language that we will use the the other assignments in this course. Assignment 0 is not for credit.
To access the assignments, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.3”.
Labs
Please attend one of the drop-in lab sessions this week. The first few labs cover Python programming.
To access the lab notebooks, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.3”.