Systems Neuroscience
Fall semester 2024
INI415

Organizer: Daniel C. Kiper

Time: Tuesday, 8.15 am to 10:00
Location: Y35 F 32
First lecture on Tuesday 16.9.2025


This course focuses on the treatment of information in primate cortex. We will learn about the sensory, motor, and cognitive systems that underlie human behavior. In addition to the lectures, we have one hour of exercises each week. These will consist in readings you have to do, as well as practical excercises. You will be informed about these requirements in the course of the lectures. There will be a final exam that covers the material covered in the lectures, and the additional readings given as exercises.

If you'd like to consult a good text book, I recommend: "Principles of Neural Science", edited by Kandel, Schwartz and Jessell, 4th edition.

Language: English (but you can speak german...)

If you have a question, just contact me (kiper@ini.ethz.ch).

The exam is a multiple-choice written exam that takes place on the last day of the course.
It will take place on December 16, from 8.15 to 9.15, in room Y35 F 32 (our usual lecture hall).

16.9 Introduction to the course. Start of visual system.
Here are the slides.
Here is the recording.

23.9 Vision (continued, same slides)
Here is the recording

30.9 End of vision
Exercise: Read this paper
Start of auditory system, here are the slides
Here is the recording

7.10 Auditory system
Here is the recording

14.10 End of audition (same slides), a few words in Synesthesia
Here is the recording

21.10 Somatosensory system
Here is the recording
And here is the mandatory reading about the auditory system

28.10 End of somatosensory system
Here is the recording
And here is the paper on barrel cortex (not mandatory)

4.10 The chemical senses
Here is the recording

11.11 Vestibular system
Here is the recording

18.11 Motor systems
Exercise: sample exam
I will provide the correct answers in class next week.
Here is the recording
And here is the exercise for this week, the Wolpert Ted talk

25.11 End of motor systems. Limbic system.
Here is the recording

2.12 Learning and memory
Here is the recording