This module provides an introduction to the history and theory of museums from a series of critical perspectives.

It aims to provide an introduction to the...

The Museum: Critical Perspectives (ARCL0092)

Overview 

The aim of the module is to provide you some of the basic skills necessary to deal with, and present, data in a subject that can create large data...

Research and Presentation Skills (ARCL0038)

AUDITORY AND VISUAL SYSTEMS|NEURAL CORDING

The module discusses the auditory and visual systems, covering sensory conduction in the sensory periphery to neural cording in sensory cortex. Multiple animal...

Systems and Circuit Neuroscience (ANAT0020)

The module discusses the auditory and visual systems, covering sensory conduction in the sensory periphery to neural cording in sensory cortex. Multiple animal models (rodent, ferret, and humans) and techniques (electrophysiology, 2-photon microscopy, optogenetics, MEG and fMRI) will be discussed. Students will become familiar with the cutting-edge research into Systems and Circuit based analysis in Neuroscience.

Indicative lecture list

Week 1: Vision: receptors, subcortical, developmental

Development of the primate area of high visual acuity
	Learning to integrate the senses
	Visual optics, rods and cones and retinal processing
	Parallel pathways for vision
Week 2: Vision: cortex, perception

Cortical circuits for vision
	Sensation in action
	Canonical Computations in Visual Cortex
	Seeing through the clutter: Crowding and peripheral vision
Week 3: Mechanotransduction and spatial hearing

Hearing with antennae: acoustic communication in fruit flies and disease-transmitting mosquitoes
	Hearing or how the cochlea does a hard job with soft parts
	Sound localisation - an example of subcortical auditory processing
	Learning to hear sounds in space
Week 4: Audition: cortex, perception

Audiovisual integration in auditory cortex
	Putting sounds in context
	Studying temporal patterns with MEG
	Speech processing in the auditory system