? Credit Points : 40  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : INF-P-PON

This course introduces students to the principles of experimental and computational neuroscience, by presenting different topics in neuroscience. The course provides research training to students in the 1+3 yr DTC PhD programme.

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : None. This course is only open to students on the MSc by Research in Neuroinformatics

Home subject area

Research in Informatics, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 5 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area Lecture Wednesday 09:00 13:00 Central

After following the course the students will be able to:
- critically evaluate primary research literature in neuroscience
- evaluate the impact of neuroscience research in a computational context
- discuss recent developments in neuroscience and current experimental methodologies and techniques
- communicate and summarize scientific papers to a non-specialist audience
- discuss a research topic in detail and form new hypotheses.

Written Examination - 0%
Assessed Assignments - 100%

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Miss Gillian Watt
Tel : (0131 6)50 5194
Email : gwatt@inf.ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Douglas Armstrong
Tel : (0131 6)50 4492
Email : Douglas.Armstrong@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/