Public Lectures

These are slides from lectures that are suitable for a more general audience.

• Autobiografische Geheugen en Geheugenverlies

Een Leven Lang Herinneren

Lezing voor de Open Universiteit in Amsterdam (12 sept 2006; in het Nederlands). De file (in .zip formaat) bevat ook een kleine demo van een neuraal netwerk.

• Connectionism

Introduction to connectionism

Basic introduction to connectionism.
Concepts: activation rules, McCulloch-Pitts neuron, Hebb learning rule, competitive learning, Willshaw networks

Backpropagation

Gentle introduction to the Perceptron and backpropagation.

Hopfield

Slightly more advanced introduction to Hopfield networks, bidrectional associative memories (BAM), and linear associative networks (LANs).
Concepts: attractor, spreading activation, letter recognition, constraint satisfaction, local minima problem, 8-queens problem, Traveling Salesman Problem.

• Cognition and the brain
• Review sheet: neuroanatomy
• Review sheet: neuroanatomical cuts
• Introduction and review of anatomy
• Language and lateralization
• Motor systems and executive functions
• Methods and models
• Motor control
• Perception and attention
• Plasticity and evolution
• Neuropsychology
• Motor control and object recognition
• Amnesia
• Dementia