052319 VU Current topics in Neuroinformatics (2024S)

What brain regions are involved in the processing of certain information? How can we decode a person’s intentions from neuronal data and use it to build a Brain-Computer Interface? And how does high-level cognition arise from the joint activity of individual neurons? These are only some of the questions that the methods developed in the field of neuroinformatics can help answer. In this course, you will get to know a variety of recording modalities of neuronal data (e.g., fMRI, EEG, recordings of single neurons) and methods to analyze the obtained signals.

The course will be in the style of a seminar, where students will independently read and present scientific papers, which will then be discussed in class. Prior knowledge of signal processing and/or machine learning methods will be helpful, but not required to follow the course.