Readings Week 1. Dr. Mary Boyle - Why Can't We Sleep. read Week 1. Dr. Mary Boyle - Brain Facts Review Chapters 6 and 12 read Week 1. Dr. Mary ET Boyle - Clocks Within Us. read Week 2. Dr. Seana Coulson - Seeing the Brain Speak. read Week 2. Dr. Seana Coulson - Images of the Brain Refute Theory of Language read Week 2. Dr. Shannon Ellis - Predicting your future using your genes. read Week 3. Dr. Eran Mukamel - Epigenetics Explained-Scientific American read Week 3. Dr. Eran Mukamel - Mice Inherit Specific Memories, Because of Epigenetics read Week 3. Dr. Eran Mukamel - Tales of Adversity read Week 3. Dr. Lara Rangel - Saving New Brain Cells read Week 4. Dr. Doug Nitz - 2014 Nobel Prize Winners-GPS in the brain. read Week 4. Dr. Doug Nitz - How do brain cells tell us where we are going. read Week 4. Dr. Doug Nitz - Where am I - Where am I going? read Week 5. Dr. Gedeon Deak - How Babies Think. read Week 6. Dr. Ben Bergen - What Profanity Teaches Us About Ourselves. read Week 7. Dr. Gary Cottrell - An Introduction to Neural Networks. read Week 7. Dr. Gary Cottrell - A Six Unit Network is All You Need to Discover Happiness. optional Week 8. Dr. Brad Voytek - The-Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data. read Week 9 -Tuesday. Dr. Steve Dow - Why some teams are smarter than others. read Week 9 -Thursday. Dr. Jim Hollan - Activity-Enriched Computing. read Week 10 -Tuesday. Dr. Scott Klemmer- Gut Instinct: Scientific Theories and Online Learners. read
Links from lectures Boston Dynamics: Robot Robustness - video TED Talk: Alison Gopnik - What Babies Think-video Action Potential Animation-video version from readings. Baby - Canonical Babbling. Toddler Twin Talk. Star Wars According To A 3 Year Old. cortical.io- a model of converting words into semantic fingerprints Split Brain - Gazzaniga - Part 1 Split Brain - Gazzaniga- Part 2 It's A 3-Way Street Mirror Neurons - NOVA ScienceNow Epigenome: The symphony in your cells - Nature The Vanishing Mind - NYTimes Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Brain How Much Can an Extra Hour of Sleep Change You - BBC News Deep Brain Stimulation - Parkinson's Disease Pay Attention! David Copperfield Temporarily disrupting speech using TMS Beautiful and Graceful Slime Mold Interview with Peter Norvig 1960's Perceptron Wada test Broca's Aphasia Wernicke's Aphasia Human Connectome Project Reading The Mind Bionic Hand Robot with a Rat Brain