Artem Kirsanov Courses

Brain Criticality - Optimizing Neural Computations

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Explore how the brain optimizes information processing by operating near critical points, examining phase transitions, neuronal avalanches, and scale-free properties in neural networks.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Self-Study Computational Neuroscience - Coding, Textbooks, Math

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Comprehensive guide to starting computational neuroscience: programming languages, coding practice, textbooks, math resources, project ideas, and datasets for self-study and skill development.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Your Brain Organizes Information

Explore cognitive maps and how the brain organizes information for flexible behavior. Learn about hippocampal neurons, non-spatial mapping, graph theory, latent spaces, and factorized representations in neuroscience.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Unifying Framework for Memory and Abstraction

Explore the Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine, a computational model unifying memory and spatial navigation in the hippocampus. Learn about its architecture, performance, and implications for neuroscience.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dendrites: Why Biological Neurons Are Deep Neural Networks

Explore how individual neurons function like deep neural networks, examining their complex information processing capabilities and the physiological mechanisms behind their computational complexity.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Theta Rhythm - A Memory Clock

Explore the theta rhythm's role in memory encoding and retrieval. Learn about its generation, functions, and impact on brain activity, including integrated representations and sequential organization.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Wavelets- A Mathematical Microscope

Explore wavelet transform for signal processing, uncovering hidden structures in data. Learn to build a wavelet toolkit, understanding its applications from hydrodynamics to neuroscience.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Neural Manifolds - The Geometry of Behaviour

Explore the geometry of behavior through neural manifolds, combining topology and neuroscience to understand high-dimensional information in neural circuits. Gain insights into brain function using intuitive explanations.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What Textbooks Don't Tell You About Curve Fitting

Discover the probabilistic interpretation behind linear regression, exploring how least squares objectives arise from maximizing data probability and how different priors lead to various regularization techniques.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Predictive Coding: A Biologically Plausible Alternative to Backpropagation

Explore Predictive Coding, a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation for neural networks, derived from first principles and explained through energy formalism, update rules, and neural connectivity.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Why Different Neuron Parts Learn Differently - Compartmentalized Plasticity in Pyramidal Neurons

Explore how pyramidal neurons use distinct plasticity rules in different compartments, revealing compartmentalized learning mechanisms in apical vs basal dendrites.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Elegant Geometry of Neural Computations - Understanding Phase Portraits and Bifurcations

Explore the geometric principles behind neural computations, from phase portraits to bifurcations, understanding how neurons achieve excitability, bistability, and resonant oscillations through mathematical modeling.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Fundamental Unit of Intelligence - Exploring Cortical Columns and the Thousand Brains Theory

Explore Jeff Hawkins' Thousand Brains Theory and discover how cortical columns function as complete sensorimotor systems, building predictive models through sensation, movement, and consensus voting.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Your Brain Chooses What to Remember - Understanding Memory Selection and Sharp-Wave Ripples

Discover how your brain selects and consolidates memories through hippocampal sharp-wave ripples, exploring neural mechanisms and experimental findings in memory formation and retention.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Hodgkin-Huxley Model - Understanding Neural Electrical Signals

Dive into the Nobel Prize-winning Hodgkin-Huxley model to understand how neurons generate electrical signals, exploring membrane voltage, ion channels, and the biophysical principles of neural computation.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video