Course timings 8-9 TThF in RM101
Office hours 1500-1700 F in KD303. (Email me if my office is locked during that time. I'm probably close by.)
TAs: Homanga (homangab), Priti (pritig), Abhishek (abhiavk), Akshay (akshays), Anusha (anusha), Rujuta (rujuta), Neeraj (neerajku) and Rahul (rsharma)
| Lecture date | Topics covered | Materials |
| Jan 8 | Introduction, course logistics, associativity | Slides |
| Jan 10 | Artificial neurons | Slides |
| Jan 13 | Biological neurons | Slides |
| Jan 15 | Neurotransmitters | Slides, Video 1, Video 2 |
| Jan 17 | MDPs | Slides |
| Jan 18 | Reinforcement learning | Slides |
| Jan 22 | Q-learning, SARSA | Slides |
| Jan 24 | RL in the brain | Slides |
| Jan 25 | World models | Slides |
| Jan 29 | Quiz 1 | Quiz , Solved |
| Jan 31 | Function approximation | Slides |
| Feb 5 | Principles of perception | Slides |
| Feb 7 | Signal detection theory | Slides |
| Feb 8 | The physics of human vision | Slides |
| Feb 12 | Human vision: function | Slides |
| Feb 14 | Bayesian vision | Slides |
| Feb 15 | Perceptual learning | Slides |
| Feb 20 | Sound perception - I | Slides |
| Feb 20 | Sound perception - II | Slides |
| Feb 26 | From sound to hearing | Slides |
| Feb 28 | Quiz 2 | Quiz |
| Mar 1 | ad libitum | - |
| Mar 5 | Representations | Slides |
| Mar 7 | Categorization | Slides |
| Mar 12 | Categorization (contd.) | Slides |
| Mar 14 | Rational models of categorization | Slides |
| Mar 15 | Dirichlet process mixture models | Slides |
| Mar 26 | Semantic similarity | Slides |
| Mar 28 | Really learning concepts | Slides |
| Mar 29 | Quiz 3 | Quiz , Solved |
| Mar 30 | Memory - I | Slides |
| Mar 30 | Memory - II | Slides |
| Apr 2 | Memory - III | Slides |
| Apr 4 | Models of memory | Slides |
| Apr 5 | Models of memory (contd.) | Slides |
| Apr 16 | Neurobiology of memory | Slides |
| Apr 18 | Neurobiology of memory (contd.) | Slides |
| Apr 23 | Quiz 4 | Quiz |
(Apr 18 2019) Assignment 4 has been released. You will find matlab code for the assignment here. Feel free to convert to python if that is convenient for you. Please submit code and report strictly following our submission policy in a zip/tar.gz file here. Due date is 25th April. Late submissions will receive negative marks using a daily multiplicative discount factor of 0.8.
(Apr 10 2019) A new experiment has been released, and will be live for one week. Participations is open only to participants whose roll number, when divided by 3, yields a remainder 2. Contact Harish (harishb@iitk) if the interface gives you trouble.
(Jan 31 2019) Play store link and web link for interactive quiz app