Chris Rodgers on Nostr: npub19d9p0…kf02p npub1e6ku6…kct64 In my opinion, the classic way to teach intro ...

npub19d9p04u4xfysdy92fycw947jrca3xve2gnsauysshzewxvmz8dms6kf02p (npub19d9…f02p) npub1e6ku60wmh79lkesj22p2f4tu46ulqw69kayxmva7wvk4eeh3fptq6kct64 (npub1e6k…ct64) In my opinion, the classic way to teach intro neuro is a bit reductionist bc the students spend weeks on molecular and biophysical principles (eg Hodgkin Huxley) before they get to systems neuro, if ever. This could be a good chance to invert that and start out with the kind of neuro that a lot of us love — large scale circuits and computations, based fundamentally on information theory and signal processing. Maybe focus some of the assignments around analyzing big datasets? Challenge with this approach might be to keep it grounded in behavior or biology and not just a data mining exercise