NPTEL : NOC:Cognition and its Computation (Electrical Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Rajlakshmi Guha, Prof. Sharba Bandyopadhyay


Lecture 1 - Introduction

Lecture 2 - Historical Origin of Cognition Studies

Lecture 3 - The Cognitive Revolution

Lecture 4 - Anatomical Structures of the Brain

Lecture 5 - Frontal Lobes and Cognition

Lecture 6 - Neuropsychological Testing

Lecture 7 - Eye Tracking and Cognition

Lecture 8 - EEG, fMRI, MEG

Lecture 9 - Single neuron level measurements

Lecture 10 - Single Neuron Imaging and Manipulation of Neural Activity

Lecture 11 - Introduction to Computation

Lecture 12 - Currency of Computation in Neurobiology - Action Potential

Lecture 13 - Synapse and Synaptic Transmission

Lecture 14 - Synaptic Plasticity

Lecture 15 - Short Term Plasticity and STDP

Lecture 16 - Coding by neurons

Lecture 17 - Sensory Circuits: Visual - I

Lecture 18 - Sensory Circuits: Visual - II

Lecture 19 - Sensory Circuits: Auditory - I

Lecture 20 - Sensory Circuits: Auditory - II

Lecture 21 - Sensory Circuits: Somatosensory

Lecture 22 - Sensory Circuits: Olfactory and Gustatory

Lecture 23 - Motor circuits - Sensory-motor

Lecture 24 - Reward Circuits

Lecture 25 - Executive Circuits

Lecture 26 - Types of Attention, Theories Broadbent Triessman

Lecture 27 - Alerting Orientation and Executive Network

Lecture 28 - Disorders of Attention

Lecture 29 - Basics of Perception - Object, Depth and Movement

Lecture 30 - Constancy and Illusions

Lecture 31 - Neurobiology of attention, Working Memory

Lecture 32 - Cholinergic System, Bottom up and Top down

Lecture 33 - Object Recognition

Lecture 34 - Visual Search and Pattern Recognition

Lecture 35 - Auditory Scene Analysis, McGurk Effect

Lecture 36 - Learning Processes

Lecture 37 - Learning Processes (Continued...)

Lecture 38 - Memory

Lecture 39 - Learning Disorders

Lecture 40 - Memory Failure - Forgetting

Lecture 41 - Learning in biological neural networks

Lecture 42 - Examples

Lecture 43 - Different types of Plasticity

Lecture 44 - Developmental Plasticity/Learning/Critical Period

Lecture 45 - Examples of Disorders in Plasticity

Lecture 46 - Introduction to speech and language (Development)

Lecture 47 - Components of Speech, Speech Production

Lecture 48 - Speech Perception

Lecture 49 - Lessons from Animal Communication

Lecture 50 - Language and Thought - Speech Language Disorders

Lecture 51 - Theories of Emotion

Lecture 52 - Neurophysiology of emotions - Limbic System

Lecture 53 - Problem Solving

Lecture 54 - Decision Making

Lecture 55 - Frontal cortex in decision making

Lecture 56 - Topics in current research - I

Lecture 57 - Topics in current research - II

Lecture 58 - Topics in current research - III

Lecture 59 - Topics in current research - IV

Lecture 60 - Topics in current research - V