Course curriculum

    1. Lesson 1: motivation and overview (4:11 minutes)

    2. quiz for Lesson 1: motivation and overview

    1. Lesson 2: Information theory: bits and entropy (3:12)

    2. quiz for Lesson 2: Information theory: bits and entropy

    3. Lesson 3: Information theory: entropy, uncertainty, and surprise (6:19)

    4. quiz for Lesson 3: Information theory: entropy, uncertainty, and surprise

    5. Lesson 4: information theory: information channel and transmission (4:29)

    6. quiz for Lesson 4: information theory: information channel and transmission

    7. Lesson 5: Information theory: mutual information (4:32)

    8. quiz for Lesson 5: Information theory: mutual information

    9. Lesson 6: entropy and mutual information in gaussian random variables (6:58)

    10. quiz for Lesson 6: entropy and mutual information in gaussian random variables

    11. Lesson 7: information theory: information redundancy (7:39)

    12. quiz for Lesson 7: information theory: information redundancy

    13. Lesson 8: information theory: redundancy, efficiency, and error correction (2:48)

    14. survey at the end of chapter "Information theory: a very brief introduction"

    1. Lesson 9: formulation of the efficient coding principle (7:03)

    2. quiz for Lesson 9: formulation of the efficient coding principle

    3. Lesson 10: zero noise limit --- maximum entropy code, decorrelation, and redundancy redunction (7:10)

    4. quiz for Lesson 10: zero noise limit --- maximum entropy code, decorrelation, and redundancy redunction

    5. Lesson 11: high noise limit --- preserve input redundancy while smoothing out noise (4:13)

    6. quiz for Lesson 11: high noise limit --- preserve input redundancy while smoothing out noise

    7. Lesson 12: comparing efficient coding strategies in low versus high noise conditions, and neural cost (2:20)

    8. quiz for Lesson 12: comparing efficient coding strategies in low versus high noise conditions, and neural cost

    1. Lesson 13: contrast sampling in fly's compound eye (6:13)

    2. quiz for Lesson 13: contrast sampling in fly's compound eye

    3. Lesson 14: retinal cone density across eccentricities (5:42)

    4. quiz for Lesson 14: retinal cone density across eccentricities

    5. Lesson 15: spectrum sensitivity functions of the cones (3:21)

    6. quiz for Lesson 15: spectrum sensitivity functions of the cones

    1. Lession 16: understanding receptive fields, formulation and notations (4:05)

    2. quiz for Lession 16: understanding receptive fields, formulation and notations

    3. Lesson 17: understanding receptive fields: gaussian approximations (3:21)

    4. quiz for Lesson 17: understanding receptive fields: gaussian approximations

    5. Lesson 18: understanding receptive fields: neural cost and object function (5:50)

    6. quiz for Lesson 18: understanding receptive fields: neural cost and object function

    7. Lesson 19: understanding receptive fields: three conceptual parts in the solution (4:58)

    8. Lesson 19b: a more complex version of Lesson 19, --- understanding receptive fields: three conceptual parts in the solution (5:38)

    9. quiz for Lesson 19: understanding receptive fields: three conceptual parts in the solution

    10. Lesson 20: principal components and gain control (6:37)

    11. quiz for Lesson 20: principal components and gain control

    12. Lesson 21: Conceptual versus implementation steps in the efficient receptive field transform (2:06)

    13. quiz for Lesson 21: Conceptual versus implementation steps in the efficient receptive field transform

    1. ocularity coding: a gist (5:52)

    2. quiz for ocularity coding: a gist

    3. ocularity coding: (1) decorrelation (4:46)

    4. quiz for ocularity coding: (1) decorrelation

    5. ocularity coding: (1) decorrelation, continued (5:08)

    6. quiz for ocularity coding: (1) decorrelation, continued

    7. ocularity coding: (2) gain control (4:18)

    8. quiz for ocularity coding: (2) gain control

    9. ocularity coding: (2) gain control, continued (8:34)

    10. quiz for ocularity coding: (2) gain control, continued

    11. ocularity coding: (3) Multiplexing (10:50)

    12. quiz for ocular coding (3), Multiplexing

    13. ocularity coding: adaptation (13:23)

    14. quiz for ocularity coding: adaptation

    15. ocularity coding: experimental tests (10:33 minutes)

    16. quiz for ocularity coding: experimental tests

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