Seminar: Matlab in Biopsychology and Neuroscience - Details

Seminar: Matlab in Biopsychology and Neuroscience - Details

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Course name Seminar: Matlab in Biopsychology and Neuroscience
Subtitle
Course number 631720
Semester SoSe 2019
Current number of participants 9
maximum number of participants 23
Home institute Kognitive Neurowissenschaften und Biologische Psychologie
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Wednesday, 24.04.2019 08:15 - 09:45, Room: (Raum 0.481 CIP Computerpool Psychologie: 0.481, Gebaeude Humangenetik: Heinrich-Düker-Weg 12 (Humangenetik))
Type/Form
Participants * Anyone who wants to get a beginners introduction to Matlab.
* The course aims for
* 1st year Masters students in Biology and Psychology.
* PhD students from the GGNB programs.
* advanced Bachelor students with experience in empirical data collection and analysis (space allowing).
* No prior computer programming experience is needed. Basic skills in statistics, math and data handling are helpful.
Learning organisation The introductory lecture is taking place on Wednesday, April 24 at 8.15 in the CIP Computerpool: Heinrich-Düker-Weg 12, Erdgeschoss, Raum 0.481

The course will be held at the CIP Computerpool, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 12, Erdgeschoss, Raum 0.481.

Details about the course and the companion course Psychophysics (below) will be introduced during this preparatory meeting. Afterwards, you will have an opportunity to confirm your interest in participating in the course.

The number of participants in this course is limited and participation is only guaranteed after you receive a final confirmation of participation following the preparatory meeting.

Homepage: [http://www.dpz.eu/de/abteilung/kognitive-neurowissenschaften/lehre.html][1]

[1]: http://www.dpz.eu/de/abteilung/kognitive-neurowissenschaften/lehre/vorlesungen/sommersemester-2017/matlab-ss-2017.html
ECTS points 3

Rooms and times

(Raum 0.481 CIP Computerpool Psychologie: 0.481, Gebaeude Humangenetik: Heinrich-Düker-Weg 12 (Humangenetik))
Wednesday: 08:15 - 09:45, weekly (6x)
Friday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly (6x)
Friday, 07.06.2019, Friday, 19.07.2019 14:00 - 16:00

Comment/Description

The course will teach the basics of Matlab and introduce tools that are often used in Psychology and Neuroscience. You will learn the skills needed to understand existing Matlab code and to develop your own Matlab programs.

The course consists of two parts: 

* a more theoretically oriented lecture with practical examples (2h/week),
* a tutorial in which the weekly homework exercises will be discussed (2h/week).

In order to be able to follow the lecture contents throughout the course period, it will be mandatory that the participants invest significant time into the weekly exercises.


Associated Course

After this Matlab course, in the second half of the semester, we will offer an associated course at the DPZ, in which you will be able to apply and intensify the learned skills. The course on Psychophysics by Prof. Stefan Treue will provide you with an opportunity to gather hands on experience in handling and analyzing data that you collected in your own experiments.


Literatur:
Course book: Matlab for Neuroscientists, by Wallisch et al., Academic Press, 2009 (excerpts available as PDF for course participants)

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Placement in Course with Limited Space: Matlab in Biopsychology and Neuroscience".
Pre-registration will allow you to attend a preparatory meeting. The number of participants in this course is limited and participation is only guaranteed after you receive a final confirmation of participation following the preparatory meeting. We recommend that you participate in the preparatory meeting even if you are placed on the waiting list, as space may become available at that time.

We offer an associated course in the second half of the semester (M.Bio.373), in which you will be able to apply and deepen your Matlab skills, as well as provide you with an opportunity to gather hands-on experience in handling and analyzing data that you collect in your own experiments.
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 17.04.2019 on 03:00. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.
  • The enrolment is possible from 25.02.2019, 00:00 to 16.04.2019, 23:59.
  • The following categories of people are preferred during seat allocation:
    • Subject is Biologie (1126 persons)
    • Degree is Master Uni mit Abschluss and Subject is Microbiology-Biochemistry (3 persons)
    • Degree is Master Uni mit Abschluss and Subject is Developmental-N-B-Biology (145 persons)
    • Subject is Psychologie (844 persons)

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Pre-registration will allow you to attend the preparatory meeting. The number of participants in this course is limited and participation is only guaranteed after you receive a final confirmation of participation after the preparatory meeting. We recommend that you participate in the preparatory meeting even if you are placed on the waiting list, as space may become available at that time.

The enrolment is binding, participants cannot unsubscribe themselves.