Decision Making I (Intro Lecture)

Neuromatch Academy aims to introduce traditional and emerging tools of computational neuroscience to trainees. It is appropriate for student population ranging from undergraduates to faculty in academic settings and also includes industry professionals. In addition to teaching the technical details of computational methods, Neuromatch Academy also provide a curriculum centered on modern neuroscience concepts taught by leading professors along with explicit instruction on how and why to apply models.

This course introduces the "hidden states" that neurons and networks have that affect their function, but are hidden from us as experimenters. Today, you'll be working towards understanding how to use graphical models with hidden states to learn about the dynamics in the world that we only have access to from noisy measurements.