This course is designed to train students to conduct world-class neuroscience research on the brain and nervous system, which supports the functions that make us human, such as memory, learning, cognition, perception, and, and movements. The course includes lectures on the measurement principles of many experimental methods in neuroscience (methods for "recording" neural activity such as electroencephalography and electromyography, methods for "stimulating" the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system, and methods for "deducing" neural activity that operates behind the neural activity from behavioral measurements in a computational and experimental psychological manner), as well as a lecture on how these methods are used and how they are applied in neuroscience. The lecture will also discuss how these methods have been used to understand the reality of neural communication, using two papers, which are carefully selected by the lecturers as subjects, in each class. The presenters and discussants of the papers will be assigned in rotation to promote understanding through interactions among the students. In addition, by presenting their own personal views on the impact of their research on the world in the context of the times, the lecturers will show students how to deal with academic papers. Each student will be exposed to high-impact research from a different standpoint, thereby building a foundation for the development of world-class neuroresearch.
We will have this class online by using Zoom.