New topics

Population coding is not included as a discrete subject, but it will be discussed along the course. Some part of it will be challenged in neural decoding and some part in spike train statistics. But the specific techniques can not be bring forward unless we accomplish all the topics. Temporal coding will be defined in 3rd session of Spike train statistics. Tools which are used in analysing temporal codes are wide range of techniques. some of them like PCA will be challenged here. Some are eventually easy to implement just by looking at related papers, like using information theory to find out temporal patterns.
Both suggestions are great. I think we will add a session or change some topics to these ones to wrap up all we heard about Population coding and Temporal coding during the course.
Ali's suggestion made me think about another part for our course which is article review. It could be a separate session or included within the existing sessions. we can discuss and contribute about how researchers used simple tools and techniques to prove their hypotheses.
Let's start it and then we talk about it.