This repo contains code and reports for projects from the course on Neuronal Coding of Sensory Information (EC60004) offered by the E&ECE department at IIT KGP. In particular, this is relevant to the Spring 2023 iteration of the course, which was instructed by Prof. Sharba Bandyopadhyay. There were broadly two projects:
- One on cat auditory nerve fiber responses to tones and speech (a MATLAB programming exercise based on an existing model)
- Another on writing a proposal for an in-depth research project related to the subject matter of the course.
All the material relating to both projects are present in this repository.
project_ncsi_23contains the problem statement for the cat ANF projectAvi_Proj_20EC30063.mproduces all the requried plots for the cat ANF project20EC30063_Report.pdfcontains a cogent write-up summarizing the results for the cat ANF projectNCSIProposal.pdfcontains my proposal.- The proposal is titled "Exploring Texture Discrimination in Non-Human Primates through Analysis of Neural Responses to Filtered Visual Stimuli".
- The general idea is to present a monkey with various filtered images and analyze which parts of the brain are activated by texture, and which of the filters cause the strongest activation. Although I didn't discuss it in my report, perhaps presenting the monkey with plain colors with different textures (say a white towel and a whiteboard) and performing the same analysis.
All credit to Prof. Sharba and his TAs for the problem statements.