Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme

Neuroscience has played an important role in the history of Artificial intelligence and Machine learning. Artificial neural networks are inspired by neuronal physiology and are today the core of Deep Learning. This common history continues today. Machine Learning methods are developed into tools that allow for a higher quality of data processing in the study of animal behavior and brain activity. Machine Learning is also used to model the brain as it can solve similar problems to what brains solve and the basic units of processing may be comparable.
The course gives a hands-on introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and how it can be used for data acquisition, analysis and modeling brain activity and behavior. Experts in the field will teach the basics of Machine Learning and how to apply it to Neuroscience and will also discuss the limits of the field, and what are the boundaries of application and how Neuroscience and Psychology could inform new systems.