The Neuroscience of Hearing and Vision Course Content | Hearing & Vision Sciences Graduate Certificate

Date	Topic
Week 1	Introduction, Course Syllabus
Week 1	Ocular Anatomy
Week 1	Retina
Week 2	No Class–Labor Day
Week 2	Biomechanics
Week 2	Cornea
Week 3	Optics
Week 3	Fovea development
Week 3	Paper presentation: TBD
Week 4	Optic nerve regeneration
Week 4	Imaging
Week 4	Paper presentation: TBD
Week 5	Gene therapy
Week 5	LGN/V1
Week 5	Paper presentation: Hubel & Wiesel
Week 6	Visual Cortex: TBD
Week 6	Visual Subcortex
Week 6	Paper presentation: MT Salzman, Newsome
Week 7	Eye movements
Week 7	Visual cognition: TBD
Week 7	No Class—Fall Break
Week 8	Principles of Sound
Week 8	Anatomy of External/Middle/Inner Ear
Week 9	Inner Ear Development
Week 9	Cochlear Mechanics
Week 9	Paper presentation: TBD
Week 10	Hair cells–Mechanotransduction and protein trafficking
Week 10	Support cells/Hair cell regeneration
Week 10	Paper presentation: TBD
Week 11	Peripheral auditory neurons, ribbon synapses and connections to CNS
Week 11	Auditory Nerve Encoding
Week 11	Paper presentation: TBD
Week 12	Auditory Brainstem Structure/Function
Week 12	Auditory Midbrain Structure and Function
Week 12	Paper presentation: TBD
Week 13	Auditory Cortex Structure and Function
Week 13	Cortical mechanisms underlying processing of complex sounds
Week 13	Paper presentation: TBD
Week 14	Auditory cortical circuits involved in behavior
Week 14	Statistical models of Hearing and Vision Research
Week 14	Paper presentation: TBD