Statistical Neuroscience 2025 repository

• lectures and practicals will take place at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre lecture theatre. Lectures will be on Mondays from 1pm to 3pm and practicals on Fridays from 2pm to 3:30pm.

• material related to lectures can be found here

• material related to discussion sessions can be found here

• worksheets can be found here

• lectures schedule:

  Week	Date	Topic	Lecturers	Type
  01	Jan 13	Probability for temporal time series analysis	Joaquin Rapela	lecture
  01	Jan 17	Probability for temporal time series analysis	Joaquin Rapela	practical
  02	Jan 20	Statistics for temporal time series analysis	Joaquin Rapela	lecture
  02	Jan 24	Statistics for temporal time series analysis	Joaquin Rapela	practical
  03	Jan 27	Spectral time series analysis	Joaquin Rapela	lecture
  03	Jan 31	Spectral time series analysis	Joaquin Rapela	practical
  04	Feb 03	Dimensionality reduction	Sina Tootoonian	lecture
  04	Feb 07	Dimensionality reduction	Sina Tootoonian	practical
  05	Feb 10	Linear Regression	Lior Fox	lecture
  05	Feb 14	Linear Regression	Lior Fox	practical
  06	Feb 17	Circular (directional) statistics	Kira Düsterwald	lecture
  06	Feb 21	Circular (directional) statistics	Kira Düsterwald	practical
  07	Feb 24	Linear Dynamical Systems	Kris Jensen	lecture
  07	Feb 28	Linear Dynamical Systems	Kris Jensen	practical
  08	Mar 03	Artificial Neural Networks	Erin Grant	lecture
  08	Mar 07	Artificial Neural Networks	Erin Grant	practical
  09	Mar 10	Reinforcement learning	Jesse Geerts	lecture
  09	Mar 14	Reinforcement learning	Jesse Geerts	practical
  10	Mar 17	Experimental Control with Bonsai	Goncalo Lopez Nick Guilbeault	lecture
  10	Mar 21	Experimental Control with Bonsai	Goncalo Lopez Nick Guilbeault	practical

• running scripts: we recommend that you run the provided scripts in a conda environment. Before running any script do (only once):

  1. conda create -n statsNeuro python

  2. clone this repository (git clone git@github.com:joacorapela/statsNeuro2025.git)

  3. change to the repository directory (cd statsNeuro2025)

  4. activate your conda environment (conda activate statsNeuro)

  5. type pip install -e . to install requirements

  Then you can run any script by (for example):

  • cd practicals/02_LFPs_spectralAnalysis/exercises/
  • python doReconstructionExercise.py

• If you have any problem running scripts in this repo, please contact Joaquin Rapela.