Checking date: 01/02/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Brain-machine interface and robotic applications
(19779)
Bachelor in Neuroscience (Plan: 517 - Estudio: 389)


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Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Neural activity and perception. 2. Mechanisms of electrical stimulation and their applications. 3. Methods for the design of neural interfaces. 4. Intracortical prostheses for communication. 5. Neurostimulation by ultrasound. 6. Cochlear implants. 7. Retinal implants and V1 implants. 8. Electrophysiological measures of connectivity. 9. fMRI for the measurement of connectivity. 10. Optogenetics for the measurement of brain activity.
Learning activities and methodology
Classroom lectures. Face-to-face classes: reduced (workshops, seminars, case studies). Student individual work. Laboratory session. Final exam. Seminars and lectures supported by computer and audiovisual aids. Practical learning based on cases and problems, and exercise resolution. Individual and group or cooperative work with the option of oral or written presentation. Individual and group tutorials to resolve doubts and queries about the subject. Internships and directed laboratory activities.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40




Extraordinary call: regulations

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.