Neuroethology is an intensive 2-week course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Students will learn quantitative approaches for the study of animal behavior including experimental design and implementation, and neurophysiological analysis of brain mechanisms.

The first week of the course will be held at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Course activities will include lectures from international experts, computer-based exercises, and laboratory experiments. For the second week, the class will transfer to a field site where we will study animal behavior in the natural habitat. We will make observations of animal behavior, and conduct behavioral and neurophysiological experiments.

A detailed schedule can be found here.

Click here for our PDF course flyer.

These exercises are intended to be completed using Matlab or Octave. You can simply copy and paste the blue lines, in the proper order, into either of the programs. But, you could copy ALL of the lines into Matlab or Octave, because any non-command line is preceeded by a "%" - which makes the program ignore the text on that line.

data.zip
cerradosabierosfuerte6.mat
cerradosabierosnormal6.mat

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