Aim

This course introduces students to the hardware and software tools used in neuroscience research, focusing on how to integrate and synchronize devices for behavioral and neural experiments with sub-millisecond precision. The main goals will be to understand the principles of physical and electrical measurements, learn to acquire, process, and synchronize signals from multiple hardware sources and to develop skills in real-time and non-real-time system integration using Arduino, HARP, and Bonsai.

Summary of the main learning goals:

• Principles of physical and electrical measurements

• Real-time and non-real-time system integration

• Reactive programming using Bonsai

• Signal processing, computer vision, and synchronization techniques