Neuromatch Academy is an online school run by volunteer researchers, set up to make computational neuroscience accessible to everyone. All its course materials are published for free as an open coursebook and can be reused freely.
What’s in it? Model building basics, statistical inference, linear systems, machine learning for neural data, dimensionality reduction, decision making, dynamical systems and networks. Each topic comes with short videos and Python notebooks that run in the browser.
Why we recommend it: It’s one of the best answers to what the “computational neuroscience” in our lab’s name actually means. It teaches by having you write code, not by having you listen. A good place to see how the signal processing and AI posts on this site meet neuroscience.
Who is it for? Students and researchers with basic Python and some maths who want to approach neuroscience from the computational side.
- Coursebook: Neuromatch Academy, Computational Neuroscience