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Perception

4-0-8 units · Undergraduate

Studies how the senses work and how physical stimuli are transformed into signals in the nervous system. Examines how the brain uses those signals to make inferences about the world, and uses illusions and demonstrations to gain insight into those inferences. Emphasizes audition and vision, with some discussion of touch, taste, and smell. Provides experience with psychophysical methods.

Spring 2024

Topics

  • Introduction to Perception
  • Frequency Selectivity and Nonlinearity in Hearing
  • Sound Localization, Pitch, Timbre, and Loudness / Psychophysical Methods
  • Pitch Perception and Scene Analysis
  • Auditory Scene Analysis
  • Auditory Scene Analysis (cont’d) and Speech Perception
  • The Eye and Retina
  • The Eye and Retina (cont’d)
  • Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) / Primary Visual Cortex (V1)
  • Mid-Level Vision
  • Mid-Level Vision (cont’d)
  • Lightness Perception, Color Perception
  • Color Perception (cont’d), Motion Perception
  • Motion Perception (cont’d)
  • Depth Perception
  • Depth Perception (cont’d)
  • The Generic Viewpoint Assumption; Object Recognition
  • Object Recognition (cont’d), Texture Perception
  • Texture Perception (cont’d)
  • Attention
  • Attention (cont’d)
  • Attention (cont’d), Touch
  • Olfaction and Gustation

Readings

Spring 2009 · Sensation And Perception

This course provides an introduction to important philosophical questions about the mind, specifically those that are intimately connected with contemporary psychology and neuroscience. Are our concepts innate, or are they acquired by experience? (And what does it even mean to call a concept 'innate'?) Are 'mental images' pictures in the head? Is color in the mind or in the world? Is the mind nothing more than the brain? Can there be a science of consciousness? The course will include guest lectures by Professors.

Readings

  • Wolfe, Jeremy M., et al. Sensation and Perception . Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates Inc., 2005. ISBN: 9780878939381.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 2 · TOPICS: Basic psychophysics · READINGS: Chapter 1
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  • SES #: 3 · TOPICS: Eye, retina · READINGS: pp. 29-41
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  • SES #: 4 · TOPICS: Eye, retina (cont.) · READINGS: pp. 42-49
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  • SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Spatial vision · READINGS: pp. 51-61
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  • SES #: 6 · TOPICS: Spatial vision (cont.) · READINGS: pp. 62-77
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  • SES #: 7 · TOPICS: Mid-level vision · READINGS: pp. 80-91
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  • SES #: 8 · TOPICS: Mid-level vision (cont.) · READINGS: pp. 80-91
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  • SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Object recognition · READINGS: pp. 92-101
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  • SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Face recognition · READINGS: Sinha, et al. 2006
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  • SES #: 12 · TOPICS: Color and lightness · READINGS: Chapter 5
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  • SES #: 13 · TOPICS: Depth · READINGS: pp. 136-145
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  • SES #: 14 · TOPICS: Binocular vision · READINGS: pp. 146-166
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  • SES #: 15 · TOPICS: Motion · READINGS: pp. 171-178
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  • SES #: 16 · TOPICS: Motion (cont.) · READINGS: pp. 179-187
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  • SES #: 17 · TOPICS: Scenes · READINGS: Chapter 8
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  • SES #: 18 · TOPICS: The ear · READINGS: pp. 225-237
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  • SES #: 19 · TOPICS: Mid term II · READINGS: pp. 179-187
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  • SES #: 20 · TOPICS: Audition · READINGS: pp. 238-248
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  • SES #: 21 · TOPICS: Audition (cont.) · READINGS: Chapter 10
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  • SES #: 22 · TOPICS: Music and speech · READINGS: Chapter 11
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  • SES #: 23 · TOPICS: Touch · READINGS: pp. 300-315
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  • SES #: 24 · TOPICS: Haptics · READINGS: pp. 316-329
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  • SES #: 25 · TOPICS: Smell · READINGS: Chapter 13
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  • SES #: 26 · TOPICS: Taste, last day of classes · READINGS: Chapter 14
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Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: 9.01 or permission of instructor U (Spring) 4-0-8 units

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