Sensation and Perception
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Psychology 830:301:03
Dr Ilona Kovacs
Spring 2000
TTh5 (2:50-4:10 p.m.)
Classroom: BE AUD
http://zeus.rutgers.edu/~ikovacs/SandP/Perception.html
Syllabus
Exam scores
Introduction to perception
Receptive fields
1.
Behavioral methods for studying perception
2.
The human eye
3. The eye and seeing
3.1
The single cell technique
3.2
Lateral inhibition
4. Central visual pathways
4.1
Cortical projections
4.2
Topographic organization
4.3
Parallel pathways
5.
Spatial vision and pattern perception
6.
Color perception
7.
Depth perception
8. Action and the perception of events
8.1
Motion perception
8.2
Capturing time
9.
The ear and the auditory system
10.
Hearing
11.
Touch
12. Smell and taste
13. Knowledge and Perception
13.1
Capturing invariances
13.2
Perceptual organization
13.3
Visual attention
13.4
Visual memory
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