Perception

Sensation and Perception (lecture notes)

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

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

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

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