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Perception

Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 23 lectures

This course studies how the senses work and how physical stimuli are transformed into signals in the nervous system. It examines how the brain uses those signals to make inferences about the world and uses illusions and demonstrations to gain insight into those inferences, emphasizing audition and vision, with some discussion of touch, taste, and smell. Experience with psychophysical methods is provided.

Syllabus

  1. 1 1: Introduction to Perception
  2. 2 2: Frequency Selectivity and Nonlinearity in Hearing
  3. 3 3: Sound Localization, Pitch, Timbre, and Loudness / Psychophysical Methods
  4. 4 4: Pitch Perception and Scene Analysis
  5. 5 5: Auditory Scene Analysis
  6. 6 6: Auditory Scene Analysis (cont'd) and Speech Perception
  7. 7 7: The Eye and Retina
  8. 8 8: The Eye and the Retina (cont'd)
  9. 9 9: Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) / Primary Visual Cortex (V1)
  10. 10 10: Mid-Level Vision
  11. 11 11: Mid-Level Vision (cont'd)
  12. 12 12: Lightness Perception, Color Perception
  13. 13 13: Color Perception (cont'd), Motion Perception
  14. 14 14: Motion Perception (cont'd)
  15. 15 15: Depth Perception
  16. 16 16: Depth Perception (cont'd)
  17. 17 17: The Generic Viewpoint Assumption; Object Recognition
  18. 18 18: Object Recognition (cont'd), Texture Perception
  19. 19 19: Texture Perception (cont'd)
  20. 20 20: Attention
  21. 21 21: Attention (cont'd)
  22. 22 22: Attention (cont'd), Touch
  23. 23 23: Olfaction and Gustation

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