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Introduction
1. Sensation Versus Perception
2. Psychophysical Methods
3. Psychometric Functions
4. Neuroscience Review
5. The Central and Peripheral Nervous System
6. Action Potentials
7. Synapses
8. Conduction Velocity and Myelin
9. Overview of Somatosensation
10. Thermal Receptors
11. Mechanoreceptors
12. Somatosensory Pathways to the Brain
13. Somatosensory Representations in the Brain
14. The Good Things about Pain
15. Itch
16. Categories of Pain
17. Capsaicin
18. Pain Pathways in the Brain
19. Physiological Treatments for Pain
20. Psychological Treatments for Pain
21. Kinesthesia and Proprioception
22. Phantom Limbs
23. Active Prosthetic Limbs
24. Targeted Sensory Re-Innervation
25. Vestibular Transduction
26. Visual Contributions to Balance
27. Vertigo
28. Motion Sickness
29. Olfactory Anatomy
30. Experiencing Scent
31. Pheromones
32. The Structure of the Tongue
33. The Dimensions of Taste
34. Supertasters
35. Taste Pathways
36. Flavor
37. Appetite
38. Anosmia
39. Uses of Sound
40. Loudness and Level
41. Pitch is Frequency
42. Interference and Complex Tones
43. Auditory Sensitivity Function
44. Timbre
45. Three Divisions of the Ear
46. The Inner Ear
47. Inner and Outer Hair cells
48. Place Coding and Time Coding
49. Conductive Hearing Loss
50. Sensorineural Hearing Loss
51. Age-related Hearing Loss
52. Tinnitus
53. Hidden Hearing Loss
54. Prevention of Hearing Loss
55. Hearing Aids
56. Cochlear Implants
57. Critical Bands and Masking
58. Auditory Pathways to the Brain
59. Primary Auditory Cortex
60. Pitch Perception
61. Sound Identity vs. Location
62. Spatial Hearing
63. Interaural Time Difference
64. Interaural Level Difference
65. Head-related Transfer Function
66. Indoor Spaces
67. Distance Perception
68. Sound Segregation
69. Speech Production
70. Spectrograms
71. Categorical Perception
72. Understanding Speech
73. Language Cortex
74. Physics of Light
75. Eyeball Anatomy
76. Near- and Far-sighted Eyes
77. Presbyopia
78. The Retinal Network
79. Light Transduction
80. Eccentricity
81. Saccades
82. Dark Adaptation
83. Center-Surround Antagonism in Receptive Fields
84. Lateral Inhibition
85. Low Vision
86. Causes of Vision Loss
87. Macular Degeneration
88. Prevention and Treatment for Vision Loss
89. Sensory Substitution
90. Active learning exercise: Braille
91. Magnocellular and Parvocellular pathways
92. Visual Prosthetics
93. Retinotopic Organization of V1
94. Cortical Magnification in V1
95. Columns and Hypercolumns in V1
96. Uses of Color
97. Tri-chromatic vs. Color Opponent processing
98. Color Deficiency
99. Simultaneous Contrast
100. Color and Luminance Constancy
101. Oculomotor and Monocular Depth Cues
102. Stereo Depth Cues
103. Amblyopia and Strabismus
104. Binocular Rivalry
105. Stereo Displays
106. Size/Distance Relationships
107. Size Illusions
108. Infant Acuity
109. Development of Object Vision
110. Neuroimaging
111. Specialized Visual Areas
112. Motion Processing: MT and MST
113. FFA and VWFA
114. Perception is Ambiguous
115. Gestalt Principles
116. Bayesian Inference
117. Latent Variables
118. Motion
119. Pre-attentive Vision
120. Attentive Vision
121. Conjunction and Binding
122. Inattentional Blindness
123. Perception and Action
124. Mirror Neurons
125. Navigation
126. Curve Ball Illusion
127. Synesthesia
Vision Loss and V1
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Introduction to Sensation and Perception by Students of PSY 3031 and Edited by Dr. Cheryl Olman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.