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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. Active Learning Exercise - Psychophysics
10. Overview of Somatosensation
11. Thermal Receptors
12. Mechanoreceptors
13. Somatosensory Pathways to the Brain
14. Somatosensory Representations in the Brain
15. The Good Things about Pain
16. Itch
17. Categories of Pain
18. Capsaicin
19. Pain Pathways in the Brain
20. Physiological Treatments for Pain
21. Psychological Treatments for Pain
22. Active Learning Exercise - 2-point discrimination
23. Kinesthesia and Proprioception
24. Phantom Limbs
25. Active Prosthetic Limbs
26. Targeted Sensory Re-Innervation
27. Vestibular Transduction
28. Visual Contributions to Balance
29. Vertigo
30. Motion Sickness
31. Active Learning Exercise - Cue combination
32. Olfactory Anatomy
33. Experiencing Scent
34. Pheromones
35. The Structure of the Tongue
36. The Dimensions of Taste
37. Supertasters
38. Taste Pathways
39. Flavor
40. Appetite
41. Anosmia
42. Active Learning Exercise - Flavor
43. Uses of Sound
44. Loudness and Level
45. Pitch is Frequency
46. Interference and Complex Tones
47. Auditory Sensitivity Function
48. Timbre
49. Three Divisions of the Ear
50. The Inner Ear
51. Inner and Outer Hair cells
52. Place Coding and Time Coding
53. Active Learning Exercise: Loudness
54. Pitch Perception
55. Primary Auditory Cortex
56. Sound Identity vs. Location
57. Auditory Pathways to the Brain
58. Critical Bands and Masking
59. Conductive Hearing Loss
60. Sensorineural Hearing Loss
61. Age-related Hearing Loss
62. Tinnitus
63. Hidden Hearing Loss
64. Prevention of Hearing Loss
65. Hearing Aids
66. Cochlear Implants
67. Active Learning Exercises - Hearing Loss and Masking
68. Sound Segregation
69. Spatial Hearing
70. Interaural Time Difference
71. Interaural Level Difference
72. Head-related Transfer Function
73. Indoor Spaces
74. Distance Perception
75. Speech Production
76. Spectrograms
77. Categorical Perception
78. Language Cortex
79. Understanding Speech
80. Active Learning Exercises - Speech
81. Dark Adaptation
82. Center-Surround Antagonism in Receptive Fields
83. Lateral Inhibition
84. Saccades
85. Eccentricity
86. Near- and Far-sighted Eyes
87. Eyeball Anatomy
88. Physics of Light
89. Presbyopia
90. The Retinal Network
91. Light Transduction
92. Active Learning Exercises
93. Low Vision
94. Causes of Vision Loss
95. Macular Degeneration
96. Prevention and Treatment for Vision Loss
97. Sensory Substitution
98. Active learning exercise: Braille
99. Magnocellular and Parvocellular pathways
100. Visual Prosthetics
101. Retinotopic Organization of V1
102. Cortical Magnification in V1
103. Columns and Hypercolumns in V1
104. Active Learning Exercise: orientation selectivity
105. Uses of Color
106. Size Illusions
107. Size/Distance Relationships
108. Stereo Displays
109. Tri-chromatic vs. Color Opponent processing
110. Color Deficiency
111. Simultaneous Contrast
112. Color and Luminance Constancy
113. Oculomotor and Monocular Depth Cues
114. Stereo Depth Cues
115. Amblyopia and Strabismus
116. Binocular Rivalry
117. Active Learning Exercises: Inference graphs
118. Infant Acuity
119. Development of Object Vision
120. Neuroimaging
121. Specialized Visual Areas
122. Motion Processing: MT and MST
123. FFA and VWFA
124. Perception is Ambiguous
125. Gestalt Principles
126. Bayesian Inference
127. Latent Variables
128. Active Learning Exercise: Bayesian Inference
129. Motion
130. Pre-attentive Vision
131. Attentive Vision
132. Conjunction and Binding
133. Inattentional Blindness
134. Perception and Action
135. Mirror Neurons
136. Navigation
137. Curve Ball Illusion
138. Synesthesia
139. Active learning exercises: feature blurring
Vision Loss and V1
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Introduction to Sensation and Perception Copyright © 2022 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.