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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. Conductive Hearing Loss
55. Sensorineural Hearing Loss
56. Age-related Hearing Loss
57. Prevention of Hearing Loss
58. Hidden Hearing Loss
59. Tinnitus
60. Hearing Aids
61. Cochlear Implants
62. Critical Bands and Masking
63. Auditory Pathways to the Brain
64. Primary Auditory Cortex
65. Pitch Perception
66. Sound Identity vs. Location
67. Active Learning Exercises - Hearing Loss and Masking
68. Sound Segregation
69. Distance Perception
70. Language Cortex
71. Spectrograms
72. Speech Production
73. Categorical Perception
74. Indoor Spaces
75. Head-related Transfer Function
76. Understanding Speech
77. Interaural Level Difference
78. Interaural Time Difference
79. Spatial Hearing
80. Active Learning Exercises - Speech
81. Physics of Light
82. Eyeball Anatomy
83. Near- and Far-sighted Eyes
84. Presbyopia
85. The Retinal Network
86. Light Transduction and Dark Adaptation
87. Eccentricity
88. Saccades
89. Center-Surround Antagonism in Receptive Fields
90. Active Learning Exercises
91. Low Vision
92. Causes of Vision Loss
93. Macular Degeneration
94. Prevention and Treatment for Vision Loss
95. Sensory Substitution
96. Active learning exercise: Braille
97. Visual Prosthetics
98. Magnocellular and Parvocellular pathways
99. Retinotopic Organization of V1
100. Cortical Magnification in V1
101. V1 receptive fields
102. Columns and Hypercolumns in V1
103. Active Learning Exercise: orientation selectivity
104. Uses of Color
105. Tri-chromatic vs. Color Opponent processing
106. Color Deficiency
107. Simultaneous Contrast
108. Color and Luminance Constancy
109. Oculomotor and Monocular Depth Cues
110. Stereo Depth Cues
111. Amblyopia and Strabismus
112. Binocular Rivalry
113. Stereo Displays
114. Size/Distance Relationships
115. Size Illusions
116. Active Learning Exercises: Inference graphs
117. Infant Acuity
118. Development of Object Vision
119. Neuroimaging
120. Specialized Visual Areas
121. Motion Processing: MT and MST
122. FFA and VWFA
123. Perception is Ambiguous
124. Gestalt Principles
125. Bayesian Inference
126. Latent Variables
127. Active Learning Exercise: Bayesian Inference
128. Motion
129. Pre-attentive Vision
130. Attentive Vision
131. Conjunction and Binding
132. Inattentional Blindness
133. Perception and Action
134. Mirror Neurons
135. Navigation
136. Curve Ball Illusion
137. Synesthesia
138. Active learning exercises: feature blurring
Color, Depth, and Size
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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.