Schedule of Topics, Readings, & Exams
The schedule below will provide a general timeline for topics, readings, and exams for PSYC 225H. Some adjustments to the timing of the topics, readings, and exams may be made over the course of the semester. In particular, participation assignments are likely to change with respect to due date and topic. You will be notified of those changes in class and through updates of this page. Yantis & Abrams is the assigned textbook for the class. Some articles are available directly through links to this page. The rest of the articles are available on the course Sakai site.
| Date | Topic | Text/ Launchpad |
Assignments | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11 & 13 | Introduction, Psychophysics, & Sensory Physiology | Ch. 1; Appendix (537-546) | Psychophysics & Food (8/13) | Conjoint Analysis | |
| Aug 18 & 20 | Psychophysics, Neurons, & Vision | Launchpad, Ch. 1 Ch. 2 |
Structure of the Eye; Rods & Cones; Phototransduction; Photoreceptor Distribution; | ||
| Aug 25 & 27 | Vision & the Brain | The Bionic Eye (8/26) | Macular Degeneration; Retinitis Pigmentosa; Diabetic Retinopathy | ||
| Sep 1 & 3 | Vision & the Brain; Object Recognition | Chs. 3 & 4 | Restoring Sight (9/2) | Center-Surround Cells; | |
| Sep 8 & 10 | Object Recognition | Ch. 3 & 4 | |||
| Sep 15 & 17 | Object Recognition; | Ch. 4 | Spatial Sense & Impaired Vision (9/14; 11 pm) | Deep Learning | |
| Sep 22 & 24 | Object Recognition; Attention | Ch. 9 | Visual Dementia (9/21; 11pm) | Convolution Nets | |
| Sep 29 & Oct 1 | Attention | Ch. 9 | Exam 1 (9/29) Attention (9/30 at 11pm) |
Visual Search | |
| Oct 6 & 8 | Color & Depth | Chs. 5 & 6 | |||
| Oct 13 & 15 | Color & Depth | Chs. 5 & 6 | |||
| Oct 20 & 22 | Color & Depth | Chs. 5 & 6 | Tinnitus (10/21 at 11pm) | Decibels; Types of Hearing Loss; Hearing and the Cochlea | |
| Oct 27 & 29 | Perception of Motion | Ch. 7 | Brief Presentation of Project (10/27) Human Participation (10/27) |
NIDCD: Tinnitus; NIDCD: Cochlear Implants; Medel CIs | |
| Nov 3 & 5 | Auditory Brain and Perception of Auditory Scenes; Perceiving Speech | Ch. 10 | Exam 2 (Nov 3) | ||
| Nov 10 & 12 | Ch. 11 (General Sense Beginning to Localizing Sounds; Focus on Localizing Sounds up to Applications) |
Presentations (11/10 & 11/12) |
Hearing Video | ||
| Nov 17 | The Chemical Senses: Perceiving Odors & Tastes | Smell, Taste & Food | |||
| Final Exam, Thursday, Nov 19 at 12:00 pm | |||||