UCI Psychology 202c  CogSci Proseminar Spring 2003  SYLLABUS  (Sperling)

Aims:  1a. Be able to describe visual stimuli that might be used in experiments
           including CRT monitors, projection devices in fMRI, etc
        b. Be able to understand colloquia and to read articles that deal with
           vision and visual perception.
        c. Provide background for more advanced courses.
       2.  Practice giving brief presentations

Apr  1 (Tue) 202C  1  Sperling 1  Outline of course, Photons, photometry, visual  angles, blind spot.
Apr  3 (Thu) 202C  2  Sperling 2  Lenses, optics of the eye, visual defects
  demos of cylindrical lenses & vergence-prisms
Apr  8 (Tue) 202C  3  Sperling 3  Anatomy of the eye and visual system, retina,
  receptors, dark adaptation via tracking methods 
Apr 10 (Thu) 202C  4  Sperling 4  Visual physiology -neurons (spikes, EPSP,
  IPSP), dual synapses, neural economy, tiling a space, electrodes, Kuffler cat
  ON, OFF
Apr 15 (Tue) 202C  5  Sperling 5  logarithm vs feedforward gain control,
  reverse correlation for measuring receptive fields, psychological templates,
  fMRI brain state of memorized vs forgotten or falsely remembered material;
  complex cells, end-stopped cells & T-junctions, what/where systems (list),
  automatic hand shaping (parietal), linear system definition, sinewave
  affinity, square wave fit by sine, frequency characterization of a channel,
  examples of sinewave utility & error; CSF for spatial gratings
Apr 17 (Thu) 202C  6  Sperling 6  Complex receptive fileds, what/where,
  linear theory, spatial bandwidth of neurons of a particular size;
  CSF, the actual numbers, selective adaptation, many channels, noise vs MTF 
Apr 22 (Tue) 202C  7  Sperling 7 
  3-color theorem; metamers;  r,g,b 3D color representation, color mixture ...
  Type 1&2 in color judgements;  2nd-order color interactions (demo) 
  Iverson&D'Zmura,  basis fcs,  principle components,
Apr 24 (Thu) 202C  8  Sperling 8.  Depth cues (pictoral, monoc, etc); stereo;
  Kepler theory; SFM.  
Apr 29 (Tue)  202C  9  Sperling 9  Review equivalence of motion to stereo and to
  texture slant; Motion,  Reichardt Model; three systems theory
  difference between stereo, binoc, motion; spatial & temporal frequences in
  an impulse;
  Course evaluations
May 1 (Thu)  202C 10  Sperling 10  How pspychophysics informs about high-level
  visual process such as visual attention and relate to brain imaging.
  PNASa (Lu, Lesmes, gs) PNASb (Blaser, Sperling, Lu), attention theory (visual
  attention as spatial amplification) illustrate pattern recog/Napolean

Jun 10 (Tue) Final Exam     If all HW received, no exam given

  POSSIBLY NOT COVERED IN 2003
Second-order phenomena
Perceptual noise
Eye movments
Measurement and scaling
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