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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Perception

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MIT OpenCourseWare

Overview

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This course studies how the senses work and how physical stimuli are transformed into signals in the nervous system. It examines how the brain uses those signals to make inferences about the world and uses illusions and demonstrations to gain insight into those inferences, emphasizing audition and vision, with some discussion of touch, taste, and smell. Experience with psychophysical methods is provided.

Syllabus

  • 1: Introduction to Perception
  • 2: Frequency Selectivity and Nonlinearity in Hearing
  • 3: Sound Localization, Pitch, Timbre, and Loudness / Psychophysical Methods
  • 4: Pitch Perception and Scene Analysis
  • 5: Auditory Scene Analysis
  • 6: Auditory Scene Analysis (cont'd) and Speech Perception
  • 7: The Eye and Retina
  • 8: The Eye and the Retina (cont'd)
  • 9: Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) / Primary Visual Cortex (V1)
  • 10: Mid-Level Vision
  • 11: Mid-Level Vision (cont'd)
  • 12: Lightness Perception, Color Perception
  • 13: Color Perception (cont'd), Motion Perception
  • 14: Motion Perception (cont'd)
  • 15: Depth Perception
  • 16: Depth Perception (cont'd)
  • 17: The Generic Viewpoint Assumption; Object Recognition
  • 18: Object Recognition (cont'd), Texture Perception
  • 19: Texture Perception (cont'd)
  • 20: Attention
  • 21: Attention (cont'd)
  • 22: Attention (cont'd), Touch
  • 23: Olfaction and Gustation

Taught by

Prof. Josh McDermott

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