Syllabus

Lecture notes:

• Light and the eye
• Visual information processing
• Visual cortex
• Distributed coding and adaptation
• Cortical processing streeams
• Color
• Depth
• Motion
• Sound and the ear
• Auditory information processing
• Auditory grouping
• Touch
• Smell
• Taste

Handouts:

• Useful numbers in vision science
• Retinal size, degrees, and sampling
• Aliasing (pdf|ps)
• Midterm 1 review sheet
• Midterm 2 review sheet
• Logs and music
• Ramachandran papers:

Archives of Neurology (2000), 57: 317-320 (4 pages)
Brain (1998), 121: 1603-1630 (28 pages)
Proc Roy Soc Lond, B (1998), 353: 1851-1859 (10 pages)

Assignments:

• #1 - The blind spot
• #2 - Receptive fields and adaptation
• #3 - Stereopsis and motion
• #4 - Auditory information processing
• #5 - Phantom limbs

• Funky Hermann grid
• Vanishing gray
• Human cone lattice (from D. Williams, U Rochester)
• Mantis shrimp
• Color channels
• Stereopsis - horopter, foreground-background

• Jumping spider web page
• Gelatinous ellipses
• Biological motion
• Risset's enless glissando (aiff | wav)