BCS 504 Sensory Systems

Coordinator: Daeyeol Lee (5-8677), dlee@cvs.rochester.edu

Time: 1-3 PM, Tuesday/Thursday.

Place: Kresge Room, Meliora Hall

Lecture formats: didactic lectures given by individaul instructors, as well as seminars organized by David Knill (see below).

Readings: A couple of research/review articles will be assigned to each class. Links to electronic articles will be available on this page. Otherwise, hardcopies will be available in the CVS mail room (DO NOT TAKE AWAY THE ORIGINALS!). Students are encouraged to read the assigned papers before the class.

Evaluation: Midterm (take-home, 30%), final (60%), and class participation (lectures and seminars, 10%).

Date	Instructor	Readings	Subjects
9/4	D. Knill	Homework I	Analytical methods I Linear systems Fourier analysis Filtering and convolution
9/6	D. Knill		Analytical methods II Signal detection theory probabilistic modeling
9/11	D. Williams		Eye/physiological optics I: Image formation Geometric optics Schematic eyes Aberrations Accommodation
9/13	D. Williams		Eye/physiological optics II: Retinal factors Spatial filtering Spatial sampling
9/18	W. Makous	Readings	Psychophysical methods I Response measurement techniques (e. g., "leg-twitch" exps.) Constant response methods (e.g., thresholds)
9/20	W. Makous		Psychophysical methods II Photometry Colorimetry
9/25	D. Calkins	Reading Slides (tips on viewing slides)	Retina Gross Structure and Design Transduction Division of Labor: ON and OFF Pathways Receptive Field Components and Presynaptic Circuits
9/27	D. Calkins	Reading	LGN Central Projections of Retinal Ganglion Cells Ganglion Cell Projections to LG, Cell Populations Corticothalamic -thalamocortical projections
10/2	D. Lee	Reading II (Reading I is in the mailroom)	V1: orientation tuning Laminar and columnar organization of the cortex Orientation tuning: feedforward vs. feedback models
10/3 (3-5 PM)	D. Knill	Paper II (Paper I is in the mailroom)	Seminar on efficient coding
10/4	D. Lee	Reading I	V1: stereopsis Retinal disparity Cortical representation of depth
10/9	W. Merigan	Reading I Reading II Reading III	Object vision I Ventral cortical pathway in the macaque: V2, V4 and IT Study of object vision Perceptual studies: discrimination, naming, categorization, priming Object representation: viewpoint and ther invariances
10/11	W. Merigan		Object vision II Neurophysiology of object vision Face and object specificities Columnar organization of object response Mechanisms of object specificity Neuropsychology Functional imaging
10/16	T. Pasternak	Reading I, Reading II Reading III Reading IV (in the mailroom)	Physiological basis of motion perception I
10/18	T. Pasternak	Slides	Physiological basis of motion perception II
10/23	D. Knill		Models of motion perception I Reichardt detectors Energy models non-Fourier motion
10/25	D. Knill		Models of motion perception II The aperture problem Models of motion processing in MT Bayesian models of motion coherence
10/26	D. Knill		Seminar on spatio-temporal coherence models
10/30	E. Freedman	Slides I Slides 2 Simulink ReadMe	Oculomotor system I Saccadic eye movements metrics and kinematics eye plant characteristics neural control/modelling SC
11/1	E. Freedman	Reading I	Oculomotor system II Eye-head movements
11/6	D. Calkins	Reading I Reading II	Color Vision I Psychophysical Assessment of Color Discrimination Color Matches Visual Pigments
11/8	D. Calkins		Color vision II Visual Sensitivity and Psychophysical Measures of Color Channels Color Opponency and its Physiological Basis
11/13-15			Break for Neuroscience meeting
11/20	J. Ison		Auditory system I Acoustics Structure of ear Central auditory pathway
11/27	J. Ison		Auditory system II Physiological basis of auditory perception Sound objects and auditory scene analysis
11/28 10-noon	J. Ison		Auditory system II Physiological basis of auditory perception Sound objects and auditory scene analysis
11/29	G. Paige		VOR I Overview of vestibular function Vestibulo-spinal reflexes (VSR) Vestibulo-ocular reflexes (VOR)
12/4	G. Paige		VOR II Canal-otolith interactions Cross-modality interactions
12/6			Final Exam
TBD	D. Knill	Reading I Reading II	Seminar on population coding