BCS 504: Sensory Systems
Course Director: Daeyeol Lee
Time & Location:
Wed/Fri 2-4 PM
Exceptions October 24th (* Mon, 1:30-3:30 PM), November 21st (* Mon, 1:30-3:30 PM)
Kresge room (269 Meliora)
Download the syllabus pdf
Description
This course provides an overview of sensory systems, focusing on visual system, but also covering auditory,
somatosensory, and vestibular systems. The class will provide a multi-disciplinary perspective on key issues of
sensory coding and sensorimotor transformation.
Requirements
Students will be responsible for the readings assigned to each class. Grades will be based on class participation
(10%), and two take-home exams (40% mid-term, and 50% final).
Questions for the mid-term exam will be handed out after the class on 10/14, and they are due before the class on
10/21 (2 PM).
Course Outline
- 09/07
- Analytical methods I (Jacobs)
Linear systems / Fourier analysis
- Readings: Ch 2;
Ch 10
- 09/09
- Analytical methods II (Jacobs)
Filtering and convolution / Motion energy models
- 09/14
- Signal detection theory (Averbeck)
Readings: Prince, et al.
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~david/sdt/sdt.html
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~david/ftp/handouts/sdt-advanced.pdf
- Lecture slides
- 09/16
- Psychophysical methods (Makous)
Response measurement techniques (e.g., "leg-twitch" exps.)
Constant response methods (e.g., thresholds)
Photometry / Colorimetry
- Lecture slides
- 09/21
- Color vision (Carroll)
Genetics and function of photopigments
Defective color vision
Measures of color discrimination
Variability in human color vision
Evolution of color vision
- Readings: Jacobs;
Smallwood et al.; Mollon
- Lecture slides
- 09/23
- Eye/physiological optics I: Image formation / Retinal factors (Williams)
Geometric optics / Aberrations / Accommodation
- Readings: Shevell, Ch 2;
Wandell, Ch 1, Ch 2, Ch 3,
Ch 5, Ch 6, Ch 7
- 09/28
- Eye/physiological optics II: Retinal factors (Williams)
Spatial filtering / sampling
Neural circuitry in the retina
- 09/30
- LGN (Merigan)
Central projections of retinal ganglion cells
Ganglion cell projections to LGN, Cell populations
Corticothalamic -thalamocortical projections
- Reading: Ch 27
- Lecture slides
- 10/05
- V1-Orientation tuning/Stereopsis (Weliky)
Laminar and columnar organization of the cortex
Orientation tuning: feedforward vs. feedback models
Cortical representation of depth
- Readings: Ferster & Miller,
Fiser, Chiu, & Weliky, Sengpiel
- Lecture slides
- 10/07
- Object vision I (Merigan)
Ventral cortical pathway in the macaque: V2, V4, and IT
Study of object vision
- Readings: Ch 28,
McAdams & Maunsell, Bakin, Nakayama, & Gilbert,
Kobatake, Wang, & Tanaka, Sheinberg & Logothetis
- 10/12
- Object vision II (Merigan)
Neurophysiology of object vision
Face and object specificities
Columnar organization of object response
Mechanisms of object specificity
Neuropsychology
Functional imaging
- 10/14
- V1-Models (Pouget)
- Reading: Pouget, Dayan, & Zemel
- 10/21
- Motion I (Pasternak)
- Readings: Pasternak, Bisley, & Calkins,
Born & Bradley
- 10/24
- Motion II (Pasternak) * 1:30-3:30 PM
- Lecture slides
- 10/26
- Somatosensory system I (Gdowski)
- Reading: Zigmond Ch 25
- 10/28
- Somatosensory system II (Gdowski)
- 11/02
- Sensorimotor coordinate transformation (Lee)
- Reading: Andersen, et al.
- 11/04
- Oculomotor system II (Lee)
Eye plant characteristics
Superior colliculus
- Reading: Glimcher, Ch 36
- 11/09
- Oculomotor system II (Freedman)
Eye-head movements
Behavior / neural control
- Reading: Robinson
- Lecture slides
- 11/11, 11/16 No class (Neuroscience meeting)
- 11/18
- VOR I (Paige)
Overview of vestibular function
Vestibulo-spinal reflexes (VSR)
Vestibulo-ocular reflexes (VOR): angular and linear
- Readings: Chs. 40-41, Fuchs Ch 27,
Paige Ch 8
- 11/21
- VOR II (Paige) * 1:30 3:30 PM
Canal-otolith interactions
Cross-modality interactions
- 11/23, 11/25, Thanksgiving break
- 11/30
- Auditory system I (O'Neill)
Acoustics
Structure of ear
- Reading: Hackett & Kaas, Ch 7
- Lecture slides
- 12/02
- Auditory system II (O'Neill)
Physiological basis of auditory perception
Sound objects and auditory scene analysis
- Lecture slides
- 12/07
- Auditory system III (O'Neill)
Central auditory pathway
- Reading: Dean, Harper, & McAlpine
- 12/09
- Auditory system IV (O'Neill)
- Reading: Fritz, et al.
- 12/16
- Final exam due
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