BCS 505: Lecture Schedule
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Part I: Sensory transduction and coding
- 1/23 – 1/27 Sensory coding and function of early sensory transducers
- Jan. 24 The problem of sensory transduction and retinal coding
- Bruce, et. al. Chapters 1 and 2, Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology and Ecology
- Jan. 26 Cortical coding
- Kandel, Schwartz and Jessel, Chapters 27 and 28, , in Principles of Neural Science
- Olshausen and Field (2000) Vision and the coding of natural images, American Scientist, 238 – 245.
- Feb. 7 Auditory sensory coding
- Kandel, Schwartz and Jessell , Chapter 30, Hearing, in Principles of Neural Science
- Lewicki, M. S. Efficient coding of natural images, Nature Neuroscience, 5(4), 356-363.
Part II: Perceptual interpretation (3 weeks)
- Feb. 9 Basics I: Signal detection theory
- Goldstein, B. E. Appendix A in Sensation and Perception
- Cornsweet, T. Chapters 1 and 2
- Feb. 14 Basics II: Bayesian models of perceptual inference
- Mamassian, P., Lamdy, M. and Maloney, L. (2002) Bayesian modeling of visual perception, in Probabilistic models of the brain, Rao, Olshausen and Lewicki, (eds.)
- Weiss, Y., Simoncelli, E. and Adelson, E. (2002) Motion illusions as optimal percepts, Nature Neuroscience, 5(6), 598-604
- Feb. 16 Visual Perceptual organization
- Palmer, S. Chapter 6 in From Photons to Phenomenology.
- Attneave, F. (1954) Some informational aspects of visual perception, Psych. Review, 61(3), 183-193.
- Feb. 21 Auditory perceptual organization
- Demos:
http://webpages.mcgill.ca/staff/Group2/abregm1/web/
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~hendrik/research/asa.html
- Kubovy, M. and Valkenberg, D. V. (2001) Auditory and visual objects, Cognition, 80, 97-126.
- Feb. 23 Depth perception
- Bruce, et. al. Chapter 7, Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology and Ecology
- Knill, D. C. (1998) Discriminating planar surface slant from texture: Human and ideal observers compared, Vision Research, 38 (11), 1683-1711.
- Feb. 28 Auditory localization
- March 1 Cue integration: basics
- Landy, M. S., Banks, M. and Knill, D. C.
- Knill, D. C. and Saunders, J. (2003) Do humans optimally integrate stereo and texture information for judgments of surface slant? Vision Research, 43 (24), 2539-58.
- March 13 Cue integration: causal inference
- Knill, D. C. (2007) Robust cue integration: a Bayesian model and evidence from psychophysical studies with stereoscopic and figure cues to slant, Journal of Vision, 7 (7), 1 – 24.
- Kording, et. al. (2007) Causal inference in multi-sensory perception, PLoS One, 2(9)
- March 15 Multi-sensory integration in speech
- Bejjanki, V. R., Clayards, M., Knill, D. C. and Aslin, R. N. (2011) Cue Integration in Categorical Tasks: Insights from Audio-Visual Speech Perception, PLoS one, 6(5): e19812. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019812
- Ma, W. J., et. al. Lip-reading aids word-recognition most in moderate noise: A Bayesian explanation using multi-dimensional feature space, PLoS One, 4(3).
Part III: Recognition and categorization (1.5 weeks)
- March 20 Object recognition
- March 22 Face recognition
- March 27 Auditory event recognition
Part IIV: Adaptation and learning (2 weeks)
- March 29 Sensory adaptation
- April 3 Sensorimotor adaptation
- April 5 Perceptual learning
- April 10 Statistical learning in perception
Attention and working memory (1.5 weeks)
- April 12 Attention
- April 17 Visual working memory
Perceptual control of action (2 weeks)
- April 19 Optic flow, control of locomotion
- April 24 Optimal models of hand movements
- April 26 Visual control of hand movements
- May 1 Sensorimotor decision making
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