DATE	DAY	TOPIC
Measurement of Perceptual Experience
1/12	M	Course Requirements, etc.
1/14	W	Classic Visual Illusions - What do they tell us? A Ponzo Illusion Fechner and the mind-body problem The importance of the absolute threshold Your Textbook: 16-19
1/16	F	Classical Psychophysical Techniques Example Psychophysical Function for Absolute Threshold Your Textbook: 19-24
1/19	M	MLK DAY
1/21	W	Picture of Ernst Weber Practice Explaining a Difference Threshold More Practice Explaining a Difference Threshold
1/23	F	Difference thresholds & Weber's Law Piano Notes Example Weber Fractions Your Textbook: 39-41
1/26	M	Example Scale from Munsell System ...and Fechner's Law Exercise to guide you through Fechner's Law Your Textbook: 41
1/28	W	Magnitude estimation & Steven's Power Law Results of Magnitude Estimation Task with Circles Possible Relationships How The Exponent is Calculated Magnitudes for Line Length - 1 Magnitudes for Line Length - 2 Magnitudes for Brightness - 1 Magnitudes for Salt Concentration - 1 Magnitudes for Salt Concentration - 2 Magnitudes for Shock - 1 Magnitudes for Shock - 2 Your Textbook: 42-44
1/30	F	Signal Detection Theory
2/2	M	Signal Detection Theory Sample ROC curve Separating Strategy from Sensitivity Your Textbook: 24-33
2/4	W	It's all about 3 guys Question & Answer/Review [Study Guide]
2/6	F	TEST 1
VISION I
2/9	M	Thinking about light Light is a portion of the Electromagnetic Spectrum Light encounters an object Types of reflection Your Textbook: 48-50
2/11	W	Everything you wanted to know about the Vertebrate Retina Simple Diagram of Eye Simple Diagram of other Eyes Compound Eye Compound Eye Circuitry Saggital Schematic with Retinal Section Diagram of Eye Front of Eye Human Retina My Myopic Crescent Diagram of the Retina Notice the size of Aimee's fovea Human Fovea Rod/Cone Distribution Another map of Rod/Cone Distribution Acuity Threshold Eye Movement Tutorial Here are instructions for the do-it-yourselfer: Cow's Eye Your Textbook: 50-56
2/13	F	Duplex Retina Anableps - The 4-eyed Fish Close View of Eye of Anableps Another Close View of Eye of Anableps Diagram of Eye of Anableps Dark Adaptation Curve Range of Light Intensities Your Textbook: 57-64, 243
2/16	M	Brightness Constancy Example of Simultaneous Brightness Contrast Your Textbook: 100-108
2/18	W	Mach Bands Hermann Grid Illusion Hermann Grid Illusion on Steroids The Horseshoe Crab (Limulus) Limulus again Your Textbook: 89-96
2/20	F	Color Dimensions of Color The Munsell System of Color Notation CIE Color System Creating colors from other colors Creating colors using subtraction Nonspectral Colors! Description of Color Systems from Adobe Your Textbook: 214-224
2/23	M	Mechanisms of Color Helmholtz's Color Mixing Experiments Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory Maxwell's Additive Color Mixing System Spectral Sensitivity of Photoreceptors Ewald Hering Return to the Color Circle Opponent Process Circuit New Explanation of Evolution of Color Vision in Mammals Your Textbook: 225-233
2/25	W
2/27	F	Color Blindness and Color Deficiencies Example Test Item Ishihara Test Items Simulation of Color Blindness Another Simulation of Color Blindness Do some women have 4 color receptors? Your Textbook: 233-236
3/1	M	Subjective Colors Benham's Top MacKay Star Filling In vs. Finding Out Kaniza Figure Fading Dot Illusion Stabilized Retinal Image Sinusoidal Gratings Spreading Neon Illusion
3/3	W	Question & Answer/Review [Study Guide]
3/5	F	TEST 2
3/8	M	SPRING BREAK
3/10	W
3/12	F
VISION II
3/15	M	Space, Distance, & Depth - Binocular Cues Corresponding Retinal Points Vieth-Muller Circle Noncorresponding Retinal Points The Horopter The Horopter and Retinal Disparity Retinal Disparity Your Textbook: 182-189
3/17	W	Manipulation of Binocular Cues to Produce Depth Effects Reproducing Viewpoints with Stereo Photography Anaglyphs Effect of Looking at an Anaglyph through a Red Filter How the Anaglyph Produces its Depth Effects Example Anaglyphs (red/cyan glasses required) Fooling Fusion - Single Image Stereograms
3/19	F
3/22	M	Space, Distance, & Depth - Monocular Cues Monocular Cues Aerial Perspective Example Monocular Depth Illusions Another Depth Illusion - The Balcony Drawings of M. C. Escher Ames Room (2 Mb QT Movie) Ames Room Diagram Your Textbook: 166-174
3/24	W	Shadow Cue to Depth Shadow Cues and Motion Motion Parallax Motion Parallax Diagram Motion Motion and Depth Phi and MagnaPhi Why does this object shimmer and why is this effect important? Motion From Structure
3/26	F	Structure from Motion 1 (Accretion & Deletion) Structure from Motion 2 (Kinetic Depth Effect) Structure from Motion 3 (Biological Motion) Depth from Motion 1 Depth from Motion 2 Your Textbook: 174-177
3/29	M	Form Ambiguous Figure 1 Ambiguous Figure 2 Ambiguous Figure 3 Kaniza Triangle 1 Kaniza Triangle 2 4 Laws of Grouping Grouping by Common Fate Form and Lack of Form Classic Form Illusions Contrast Sensitivity Function Your Textbook: 129-138
3/31	W	Question & Answer/Review [Study Guide]
4/2	F	TEST 3
AUDITION: Parallels and Differences
4/5	M	Physics of Sound Sound as Pressure Change Sound as Vibration Sound as Waves Sound as a Sine Wave Sound as a Sine Wave with Phase Angles Frequency Amplitude Phase Interference Producing a "beat" Common Amplitudes Your Textbook: 276-282
4/7	W	Auditory Physiology Structure of the Ear Your Textbook: 282-293
4/9	F	Auditory Physiology & Pitch Von Bekesy Von Bekesy's Mechanical Model Von Bekesy's Results A Traveling Wave Cochlear Implant Description of Cochlear Implant in operation Your Textbook: 304-314
4/12	M	Easter
4/14	W	Psychophysics of Pitch and Loudness Frequency to Pitch function Equal Loudness Contour Audibility Function Speech Frequencies Amplitude-Frequency Shift Neuhoff-McBeath Doppler Illusion Your Textbook: 311-318
4/16	F	Music Pitch Perception Piano Note Timbre The Missing Fundamental Effect Pitch as a linear scale Octave effect Piano Octaves Pitch as a helix Pitch chroma circle Shepard tone Endless staircase - visual illusion Endless staircase - Shepard illusion Shepard discrete steps [wav] [mp3] Risset continuous change [wav] [mp3] Your textbook: 341-353
4/19	M	Sound Localization Directions terminology Basic situation Interaural Intensity Difference Interaural Time Difference Cone of Confusion Hearing and Not Hearing Echos The Pseudophone: Hearing vs. Seeing Your Textbook: 319-329
4/21	W
4/23	F	Question & Answer/Review [Study Guide]
4/26	M	TEST 4
4/28	W	Review for Final Exam