Psychology 3203
Perception - Spring 2005
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Course Requirements, etc. |
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Classic Visual Illusions - What do they tell us? A strong Ponzo Illusion Fechner and the mind-body problem The importance of the absolute threshold Your Textbook: 24-26 |
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Classical Psychophysical Techniques Example Psychophysical Function for Absolute Threshold Your Textbook: 24-26 |
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MLK DAY
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Picture of Ernst Weber |
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Difference thresholds & Weber's Law
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Example Scale from Munsell System ...and Fechner's
Law Exercise
to guide you through Fechner's Law |
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Magnitude estimation & Steven's Power Law Results of Magnitude Estimation Task with Circles How The Exponent is Calculated Magnitude Scaling of Pressure,
Cold, and Warmth Partition Scales Relationship of S to I in Partition Scale Your Textbook: 40-42 |
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Signal Detection Theory
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Signal Detection Theory Sample ROC
curve Separating Strategy from Sensitivity Your Textbook: 27-34 |
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It's all about 3 guys Question & Answer/Review [Study Guide] |
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TEST 1 |
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Thinking about light Light is a portion of the Electromagnetic Spectrum Types of reflection Your Textbook: 47-50 |
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Everything you wanted to know about the Vertebrate Retina Saggital Schematic with Retinal Section Notice the size of Aimee's fovea Another map of Rod/Cone Distribution Here are instructions for the do-it-yourselfer: Cow's Eye Your Textbook: 51-70 |
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Duplex Retina Another Close View of Eye of Anableps Your Textbook: 89-95 |
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Brightness Constancy Example of Simultaneous Brightness Contrast |
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Hermann Grid Illusion on Steroids (and John asked about Wolf Spiders) Your Textbook: 142-150 |
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Color Newton's Separation Experiment The Munsell System of Color Notation Creating colors from other colors Creating colors using subtraction Description of Color Systems from Adobe Your Textbook: 117-125 |
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Mechanisms of Color Helmholtz's
Color Mixing Experiments Young-Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory Maxwell's Additive Color Mixing System Spectral Sensitivity of Photoreceptors Return to the Color Circle New Explanation of Evolution of Color Vision in Mammals Your Textbook: 129-134 |
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Color Blindness and Color Deficiencies Simulation of Color Blindness Another Simulation of Color Blindness
Do some women have 4 color receptors? Your Textbook: 135-138 |
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Simultaneous Color Contrast Color Constancy Edwin Land - Retinex Theory The construction of an image The image The image from the cover of Scientific American |
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Subjective Colors Filling In vs. Finding Out |
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Question & Answer/Review [Study Guide] |
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TEST 2 |
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VISION
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Space, Distance, & Depth - Binocular Cues Noncorresponding Retinal Points The Horopter The Horopter and Retinal Disparity The Horopter and Retinal Disparity 2 Your Textbook: 233-240 |
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Manipulation of Binocular Cues
to Produce Reproducing Viewpoints with Stereo Photography Effect of Looking at an Anaglyph through a Red Filter How the Anaglyph Produces its Depth Effects Example Anaglyphs (red/cyan glasses required) |
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Space, Distance, & Depth - Monocular Cues Another Depth Illusion - The Balcony Ames Room (2 Mb QT Movie) Your Textbook: 218-232 |
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Perception of Movement Corollary Discharge Theory Your Textbook: 194-200 |
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Corollary Discharge Theory -
Induced Motion
Standard Induced Motion Example Stroboscopic Motion: Phi and MagnaPhi Stroboscopic Motion: Wagon wheel Illusion 1 Stroboscopic Motion: Wagon wheel Illusion 2
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Structure from Motion 1 (Local vs. Global Occlusion) Structure from Motion 2 (Accretion & Deletion) Structure from Motion 3 (Kinetic Depth Effect) Structure from Motion 4 (Biological Motion)
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Easter |
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Form Change Blindness - Airplane Change Blindness - Chopper Change Blindness - Dinner Plate Change Blindness - Merry Go Round Change Blindness - Frogs Change Blindness - Workroom Change Blindness - Bistro
Your Textbook: 168-184 |
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Question & Answer/Review [Study Guide] |
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TEST 3 |
AUDITION: Parallels and Differences |
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Physics of Sound Sound as a Sine Wave with Phase Angles A general problem for the hearing system Your Textbook: 315-325 |
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Auditory Physiology Your Textbook: 325-332 |
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Auditory Physiology & Pitch Description of Cochlear Implant in operation Your Textbook: 332-338 |
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Psychophysics of Pitch and Loudness Neuhoff-McBeath Doppler Illusion Your Textbook: 347-357 |
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Music Pitch Perception The Missing Fundamental Effect Endless staircase - visual illusion Endless staircase - Shepard illusion Shepard discrete steps [wav] [mp3] Risset continuous change [wav] [mp3] Your textbook: 376-380 |
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Sound Localization Interaural Intensity Difference The Pseudophone: Hearing vs. Seeing Your Textbook: 365-374 |
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Question & Answer/Review [Study Guide] |
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No Class - Chancellor Installation |
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TEST 4 |
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Review for Final Exam |