Welcome to PSY3108

PERCEPTION

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Class Web Page

• http://tinyurl.com/perceptionlab (click “teaching”)

• You can download course syllabus from here

• Also course slides. It is a good idea to print them out and put your notes on them

• Lab assignments available here too

• Don’t download everything yet (changes coming)

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Prof. Contact Info

• Charles A. Collin

• Office: VNR 3089-B (inside VNR 3089)

• Office Hours: By appointment

• Email: ccollin@uottawa.ca! NOTE: Include class code and student #

• Phone: 613-562-5800, ext. 4296

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TA Contact Info

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Course Schedule

A Little About Me

• I do research in visual perception & cognition (face recognition, navigation, ERP)

• See my web page for more infohttp://tinyurl.com/pertceptionlab

• Have taught Perception a few times before, so I should be getting the hang of it (?)

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A Little About You

• What are you going to do with your life?

• What have you heard about this course?

• Why are you taking this course?

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A Little About This Course

• Not what you may have heard (sections by Dr. Lamontagne take a different approach)

• Here, a biological/natural sciences approach is taken for the most part, with some philosophical asides now and again.

• Lots of material, but nothing too challenging

• Material at start is a little dry, but it gets better, so hang in there

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A Little Advice• Come to class! I don’t just teach the textbook

material

• Do the labs! They are not optional, nor pass/fail.

• Sketch and label important diagrams

• Practice any mathematical procedure that I demonstrate in class

• Study as you go.

• Check your uottawa email address often

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Textbook

• Chaudhuri, “Fundamentals of Sensory Perception”

• Available at both the UO bookstore and the Agora on Besserer.

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Evaluation

• 7 Lab assignments!! 35% (7 x 5%)

• Midterm! ! ! ! ! 20%

• Final Exam! ! ! ! 45%

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Lab Sessions

• Location: VNR 2025(may be “dep/dept” on web page)

• You need login and password. Same as for library: jsmit999 / YYMMDDSS

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Lab Assignments

• 7 of the lab sessions will involve short-answer assignments, some starting from a computer-based demonstration, others involving homework

• Each assignment is due at the next lab session

• N.B.: Labs are not pass/fail, they will be marked in a graded fashion

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Tests

• There will be a midterm and a final exam.

• Both of these consist of a mix of multiple choice, sketch & label, and math questions.

• Midterm will take place during lab period, around Week 7 (see schedule)

• Final exam will be during the final exam period. Final is cumulative.

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Equipment for Labs

• The labs require miscellaneous bits of commonly-available equipment, including such things as a thermometer, ruler, drafting compass, etc.

• Partner (for a couple of the labs only)

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Notes on Course Coverage

• Somewhat biased towards vision. Why?

• We can’t cover everything in depth, so only one area can be covered extensively.

• There is more research on vision

• Arguably the most important and complex sense in humans

• Vision is my field of expertise

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Week Lecture Material Lab Activities1 Chapter 1: Principles of Perceptual Measurement None

2 Chapter 3: The Somatosensory System None

3 Chapter 4: The Chemosensory Systems: Taste & Smell

Lab 1: Psychophysical Methods

4 Chapter 5: Auditory I: Sound and the Ear

Lab 2: Somatosensory Systems(Lab 1 due)

5 Chapter 6: Auditory II: Perceptual Aspects of Hearing

Lab 3: Chemosensory System(Lab 2 due)

6 Chapter 8: Visual System I: Light, Optics, and the Eye

Lab 4: Sound & Ear(Lab 3 due)

7 Study Week8 Chapter 9: Visual System II:

Retinal Processing & Early VisionMIDTERM on Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6.

9 Chapter 10: Visual System III: Cortical Processing & Object Recognition

Lab 5: Auditory Scene Analysis(Lab 4 due)

10 Chapter 11: Visual System IV: Color Perception

Lab 6: Light & The Eye(Lab 5 due)

11 Chapter 13: Visual System V: Motion perception, Eye Movements, & Actio

Lab 7: Object Perception(Lab 6 due)

12 Chapter 12: Visual System VI: Depth Perception & Stereopsis

13 Catch-up and Review (Lab 7 due)

Questions?