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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: [email protected]! 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?
