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Perceptual Psychology
This three-hour lecture course is designed for junior undergraduates who major in psychology, and students from other departments who are interested in human sensation and perception. Content includes anatomical and neurophysiologic bases and perceptual processes of vision, audition, olfaction, taste, and cutaneous senses.
The main purpose in this course is to provide an overview of cross-modal processing. The contents include: phenomena and mechanisms, spatial and temporal characteristics, orienting, emotions, language, food, development, plasticity, synesthesia, clinical and other applications. Materials are taken from the latest cognitive neuroscience researches from multiple disciplines such as cognitive science, psychology, neuropsychology, computational simulation, consumer behavior and applied science.
Textbook:
Sensation and Perception (8th edition, Goldstein, E.B., 2010).
Supplementary Readings (optional for homework):
Diane Ackerman. A Natural History of the Senses.
Semir Zeki. Inner vision: an exploration of art and the brain
Francis Crick. The astonishing hypothesis.
Michael Gazzaniga. The mindˇ¦s past.
V. S. Ramachandran. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind.
Oliver Sacks. The Island of the Colorblind.
Oliver Sacks. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
Oliver Sacks. Anthropologist on Mars.
Santiago Ramony Cajal. Advice for a young investigator.
Robert Gilmore. Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics.
Mark H. Johnson. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: An Introduction.
Daphne Maurer & Charles Maurer. The world of the newborn.
Joseph Ledoux. The emotional brain: the mysterious underpinnings of emotional life
Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene.
Steven Pinker. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language.
George A. Miller. The Science of Words.
Bregman. Auditory Scene Analysis
Examples of Supplementary Websites:
The Joy of Visual Perception: A Web Book (Peter Kaiser)
Webvision (Kolb)
Motion perception (George Mather)
Art investigation (Christopher Typer)
IllusionWorks (Shin Shimojo)
Escher
Senses
Eye diseases