Psychology 5031W: Perception (Fall 2009)


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Instructors: Gordon Legge and Amy Kalia
Teaching Assistant: Zhicheng Lin
Room: S160 Elliott Hall
Time: Tue & Thur 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

This course introduces students to known principles and contemporary theories of visual perception. The main topics include: light and vision, physiological optics, sensory coding of patterns, color vision, depth perception, object recognition, and impaired vision. The course is meant for advanced undergrads and grad students. Majors from many areas will find the course interesting, including psychology, biology, computer science, engineering, art, and design.

Textbook : Palmer, S. E. Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology MIT Press, 1999


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Class Documents:

Some of the class documents are in PDF (Portable Document Format). They require Adobe Reader. Password is required for access to the following documents:
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Presentation Schedule:

Short paper should be submitted by the end of the week in which you give your class demo.

Date
Student Name
Name of Illusion
Sep-15
Sherryse Corrow
The inverted face illusion
Sep-22 Margaret Wahutu Bistable face illusion
Sep-29 Anna Crist Dr. Angry and Mr. Smile
Oct-6 Qiujie Weng Motion induced blindness
Oct-13 Katie Barnhart The Thatcher illusion
Oct-20

Sol Leonard

Hui Wang

Spinning Dancer

Motion-after effect

Oct-27 Christina Blaxton The Hermann Grid Illusion
Nov-3 Katrina Schleisman Mach bands
Nov-10

Daniel Kasen

Tiegan Brick

The Reverse Spoke Illusion

Piklrt-Ternus Display

Nov-17

Sarah Schellinger

John Carter

TBD

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Nov-24

Kari Satterness

Paul Day

The Moon Illusion

TBD

Dec-1

Alex Kaminsky

John Alden

TBD

Size Illusion

Dec-8

Nicholas Roovers

Christopher Wollensak

TBD

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We welcome your comments about this class! Please let us know how we're doing, anytime throughout the semester. You can e-mail Prof. Legge, Dr. Kalia or Zhicheng directly.