8960 (001) Graduate Seminar in Psychology

 

Fall 2009, 3 credits
Psychology Department, University of Minnesota

 

Place:  Elliott Hall N668


Time:
Tu,Th (09/08/2009 - 12/16/2009)

Course home page:
courses.kersten.org

Instructors:

Andrew Oxenham, Office: N249 Elliott Hall, Phone: 624-2241, email: oxenham@umn.edu
Daniel Kersten, Office: S212 Elliott Hall, Phone: 625-2589, email: kersten@umn.edu

 

Course description. Proseminar in Perception. Survey of advanced topics in audition and vision. This course interleaves background lectures with discussions of current research in auditory and visual processing. Topics include the neurophysiology and neuroanatomy underlying peripheral sensory transformations, computational frameworks for sensory coding and perceptual functions, the representation of perceptual dimensions and features, object representation and scene analysis, attention, integration of auditory and visual processing, and applications to sensory impairment. Through guest lectures, students will also be exposed to the range of perception research currently underway at the University of Minnesota.

 

 


Outline & Lecture Notes

Themes

 

Lecturer

Date

Lecture & Discussion

Readings

Peripheral transformations

1

Kersten

Sep 8

Lecture: Neurophysiology and anatomy of primate vision: Retina to V1.

Fitzpatrick, D. (2000). Seeing beyond the receptive field in primary visual cortex. Curr Opin Neurobiol, 10(4), 438-443.

 

E P Simoncelli and B Olshausen, Natural image statistics and neural representation, Annual Review of Neuroscience, vol.24 pp. 1193--1216, May 2001.

2

Oxenham

Sep 10

 

Lecture: Overview of the auditory system: From the ear to auditory cortex and back

 

3

 

Sep 15

Discussion

1)     Shera CA, Guinan JJ, Oxenham AJ (2002) Revised estimates of human cochlear tuning from otoacoustic and behavioral measurements. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99:3318-3323.

2)     ***Something on behavioral measures that are thought to reflect retinal (or early cortical) processes.

4

 

Sep 17

Discussion

1)     Olshausen ***?

2)     Lewicki MS (2002) Efficient coding of natural sounds. Nat Neurosci 5:356-363.

Computational frameworks for sensory coding and perceptual functions

5

Viemeister

Sep 22

Lecture: SDT in audition, Neural coding mechanisms.  Examples using intensity coding and loudness, level invariance

 

6

Kersten

Sep 24

Lecture: Perception as inference, signal detection theory, task-dependence, invariance, etc.

 

Kersten, D & Mamassian, P (2009) Ideal Observer Theory. In: Squire LR (ed.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, volume 5, pp. 89-95. Oxford: Academic Press.

 

Kersten, D., Mamassian, P., & Yuille, A. (2004). Object perception as Bayesian Inference. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 271-304.

7

 

Sep 29

Discussion

1)     Neal***

2)     Neal***

8

 

Oct 1

Discussion

1)     Dan***

2)     Dan***

Representing perceptual dimensions and features

9

He

Oct 6

Lecture: Contrast, orientation, motion measurement, color, stereo disparity. Spatio-temporal filtering.

 

Theories of coding, natural image statistics, receptive fields

 

 

 

10

Oxenham

Oct 8

Lecture: Pitch: Theories and data; Timbre, Analysis by resynthesis.

 

11

 

Oct 13

Discussion

1)     Oxenham AJ, Bernstein JGW, Penagos H (2004) Correct tonotopic representation is necessary for complex pitch perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:1421-1425.

2)     Shamma S, Klein D (2000) The case of the missing pitch templates: How harmonic templates emerge in the early auditory system. J Acoust Soc Am 107:2631-2644.

 

12

 

Oct 15

Discussion

1)     Sheng***

2)     Sheng***

 

 

Object perception and scene analysis

13

Kersten

Oct 20

Lecture: Discounting, cue integration.

Size, shape, material, depth & identity.

 

14

Oxenham

Oct 22

Lecture: Auditory cue integration, spatial hearing, auditory scene analysis

 

 

15

 

Oct 27

Discussion

1)     Gutschalk A, Micheyl C, Oxenham AJ. Neural correlates of auditory perceptual awareness under informational masking. PLoS Biol. 2008 Jun 10;6(6):e138.

2)     Fang, F., Boyaci, H., Kersten, D., & Murray, S. O. (2008). Attention-dependent representation of a size illusion in human V1. Curr Biol, 18(21), 1707-1712.

16

 

Oct 29

Discussion

 

1)     Ecker, A. J., & Heller, L. M. (2005). Auditory-visual interactions in the perception of a ball's path. Perception, 34(1), 59-75.

2)     Kording, K. P., Beierholm, U., Ma, W. J., Quartz, S., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Shams, L. (2007). Causal inference in multisensory perception. PLoS ONE, 2(9), e943.

 

Visual and auditory cortex: Similarities and differences.

17

Olman

Nov 3

Lecture: Visual cortex. Natural image representations in primary visual cortex -- questions of what the neural code represents, and whether we can measure this distributed code using modern neuroimaging techniques

Logothetis NK, Wandell BA (2004) Interpreting the BOLD signal. Annual
Reviews of Physiology 66: 735-769.

18

Micheyl

Nov 5

Lecture: Auditory cortex

 

19

 

Nov 10

Discussion (ENGEL/MICHEYL)

1)    Kay K, Naselaris T, Prenger RJ, Gallant JL (2008) Identifying natural images from human brain activity. Nature 452: 352-355.

2)    Miyawaki Y, Uchida H, Yamashita O, Sato M-a, Morito Y, et al. (2008) Visual image reconstruction from human brain activity using a combination of multiscale local image decoders. Neuron 60: 915-292.

20

 

Nov 12

Discussion (ENGEL/MICHEYL)

1)    Rapid task-related plasticity of spectrotemporal receptive fields in primary auditory cortex. Fritz J, Shamma S, Elhilali M, Klein D. Nat Neurosci. 2003 Nov;6(11):1216-23.

2)    Sur. M, et al. A1/V1 Rewiring papers. Nature (2000)***?

Perception, Action &

Plasticity

 

21

Schrater

Nov 17

Lecture: Perception and Action

 

22

Shawn Green

Nov 19

Lecture:

 

23

Engel

Nov 24

Lecture: Plasticity in Visual Cortex

 

 24

 

Nov 26

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

25

 

Dec 1

Discussion (OLMAN/SCHRATER/GREEN)

1)     Cheryl***

2)     Cheryl***

Sensory Impairments and Prostheses

26

 

Dec 3

Discussion (OLMAN/SCHRATER/GREEN)

1)     Paul***

2)     Shawn***

27

Legge

Dec  8

Lecture: Low vision

 

 

28

Oxenham

Dec 10

Lecture: Hearing impairment and cochlear implants

 

29

 

Dec 15

Discussion

1)     Friesen LM, Shannon RV, Bazkent D, Wang X (2001).  Speech recognition in noise as a function of the number of spectral channels: Comparison of acoustic hearing and cochlear implants.  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110:1150-1163.

2)     Gordon***