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.
Themes |
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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 |
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3 |
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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. |
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4 |
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Sep 17 |
Discussion |
1) Olshausen ***? 2) Lewicki MS (2002) Efficient coding of
natural sounds. Nat Neurosci 5:356-363. |
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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 |
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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. |
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7 |
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Sep 29 |
Discussion |
1) Neal*** 2) Neal*** |
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8 |
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Oct 1 |
Discussion |
1) Dan*** 2) Dan*** |
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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 |
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10 |
Oxenham |
Oct 8 |
Lecture: Pitch: Theories and data; Timbre, Analysis
by resynthesis. |
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11 |
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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. |
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12 |
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Oct 15 |
Discussion |
1) Sheng*** 2) Sheng*** |
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Object perception and scene analysis |
13 |
Kersten |
Oct 20 |
Lecture: Discounting, cue integration. Size, shape, material, depth & identity. |
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14 |
Oxenham |
Oct 22 |
Lecture: Auditory cue integration, spatial hearing, auditory
scene analysis |
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15 |
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Oct 27 |
Discussion |
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16 |
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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. |
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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 |
18 |
Micheyl |
Nov 5 |
Lecture: Auditory cortex |
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19 |
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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. |
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20 |
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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)***? |
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Perception, Action & Plasticity |
21 |
Schrater |
Nov 17 |
Lecture: Perception and Action |
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22 |
Shawn Green |
Nov 19 |
Lecture: |
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23 |
Engel |
Nov 24 |
Lecture: Plasticity in Visual Cortex |
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24 |
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Nov 26 |
Thanksgiving |
Thanksgiving |
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25 |
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Dec 1 |
Discussion (OLMAN/SCHRATER/GREEN) |
1) Cheryl*** 2) Cheryl*** |
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Sensory Impairments and
Prostheses |
26 |
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Dec 3 |
Discussion (OLMAN/SCHRATER/GREEN) |
1) Paul*** 2) Shawn*** |
27 |
Legge |
Dec 8 |
Lecture:
Low vision |
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28 |
Oxenham |
Dec 10 |
Lecture: Hearing impairment and cochlear implants |
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29 |
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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*** |