9.35 | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate

Perception

Readings

[Plack] = The Sense of Hearing by Chris Plack, Routledge, 2023. ISBN: 9781032299471. 

[Wandell] = Foundations of Vision by Brian Wandell, Sinauer, 1995. ISBN: 9780878938537. [Open Textbook]

[Wolfe] = Sensation and Perception by Jeremy Wolfe et al., Oxford, 2024. ISBN: 9780197663813. [Open Library]

[Schnupp] = Auditory Neuroscience by Jan Schnupp et al., MIT Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780262518024.

Section 1: Intro to Perception - Sound and the Ear

  • Plack Ch. 2
  • Plack Ch. 3
  • Plack Ch. 4

Extra Readings

  • Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing by Brian Moore, Brill, 2013. ISBN: 9789004252424. [Open Library] Ch. 1
  • Signals, Sound, and Sensation by William M. Hartman, AIP Press, 1997. ISBN: 9781563962837. [Open Library] Ch. 3 

Section 2: Frequency Selectivity and Hearing Loss

  • Plack Ch. 7
  • Schnupp Ch. 5 
  • Plack Ch. 5
  • Plack Ch. 6

Extra Readings

  • Schnupp Ch. 6

Section 3: Psychophysics - Auditory Perception

  • Plack Ch. 10

Section 4: Auditory Scene Analysis

  • Plack Ch. 11

Section 5: Speech Perception - Eye/Retina

  • Wandell Ch. 3
  • Wandell Ch. 5

Section 6: LGN and V1 - Spatial Vision

  • Wandell Ch. 6
  • Wandell Ch. 7

Section 7: Mid-Level Vision - Lightness Perception

  • Vision by David Marr, MIT Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780262289610. [Open Textbook] Ch. 1 
  • Wolfe Ch. 4
  • Lightness Perception and Lightness Illusions” by E.H. Adelson in The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 2nd ed., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 339–351, 2000.  [Open Textbook]
  • Wandell Ch. 4

Section 8: Color Perception - Motion

  • Wolfe Ch. 5
  • Wandell Ch. 9
  • Wolfe Ch. 8

Section 9: Depth Perception

  • Wolfe Ch. 6

Section 10: Stereopsis - Generic Viewpoint - Object Recognition

  • Wolfe Ch. 4

Section 12: Attention

  • Wolfe Ch. 7

Section 14: Smell and Taste

  • Wolfe Ch. 14 and Ch. 15

Course Info

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Spring 2024
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