Perception - Summer 2000
Faith L. Florer, Ph.D.
Email: FLF1@is7.nyu.edu
Office Hours: Before and after class, and by arrangement.
Time: Mon. Evening 6.20-9.45 pm.
Textbooks: Goldstein, E. B. (1999). Sensation & Perception, 5th ed. CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., ITP.
Course Objectives: This course will cover: the methods used by perceptual scientists for exploring how the brain and nervous system process environmental information; present concepts about how the brain and sense organs connect; and critical experiments that have led us to our current conclusions.
Research Proposals: You are responsible for completing two research proposals. You must submit these by the end of the semester in order to get full credit. Each report will be worth 25% of your grade.
Outside readings: You will select one topic for a ten-fifteen minute class presentation or paper. (10% of your grade)
Quizzes: There will be four in-class quizzes. (40% of your grade)
Extra Credit: Extra credit may be earned during every class period, and is strongly encouraged.
Grades: A = 95%, A- = 90%, B+ = 87%, B = 85%, B- 0 80%, etc.
Lecture Schedule and Readings
5/22 -- Chapter 1- General Introduction;
Chapter 11 Auditory Perception
6/5 -- Chapter 12, 13 - Auditory Perception
6/12 -- Chapter 12, 13 - Auditory Perception /Quiz 1
6/19 -- Chapter 2 - Receptors and Neural Processing;
Chapter 3 Visual Processing
6/26 Chapter 3 Visual Processing/Quiz 2
7/3 Chapter 4 Visual Processing
7/10 -- Appendix - Signal Detection Theory/Methods;
Chapter 6- Constancies
7/17 -- Chapter 7 - Object Perception /Quiz 3
7/24 Chapter 8- Spatial Vision
7/31 Chapter 9 - Size & Illusions Chapter 10 - Motion /Quiz 4.
8/7 -- Chapter 11 - Cutaneous Senses
Chapter 15 - Chemical Senses
8/14 -- Presentations