Week
1
Date
2012
Class
JAN 09
11
13
1
2
3
2
16
18
20
--4
5
3
23
25
27
6
7
8
Topic
PSYC 355
Introduction
History
MLKing
Recess
Psychophysics
Assignment
Wolfe et al.
(2012)
Chapter 1
Video:
Understanding
the Senses
(QP431.U534
1998)
--Video:
Consciousness
(BF311.C63
1995)
Videos:
Mystery of the
Senses: Touch
(BF233.A242
1995 pt.4);
4
5
30
FEB 01
03
06
08
10
9
10
11
12
13
14
Touch
Chapter 13
Video: Human
Senses: Touch
(DVD
QP431.H36
2005 v.4)
Exam 1:
Psychophysics
& Touch
Smell
Chapters
01 & 13
Chapter 14
Videos:
Mystery of the
Senses: Smell
(BF233.A242
1995 pt.2);
Human
Senses: Smell
(DVD
QP431.H36
2005 v.1)
6
7
13
15
17
15
16
17
20
22
24
18
19
20
Taste
Chapter 15
Videos:
Mystery of the
Senses: Taste
(BF233.A242
1995 pt.3)
Videos:
Perception
(1994)
Mind Over
Matter
(QP376.A38
1999)
8
27
29
MAR 04
21
22
23
Exam 2: Smell
& Taste
Hearing
Chapters
14-15
Chapter 9
Videos:
Mystery of the
Senses:
Hearing
(BF233.A242
1995 pt.1)
Mar 03—
Mar 11
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SPRING
RECESS
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Study Notes
STUDY NOTE 1 DUE FRI JAN 13
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ghvck
The Reith Lectures:
V. Ramachandran
Listen to Lecture 1
STUDY NOTE 2 DUE FRI JAN 20
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/334571/title/The_Probabilistic_
Read The Probabilistic Mind: Human brains evolved to deal with doub
STUDY NOTE 3 DUE FRI JAN 23
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2012
11-2012-observer-publications/the-mechanics-of-choice.html
Read The Mechanics of Choice
STUDY NOTE 4 DUE MON JAN 30
http://sites.sinauer.com/wolfe3e/chap1/psychophysicsF.htm
Using lecture material, compute d’ and estimate β for your results to the lin
discrimination demonstration.
STUDY NOTE 5 DUE FRI FEB 3
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/vibrating-glovetouch/?utm_source=Contextly&utm_medium=RelatedLinks&utm_campaig
Read Vibrating Glove Boosts Fingertip’s Sense of Touch and explain
“stochastic resonance” and why this glove boosts touch sensitivity.
STUDY NOTE 6 DUE FRI FEB 3
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/toothache/
Read Why It’s So Hard to Tell Which Tooth Has the Ache
STUDY NOTE 7 DUE FRI FEB 10
http://bigthink.com/ideas/24132
View Joseph LeDoux and the Neuroscience of Fear
STUDY NOTE 8 DUE FRI FEB 10
Explore the Sense of Smell Institute
http://www.senseofsmell.org/
Find and report on one Scientific Link and one Scientific Article
(http://www.senseofsmell.org/scientific-linksdetail.php?cat=Olfaction&t=The%20Science%20of%20Olfaction
and http://www.senseofsmell.org/scientific-articles-odor.php)
STUDY NOTE 9 DUE FRI FEB 17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4tbg_yb4Ms
View Linda Bartoshuk at Nobel Conference 46
STUDY NOTE 10 DUE FRI FEB 24
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/dec/20-things-you-didn.t-know-about-ta
Read 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Taste
Explore for and find three opportunities for students at http://www.monell.o
http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/faculty/spector/, and
http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/staffinfo/jacob/.
STUDY NOTE 11 DUE FRI MON MAR 12
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028064.800-ear-implants-for-theno-strings-attached.html
Read Ear implants for the deaf with no strings attached
9
10
11
13
14
12
14
16
24
25
26
19
21
23
27
28
29
26
28
30
30
31
32
Binaural
Hearing
Speech
Exam 3:
Hearing
Vision: The
Eye
33
34
Vision: The
Brain
06
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Good Friday
and Easter
Break
09
11
13
36
Vision:
Objects
16
18
20
39
40
41
Vision:
Attention
23
42
Last Class
25
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APRIL 26
Thursday
@12:30pm
Chapter 11
Video: Two
Brains (1984)
APR 02
04
37
38
Chapter 10
Video: Human
Senses:
Hearing (DVD
QP431.H36
2005 v.5)
Reading and
Study Day
Final Exam 4:
Vision
Optional ExtraCredit Exam:
Omitted
Chapters
Chapters 910-11
Chapter 2
Video:
Perception
(1994)
Chapter 3
Videos:
Discovering
Psychology:
Sensation &
Perception
(BF121.D57
2001 pt.7/8);
Mystery of the
Senses: Vision
(BF233.A242
1995 pt.5)
Chapter 4
Video: Vision
and
Movement
(1985)
Chapter 7
Video: Human
Senses: Vision
(DVD
QP431.H36
2005 v.2)
Chapters 23-4-7
Chapters 5,
6, 8 & 12
STUDY NOTE 12 DUE FRI MAR 16
http://bigthink.com/ideas/24084
Read and view The Neuroscience of Cocktail Party Conversation
STUDY NOTE 13 DUE MON MAR 19
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/dec/21-music-wooing-mothering-bondin
enjoyment
(1) Read Is Music for Wooing, Mothering, Bondingor Is It Just "Audito
Cheesecake"?
(2) http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/09/how-the-ear-distinguis
sweet-.html?ref=hp
(3) Read How the Ear Distinguishes Sweet Sounds From Sour Notes
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/the-neuroscience-ofmusic/?utm_source=Contextly&utm_medium=RelatedLinks&utm_campaig
Read The Neuroscience of Music
STUDY NOTE 14 DUE FRI MAR
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ghvck
The Reith Lectures: V. Ramachandran
Listen to Lecture 4
STUDY NOTE 15 DUE MON APR 2
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/11/how-reading-rewires-thebrain.html?ref=hp
Read How Reading Rewires the Brain
STUDY NOTE 16 DUE MON APR 9
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/mirror-neurons.html
View Mirror Neurons
STUDY NOTE 17 DUE MON APR 16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVgfC_FV2hI&feature=channel
View Understanding Blindness and the Brain
STUDY NOTE 18 DUE MON APR 23
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Attention
Read Attention