PSY 310: Sensory and Perceptual Processes
Spring 2006
MWF 10:30 am-11:20 pm
Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry (WTHR), Room 104
Breaking News
- May 6, 2006: The grade sheet has been updated the final exam scores. I will be out of town next week and next semester. Any discussion of your grade would have to be before the last week of May.
- April 26, 2006: The grade sheet has been updated with CogLab amnesty and extra credit scores. The estimated grade is your final class grade if you choose to not take the final exam. I also added a column that indicates what grade you need to get on the final to go up one letter grade.
- April 24, 2006: The study guide for the final exam has been prepared and can be downloaded.
- April 24, 2006: The grade sheet has been updated with the third exam and can be downloaded.
- April 18, 2006: As announced is class, you can get some extra points from CogLab. There are two ways:
- Make up late CogLabs: If you did not finish an assigned CogLab on time, you can get it done by Wednesday, April 26, 9:00 am and receive half credit.
- Complete two new labs: I revised the Receptive Field and Garner Inteference labs. If you complete them by Wednesday, April 26, 9:00 am, you will receive half credit. This means it is possible to get a CogLab grade above 100% percent. Note, that it is not possible to do the original Receptive Field and Garner Interference labs to make up a missed lab. You can only get this credit for these labs.
- April 11, 2006: The TA will hold a review session for the third exam on Thursday, April 13, 7:00 - 8:00 pm in Lilly G424.
- April 7, 2006: The study guide for the third exam is available for download.
- March 28, 2006: For reasons beyond our (or her) control, one of the TAs can no longer help with this class. She will no longer hold office hours. The schedule below has been changed accordingly.
- March 22, 2006: The grade sheet has been updated with the second exam and can be downloaded.
- March 6, 2006: The TAs will hold a study session on Thursday, March 9, from 5:00 - 7:00 pm in PRCE 277.
- March 3, 2006: The study guide for exam 2 is now complete.
- March 3, 2006: The notes for lecture 21 were causing printing problems. I think it was one particular image. I removed it from the file and I think it will work now. I also included a link to that image, in case you want to see it.
- March 1, 2006: A study guide for the second exam is available for download. It is not quite complete, as I still need to add material for the last two lectures.
- February 28, 2006: The grade sheet has been updated and can be downloaded. Students are identified by their CogLab ID.
- February 28, 2006: As you prepare for the second exam, I will tell you that the multiple choice questions will be based on the Study Questions at the end of the chapters. Further, I will ask questions on the exam that are based on the Study Questions that are multiples of three (3, 6, 9, 12, 15,...). Focus your study efforts there.
- February 20, 2006: You can look at an example of good answers to the essay questions on the first exam.
- February 20, 2006: Class grade up through the first exam can be downloaded. Students are identified by their CogLab ID.
- February 3, 2006: One of the TAs will hold a study session on Thursday, February 9 from 3:00-4:15 pm in PRCE 277.
- February 2, 2006: The study guide for the first exam is available for download.
- January 19, 2006: One of the TAs has changed the day and time of one of her office hours. Please see the table below.
Professor
I check my email frequently, feel free to use it for questions and setting up appointments. If you cannot make my office hours, we can schedule for another time.
Required Textbook
Goldstein, E. Bruce. (2001). Sensation and Perception, 6th edition. Wadsworth Publishing: Pacific Grove, CA.
You can find many used copies at half.com. Some versions come with a multimedia CD, this is not required (although you might find it useful). You can also find versions with the CD at half.com. Some are cheaper than without the CD.
Class notes
Class notes will be available on the web (see below). The notes are reduced in size so that six slides fit on a single page. I will try to have these available a couple of days before lecture, but sometimes they may not appear until after the lecture.
Class home page
The home page for this course is http://www.psych.purdue.edu/~gfrancis/Classes/PSY310/index.html From this page you can download lecture notes, view the class schedule, view current grades, and connect to the various homework laboratory assignments.
Class format
The class style is mostly lecture. However, there will be frequent in-class demonstrations (see Class participation below). In addition, there will be a number of Internet laboratories where the student will explore aspects of perception.
Examinations:
There will be three section exams and one final exam. The section exams will be in-class and the final exam will be given during the final exam period. Each section exam is worth 20% of your grade. The final is also worth 20% of your grade. The final will cover all topics of the course. Exams will include a mix of multiple choice and short answer questions. Extensive study guides will be provided.
Class participation
Fairly often, I will require assistants during the lecture. I will go through the class list and pick names at random. If you are not present when your name is called, you will lose class participation credit. On some days the entire class will participate. Class participation will make up 10% of your final grade. There will be approximately 10 checks for each student in the class. This means that missing a single check can drop your final class grade by close to 1 percentage point.
Take-home labs
We will use the CogLab programs to augment our discussions of some classic experiments in perception. You will be given lab assignments throughout the semester. These labs are run through the Internet and can be carried out at any computer lab on campus or at a home computer. Your overall lab grade will make up 10% of your final grade.
All the labs are organized on the Cognitive Psychology Online Laboratory (CogLab) web page at http://rumpole.psych.purdue.edu. In the schedule below, individual labs are associated with different dates. You must complete the lab by 9:00 am on the date indicated to get credit. You will receive log-in information in class.
Make-up exams
Make-up exams will not be permitted unless (1) you notify Dr. Francis at least 48 hours prior to the scheduled exam date AND (2) you furnish an absence explanation from the Office of the Dean of Students. Missed exams will receive a grade of 0.
TA
| Name | Office | Phone | Email | Office hours |
| Sufen Chen | PSYCH 3190 | 494-8667 | sufen@psych.purdue.edu | MWF: 9:30 am - 10:20 am |
The phone is shared among many students, so you may need to leave a message. Email is probably a better way to contact the TA.
Schedule
In the following table, clicking on a No. link will download a copy of the lecture notes for that class. The class lectures are in portable document format (pdf). You can view them with a pdf viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is probably already installed on university computers and is available for free at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.
The links on the right will take you to the CogLab web site.
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SCHEDULE
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| No. | Date | Reading | Topic | Laboratory |
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| 01 | January 9 | Chapter 1 | Introduction | |
| 02 | January 11 | Chapter 1 | Background |
| 03 | January 13 | Chapter 2 | Light and retina | Brain asymmetry |
| -- | January 16 | | M. Luther King Jr. Day (No class) |
| 04 big | January 18 | Chapter 2 | Rods and cones | Mapping the blind spot |
| 05, big | January 20 | Chapter 2 | Neural circuits |
| 06 big | January 23 | Chapter 3 | Functional anatomy |
| 07, big | January 25 | Chapter 3 | Orientation tuning | |
| 08, big | January 27 | Appendix B | Fourier analysis | |
| 09, big | January 30 | Chapter 3 | Spatial frequency tuning | Receptive fields |
| 10, big | February 1 | Chapter 4 | Processing streams |
| 11, big | February 3 | Chapter 4 | Neural codes |
| 12, big | February 6 | Chapter 4 | Neural codes | Attentional blink |
| SG1 | February 8 | | Review for exam |
| -- | February 10 | | SECTION EXAM I | |
| 13, big | February 13 | Appendix A | Signal detection |
| 14, big | February 15 | Chapter 5 | Gestalt psychology |
| 15 | February 17 | Chapter 5 | Figure-ground |
| 16, big | February 20 | Chapter 5 | Object features | Visual search |
| 17, big | February 22 | Chapter 6 | Color perception | Garner interference |
| 18, big | February 24 | Chapter 6 | Opponent theory | |
| 19, big | February 27 | Chapter 6 | Constancy |
| 20, big | March 1 | Chapter 7 | Monocular cues to depth |
| 21, big, problem image | March 3 | Chapter 7 | Binocular cues to depth |
| 22, big | March 6 | Chapter 7 | Size perception | Muller-Lyer illusion |
| SG2 | March 8 | | Review for exam | |
| -- | March 10 | | SECTION EXAM II | |
| -- | March 13 | | Spring Break (No class) |
| -- | March 15 | | Spring Break (No class) |
| -- | March 17 | | Spring Break (No class) |
| 23, big | March 20 | Chapter 8 | Motion perception | Apparent motion |
| 24, big | March 22 | Chapter 8 | Motion perception Motion demos in class |
| 25, big | March 24 | Chapter 9 | Flow fields |
| 26, big | March 27 | Chapter 9 | Action |
| 27, big | March 29 | Chapter 9 | Stimulus-response | Simon effect |
| 28, big | March 31 | Chapter 10 | Sound |
| 29, big | April 3 | Chapter 10 | Physiology |
| 30, big | April 5 | Chapter 10 | Hearing pitch |
| 31, big | April 7 | Chapter 11 | Sound localization |
| 32, big | April 19 | Chapter 11 | Sound quality |
| SG3 | April 12 | | Review for exam | |
| -- | April 14 | | SECTION EXAM III | |
| -- | April 17 | | Class evaluation (date may vary) | |
| 33, big | April 19 | Chapter 13 | Touch |
| 34, big | April 21 | Chapter 13 | Touch | |
| 35, big | April 24 | Chapter 14 | Smell |
| 36, big | April 26 | Chapter 14 | Taste | |
| SGF | April 28 | | Review for exam | |
