Schedule - S&P Spring 2010

Week

Tuesday

Thursday

Activity

Notes

#1

1/12

1/14

  • Orientation
  • FED-UP Liberal Arts
  • Hybrid Class
  • Computer Accounts
  • Textbooks
  • Orientation
  • Ice Breaker
  • Convergent v Divergent
  • Narrative Comment
  • Help w/computers

 

 

  • Make sure you have all accounts sets up
  • H1: Narrative Comment

(Due TH)

  • H2: Web Divergence

(Due Friday)

  • H3: Reader VI preface & CH1
    (Due Tuesday)

 

 

 

 

 

 

#2

1/19

1/21

Visual System

  • Ice Breaker
  • Pick Groups
    Mind Maps
  • Presentation:
    Visual System (eye / visual pathways)
  • Compare and Contrast
  • Web Critique
  • Short Essay
  • Research Presentation
  • H1: Cow eye dissection
    Narrative
    (Due TH)
  • H2: Web Divergence
    Critique
    (Due Friday)
  • H3: Reader CH2
    Mind Map
    (Due Tuesday)

 

#3

1/26

1/28

  • Groups CH2
  • Presentation
    Visual System (LGN / Visual Cortex)

 

  • Thursdays now virtual
  • Lateralization experiment
  • Research Presentations
  • Make appt to w/ me
  • Reader CH3
  • H1: Lateralization write-up (APA style)
  • H2: Web Divergence
    (Due Friday)
  • H3: Reader CH3 mind map
    (Due Tuesday)

 

#4

2/2

2/4

  • Groups CH3
  • Presentation
    Visual System (cortex)

 

  • Comparative research
    Monkeys, Cats, Fish
  • Ethics
    PETA, Etc.
  • Conference w/ me about presentations
  • Reader CH4
  • H1: Animal Vision Research
    Narrative
    (Due TH)
  • H2: Animal Ethics
    C&C Pros and cons of animal research
    (Due Friday)
  • H3: Project write-up
    (Due Tuesday)

 

Project Due

#5

2/9

2/11

Group Presentations

(15 min each)

 

  • Illusions
  • Ambiguous Objects
  • Gestalt
  • Pick new groups
  • Reader CH5
  • H1: Illusion narrative
    (Due TH)
  • H2: Camouflage
    Essay what does camouflage tell us about the visual system?
    (Due Friday)
  • H3: Mind map CH5
    (Due Tuesday)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

#6

2/16

2/18

Perception

  • Presentation
    Object Recognition
  • Groups CH5
    discuss presentations
  • Figure ground
  • Face recognition experiment
  • Research Presentations
  • Reader CH6
  • H1: Figure/ Ground
    Narrative
    (Due TH)
  • H2: Go to flicker, pick three photos that relates to resolving ambiguity.
    Discuss why you chose them and your experience with them
    (Due Friday)
  • H3: Face recognition study write-up (APA)
    (Due Tuesday)

 

 

#7

2/23

2/25

  • Presentation
    Color
  • Presentation
    Mind maps to synthesize
  • Groups CH6

 

  • Color Blindness
  • Color Adaptation
  • Color Space
  • Make appt w/ me for presentations
  • Reader CH7
  • H1: Color Space & Color Blindness
    Synthesis essay
    (Due TH)
  • H2: C&C Trichromatic v Opponent process
    (Due Friday)
  • H3: Wear color filtered glasses to simulate colorblindness

-or-
Dark adapt and record data.

Narrate experience

(Due Tuesday)

 

#8

3/2

3/4

  • Presentation Depth cues
  • Groups Ch7
  • Perception & Art
  • Conference w/me about presentations
  • Reader CH8
  • H1: Find three pieces of art
    Discuss the various perceptual cues used
    (Due TH)
  • H2:  Wear an eye patch for awhile
    Narrate experience
    (Due Friday)
  • H3: Create some art
    Discuss the various perceptual cues used
    (Due Tuesday)

 

#9

3/9

3/11

  • Presentations
  • Inc Class Mid-term (Essay)

Get ready for Spring Break

Pick New groups

#10

Spring Break

 

 

 

 

#11

3/23

3/25 Motion & Attention

  • Presentation
    Motion
    Groups CH8
  • Biological Motion
  • Gait perception
  • Perception of Motion
  • H1: Visual Blink
  • H2: Change blindness
  • H3: Biological Motion

Building a motion detector

#12

3/30

4/1

  • Presentation
    Attention
  • Groups Ch8
  • Theories of Attention
  • Pop Out experiment
  • Weapon focus
  • H1: TBA
  • H2: TBA
  • H3: TBA
  •  

Weapon Focus

 

 

 

 

 

 

#13

4/6

4/8

Other Senses

  • Lecture
    Hearing
  • Ear structure
  • Ear physics
  •  
  • H1 TBA
  • H2 TBA
  • H3: Mind map what you have learned so far about hearing

Auditory Illusions

#14

4/15

4/20

  • Lecture
    Touch
  • Haptic Recognition of Objects
  • Perception of Pain
  • Physiology
  • H1: TBA
  • H2: TBA
  • H3: Mind map touch

 

#15

4/20

4/22

  • Lecture
    Smell
  • Odor Detection
  • Physiology
  • H1: TBA
  • H2: TBA
  • H3: Mind map smell
  •  

 

#16

4/27

4/29

  • Lecture
    Taste
  • Super tasters
  • Taste & Smell relationship
  • H1: TBA
  • H2: TBA
  • H3: Mind map taste

Super tasters

5/3 - 5/7

  • Final
  • In Class Final (Essay)
  •  

 

 

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