| Instructor: Jonathan Pillow, Assistant Professor
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| Office: SEA 4.104
| T,TH 2-3:30p |
| Office hours: Thurs 3:30-5p, Fri 1:30-3p |
NOA 1.124 |
| email: pillow [AT] mail.utexas.edu
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| Teaching Assistant: Brian Sullivan |
| Office: SEA 4.128G |
| Office hours: Tues 12:30-2, Wed 1-2:30p |
| email: brians [AT] mail.utexas.edu
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| Syllabus: syllabus.pdf |
| Textbook:
Sensation & Perception, 2nd ed. Wolfe, Kluender, Levi, et al.
Sinauer 2009 |
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Companion website: http://www.sinauer.com/wolfe2e
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Brief Description:
Perception is the active process by which organisms extract information from their surroundings. Casually, we tend to think of perception as an "automatic" process, but it is in fact the product of exquisitely sensitive sensory organs working in concert with highly specialized computational machinery housed in the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system. This course will focus on the insights into sensory perception provided by a wide variety of disciplines (philosophy, physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer science, statistics, neuroscience, and psychology), beginning with a study of the physical subtrates for perceptual information (e.g., light, sound waves, odors), and proceeding to the biological and psychological processes by which such information is converted to "percepts" in the brain.
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