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Sensory Systems

Subject: Anatomy

Art: Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852—1934); uploaded to…, Fig retine, 1911 · Public domain

Instructors: Prof. Peter H. Schiller, Prof. M. Christian Brown
Term: Fall 2013
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 23 videos · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 37 other files · 3 web pages
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Sensory Systems

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Lec 1: Introduction, the visual system

Lec 2: Basic layout of the visual system and the retina

Lec 3: The laternal geniculate nucleus and the visual cortex

Lec 4: The ON and OFF channels

Lec 5: The Midget and Parasol systems

Lec 6: Adaptation and color

Lec 7: Depth perception

Lec 8: Form perception

Lec 9: Illusions and visual prosthesis

Lec 10: The neural control of visually guided eye movements 1

Lec 11: The neural control of visually guided eye movements 2

Lec 12: Motion perception and pursuit eye movements

Lec 13: Review: The visual and oculomotor systems

Lec 14: Sound: External, middle and inner ears

Lec 15: Hair cells

Lec 16: Auditory nerve; psychophysics of frequency resolution

Lec 17: Cochlear nucleus: Tonotopy, unit types and cell types

Lec 18: Hearing loss; demo by Sheila Xu, cochlear implant user

Lec 19: Descending systems and reflexes

Lec 20: Sound localization 1: Psychophysics and neural circuits

Lec 21: Sound localization 2: Superior olivary complex and IC

Lec 22: Auditory cortex 1: Physiology and sound localization

Lec 23: Auditory cortex 2: Language; bats and echolocation