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Introduction
1. Overview of Somatosensation
2. Thermal Receptors
3. Mechanoreceptors
4. Somatosensory Pathways to the Brain
5. Somatosensory Representations in the Brain
6. The Good Things about Pain
7. Itch
8. Categories of Pain
9. Capsaicin
10. Pain Pathways in the Brain
11. Physiological Treatments for Pain
12. Psychological Treatments for Pain
13. Sensation Versus Perception
14. Psychophysical Methods
15. Psychometric Functions
16. Neuroscience Review
17. The Central and Peripheral Nervous System
18. Action Potentials
19. Synapses
20. Conduction Velocity and Myelin
21. Kinesthesia and Proprioception
22. Phantom Limbs
23. Active Prosthetic Limbs
24. Targeted Sensory Re-Innervation
25. Vestibular Transduction
26. Visual Contributions to Balance
27. Vertigo
28. Motion Sickness
29. Olfactory Anatomy
30. Experiencing Scent
31. Pheromones
32. The Structure of the Tongue
33. The Dimensions of Taste
34. Supertasters
35. Taste Pathways
36. Flavor
37. Appetite
38. Anosmia
39. Uses of Sound
40. Loudness and Level
41. Pitch is Frequency
42. Interference and Complex Tones
43. Auditory Sensitivity Function
44. Timbre
45. Three Divisions of the Ear
46. The Inner Ear
47. Inner and Outer Hair cells
48. Place Coding and Time Coding
49. Primary Auditory Cortex
50. Auditory Pathways to the Brain
51. Critical Bands and Masking
52. Cochlear Implants
53. Hearing Aids
54. Prevention of Hearing Loss
55. Hidden Hearing Loss
56. Age-related Hearing Loss
57. Sensorineural Hearing Loss
58. Conductive Hearing Loss
59. Pitch Perception
60. Tinnitus
61. Sound Identity vs. Location
62. Spatial Hearing
63. Interaural Time Difference
64. Head-related Transfer Function
65. Indoor Spaces
66. Distance Perception
67. Sound Segregation
68. Language Cortex
69. Understanding Speech
70. Categorical Perception
71. Spectrograms
72. Speech Production
73. Interaural Level Difference
74. Saccades
75. Eccentricity
76. Lateral Inhibition
77. Center-Surround Antagonism in Receptive Fields
78. Dark Adaptation
79. Light Transduction
80. Physics of Light
81. Eyeball Anatomy
82. Presbyopia
83. The Retinal Network
84. Near- and Far-sighted Eyes
85. Low Vision
86. Causes of Vision Loss
87. Macular Degeneration
88. Prevention and Treatment for Vision Loss
89. Sensory Substitution
90. Active learning exercise: Braille
91. Magnocellular and Parvocellular pathways
92. Visual Prosthetics
93. Retinotopic Organization of V1
94. Cortical Magnification in V1
95. Columns and Hypercolumns in V1
96. Size/Distance Relationships
97. Size Illusions
98. Stereo Displays
99. Binocular Rivalry
100. Uses of Color
101. Tri-chromatic vs. Color Opponent processing
102. Color Deficiency
103. Simultaneous Contrast
104. Color and Luminance Constancy
105. Oculomotor and Monocular Depth Cues
106. Stereo Depth Cues
107. Amblyopia and Strabismus
108. Infant Acuity
109. Development of Object Vision
110. Neuroimaging
111. Specialized Visual Areas
112. Motion Processing: MT and MST
113. FFA and VWFA
114. Perception is Ambiguous
115. Gestalt Principles
116. Bayesian Inference
117. Latent Variables
118. Motion
119. Pre-attentive Vision
120. Attentive Vision
121. Conjunction and Binding
122. Inattentional Blindness
123. Perception and Action
124. Mirror Neurons
125. Navigation
126. Curve Ball Illusion
127. Synesthesia
Vision Loss and V1
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Introduction to Sensation and Perception Copyright © 2022 by Students of PSY 3031 and Edited by Dr. Cheryl Olman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.