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Two useful books: (1) Martha J. Farah (2000) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications (2) Boothe R G (2002) Perception of the Visual Environment. New York: Springer (don’t try to buy it – it costs $239!).
PDFs Relevant to class assignment:
Two papers by Rauber & Treue: 1998 Perception and 1999 Vision Research. Also
Sugita, 1998; and a tilt aftereffect paper by Wenderoth & Johnstone, 1988.
Finally, two papers by Kohn & Movshon, 2003 and 2004.
Motion streaks (speedlines) papers: Geisler.1999.pdf; Burr&Ross.2002.pdf.
Unit Outline: These include details of: timetable, classes, reading, assessment,plagiarism and
learning outcomes to be gained
Some powerpoint notes on fMRI, also available in PDF format, part1 and part2. These ppt slides were
produced by Jody Cullham who has a lot of advanced ppt lectures at:
http://psychology.uwo.ca/JodyCulham/Psychology733LectureSlides.html
Excellent lectures on the visual system by Tutis Villis
(1) Some visual neurophysiology in PDF format: PDF part1 and PDF part2
(2) Blindsight, V1, awareness and binocular rivalry - an old lecture. The new lecture in PDF and in
Powerpoint format
(3) Attention and perception: and a lecture in PDF format; and a powerpoint version
An excellent summary article by Frank Tong on this.
(4) Second-order tilt illusions and levels of processing: A powerpoint and a PDF version
Signal Detection Theory. - for revision of classical methods if needed,
see adaptive psychophysical techniques, including a VPixx tilt illusion experiment
using a staircase method. Stand alone tables of ordinates of and areas under the normal curve.
Also, a VPixx SDT demonstration experiment; and a useful applet
There is a great illusions site called Illusionworks which can be found here. The programmer for that site has some demos that work here
Levels of processing: tilt and motion illusions and aftereffects (and a paper summarising the same sorts of issues)
levels I and levels II. The original rod-and-frame illusion angular function paper is here
The perception of bilateral (mirror) symmetry - a Powerpoint PDF lecture
A talk on "Using psychophysics to probe levels of processing in the human visual system" is in Quicktime form (60 MB but movies work and it will play in your browser) or PDF form (6 MB but movies don't work)
A talk on Visual Illusions in Quicktime format
A talk on Reference Repulsion in Quicktime format
A talk on Motion Streaks in PDF format
Some papers on the direction illusion (DI) and the direction aftereffect (DAE): Curran et al, 2006a, Curran et al, 2006b, Dakin & Mareschal, 2000, Grunewald, 2004, Hiris & Blake, 1996,Levinson & Sekuler, 1976, Marshak & sekuler, 1979, Mather & Moulden, 1980, Schrater & Simoncelli, 1998, Wenderoth & Wiese, 2008, Wiese & Wenderoth, 2007.
Get Anna Roe's version of the Craik-Cornsweet-Obrien illusion here
Some papers relevant to lectures Allman, Miezin & McGuinness, (Cowey (short easy paper on blindsight), Brincat et al, Mooser et al and News & Views summary),and Carrasco, Ling & Read with News and Views comment by Luck. Papers relevant to lab report (Prinzmetal & Beck, Schrater & Simoncelli, Rauber & Treue, Clifford and Watanabe, and other papers relevant to pracs (Pinna & Brelstaff, Gurnsey et al, Ross et al and Moliner et al)
