Additional articles and chapters for the class will be the primary source articles listed at the end of this syllabus. These articles will be placed on reserve in the library. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Highly recommended if you are considering graduate school.
Emphasis is placed on visual and auditory perception.
Lecture, discussion and weekly laboratories. Students conduct original research. As all of our knowledge must be acquired through our sense of the world around us, sensation and perception underlie our entire existence and growth. Furthermore, our ability to function within our environment is defined by our ability to perceive, or categorize, the sensory input as something or event in our environment. As such, we will explore the neural processes that underlying sensation and cognitive organization underlying perception.