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Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2. Sensation Versus Perception
1.3 Psychophysical Methods
1.4 How neurons work
1.5 Organization of the Nervous System
1.6. Neuroscience research methods
2.1 Physics of Light
2.2 Eyeball Anatomy
2.3 The Retinal Network
2.4 Dark Adaptation
2.5 Receptive Fields and Lateral Inhibition
3.1. Visual Pathways
3.2. Retinotopic Organization of V1 and Cortical Magnification
3.3. V1 receptive fields
3.4. Columns and Hypercolumns in V1
3.5. What and Where Pathways
3.6. Motion Processing: MT and MST
3.7. Motion
3.8. Mirror Neurons
3.9. Active Learning Exercise: orientation selectivity
4.1. Perception is Ambiguous
4.2. Gestalt Principles
5.1. What is attention?
5.2. Concepts and Models of Selective Attention
5.3. Preattentive Vision
5.4. Feature Integration Theory
5.5. Inattentional Blindness
5.6. Divided Attention
5.7. Subliminal Perception
6.1. Importance of Color Perception
6.2. Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision and Color Vision Deficiency
6.3. Opponent Process Theory
6.4. Retinex Theory and Color Constancy
6.5 Lightness Constancy
7.1 Oculomotor and Monocular Depth Cues
7.2. Binocular Disparity
7.3. Binocular Rivalry
7.4. Critical Periods of Visual Development.
7.5. Size/Distance Relationships
7.6. Size Illusions
1. 8.1. Cultural Differences in Processing Styles
8.2. Visual Attention and Culture
8.3. Industrialization and Susceptibility to Optical Illusions
9.1. What is sound?
9.2. Loudness and Sound Pressure Level
9.3. Pitch Perception and Frequency of Sound Waves
9.4. Auditory Sensitivity Function
9.5. The Ear
9.6. The Inner Ear
9.7. Inner and Outer Hair cells
9.8. Place Coding and Time Coding
9.9. Timbre
10.1. Auditory Pathways to the Brain
2. 10.2. Primary Auditory Cortex
10.3. Critical Frequency Bands and Masking
10.4. Pitch Perception
10.5. Sound Location vs Sound Identity
10.6. Conductive Hearing Loss
10.7. Sensorineural Hearing Loss
10.8. Age-related Hearing Loss
10.9. Prevention of Hearing Loss
10.10. Tinnitus
10.11 Hearing Aids
10.12. Cochlear Implants
10.13. Active Learning Exercises - Hearing Loss and Masking
11.1. What is Language?
11.2. Theories of Language Acquisition
11.3. Speech Production
11.4. The components of human language
3. 11.5 Speech Spectrograms
11.6. Understanding Speech
11.7. Categorical Perception
11.8. Language Cortex
12.1. Olfactory Anatomy
12.2. Experiencing Scent
12.3. Pheromones
12.4. Anosmia
12.5. The Structure of the Tongue
12.6. The Dimensions of Taste
12.7. Tasters, Supertasters, and Nontasters
12.8. Taste Pathways
12.9. Flavor
12.10. Appetite
4. Kinesthesia and Proprioception
5. Phantom Limbs
6. Active Prosthetic Limbs
7. Targeted Sensory Re-Innervation
8. Vestibular Transduction
9. Visual Contributions to Balance
10. Vertigo
11. Motion Sickness
12. Active Learning Exercise - Cue combination
13. Overview of Somatosensation
14. Thermal Receptors
15. Mechanoreceptors
16. Somatosensory Pathways to the Brain
17. Somatosensory Representations in the Brain
18. The Good Things about Pain
19. Itch
20. Categories of Pain
21. Capsaicin
22. Pain Pathways in the Brain
23. Physiological Treatments for Pain
24. Active Learning Exercise - 2-point discrimination
25. Psychological Treatments for Pain
Chapter 3: Visual Pathways
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