Sensation & Perception

(PSY 345 / NEU 325)
Spring 2022
Princeton University

Precept Readings

Week	Topic	Reading
2 (Jan 31)	introduction & psychophysics	Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli. C. Bushdid, M. O. Magnasco, L. B. Vosshall, and A. Keller. Science, 2014
3 (Feb 7)	psychophysics, early vision	On the dimensionality of odor space (aka "Can Humans Really Discriminate 1 Trillion Odors?") Meister. eLife 2015. (Nice blog summary here). Filling in Gaps in Perception: Part I V.S. Ramachandran. Current Directions in Psychological Science 1992.
4 (Feb 14)	psychophysical measurements	The measurement of Pleasure and Pain. Bartoshuk, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2014. The influence of color on the consumer's experience of beer. Carvalho et al, Frontiers in Psychology 2017.
5 (Feb 21)	V1, object recognition	Predicting the Stream of Consciousness from Activity in Human Visual Cortex. Haynes & Rees. Current Biology 2005. Unsupervised natural experience rapidly alters invariant object representation in visual cortex. Li and DiCarlo, Science 2008.
6 (Feb 28)	exam week	no precepts
7 (Mar 7)	spring break	no precepts
8 (Mar 14)	color	Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination. Winawer, Witthoft, Frank, Wu, Wade, & Boroditsky, PNAS 2006. Illumination assumptions account for individual differences in the perceptual interpretation of a profoundly ambiguous stimulus in the color domain: "The dress". Wallisch, 2017.
9 (Mar 21)	face perception	Developmental prosopagnosia: a window to content-specific face processing Duchaine and Nakayama (2006) Super-recognizers: People with extraordinary face recognition ability Russell et al (2009).
10 (Mar 28)	audition	Optimal neural population coding of an auditory spatial cue. NS Harper & D McAlpine, Nature, 2004. Absolute pitch: perception, coding, and controversies. DJ Levitin & SE Rogers. Trends in cognitive sciences, 2005.
11 (Apr 4)	depth perception	Explaining the Moon Illusion. Kaufman & Kaufman, PNAS 1999. Was Rembrandt stereo-blind? Livingstone and Conway (2004); (2 pages); Stereopsis and artistic talent Livingstone et al (2011). (3 pages).
12 (Apr 11)	exam week	no precepts
13 (Apr 18)	touch & olfaction	Central cancellation of self-produced tickle sensation. SJ Blakemore, DM Wolpert, CD Frith. Nature neuroscience, 1998. Loss of Olfactory Receptor Genes Coincides with the Acquisition of Full Trichromatic Vision in Primates Gilad et al PLoS Biol, 2004.

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