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Perception and attention

2001-01-12


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Perception and attention

Last week

This week

Middle and inner ear

Auditory pathways in the brain

Inner ear

Uncoiled cochlea

Auditory pathways

Auditory cortex is hidden in the transverse temporal gyrus

Vision

Position of the eyes in the brain

Section through the retina

Rods are sensitive but cannot detect color

Cones are for color vision

Path of the optic nerves

Axonal pathways from the retina to the occipital cortex

Lateral geniculate nucleus

Position of the LGN in the brain

Axonal pathway to the LGN

Lesions to the visual pathways

What and where pathways from the occipital cortex

A neuron in inferior temporal cortex (IT)

PET study on what and where in humans

Summing up the what and where

The code of the brain

Extremely localized coding leads to the grandmother cell

Sparse coding

Find the green T...

Conjunction search is much slower

Ann Treisman's model of feature perception and integration

Press the button if you see the square...

Reaction time increases with position uncertainty

N1 (Negative 100 ms)

Desimone's study of V4* neurons

Neurons in IT show evidence of `short-term memory' for events

PPT Slide

Reduced IT response and memory

Novelty filtering

Bisect all the lines..., a test for hemineglect

Different visual stimulus arrays

Evidence for contralateral inhibition

Evidence for ipsilateral exitation

Neglect distributed in objects

Neglect in imaging

Brodmann's map

Next week...

Author: Jaap Murre

Email: jaap@murre.com

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