PS 274 Sensation and Perception (Fall/Spring: 3)
Prerequisite:
PS 110
How do our senses tell us what is really in the world around us, and can
our senses be trusted? These questions have been pondered by philosophers
for centuries, and more recently by psychologists and neuroscientists. This
course will explore the anatomical/biological basis of sensation (how the
world that we perceive is translated into the raw language of the nervous
system) and the cognitive processes underlying perception (how our brains
reconstruct the physical world from these neural inputs). We will examine
these questions for vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
Sean MacEvoy
Last Updated: 17-JAN-13