Lab in Multisensory Perception and Action

Catalog description

Our perceptual experiences are the product of the information gathered through all our highly specialized senses and are often tightly linked to motor activity such as grasping objects or moving in the environment. This course addresses current concepts and experimental approaches central to understanding human multisensory perception and sensorimotor control. Students are introduced to topics in the fields of psychophysics, active vision, haptics, multimodal processing and motor behavior. Concepts taught in class are reinforced in practice by hands-on assignments involving experimental design, data collection and analysis, and interpretation of results.