Lab in Visual Neuroscience

Catalog description

Visual perception is the primary sense through which we interact with the world. This course provides the tools to help you probe the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception. You will design, conduct and analyze data in the context of 4 projects, which combine behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. You will gain a working understanding of how visual information is coded and processed in the brain. Furthermore, the course will help you understand differences in visual performance in terms of neural differences. The course will cover relevant vision science and programming principles throughout the semester. As such, courses such as Computer Programming for Engineers ( ENGR-UH 1000 ), Biopsychology ( PSYCH-UH 1003 ) and Perception ( PSYCH-UH 2411 ) are recommended but not required. By the end of this course, you will be able to design, conduct and analyze data from your own visual neuroscience experiment. You will be able to analyze the data - by writing your own data analysis/model fitting tools if no pre-written tools are available, and critically evaluate your results.