PSYCO 365
ADVANCED PERCEPTION

 

 

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News & Updates

• here's information on the YorkU-MITACS vision science summer school

• textbook/readings errata:

- the meaning of functional architecture in the readings is not the same as the meaning defined in class

- in Enns (2004a) on page 31: “The conservative strategy would lead to 100 percent correct on "no difference" trials and 0 percent correct on "difference" trials, and together these would average 50 percent correct overall. The conservative strategy would lead to 0 percent correct on "no difference" trials and 100 percent correct on "difference" trials, again for 50 percent correct overall.” The second sentence should begin “The liberal strategy...”

- in Gordon (1997) on page 25: “...mutliply the logarithm...” should be “...multiply the logarithm...”

- in Gordon (1997) on page 35: “But such an erroneous response must be a risk whenever a monetary increase...” should be “...a momentary increase...”

- in Gordon (1997) on page 37: “pyschophysical” should be “psychophysical

- in Gordon (1997) on page 39: “...the options revealed by a formal analysis of a situaton” should be “situation

- in Gordon (1997) on page 40: “In classical psychophysics the erros...” should be “...the errors...”

- in Gordon (1997) on page 41: “Note that initial small rightwards shifts in the criterion...” should be “...initial small leftwards shifts...”

- in Enns (2004b) on page 150: “The same circle's invisibility in Figure 4.17b points to...” should be “in Figure 4.18b...”

- in Bruce, Green & Georgeson (2003a - Perceptual Organisation) on page 132: “Caterpillars that live on the undersides of leaves have "reverse" coutershading...” should be “have "reverse" countershading...”

- in Snowden, Thompson, & Troscianko (2006) on page 285: “We (well, men mainly) also make value judgements about the beauty of faces, or lack or it...” should be “...or lack of it...”

- in Snowden, Thompson, & Troscianko (2006) on page 291: in Fig. 10.5, the caption “Here we see that the grotesque features of the 'thatcherized' face are not detected until the face in rotated...” should be “...until the face is rotated...”

- in Snowden, Thompson, & Troscianko (2006) on page 310: “Fregoli syndrome” is incorrectly defined; it is not the same as Capgras syndrome (see Wikipedia entries for Capgras delusion and Fregoli delusion, and Face Perception lecture for details)

- in Cytowic & Eagleman (2009) on page 212: “These two types of color → grapheme synesthetes...” should be “...grapheme → color synesthetes...”

• check out the study resources page