Sensation and Perception
48 hours
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
Overview
To build upon the basic sensory neurosciences, particularly with advanced visual and auditory systems and to link these with perception or the representation and conscious awareness of sensation.
Requisites
Prerequisites
NEU20006
NeurophysiologyEquivalent
MBP20005 Perception and Motor Systems (Discontinued)
AND
MBP20007 Sensory Systems (Discontinued)
AND
HET226 - Sensory Systems (Discontinued)
AND
HET231 - Perception and Motor Systems (Discontinued)
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Describe advanced visual and auditory systems
- Discuss interactions between sensory systems
- Conduct sensory tests on human participants
- Distinguish differences between sensation and perception
- Explain the place of psychophysics in sensation and perception
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Lecture | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Tutorial Labs | 2.00 | 6 weeks | 12 |
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Various | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Independent Learning | 5.50 | 12 weeks | 66 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Examination | Individual | 40% | 1,2,4,5 |
Laboratory Tutorial Quizzes | Individual | 25% | 1,3,4,5 |
Poster | Group | 35% | 2,3,4,5 |
Content
- Psychophysics
- Information theory and the nervous system
- Interaction of sensory and cortical representation
- Cortical plasticity, sensory mapping and remapping
- Advanced visual systems and perception
- Color vision, stereopsis, monocular and binocular cues for 3D vision and perception
- Advanced auditory systems and perception
- Localisation of sound, discrimination, recognition
- Touch, smell, taste systems
- Sensory integration and interaction
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.