Sensation and Perception OpenCourseWare: A Free Undergraduate Course on the Nervous System by MIT
The MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences offers 'Sensation and Perception' free to students interested in studying how individual senses gather information and then transmit detailed messages to the brain. As part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare program, this class can help students all over the world, especially those who are pursuing undergraduate degrees in Neuroscience.
Sensation and Perception: Course Specifics
| Degree Level | Free | Audio | Video | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undergraduate | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Lectures/Notes | Study Materials | Tests/Quizzes |
|---|---|---|
| Yes | Yes | No |
Sensation and Perception: Course Description
If you are interested in how messages get transmitted from our senses to the brain, this Neuroscience course may be the class for you. Students study how all the senses - hearing, tasting, seeing, touching, and smelling - gather information from our environment, convert it into a signal and send data to the brain via the central nervous system. Once at the brain, the signals are reinterpreted so we understand the world and our place in it. Vision is the main sense studied in this course, including the perceptual quirks that produce optical illusions, but each of the senses is covered. Other topics include the retina and how we recognize colors, as well as the ear and how we interpret music. Professor Edward Adelson originally taught this Bachelor of Science in Brain and Cognitive Sciences course over 13 weeks. Students using this free online Neuroscience course may need to download QuickTime Player software so they can open .mov and .qt files. For those who understand traditional Chinese, a translation into that language is available.
This class includes lecture notes, animations demonstrating depth perception, one problem set and a list of other useful sites. If you are interested in 'Sensation and Perception,' please visit this Neuroscience, perception and senses course web page.
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