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Peter Vishton – Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception
Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception
Discover the secret life of your senses through an intriguing and unforgettable 24-lecture course delivered by a masterful educator who has spent several decades immersed in exploring the frontiers of human perception.
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01:Your Amazing, Intelligent Senses
Embark on a fascinating journey into the secret life of your senses. In this introductory lecture, Professor Vishton uses a series of demonstrations to prove that perception is, in fact, amazing; shows you how your sensory systems inherently rely on making “educated guessesâ€; and lays the roadmap for the lectures ahead….
32 min
02:The Physiological Hardware of Your Senses
Get a working knowledge of sensory physiology that will prove important for the lectures ahead. Learn how neurons function, how your senses translate energy into electrical signals, how your brain organizes this energy, and how you can mentally represent the infinite range of things out in the world….
30 min
03:Neuroimaging-The Sensory Brain at Work
Learn how brain researchers figured out how the functions of sensation and perception map onto particular brain regions. Focusing on what happens when you recognize a face, see how brain-injured patients, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and scientific studies have brought us closer than ever to understanding this complex subject….
31 min
04:Brain Modules-Subcomponents of the Senses
There is evidence out there to support the idea that your senses arise from many separate, independent “modules.†Here, Professor Vishton discusses the evidence for this organization and demonstrates how your mind puts these modules together to create the rich, combined sensory experience you live with every day….
30 min
05:Perceiving a World in Motion
Explore three key aspects of how you sense motion. First, learn why motion information is important for perceiving the location, shape, and identity of objects around you. Then, examine how your brain perceives and infers motion. Finally, discover how you interpret the complex patterns of motion delivered to your retinas….
31 min
06:Seeing Distance and Depth
Probe a classic mystery of sensory processing: depth perception. When is depth perception not accurate? How do cues such as convergence and motion parallax support your perception of size and depth? And how do you put these sources of information together to produce a single, accurate picture of what’s around you?…
32 min
07:Seeing Color and Light
Turn now to the ways that you perceive color. After a quick discussion of the physics of light and color, Professor Vishton explains the trichromatic theory of color perception (how color is processed in your retinas) and the opponent process theory of color perception (how color is interpreted in your visual cortex)….
33 min
08:Your World of Taste and Olfaction
In the first of six lectures on your nonvisual senses, focus on taste and smell. You’ll learn where your unique flavor preferences come from, how smells are processed in your brain, why aromas can recall particular memories and emotions, how taste interacts with smell and vision, and much more….
28 min
09:Hearing the World around You
What are the physics of sound? How does your auditory system transform sound into patterns of neural activity? How does sound localization-the process through which you can infer the location of different sound sources-work? Uncover the answers to these and many other questions about your sense of hearing….
30 min
10:Speech and Language Perception
In this fascinating lecture, discover how you produce and perceive language. Explore how you communicate ideas using basic sounds; how you determine where one word ends and another begins; how things you think are being perceived by your ears are actually sensed by your eyes, and more….
32 min
11:Touch-Temperature, Vibration, and Pressure
Broaden your understanding of just how detailed and intricate is your sense of touch. You’ll spend time considering the different reception systems embedded in your skin; the ways you use touch to control your actions and to explore your surroundings; and how this particular sense grounds your other senses….
34 min
12:Pain-How It Works for You
Pain is more than just a nuisance-it’s extremely important to your well-being. Get an overview of the systems of pain perception; the ways your brain processes pain formation; how seeing pain in others can quite literally cause you to feel pain yourself; and what happens when the pain system breaks down….
28 min
13:Perception in Action
Recent scientific studies have shown that your actions can actually control your perceptions. Here, Professor Vishton guides you through our latest understanding of the interplay between action and perception. By looking at how perception and action go together, you’ll have a much more accurate grasp of the entire human sensory process….
31 min
14:Attention and Perception
Examine how attention works in the human visual system. You’ll learn how attention functions, how it enables you to locate mental resources effectively, how it works as a “spotlight†highlighting aspects of visual input, and how it serves as “perceptual glue†pulling together aspects of a stimulus into perceptual objects….
29 min
15:Kinesthetic Perception
One human sense often left off the standard list of five: kinesthetic perception, or how you perceive and move your body. Consider aspects of kinesthetic perception, including your vestibular sense (how you perceive the position of your whole body) and proprioception (how you perceive the position of individual body parts)….
28 min
16:Seeing, Remembering, Inferring Infants
Get a better understanding of adult perception by exploring the intriguing process of perceptual development from birth to the first few years of life. How do infants see? Control their eye moments? Use their sensory input to make inferences about things they can’t directly see? Learn all this and more here….
29 min
17:How Infants Sense and Act On Their World
Continue building on ideas about how infant perception works and develops. In this lecture, you’ll focus on how an infant’s nonvisual senses develop; how an infant connects sensory abilities to actions such as crawling, reaching, and grasping; and how these action abilities influence an infant’s sensory and perceptual abilities….
31 min
18:Illusions and Magic
Enter the world of illusions and see how, in addition to being entertaining, they can reinforce and further develop your grasp of human sensation and perception. Professor Vishton guides you through some of his favorite visual illusions, including the Kanizsa triangle, the “Café wall,†and the “paper dragon†illusions….
30 min
19:Perceiving Emotion in Others and Ourselves
Consider perception and emotion from a variety of perspectives. How does emotion ramp up your sensory sensitivity to fear, or reduce it for disgust? How can various emotional states change your perception of time and space? How can you use vision and hearing to pick up information about someone’s future health and well-being?…
33 min
20:Sensing the Thoughts of Others-ESP
Reading minds. Detecting lies. Predicting the future. Debunk these and other “paranormal phenomena†by exploring how we infer others’ thoughts and actions through standard perception. Then, consider the possibility that ESP, telepathy, and clairvoyance can exist by learning about an ambitious-and controversial-research project from the 1980s….
34 min
21:Opponent Process for Perception and Life
Make sense of opponent process, one of the most fundamental organizational principles by which your brain is organized. Consider how opponent process is implemented at the level of individual neurons, how it maintains your internal state of well-being, how it explains why people engage in extreme behavior, and more….
31 min
22:Synesthesia-Tasting Color and Seeing Sound
Focus on the strange and interesting phenomenon of synesthesia, which draws seemingly bizarre connections between different sensory inputs (such as associating a letter with a specific color or an image with an unrelated taste). Studying this subject, you’ll find, reveals some interesting facts about normal perception as well….
29 min
23:How Your Sensory Systems Learn
How do wine experts correctly identify wine after a single sip? How do chessmasters re-create pieces of a game on a chessboard? The answer is the subject of this lecture: perceptual learning, or the ways your sensory systems change after repeated exposure to stimulus….
30 min
24:Fixing, Replacing, and Enhancing the Senses
Cochlear implants, artificial retina projects, tactile television-just three of the fascinating topics you’ll learn about in this final lecture on fixing and replacing damaged sensory systems. The successes and failures of these and other technologies have taught us even more about how the senses work….
34 min
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Overview
Discover the secret life of your senses with Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception, an intriguing and unforgettable 24-lecture course delivered by Professor Peter M. Vishton, an expert in the frontiers of human perception. With him as your authoritative guide, you’ll consider each of your senses from a wide range of perspectives, explore how your brain processes different sensory information, consider how your senses work together and within the context of your environment, learn how your senses connect you to the world and to other people, and much more.
About
Peter M. Vishton
The human mind remains one of the most mysterious and fascinating frontiers of modern science. Exploring that frontier yields useful knowledge as well as insights about ourselves.
Dr. Peter M. Vishton is Associate Professor of Psychology at The College of William & Mary. He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology and Cognitive Science from Cornell University. Before joining the faculty of William & Mary, he taught at Northwestern University and served as the program director for developmental and learning sciences at the National Science Foundation. A consulting editor for the journal Child Development, Professor Vishton has published articles in many of the top journals in the field of psychology. Among these are Psychological Science, Science, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology. He is also the creator of the DVD What Babies Can Do: An Activity-Based Guide to Infant Development. In addition to teaching, Professor Vishton devotes much of his career to researching the perception and action control of both infants and adults. His studies-funded by prestigious institutions, including the National Institute of Child Health and Development and the National Science Foundation-focus on cognitive, perceptual, and motor development; visually guided action; visual perception; computational vision and motor control; and human-computer interface. Professor Vishton has presented his findings at numerous conferences and invited talks throughout the United States and Europe.
REVIEWS
RalphiePÂ
A Great Course – Very Well presented
I thoroughly enjoyed this series of 24 lectures. Informative and very well presented. Professor Vishton has a calm, easy, yet professional presentation style. Thank you Professor Vishton – much appreciated.
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Who Knew
This without a doubt one of the best Great Courses I have ever taken. The presentation is well organized, entertaining and informative. The presenter is very well organized witih a pre and post presentation summary.The visuals enhance the content. Viston is clealry in love with the topic and it shows in his enthusiasm
