The primary goal of this course is that you learn the major facts and theories on how humans gain information about the world through their senses. This process is usually called "perception" for "low-level" phenomena like dark adaptation, and "cognition" for "high-level" phenomena like attention. Another important goal is that you learn *how* we have discovered what we presently know about perception/cognition and the senses. Thus you will learn principles of experimental design. Through classroom demonstrations you will directly experience the phenomena that experimenters study.
In order to achieve these goals, you will need to read the lecture notes and attend the lectures.
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