Chapter 4: The Organized Brain. Overview of Questions How can brain damage affect a person’s perception? Are there separate brain areas that determine.
The Human Brain. Human vs. Sheep Brains Human BrainSheep Brain.
Test on Friday!. Lesions of Retinostriate Pathway Lesions (usually due to stroke) cause a region of blindness called a scotoma Identified using perimetry.
How well can we learn what the stimulus is by looking at the neural responses? We will discuss two approaches: devise and evaluate explicit algorithms.
6.Heapsort Hsu, Lih-Hsing. Computer Theory Lab. Chapter 6P.2 Why sorting 1. Sometimes the need to sort information is inherent in a application. 2. Algorithms.
Spike Train decoding Summary Decoding of stimulus from response –Two choice case Discrimination ROC curves –Population decoding MAP and ML estimators.
1 Chapter Five Development of the Human Brain. 2 Prenatal Development .
THE VISUAL SYSTEM D. C. MIKULECKY PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY AND FACULTY MENTORING PROGRAM.
Sensory Mechanisms. Energy Senses--Vision Visual Sense—turns light energy into a neural message (transduction) –Light is reflected off objects and gathered.
