Calendar

WEEK # TOPICS KEY DATES
1 Introduction to fMRI and High-level Vision

Basic Neuroanatomy of the Visual System
2 Functional Organization of the Ventral Visual Pathway

Controversies Concerning this Organization

fMRI Design/Methods

How to Critique an fMRI Paper
3 Visual Recognition, Object Shape, and the Lateral Occipital Complex (LOC) Written critique of an fMRI paper due at the beginning of class
4 Face Processing and the FFA

Student Oral Presentations
5 Scene Perception and the PPA

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
6 The Effect of Experience on Extrastriate Cortex

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
7 Visual Attention

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
8 Visual Awareness: How does the Neural Representation of Conscious and Unconscious Visual Information Differ?

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
9 Guest Lecture: Doris Tsao, Harvard Medical School

Student Oral Presentations (cont.)
Experiment proposal due in class
10 Project Presentations and Discussion
11 Project Presentations and Discussion (cont.)
12 Project Presentations and Discussion (cont.)