9.04 Neural Basis of Vision and Audition, Fall 2002
Author(s)
Schiller, Peter H.; Brown, Merritt Christian
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Alternative title
Neural Basis of Vision and Audition
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Examines the neural bases of visual and auditory processing for perception and sensorimotor control. Focuses on physiological and anatomical studies of the mammalian nervous system as well as behavioral studies of animals and humans. Studies visual pattern, color and depth perception, auditory responses and speech coding, and spatial localization. Offered alternate years.
Date issued
2002-12Other identifiers
9.04-Fall2002
local: 9.04
local: IMSCP-MD5-29c88955a94ee461bdd39054b33e247c
Keywords
visual system, eye-movement control, retina, lateral geniculate nucleus, visual cortex, the parallel channels, color, motion, depth, form, neural control, visually guided eye movements, middle ear, cochlear, otoacoustic emissions, cochlear ultrastructure and neuroanatomy, cochlear ion homeostasis and synaptic transmission, noise-induced and age-related hearing loss, neural degeneration, neurophysiological, ascending, descending, auditory pathways auditory nerve, cochlear nucleus, inferior colliculus, olivocochlear system, functional brain imaging, tinnitus, Perception