INF1-CG: Week 5
Tasks
Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:
- Complete Quiz 2, which is due at 5pm on Monday 9 Feb.
- Attend lectures 13, 14, and 15.
- Attend your tutorial group.
- Attend one of the drop-in labs.
- Read the readings for this week.
- Next week is flexible learning week! No lectures, tutorials, labs, or office hours. It’s a great opportunity to catch up with the reading for the course!
Lectures
| No | Date | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | 10 Feb | Vision 2 - receptive fields and the retina |
| 14 | 12 Feb | Vision 3 - image features and the primary visual cortex |
| 15 | 13 Feb | Vision 4 - object recognition in the higher visual cortex |
All lectures will be livestreamed and recorded on Echo Video. You may have to log on through Learn before this link works.
Readings
The links below direct you to the University Library or to Piazza. You will need to log on to access the full text.
Readings come in two flavours: recommended and suggested.
| Gage and Baars 2018 | (note Fig 4.8 is wrong, this shows On and Off retinal neurons, but claims to show orientation selective cells) | Recommended |
| Ward 2019 | The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience: Chapter 7 - The seeing brain | Recommended |
Assignments
To access the assignments, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.3”.
Quizzes
To access the quizzes, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Gradescope”.
Labs
Please attend one of the drop-in lab sessions this week.
To access the lab notebooks, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.2”.
Office Hours
Maithilee Kunda: Thursday 12 Feb 1pm, IF 3.06 - canceled for today, apologies!
Matthias Hennig: Friday 13 Feb 1pm, IF 2.31