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 12, 13, and 14.
  • 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

NoDateTitle
1210 FebVision 2
1312 FebVision 3
1413 FebVision 4

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

Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroscience (Second Edition): Chapter 4 - The Art of Seeing; Sections 1 and 2

(note Fig 4.8 is wrong, this shows On and Off retinal neurons, but claims to show orientation selective cells)  

Recommended
 Ward 2019The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience: Chapter 7 - The seeing brainRecommended
   

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”.


Tutorials

Please attempt to answer the Questions for Tutorial 4. These will be discussed in the tutorial sessions this week.


Labs

Please attend one of the drop-in lab sessions this week. The labs are designed to help with the assignments, and you can ask the lab demonstrator if anything is unclear with Assignment 1.

To access the lab notebooks, please login in through Learn, and then go the link “Notable LTI 1.2”.

 

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