INF1-CG: Week 8

Tasks

Your major tasks and deadlines this week are:

  • Work on Assignment 1, which is due on Monday 24 March 12:00 noon.
  • Do Quiz 4, which will be issued on Friday and is due on Monday 17 March at 12:00 noon.
  • Attend lectures 21, 22, and 23.
  • Attend your tutorial group. Make sure to first attempt the Questions for Tutorial 7 on your own.
  • Attend one of the drop-in labs.
  • Read the readings for this week.

Lectures

NoDateTitle
2111 MarVisual Perception III
2213 MarVisual Perception IV
2314 MarLearning and Memory I

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: required and recommended.

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)  

Required
 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 1.2”.


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 7. 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 2.

 

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