9.04 Sensory Systems
9.04 Sensory Systems (Fall 2013, MIT OCW). Instructors: Professor Peter H. Schiller and Professor M. Christian Brown. This course examines the neural bases of sensory perception. The focus is on physiological and anatomical studies of the mammalian nervous system as well as behavioral studies of animals and humans. Topics include visual pattern, color and depth perception, auditory responses and sound localization, and somatosensory perception. (from ocw.mit.edu)
Lecture 07 - Depth Perception |
Instructor: Peter H. Schiller. This lecture covers depth perception, including mechanisms used to analyze depth. The video includes discussions of these mechanisms such as the effects of lesions in V4 or MT regions and stereoblindness, motion parallax, shading and perspective and how depth is processed by cortical structures.
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