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 23 - Auditory Cortex 2: Language; Bats and Echolocation |
Instructor: Chris Brown. This lecture continues with the auditory cortex, focusing on echolocation by bats as well as speech and language. Topics include types of bat echolocation and bat cortical specializations along with speech spectrograms and cortical processing.
Go to the Course Home or watch other lectures: