Cognitive Neuroscience of Sensation and Perception - Audition and Vision

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This is the fifth lecture in the Cognitive Neuroscience course. Of the 5 senses, audition (hearing) and vision (seeing) are by far the most complex and intricate. Unlike the other senses, these allow us to remotely sense the world outside of the body. We explore how incredibly complex waveforms of sound travel through the cellular machinery of the ear and are turned into neural impulses that are mapped out in the brain. We then move onto vision and look at how the anatomy of the eye allows us to build a map of the world in our brain. We then look at how simple sensation is transformed into complex perception as the information flows to higher processing areas of the brain.

These videos have been edited to remove personal information, class specific information and questions from students (I don't have permission to include them in the videos).