Week 5: Sept 5-9

Monday

No School - Labor Day

Tuesday

What do you see in the image to the right? Can you see the 74 in the image? If not you could be color blind. Today you will begin the Sensation and Perception Unit. We will learn about vision, theories of color vision and other principles of vision.

I have included the link to the Neuroscience Exam Corrections. They will be due on Monday.

Homework: Read Module 18

Wednesday

Our topic today is vision. We will analyze how the eye takes in information from the environment and then ow the brain processes that information. As well as explain the two major theories of how we see in color.

Anatomy of the Eye

Rods vs Cone

Feature Detectors

Parallel Processing


Homework: Read Module 19

Thursday

We will discuss perceptional organizational principles and work through Slides 19-25 of the Interactive Notebook.

Homework: Read Module 20

Friday (Move to Monday)

We are going to explore our sense of hearing as our topic of the day. We will first look at the anatomy of the ear and how the ear functions.

Homework Read Module 21 and 22