Vorlesungen/Tutorials

(Tuesdays and Fridays 14-16h – GEMI PC-Pool)

- 2013.05.28:

• Lecture: Introduction to psychophysics (PDF)
• MATLAB exercises: Technical issues in visual psychophysics (PDF)

- 2013.05.31:

• Lecture: The role of the senses (PDF)
• MATLAB exercises: 2AFC direction discrimination experiment (PDF)
• MATLAB code: 2AFC experiment, will run only if you have PsychToolbox installed (PDF)

- 2013.06.04

• Lecture: Dealing with data; Introduction to the psychometric curve (pdf)
• MATLAB clinics: Cell arrays (pdf), Graphics object handles (.m)
• MATLAB exercises: Structures & logical indexing (pdf)  Simulating a psychometric curve (PDF)

- 2013.06.07

• MATLAB exercises: Producing a psychometric curve by simulating a population of neurons (.m)

- 2013.06.11

• Lecture: MATLAB catch-up (PDF)
• MATLAB clinic: Loops (PDF)
• MATLAB solutions: Clio's solution to dealing with structures of arrays & logical indexing (.m); Group solution to black-box psychometric curve simulation created in class (.m); Clio's solution to black-box psychometric curve simulation (.m) 

- 2013.06.14

• MATLAB solutions: group solution to neuronal population simulation of psychometric curve (.m)

- 2013.06.18

• Flipchart lecture: Influence on neuronal population simulation of parameters population size, noise s.d., tuning width

- 2013.06.21

• Lecture: Fitting a psychometric curve to data (PDF)
• MATLAB exercises: Curve fitting withe the Palamedes toolbox (PDF)

- 2013.06.25

• Flipchart lecture: Adaptation
• Practical work: Collect data in an adaption experiment

- 2013.06.28

• Lecture: Adaptation recap (PDF); Types of psychometric experiments (PDF)

- 2013.07.02

• Lecture: Theories of psychometric function; Signal detection theory (PDF)
• MATLAB exercises: Solution of lecture slide exercises (.m)

- 2013.07.05 cancelled

- 2013.07.09

• Perceptual laws; Course review (PDF)

- 2013.07.12:

• Exam!!