In this course, students will study the sensory process in acquiring information and how the information is understood and interpreted in our brains resulting in various perceptual experiences. Various sensory systems will be introduced with a primary emphasis on the visual system.

CILO-1: Define and differentiate sensation and perception. CILO-2: Identify basic essential methodologies and approaches of the studies of sensory and perceptual systems. CILO-3: Describe chemical basis and basic properties of action potential. CILO-4: Describe the function of synapses and the neural networking in terms of inhibition and excitation. CILO-5: Identify the basic neuroanatomy associated with the visual, auditory, somatosensory, and olfactory and systems. CILO-6: Detail the initial steps of information processing and stages of higher mental processing. CILO-7: Apply theories to explain different perceptual processes and experiences. CILO-8: Relate perceptual mechanisms to cortical structure and function. CILO-9: Describe the properties receptors and the theories of colour vision. CILO-10: Describe the mechanism explaining various visual illusions with depth, size constancy and lightness constancy.