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Architectural Design, Level I: Perceptions and Processes, Fall 2003
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Abstract: Establishes basic attitudes toward architectural organization and its reflection in form. Includes projects where imposed conditions of site, program, and building system emphasize the interrelationship of fundamental elements in the pattern of decision-making that constitutes architectural design. Develops ... More »
Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception
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Abstract: unveils striking landscape photographs taken by this famous nineteenth-century American artist (1829 -1916). It includes his best-known studies of Yosemite and other celebrated works from California, Washington, and Oregon.
Exploratorium Online
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Abstract: features dozens of online learning activities and exhibits. Make a mold terrarium, pinhole projector, telescope, or hair hygrometer. Explore the brain, biodiversity, Antarctica, DNA, frogs, structures, or illusions. Learn about magnetism, electricity, motors, eyeballs, perception, Mars, chocolate, seasonings, ... More »
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
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Abstract: Human communication is vastly more complex than that of any other species we know about. It is so complex that linguists are only just beginning to identify the processes in the brain that are related to understanding language. This unit looks at how language is understood by taking an interdisciplinary ... More »
Introduction to Neural Networks, Fall 2002
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Abstract: Organization of synaptic connectivity as the basis of neural computation and learning. Single and multilayer perceptrons. Dynamical theories of recurrent networks: amplifiers, attractors, and hybrid computation. Backpropagation and Hebbian learning. Models of perception, motor control, memory, and neural ... More »
Introduction to Neural Networks, Spring 2005
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Abstract: Organization of synaptic connectivity as the basis of neural computation and learning. Single and multilayer perceptrons. Dynamical theories of recurrent networks: amplifiers, attractors, and hybrid computation. Backpropagation and Hebbian learning. Models of perception, motor control, memory, and neural ... More »
Introduction to Phonology, Fall 2002
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Abstract: Introduction to the current research questions in phonological theory. Topics include: metrical and prosodic structure; features and their phonetic basis in speech; acquisition and parsing; phonological domains; morphology; and language change and reconstruction. Activities include problem solving, squibs, ... More »
Introduction to Psychology, Fall 2004
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Abstract: This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Students are exposed to the range of theoretical perspectives including biological, ... More »
Networks and Protocols of the World Wide Web Fall 2007
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Abstract: Networks and Protocols of the World Wide Web. From Art 23AC: Foundations of American Cyber-Culture - Fall 2007.
Neural Basis of Vision and Audition, Fall 2006
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Abstract: Examines the neural bases of visual and auditory processing for perception and sensorimotor control. Focuses on physiological and anatomical studies of the mammalian nervous system as well as behavioral studies of animals and humans. Studies visual pattern, color and depth perception, auditory responses ... More »
Other Minds, Spring 2003
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Abstract: This is a seminar on issues connected with the traditional "problem of other minds". In addition to reading some of the classic papers on other minds, we will look at recent work on related topics. There will be no lectures. Each week I will spend half an hour or so introducing the assigned reading, ... More »
Perception and Action in Infancy Fall 2007
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Abstract: Perception and Action in Infancy. From Psych 140: Developmental Psychology - Fall 2007. This course explores the development of children from birth to adolescence, in a wide range of areas including biological, cognitive, linguistic, social, and personality development. It also covers the effects of ... More »
Physical Intelligence, January (IAP) 2002
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Abstract: For all of the bodies attached to the many great minds that walk the Institute's halls, in the work that goes on at MIT the body is present as an object of study, but is all but unrecognized as an important dimension of our intelligence and experience. Yet the body is the basis of our experience in the ... More »
Sensation and Perception 1 Fall 2007
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Abstract: Sensation and Perception 1. From Psych 1: General Psychology - Fall 2007. Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology; for psychology majors. Closed Captioned webcast available.
Sensation and Perception 2 Fall 2007
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Abstract: Sensation and Perception 2. From Psych 1: General Psychology - Fall 2007. Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology; for psychology majors. Closed Captioned webcast available.
Sensation and Perception I from the course General Psychology
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Abstract: Psych 1: General Psychology - Fall 2006. This course will survey the scientific study of mental life and the mental functions that underlie human experience thought, and action. The emphasis is on cognitive processes and social interactions characteristic of adults. However, research on nonhuman animals, ... More »
Sensation and Perception II from the course General Psychology
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Abstract: Psych 1: General Psychology - Fall 2006. This course will survey the scientific study of mental life and the mental functions that underlie human experience thought, and action. The emphasis is on cognitive processes and social interactions characteristic of adults. However, research on nonhuman animals, ... More »
Sensation and Perception III from the course General Psychology
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Abstract: Psych 1: General Psychology - Fall 2006. This course will survey the scientific study of mental life and the mental functions that underlie human experience thought, and action. The emphasis is on cognitive processes and social interactions characteristic of adults. However, research on nonhuman animals, ... More »
Sensation and Perception, Spring 2004
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Abstract: How do the senses work? How do physical stimuli get transformed into signals in the nervous system? How does the brain use those signals to determine what's out there in the world? All the senses are discussed; vision is covered most extensively, with topics including the perception of color, motion, ... More »
Social Visualization, Fall 2004
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Abstract: Supplementary work on individual or group basis. Registration subject to prior arrangement for subject matter and supervision by staff. From the course home page: Millions of people are on-line today and the number is rapidly growing - yet this virtual crowd is often invisible. In this course we will ... More »