Course curriculum

    1. Lesson 1: neurons, neural circuits, and brain regions for vision (6:52)

    2. Quiz for lesson 1

    3. Lesson 2: Visual hierarchy and receptive fields of the neurons (6:11)

    4. quiz for lesson 2

    1. Lesson 3 : center-surround receptive fields of retinal ganglion cells (6:52)

    2. quiz for lesson 3

    3. Lesson 4: mapping the shape of a receptive field, and measuring its contrast sensitivity function (5:40)

    4. quiz for lesson 4

    5. Lesson 5: building an example receptive field by summing weighted Fourier waves (4:09)

    6. quiz for lesson 5

    7. Lesson 6: use Fourier transform to link the shape of the receptive field of a neuron with its contrast sensitivity function (7:46)

    8. quiz for lesson 6

    9. Lesson 7: contrast sensitivity function for a difference-of-gaussians receptive field (3:11)

    10. quiz for lesson 7

    11. Lesson 8: retinal neural responses to spatiotemporal inputs, part 1 --- spatiotemporal filters (3:50)

    12. quiz for lesson 8

    13. Lesson 9: retinal neural responses to spatiotemporal inputs, part 2 --- impulse response function (3:10)

    14. quiz for lesson 9.

    15. Lesson 10: retinal neural responses to spatiotemporal inputs, part 3 --- spatiotemporal filters for a center-surround receptive field (4:34)

    16. quiz for lesson 10

    17. Lesson 11: retinal color processing (3:46)

    18. quiz for lesson 11

    19. Lesson 12: parvocellular and magnocelluar cells in retina (3:20)

    20. quiz for lesson 12

    21. Lesson 13: visual spatial sampling in retina (1:44)

    22. quiz for Lesson 13

    23. Exercise: Image filtering, receptive fields, Fourier transforms, and image power spectrum --- same content as the one in the course "A brief intro to simple mathematical methods for computational vision", some of it also useful for the next chapter

    1. Lesson 14: signal transmission and retinotopic mapping from retina to the primary visual cortex (V1) (4:36)

    2. quiz for lesson 14

    3. Lesson 15: V1: neural selectivity to orientation and scale, and gabor filters (4:57)

    4. quiz for lesson 15

    5. Lesson 16: V1, multiscale coding (4:20)

    6. Quiz for lesson 16: V1, multiscale coding

    7. Lesson 17: V1: visual motion selectivity (3:24)

    8. quiz for Lesson 17: V1: visual motion selectivity

    9. Lesson 18: V1: ocular dominance and disparity selectivity (4:43)

    10. quiz for Lesson 18: V1: ocular dominance and disparity selectivity

    11. Lesson 19: V1 simple cells and complex cells (6:37)

    12. quiz forLesson 19: V1 simple cells and complex cells

    13. Lesson 20: V1: motion energy model and disparity energy model of V1 complex cells (4:16)

    14. quiz for Lesson 20: V1: motion energy model and disparity energy model of V1 complex cells

    15. Lesson 21: V1: contextual influences on V1 neural responses (6:11)

    16. quiz for Lesson 21: V1: contextual influences on V1 neural responses

    1. Lesson 22: Visual cortical areas beyond V1, a quick outline (2:09)

    2. quiz for Lesson 22: Visual cortical areas beyond V1, a quick outline

    3. Lesson 23: visual cortical area V2 and its neural properties (4:18)

    4. quiz for Lesson 23: visual cortical area V2 and its neural properties

    5. Lesson 24: MT(V5) and its neural properties (3:29)

    6. quiz for Lesson 24: MT(V5) and its neural properties

    7. Lesson 25: V4 and its neural properties (1:49)

    8. quiz for Lesson 25: V4 and its neural properties

    9. Lesson 26: IT and its neural properties (1:28)

    10. quiz for Lesson 26: IT and its neural properties

    11. Lesson 27: Visual behavior associated with some visual brain areas in damage or under constraints (6:07)

    12. quiz for Lesson 27: Visual behavior associated with some visual brain areas in damage or under constraints

    1. Lesson 28: Eye movements and their link with attention in visual behavior (3:49)

    2. quiz for lesson 28

    3. Lesson 29: Brain areas for eye movements (5:16)

    4. quiz for Lesson 29

    5. Lesson 30: Neural link between eye movement, visual representation, attention, and visual task performance (3:14)

    6. quiz for Lesson 30: Neural link between eye movement, visual representation, attention, and visual task performance

    7. Lesson 31: Effect of attention on neural responses to visual inputs in extrastriate visual cortical areas (5:35)

    8. quiz for Lesson 31: Effect of attention on neural responses to visual inputs in extrastriate visual cortical areas

    9. Lesson 32: Effects of attention and experience on neural responses in V1 (6:22)

    10. quiz for Lesson 32: Effects of attention and experience on neural responses in V1

    1. Lesson 33: a brief overview of behavioral studies on vision (3:42)

    2. quiz for Lesson 33: a brief overview of behavioral studies on vision

    3. Lesson 34: Some remarkable examples of visual behavioral phenomena (8:33)

    4. survey after Lesson 34: Some remarkable examples of visual behavioral phenomena

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