Week 21: February 6-10th- Retinal Anatomy + Case Studies
Monday: (Absent) Go to the computer lab and read Oliver Sack's "The Mind's Eye" and bring your printed copy to class on Friday.
HW: Read Oliver Sack's "The Mind's Eye" (click on link)
Tuesday: The Island of the Colorblind
HW: Reread pages 288-292 in the textbook
Movie Questions: What congenital condition do the inhabitants of Pingelap suffer from? How does this affect their vision during photopic conditions? How does the prevalence of the condition compare to the US? Discuss how the first color photograph was developed and the color theory used to create this photograph (recreated in the video using t-shirts). What abilities do people with achromatopia have that trichromats do not? What evidence of "reallocation" of the brain was discussed in the video?
Wednesday: Retinal Anatomy
HW: Read pg 293-298 *** PURCHASE MATERIALS FOR PROJECTS BY FEB 21st! ****
Chapter 9 PPT (link)
Thursday: Phototransduction (link)
HW: Review pages 293-298. Bring in printed copy of Monday's reading for discussion tomorrow.
Friday: Review (link) + Reading Discussion
HW: Read pg 158-163 in the textbook
HW: Read Oliver Sack's "The Mind's Eye" (click on link)
Tuesday: The Island of the Colorblind
HW: Reread pages 288-292 in the textbook
Movie Questions: What congenital condition do the inhabitants of Pingelap suffer from? How does this affect their vision during photopic conditions? How does the prevalence of the condition compare to the US? Discuss how the first color photograph was developed and the color theory used to create this photograph (recreated in the video using t-shirts). What abilities do people with achromatopia have that trichromats do not? What evidence of "reallocation" of the brain was discussed in the video?
Wednesday: Retinal Anatomy
HW: Read pg 293-298 *** PURCHASE MATERIALS FOR PROJECTS BY FEB 21st! ****
Chapter 9 PPT (link)
Thursday: Phototransduction (link)
HW: Review pages 293-298. Bring in printed copy of Monday's reading for discussion tomorrow.
Friday: Review (link) + Reading Discussion
HW: Read pg 158-163 in the textbook
Supplemental Video Material
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Week 22- Phototransduction and Receptive Fields
Monday (Feb 13): Phototransduction + Course Review (link)
Original Nobel Prize winning paper by George Wald if you're interested :)
HW: Complete Chapter 9 Review (click)
Tuesday: Phototrandsduction Valentine's Day Review + Neuroscience of Love :)
HW: Read pg 296 - 306
Wednesday: Receptive Fields + Get to know your textbook
HW: Review 296-306
Thursday: Receptive Fields
HW: None
Friday: Receptive fields review activity
Future technology
HW: Review chapter 9 for Wednesday's exam
Original Nobel Prize winning paper by George Wald if you're interested :)
HW: Complete Chapter 9 Review (click)
Tuesday: Phototrandsduction Valentine's Day Review + Neuroscience of Love :)
HW: Read pg 296 - 306
Wednesday: Receptive Fields + Get to know your textbook
HW: Review 296-306
Thursday: Receptive Fields
HW: None
Friday: Receptive fields review activity
Future technology
HW: Review chapter 9 for Wednesday's exam
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Week 23- Chapter 10
Monday: NO SCHOOL
Tuesday: Chapter 9 Exam Review
Wednesday: Chapter 9 Exam
Thursday: Optical Illusions Ted Talk (link) by Beau Lotto + Journal and Discussion
HW: Read Excerpt by Friday March 3rd (link)
Friday: Visual Fields (Retinofugal pathway)
HW: Read excerpt
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Monday 2/27: Visual Fields Quickfire- Pathway and Damage
Models must include: left visual field, right visual field, temporal retina, nasal retina, optic chiasm, LGN, superior colliculus, optic radiation and primary visual cortex. Finally, use your models to determine the outcome of lesions 1-7 on your worksheet.
HW: Finish worksheet, reading by Thursday
Tuesday: Review Visual Fields and Damage
HW: Read + Study for quiz tomorrow
Wednesday: Quiz + Reading
HW: Read for tomorrow's discussion
Thursday: Discussion Re: The Colorblind Painter (ppt link to pictures from the book)
Friday: Read excerpt from A Tale of the Dueling Neuroscientists (link)
HW: Finish reading from class
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Chapter 10: Week 25
Monday 3/6: Read excerpt in class + PPT (link)
HW: Read and take notes 315-326
Tuesday 3/7: Read excerpt- Hubel and Wiesel
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/6zj4ki/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-michio-kaku (Future of the Mind)
HW: Read and take notes: 326-329
Wednesday 3/8: Ganzfeld Glasses Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nwpU7GFYe8 (Hubel and Wiesel)
https://vimeo.com/84207602 (In Living Color Brain Games)
HW: Read and take notes 333-340
Thursday 3/9: LGN+ Striate Cortex
HW: Book notes check tomorrow
Friday 3/10: V1, V4, V5 Processing + Finish excerpt
Week 26- End of Chapter 10
Week 27
Monday- Conversation with Dr. Naselaris in Library Media Center
Tuesday-Friday- Prepare optical illusions in computer lab 132
Week 28-
Monday-Thursday- Prepare optical illusion projects and supplemental presentations in 132/143
RUBRIC for Illusion Videos (link)
Friday- Auditorium to hear from Dr. Julia Mossbridge
She will be talking about the effects of music on concentration as well as how data is collected and analyzed to drive the development of a music concentration product. Julia will also be talking about unusual careers in STEM. Julia is a visiting scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a visiting scholar at the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. She is currently helping to develop a product for a company called Focus@Will. The product is a music manipulation tool to help increase concentration while working. Though not specifically a "math" product, she has been very interested in seeing how the product impacts student performance in mathematics.
Tuesday-Friday- Prepare optical illusions in computer lab 132
Week 28-
Monday-Thursday- Prepare optical illusion projects and supplemental presentations in 132/143
RUBRIC for Illusion Videos (link)
Friday- Auditorium to hear from Dr. Julia Mossbridge
She will be talking about the effects of music on concentration as well as how data is collected and analyzed to drive the development of a music concentration product. Julia will also be talking about unusual careers in STEM. Julia is a visiting scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a visiting scholar at the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University. She is currently helping to develop a product for a company called Focus@Will. The product is a music manipulation tool to help increase concentration while working. Though not specifically a "math" product, she has been very interested in seeing how the product impacts student performance in mathematics.
Week 28
Monday- Google Filming Abu Qadar's presentation about neural networks
Tuesday- Work on group projects, Maker Lab after school for groups who need to use it
Wednesday- No class
Thursday- Chapter 10 Exam
HAVE A SAFE AND RELAXING SPRING BREAK!
Tuesday- Work on group projects, Maker Lab after school for groups who need to use it
Wednesday- No class
Thursday- Chapter 10 Exam
HAVE A SAFE AND RELAXING SPRING BREAK!