(Depts. Psychology, Biology, and Kinesiology & Health Sciences, York University, Toronto, Canada)
Title: Spatially Organized Behaviour
Professor: Doug Crawford*
Course Description:
This course deals with the spatial aspects of perception, cognition, and motor control. Behavioural computational, and physiological models will be used to understand internal representations of space, and the transformations between these representations. Specific topics will include spatial vision and proprioception; eye, head, and arm movements; sensory consequences of movement, spatial updating, and eye-hand coordination; spatial working memory, and the integration of visual perceptions across eye movements.
Course format: weekly lectures/paper discussions/seminars with reading assignments and extensive use of internet resources. The course will be divided into four modules: sensation, motor control, sensorimotor transformations, and cognition.
Evaluation:
60% End of term paper (essay)
on a topic that integrates material from across the course
30% At least two seminars
10% Class participation
Bibliography:
All course material will be organized at the current website <http://www.yorku.ca/jdc/course/6260/> with supplementary recent literature from: