Psychophysics is the science of defining quantitative relationships between physical and psychological events, such as the logarithmic transformation of physical intensity into perceived (hence subjective) intensity, namely Fechner’s Law. This course aims to teach methods to measure perception with theoretical concepts and survey a broad range of experimental findings in human psychophysics and neuroscience. 

The course is designed to teach students the theory and methods of perception science so that they can conduct perception research themselves or be critical consumers of the literature on perceptual processes.