Oral Exams "Perception": Infos and Literatur, WS 2026/27

This is the literature we recommend for the oral exam in the „Perception“ module. PDFs of the book chapters can be found in the OLAT course „RPTU_Schmidt_Cognitive Science Literature“. As usual, you find the access code on our Newspage.

Oral exams are designed to cover the entire module, but only the classes you actually took. The material in „Vision made difficult parts 1 & 2“ or “The power of parametric experiments” as well as all the specialized materials in the various readers (e.g., research papers from „Visual Attention & Awareness“) are not part of the exam. Please focus on those topics that have actually been discussed in the respective classes you took, because only those can be topics in the exam.

Oral exams for the winter term are scheduled for February 24 and 25. Please contact Thomas Schmidt for specific appointments.

„Visual Attention & Awareness“:

Ashcraft, M.H. (2006). Cognition. Pearson. → Ch. 4, „Attention“.

Eysenck, M.W., & Keane, M.T. (2010). Cognitive Psychology. Psychology Press. → Ch. 5, „Attention and Performance“.

“Auditory Perception”:

Goldstein, E.B. (2010). Sensation and Perception. Wadsworth. → Ch. 11, „Sound, the Auditory System, and Pitch Perception“.

Goldstein, E.B. (2010). Sensation and Perception. Wadsworth. → Ch. 12, „Sound Localization and the Auditory Scence“.

„Psychophysics & Signal Detection“:

Hautus, M.J., Macmillan, N.A., & Creelman, C.D. (2022). Detection Theory: A User’s Guide. Routledge. → Ch. 1, „The Yes-No experiment: Sensitivity“.

Gescheider, G.A. (2015). Psychophysics: The Fundamentals. Psychology Press. → Ch. 4, „Classical Psychophysical Theory“.

„Visuomotor Control“

Rosenzweig, M.R., Breedlove, S.M., & Watson, N.V. (2005). Biological Psychology. Sinauer. → Ch. 11, „Motor control and plasticity“

Eysenck, M.W., & Keane, M.T. (2010). Cognitive Psychology. Psychology Press. → Ch. 4, „Perception, Motion, and Action“.

„Visual Features and Objects“

Eysenck, M.W., & Keane, M.T. (2010). Cognitive Psychology. Psychology Press. → Ch. 2, „Basic Processes in Visual Perception“.

Eysenck, M.W., & Keane, M.T. (2010). Cognitive Psychology. Psychology Press. → Ch. 3, „Object and Face Recognition“.