Oral Exams "Perception": Infos and Literatur
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 of the „Lab Rotation Perception“ (the only class taken by everybody in the module). As usual, you find the access code on our homepage.
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“ and 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.
Note that each oral exam starts with a research paper that forms the point of departure for the rest of the exam. Those research papers are individually appointed by the examiner when the date of the exam is set. If you haven't been assigned a research paper yet, please contact your examiner.
„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“.
„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“.