Sensation and Perception - COGS 101A Fall 2004

Center 115 : Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:20

Grade sheets updated 12/13

Two textbook CDs are now on course reserve at the Social Sciences library. You must request it separately from the textbook. Let us know if there are availability problems.

Jen's review sheet for Audition and Somatosensation (same disclaimers as below apply -- Done as a favor --use at your own risk). If you cannot read a word doc please email us for a different format (on a linux/Unix box running strings works pretty well)

FINAL EXAM REVIEW SESSIONS

Saturday 12/04/04 01:00 P - 02:30 P CSB 001 Review session with Katherine and Jen

Sunday 12/05/04 05:00 P - 06:30 P CSB 001 Review session with Jelena and Lydia

Monday 12/06/04 06:30 P - 08:00 P WLH 2111 Question and Answer session with Professor (there will be no regular office hours at 5-6)

The final is 3-6pm Tuesday December 7th in CTR 115

If anyone would like to borrow a copy of the textbook CD, it is on course reserve (see above)

Lydia and Jen's review sheets (Done as a favor. There are no guarantees that everything on the test is on this sheet -- use at your own risk)

Professor: Virginia de Sa

TAs: Katherine DeLong , Jelena Jovanovic

IAs: Jennifer Becker, Lydia Wood

Office Hours: VdS- Mon 5-6pm CRB 221, KD- Thu noon-1pm CSB 131, JJ- Wed 2-3pm CSB 225, JB- Fri 10-11a CSB 114, LW- Mon noon-1pm CSB 114

Required Text: Sensation and Perception, Goldstein (sixth edition)

Grading Scheme: 2 Midterms (25% each), Final Exam (32%), Six lab Reports (3% each). We will downweight the midterms (lowest 10%, other 15%) if you do better on the final. If you hand in all labs, we will remove the lowest grade. But you must hand in all labs for this privilege.

Bonus Credit: For participating as an experimental subject in Cogsci or Psych and writing a short paragraph description about the study. Each hour is worth .67 points added to your final grade after it is reduced to out of 100. You are allowed a max of 3 hours (2 points). Please see https://experimetrix2.com/ucsd/ for details on how to sign up. The last day to sign up is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

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