Milestones and Myths of the Brain

2017-2024. I teach a lecture and a discussion class about perception science in this course for first and second year biology students. I also wrote a chapter for the book by the same name as the course, published by the course coordinators. The chapter, found here, is titled Is the world as we see it? and discusses broad concepts in perception and neuroscience, accessible to a general educated audience.

In the lecture I taught, also titled Is the world as we see it?, we discuss broad concepts in perception science and neuroscience through the guiding question of whether our perception of the world is a faithful representation of reality. Concepts of the class are then discussed around optical illusions in a discussion group.

Some materials I have prepared for this course are:

• Slides for the lecture
• Chapter for the book
• Discussion group materials