Syllabus – Neuroplasticity -- 2017 -- Friday 10:30 – 11:30

Tuesday 6:00 – 8:00

Prof. Poppy Crum, poppy@stanford.edu

T.A. Nolan Lem, Nolan.lem@gmail.com

April: 4 -- Intro Lab 1 Groups/ Course Description / Final Project Ideas

April: 7 – Sensory Perception – Data-driven experiences

11 -- Lab 1 Game Play / Intro to Game Salad / Intro to building sounds in Matlab /
Continuation Perception 1 / Physiology of the Auditory Pathway / Perception 1 - Loudness /
Masking

14 – Neuroplasticity 1 / Perception 1 - Loudness / Masking

Perception 2 – Loudness / Temporal Processing / Pitch

18 – Lab 2 – Pong Game Play – Create sounds via Matlab – must use parameters of pitch,
loudness, timbre, or duration to sonify information to enhance performance / Intro to Unity / Intro
Immersive AR/VR technologies

21 – Neuroplasticity 2 / Auditory Scene Analysis / Sensory Integration

Essay Set 1 Due

25 -- Discussion – Neurogaming in Industry

28 – Lab 3 Game Play Controller / In Class Debate – Neurogaming Regulatory Issues

May: 2 – Intro to EEG / Closed-loop gaming / Sensory Interface

5 – Psychophysics and Neural Correlates of Spatial Perception / Plasticity in the Spatial

Pathway/
Essay Set 2 Due

9 – Lab 5 Game Play Bio-Feedback / Intro to VR

In Class Lab - Psychophysical Testing Methods / Metrics of Assessing Performance

12 – Auditory Attention / Speech Perception

 `` 16 – Lab – VR Game Play / Final Project Outlines
Lecture -- Music and Neuroscience / Creativity / Sensory Integration

19 – TBD

23 – Lab 6 / TBD /

26 -- Special Topics
Essay Set 3 - Due

30 – Lab 7 / Final Project First Stage Demo Presentations

June: 2– Special Topics

6 – Lab 8

3 – Project Rehearsal – Catch Up

6 – Finals Week – Final Presentations – Sonic Synapse Arcade - 6:30-9:30 PM

Grading breakdown:

Discussion = 10%
Includes:
1 – Weekly class discussion
2 – Leading journal article discussion
3 – Game On Flash Talk

Take Home Essay Sets = 25%

Lab Assignments - Games = 30% (Collectively)

Includes:
1. Matlab signal processing = 10%
2. Group game labs = 20 %

Final Project = 35%

Required Text:

Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, Brian Moore

The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses, Jesse Schnell

All journal articles posted in Coursework (3-4 per week)