EN 122-JD Daniels

EN122 in Spring 2004 will be devoted to the study of
EYE MOVEMENTS & Perception of Motion

Class Time: Tu Th 1 p.m.

Prerequisite:-Differential Equations-AM 33

READING: Roger Carpenter, Movements of the Eyes, 2nd Ed (1988) on reserve

COMPUTER: Students will use SIMULINK (an iconic programming tool derived from Matlab), to model and simulate dynamic systems of eye movement control.

Website: http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses/en122/homepage.html

Contract Grading: No midterm or final: Grading based on number of simulation assignments completed. See website for details.

EN122 will be accessible to nonengineering students: Extra help will be offered on understanding differential equations and their solutions with SIMULINK.

contact:
Jerry_Daniels@brown.edu
x 3 1347
rm 355 B&H

TOPICS INCLUDE:
Methods of measuring eye movements;
mechanical load of the eyeball;
vestibuloocular reflex (VOR):

Hair cell biophysics, semicircular canal mechanics; plasticity of the VOR;
cerebellum and adaptive gain control;
saccades, and saccadic dysmetria;
smooth pursuit eye movements vs optokinesis;
anatomy of the retina; delay of phototransduction
movement detectors, direction selectivity;
vergence and accommodation;
development of eye movements in humans.