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    Visual Perception and the Brain

    Duke University via Coursera

    6 Reviews 508 students interested
    Found in Biology
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    • Cost Free Online Course (Audit)
    • Session Upcoming
    • Language English
    • Certificate Paid Certificate Available
    • Effort 3-4 hours a week
    • Start Date
    • Duration 5 weeks long
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    Overview

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    Learners will be introduced to the problems that vision faces, using perception as a guide. The course will consider how what we see is generated by the visual system, what the central problem for vision is, and what visual perception indicates about how the brain works. The evidence will be drawn from neuroscience, psychology, the history of vision science and what philosophy has contributed. Although the discussions will be informed by visual system anatomy and physiology, the focus is on perception. We see the physical world in a strange way, and goal is to understand why.

    Syllabus

    Background
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    Seeing Lightness, Darkness and Color
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    Seeing Space
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    Seeing Motion
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    Summing Up
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    Taught by

    Dale Purves

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