1. Human Perception
Required Textbook: Foundations of Vision by Brian A. Wandell 1: Introduction

2. Overview Of Course Topics
Encoding
Image formation
The photoreceptor mosaic
Wavelength encoding
Representation
The retinal representation
The cortical representation
Pattern sensitivity
Interpretation
Color
Motion and depth
seeing
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3. Encoding Retinal image, eye, light, optics, distortions, wavelength
Imaging devices
Standard for all levels
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4. Representation Neural responses in peripheral and early visual systems
Behavorial and computational
Dualism-mind is separate from the body
Descartes believed that the pineal body directed fluid from the ventricles into the holow fibers we call nerves-this induced muscle action.
The pineal gland is where the soul controls the physical body
Monism: the belief that the mind is the working of the body (no need for a separate soul.
Determinism-the notion that mental states are produced by physical mechanisms.
Reductionists-we break complex phenomena into less complicated sytems.
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5. Interpretation
Inferences
Statistical regularities
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6. Range of Material Theory: linear systems Data: empirical of vision
Applications: basic/applied
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7. Guide to the Principles of Perception
Component of encoding
Adaptation and flexibility
Multiple streams
Statistical inference
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