Neuroscience and Psychology: Visual Perception
What you'll learn
- Visual system
- Colour perception
- Form perception
- Size, distance, depth, 3D perception
- Motion perception
- Object & Face recognition
- Individual differences in visual perception
- Disorders of visual perception
- Visual illusions
Requirements
- Interest in psychology, neuroscience, vision, and perception
- No previous knowledge required - I will take you step by step through the different concepts
Description
This is a course about how we see, perceive, and recognise the world around us.
Vision is our most dominant sense, from which we derive most of the information about the world. From the light that enters the eye and the processing in the brain that follows, we can sense where things are, how they move and what they are. But sometimes, what we see can be drastically different from what another person sees, or even different from the reality leading to visual illusions.
This course demystifies the process through which we see the world. Designed and delivered by an experienced instructor, who is an expert in the field of cognitive neuroscience and psychology, it leads the student through the intricacies of visual processing. This course is designed to make visual perception interesting, accessible, and enjoyable to learn.
You will learn:
how the visual system works, from the anatomy of the eyes to the visual brain
how we perceive the different visual features present in our environment: colour, form, size, distance, depth, the 3D, and motion.
how we recognise and make sense of what we see
what causes visual and optical illusions
how visual perception can vary among people
how visual perception can be affected by brain damage
Visual perception is a fascinating subject and it is one of my students' absolute favourite topics at my university.
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5 Star Reviews:
Wow, great course! Easy to understand, great explanations
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All videos in this course come with complete English subtitles
Who this course is for:
- Everybody who wants to learn how our visual perception works
- Everybody who is interested in psychology
- Psychology or neuroscience students
- College students (A-levels, etc.) interested in psychology
- Everybody else who is interested in the brain and the human mind
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 632 Reviews
- 4,407 Students
- 3 Courses
I am currently an Associate University Professor in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. I have been teaching and researching psychology for the past 15 years, with a particular interest in memory, attention, and inter-hemispheric communication. If you have any questions about me or what I do, or about my courses in general, please feel free to message me.