Perception

How do we use light and sound to perceive important facts about our immediate environment? In this course we will discuss the mechanisms of human vision and audition. We will approach these problems both from a biological point of view, discussing the brain areas and pathways that underlie our perceptual abilities, and also from a computational point of view, investigating what information we extract from the stimuli that reach our eyes and ears. Topics include: visual perception of shape, colour, depth, and motion; visual object recognition; auditory perception of pitch, loudness, and direction.