2024/2025

Visual Perception and Attention

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience

When: 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 44

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Visual perception is an inference of a scene out there based on a sensory input from eyes. Visual attention is a process concentrating a computational force of the brain on a specific aspect of the perceived scene or of the sensory input. The processes of perception and attention interact with one another and the interaction is even indispensable for them. This course will review studies about them, interactions between them, and their relation with neurophysiological mechanisms. Theories behind perception and attention will be particularly emphasized. The first half of the course mostly covers perception: theories of the visual perception and their neurophysiological explanations. The second half of the course more emphasizes attention itself: types of attention, how attention affects cognitive performance, how it makes us see what we see, how it is linked to memory and consciousness, and why it is limited.