| During this course, students will acquire fundamental knowledge of the human visual system (anatomy, physiology, functional properties of the visual system), and the scientific techniques used to investigate it. At the end of the course, students will have a basic insight into the type of computations that the visual cortex uses to process and interpret visual information. Importantly, they will gain a basic understanding of the methods and techniques that are used to acquire knowledge about the visual system (e.g. Psychophysical methods, fMRI, electrophysiology / EEG, and other neurophysiological techniques), and the empirical cycle that forms the basis of scientific experiments. |
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Using classroom lectures and scientific publications, students will be introduced to the computational challenges that the visual system is presented with, and how these might be solved by the visual system. An oversight will be given of the scientific method in general, and research methods in vision research in particular. Although the focus is on vision science, what is learned can be applied on other domains in perception (e.g. haptics, audition etcetera). Students will be challenged to design and possibly execute a scientific experiment that is able to answer a predetermined research question.
During this course, students will acquire fundamental knowledge of the human visual system (anatomy, physiology, functional properties of the visual system), and the scientific techniques used to investigate it. At the end of the course, students will have a basic insight into the type of computations that the visual cortex uses to process and interpret visual information. Importantly, they will gain a basic understanding of the methods and techniques that are used to acquire knowledge about the visual system (e.g. Psychophysical methods, fMRI, electrophysiology / EEG, and other neurophysiological techniques), and the empirical cycle that forms the basis of scientific experiments. At the end of the course, students should be able to read and understand scientific papers in the field of vision research. Finally, students will be able to design and possibly perform simple psychophysical experiments, and perform basic analysis of psychophysical and/or neurophysiological data.
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