Visual perception and Cognition

Lecture + Exercises + Seminar: 2 + 2 + 0

Course Aims: In this course students should demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of human information processing, the elements of visual perception and their role in forming a complex visual experience. Also students should master basic principles of psychophysical measurements and understand their role in optometry. With this course students will have ability to differentiate the quality of visual experience produced by perception processes from the quality of the sensory information received with receptors, and ability to conduct basic psychophysical measurement procedures.