Developmental Psychology - OPTO 439

This course covers the following topics: spatial vision, temporal aspects of vision, motion perception, depth perception, the organization of cells in the striate cortex, information streams and extrastriate processing, development and maturation of vision, Gestalt principles of visual perceptual organization; lightness, size and shape constancies; Gibson's ecological approach to vision, including notions of optic flow and invariance; visual selective attention; the contribution of David Marr and the computational approach to vision; visual word recognition; word comprehension; language production; theoretical models of lexical processing; the cognitive neuropsychology of language.