OPTO 439 - Principles and Psychology of Visual Perception & Language Development

In this course, 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, will be covered in two hourly lectures per week over ten weeks.
Also covered will be: 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