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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Optometry and Vision Science
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: VISN2111
 
 
Session Offered: See Class Timetable
 
 
Fee Band:   (more info)
 
 

Description

Note: This course is not offered in 2006. It will be offered from 2007.

Objectives: An understanding of processing in the visual system.

Brief curriculum: Spatial vision: visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, aliasing, alignment thresholds; Colour vision: retinal and cortical processing, colour constancy, colour identification; Binocularity: models of depth perception, correspondence, Panum's area, horopter, stereoacuity, monocular depth perception, summation, stereopsis tests; Motion perception: models of motion perception, adaptation, directional selectivity, first and second order motion; Cognition: shape recognition, face perception, visual illusions, visual hallucinations, visual attention, visual search and pop-out.

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