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Vision and Brain - PSYC3221
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Psychology
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.psy.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: PSYC2001, PSYC2071
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Seeing is an amazing achievement, taking up 40% of the visual cortex. This course will consider how we see and how this reveals and is related to principles of brain functioning. Topics will include stereo (3-D vision), the coding of brightness and colour, perceiving motion and self-motion, brain damage and the question of specialised visual systems, visual imagery, visual attention, and vision and art.

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