Organisation and Function of the Visual System - VISN2211
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Optometry and Vision Science
Course Outline: http://www.optometry.unsw.edu.au
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: VISN2111
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
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.