Visual Consciousness

This course will focus on consciousness related to visual perception. The goal of this course is to understand the neural correlates of visual consciousness. 1) We will learn about basic neural mechanisms of visual processing and other brain functions. 2) We will discuss philosophical and neuroscientific models of visual consciousness. 3) We will examine the roles of attention, reward, and memory in visual consciousness. 4) We will evaluate recent neuroscientific experiments with animals and humans and their potential to advance the research of consciousness.