The Visual System

3 credits · Graduate School

(Also listed as Cell and Developmental Biology 8347 and Neuroscience 8347) An interdisciplinary approach to how humans see and interpret their visual environment. Topics include the structure of the eye and brain (including optics), the physiology of individual cells and groups of cells, machine vision and models of visual function, visual attention, and mechanisms of complex visual perception. Lectures by faculty from Psychology, Engineering, and Cell and Developmental Biology. Graduate students attend one hour discussion section per week, in addition to lecture, and turn in a more extensive paper than undergraduates. [3]