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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Seeing: How the Brain Creates the Visual World
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
In this course we talked about how the eyes and the brain convert the information on the outside into feelings on the inside, including how lights are converted into neural signals, color perception, depth perception, and object perception. Furthermore, it introduced some interesting facts, for instance, mind-blowing illusions, and lots of visual demonstrations to show you how fascinating our mind creates our visual world, which is unique to each one of us.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Shih-Yu Lo
Associate Professor, Institute of Communication Studies
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain how the retina and cortex work when receiving information from the world.
- Explore how we receive color and how the light influence the perception.
- Explain the depth and size differentiation in human visual system.
- Classify the way we perceive objects and scenes.
Syllabus
This course will provide deep insights into:
- How light is converted into neural signals
- Colour perception in human beings
- Depth perception in human beings
- Object perception in human beings
- The psychology of human perception
Issued on 26th February 2023
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