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About the Course

Learners will be introduced to the problems that vision faces, using perception as a guide. The course will consider how what we see is generated by the visual system, what the central problem for vision is, and what visual perception indicates about how the brain works. The evidence will be drawn from neuroscience, psychology, the history of vision science and what philosophy has contributed. Although the discussions will be informed by visual system anatomy and physiology, the focus is on perception. We see the physical world in a strange way, and goal is to understand why....

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DB

Jun 11, 2020

This is a great course dealt meticulously. The carefully crafted audiovisual study material and quizzes together with very inspiring video lectures helped understand and learn with great enthusiasm.

PC

Feb 28, 2020

I am currently undertaking a PhD in visual inspection techniques for aircraft maintenance tasks and i found this course excellent. Dale is a wealth of knowledge and delivered an excellent course.

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By Tausif A S

Jun 26, 2020

Simply Excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed the insight into vision and the systems behind it. I have gained an enormous amount of interest in vison and visual perception as a result of this course. My sincerest gratitude to Prof. Dale Purves for this course.

By Greg L

Aug 4, 2020

I acquired an understanding of the complex operation of the eye and how perception is affected by the loss of information in the image received. It is not related to anything I do in real life, but nevertheless I value the acquisition of knowledge.

By Salman M

Nov 11, 2017

An absolute pleasure of a course. Most of the stuff is well-explained, even for people outside of Neuroscience. As a person working in Machine Learning, this course also broadened my views about how vision and the brain works.

By Alexander S

Aug 8, 2016

whished there would have been MORE material. nice Course, even tough the Speaker speaks a bit slow and some explanations would have been much quicker to understand by Videos instead of verbal/textual explanations..

By Dr. U S B

Jun 12, 2020

This is a great course dealt meticulously. The carefully crafted audiovisual study material and quizzes together with very inspiring video lectures helped understand and learn with great enthusiasm.

By Jef M

Sep 17, 2020

Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to take this course the visual perception and brain. I learned a lot about the subject, i hope you continue doing more courses like this.

By 梁楠

Sep 9, 2016

Very helpful in understanding the difference between visual perception and real physical world. This also shed light onto how the brain works during our decision-making process.

By Elena T

Jul 16, 2016

Very interesting course! I also liked to listen to the lecturer, his voice and manner of speaking makes learning easy and pleasant. Thank you so much!

By Deleted A

Jul 9, 2016

Amazing Course Structure. I completely lost track of the fact that I am, originally a Mathematics Student!

By Aleksandr V

Nov 3, 2016

Carefully listen to "About the Course" video, so your expectations won't be deceived

By Donald G

Oct 7, 2017

Very professional and easy to follow lecture side by side with a presentation.

By Rachel J

Apr 20, 2021

It's a good course but I find it so hard to understand the professor's words.

By Чобану М

Aug 6, 2020

simply GREAT course. The lecturer explained everything well. Thanks to him!!!

By Eric W

Jan 23, 2017

An awesome course to get familiar with the mechanism of visual perception.

By logicerr

Nov 15, 2017

Excellent course. Did a lot to change my views of perception and reality.

By Vicky K

Jul 28, 2016

Really intresting course, simple but educational lectures! Very helpful.

By Justin B G S

Apr 5, 2021

Great course for all, easy to understand with bite-sized videos.

By Diane A

Aug 22, 2022

Very interesting course in how brain "sees" the world.

By SAKCHHI K

Nov 6, 2020

awesome course ..very helpful and full of knowledge

By Yusun L

Apr 29, 2017

Hard topics but easy explained or illustrated.

By Guillermo U O G

Feb 23, 2018

It was a good course and very helpful

By Dadarkforce

Dec 27, 2017

Interesting and thought provocative

By Ange A

Sep 12, 2019

I have enjoyed every bit of it !!!

By Dr. N B A R

Aug 3, 2020

was very difficult to achieve....

By FENG Z

Oct 6, 2016

this course is very interesting