This course addresses these and related topics. It provides an interview and evaluation of contemporary psychological research on human learning and memory, with a particular emphasis on computation processing models. This course covers a wide range of topics in visual perception which focus on current issues and contemporary problems. The course covers the development of the visual system in infants. We also address problems in low-level spatial vision, motion perception and depth perception from an experimental and computational perspective.
Perceptual organisation is studied through lectures on grouping and texture segmentation.
Finally, we describe recent work on visual attention and face recognition. This course is divided into a computational and a neural section, though the examination paper is not divided. The computational section will introduce students to computational approaches to motor planning, control and learning. The focus will be on the computational solutions to problems inherent in human motor control rather than their neural substantiation. Where possible the experimental evidence, mainly from human psychophysics, which support the computational models will be presented.