Psychology 581
Vision Science
T- Th, 10:50 - 12:05, place tbn
Rice University,
Spring, 2003
James R. Pomerantz
www.ruf.rice.edu/~pomeran/
An advanced graduate seminar in the psychology of vision
covering the neural, psychophysical, and phenomenological approaches to visual
perception.
Prereqs:-PSYC 521 or permission of instructor.
Primary text: Stephen E. Palmer, Vision Science: Photons to
Phenomenology. MIT Press, 1999.
Link:
Structure of course: For this course there will be two elements:
(1) reading the Palmer text cover to cover, with full class discussion of each chapter
(2) a project, which can be either writing a paper on a topic agreed upon mutually, or an original experiment
Grading will be based on (1) leading class discussion on your
assigned chapters; (2) general class participation
(3) your project or participation in a class experiment.