1147 Visual Cognition A. Schwaninger
Friday 10-12 KOL-H-321
Description
The processing of visual information is a very important and complex ability of the brain. This lecture addresses the following topics: Visual representation, selective attention, object recognition, categorisation and visual imagery. The main aim of this lecture is to present and contrast different approaches from experimental psychology, computational vision and cognitive neuroscience.
Materials
To download the slides of a lecture click in column "Slides" in the table below. The files are in the .pdf format and can be viewed and printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download a free version of Acrobat Reader click here.
Evaluation
This lecture has been evaluated in WS 2001/2002. The results can be found here.
Schedule and Slides
| No. | Date | Topic | Slides |
1 |
26.10.01 | Introduction |
VC01.pdf |
| 2 | 02.11.01 | Traditional approach | VC02.pdf |
| 3 | 09.11.01 | Structural descriptions |
VC03.pdf |
| 4 | 16.11.01 | No lecture (conference) | . |
| 5 | 23.11.01 | View based approaches |
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| 6 | 30.11.01 | Discussion | |
| 7 | 07.12.01 | Face recognition | VC06a.pdf, VC06b.pdf |
| 8 | 14.12.01 | No lecture (week of application lectures for new professorships) | . |
| 9 | 21.12.01 | Low level vision | VC07.pdf |
| 10 | 11.01.02 | High level vision | VC08.pdf |
| 11 | 18.01.02 | Selective attention | VC09.pdf |
| 12 | 25.01.02 | Attention and the brain | VC10.pdf |
| 13 | 01.02.02 | No lecture | . |
| 14 | 08.02.02 | An integrative model | VC11.pdf Kosslyn1994.pdf |
Books
Please have a look at the books in Adrian Schwaninger's "Handapparat" in the library of the Department of Psychology (Zurichbergstr. 4, 8032 Zurich).
References
A list of references used for the slides of this lecture is available here. (Note: This list will be updated by the end of the semester.