1372 Visual Cognition A. Schwaninger
Wednesday 12-14
KOL-H-309
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 | 26.10.05 | Introduction | VC01.pdf |
| 2 | 02.11.05 | Traditional approach, structural descriptions | VC02.pdf, VC03.pdf |
| 3 | 09.11.05 | Discussion I | VC04.pdf |
| 4 | 16.11.05 | View based approaches | VC05.pdf |
| 5 | 23.11.05 | No lecture (conference) | . |
| 6 | 30.11.05 | Discussion II | VC06.pdf |
| 7 | 07.12.05 | Face recognition | VC07.pdf |
| 8 | 14.12.05 | Low level vision | VC08.pdf |
| 9 | 21.12.05 | High level vision | VC09.pdf |
| 10 | 11.01.06 | Selective attention | VC10.pdf |
| 11 | 18.01.06 | No lecture (conference) | . |
| 12 | 25.01.06 | Attention and the brain | VC11.pdf |
| 13 | 01.02.06 | An integrative model I | VC12.pdf |
| 14 | 08.02.06 | An integrative model II | VC13.pdf |
Literature recommendation
The following two chapters provide a good survey of the discussed topics:
Schwaninger, A., Carbon, C.C., & Leder, H. (2003). Expert face processing: Specialization and constraints. In G. Schwarzer & H. Leder, Development of face processing (pp. 81-97), Göttingen: Hogrefe. [PDF]
Schwaninger, A. (2005a). Objekterkennung und Signaldetektion. In: B. Kersten (Ed.), Praxisfelder der Wahrnehmungspsychologie (pp. 106-130). Bern: Huber. [PDF]
Additional literature (not obligatory)
For additional own publications click here. A list of references used for this lecture is available here. Please have also a look at the books in Adrian Schwaninger's "Handapparat" in the library of the Department of Psychology (Zurichbergstr. 4, 8032 Zurich).