January 21stIntroductions

January 23rdSeminar: What is involved in seeing, via Molyneux's question

• Sacks, O. (1993) To see or not to see. In An Anthropologist on Mars
• Solso, R.L. (1996) Cognition and the Visual Arts, Chapter 1: The Big Window: The Science of Vision.
• Rock, I. (1984) Perception, Chapter 1: The World of Perception.

January 28thSeminar: The Eyes, Receptive Fields, and Lateral Inhibition

• Ludel, J. (1978) Introduction to Sensory Processes, Freeman:NY. Chapter 1:The Eye, Chapter 2: The Retina.
• Solso, R.L. (1996) Cognition and the Visual Arts, Chapter 3: Figure and Form Perception.
• Web Vision: The Neural Organization of the Vertebrate Retina An up-to-date and in depth tutorial on retinal processing. Read all of Part 1: Foundations and section 5 of Part 2 on different types of cones.

January 30thLab: Getting Started

February 4thSeminar: Color I: Trichromacy and Color Opponency

• Wooten, B. & Miller, D.L. (1997) The psychophysics of color, In Hardin, C.L. & Maffi, L. (Eds.) Color Categories in Thought and Language, Cambridge University Press.
• Evolution of Vision A beautifully illustrated web document on the retinal evolution from dinosaurs to mammals. Composed by P. Ahnelt of the Department of General and Comparative Physiology at the University of Vienna.

February 6thLab: Color Assignment

February 11thSeminar: Color II: Color Naming

• Johnston's notes on the color naming literature.

February 13thLab: Illusions Assignment

February 18thSeminar: Illusions I: Empiricism and Geometrical Illusions

• Rock, I. (1984) Perception, Chapter 6: Geometrical Illusions.
• Gillam, B. (1990) Geometrical Illusions, In The Perceptual World: Readings from Scientific American, Rock, I. (Ed.), Freeman:NY.

February 20thLab: Illusions Continued

February 25thSeminar: Illusions II: Gestalt Theory and Optical Art

• Rock, I. (1984) Perception, Chapter 5: Form and Organization.
• Solso, R. (1994) Cognition and the Visual Arts, Chapters 3 & 4
• Kanizsa, G. (1990) Subjective Contours, In The Perceptual World.

February 27thLab: Visual Pathways

March 4thSeminar: Brain Representations of Visual Information

• Ludel, J. (1978) Introduction to Sensory Processes, Chapter 6: The Visual System
• Hubel, D. & Wiesel, T. (1990) Brain Mechanisms of Vision, In The Perceptual World.
• Marr, D. (1980) Visual information processing: the structure and creation of visual representations. Phil.Trans.R.Soc.Lond.B, 290, 199-218. (read section on edge detection)

March 6thLab: Isoluminance

March 11thSeminar: Parallel Pathways

• Livingstone, M. & Hubel, D. (1988) Segregation of form, color, movement and depth: Anatomy, physiology, and perception, Science, 240, 740-749.
• Zeki, S. (1992) The Visual Image in Mind and Brain, Scientific American, September.
• Goodale, M. (1995) The Cortical Organization of Visual Perception and Visuomotor Control In An Invitation to Cognitive Science: Visual Cognition.

March 13thField Trip to MOMA

April 1stSeminar: Stereopsis

• Lipton, L. (1982) Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema, Chapters 1 & 2.
• Pinker, S. (1997) The Mind's Eye, In How the Mind Works, pp. 211-242.
• Johnston's Web Document on Stereopsis

April 3rdLab: Building a Stereogram

April 8thSeminar: Visual Surface Representation

• Nakayama, K., He, Z.J., & Shimojo, S. (1995) Visual surface representation: A critical link between lower-level and higher-level vision. In An Invitation to Cognitive Science, pages 1-30 only.

April 10thLab: Exploring Nakayama & Shimojo's Effects

April 15thSeminar: Pictorial Depth Cues

• Solso, R. (1994) Cognition and the Visual Arts, Chapters 7 & 8.
• Rock, I. (1984) Perception, Chapter 3: The Many Paths to the Third Dimension.
• Ramachandran, V.S. (1990) Perceiving Shape from Shading, In The Perceptual World.

April 17thLab: Shape from Shading

April 22ndSeminar: Structure from Motion

• Nakayama, K., He, Z.J., & Shimojo, S. (1995) Visual surface representation: A critical link between lower-level and higher-level vision. In An Invitation to Cognitive Science, pages 30-45.
• Rock, I. (1984) Perception, Chapter 7: The Perception of Motion.
• Ramachandran & Anstis (1990) The Perception of Apparent Motion, In The Perceptual World.

April 24thLab: Motion

April 29thSeminar: J.J. Gibson's Ecological Theory

• Gordon, I. (1989) Theories of Visual Perception, Chapter 7:Direct perception and ecological optics: the work of J.J. Gibson.

May 1stLab: Tying Up Loose Threads

May 6thSeminar: Concluding Discussion on Object Perception

• Marr, D. (1980) Visual information processing: the structure and creation of visual representations. Phil.Trans.R.Soc.Lond.B, 290, 199-218.
• Spelke, E.S., Gutheil, G. & Van de Walle, G. (1995) The Development of Object Perception, In An Invitation to Cognitive Science: Visual Cognition.
• Solso, R. (1994) Cognition and the Visual Arts, Chapter 9.

May 8thConference Work Presentations

May 13thConference Work Presentations

May 15thConference Work Presentations