PSB_95 Psychology of Visual Perception

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Radovan Šikl, Ph.D. (lecturer), PhDr. Pavel Humpolíček, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Zdenka Stránská, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Psychology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 zruseno C21
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course will provide an introduction to the study of visual perception. Our perception is so quick and effortless that many people can be mislead to think that there can't be too much to study in visual perception. In fact, there's a huge amount of complicated processing going on in our minds when we open our eyes and see. Thus how we see? We will learn many surprising information in this course about how human mind works. Despite the principle part of the course will be concerned on the visual perception of healthy adult human being, there will also be numerous examples of perception deficits, newborn perception and animal perception included.
Syllabus
  • (1) Introduction: Motivation to study. General properties of visual perception.Perception as an interpretation of the reality. (2) Light, eye, brain: Physical properties of light. The structure of the eye. Photoreceptors. Optic nerve. Primary visual cortex. Higher visual centers. Theory of two visual streams in brain. (3) Color perception: Colors in our life. The role of colors in the process of perception. Physical and perceptual components of color. Catalog of colors. How many colors do we discriminate? How many colors do we discriminate in the language? Color mixing. Theories of color vision. Color blindness. Animal color vision. (4) Visual space perception: Depth perception as an important part of a number of professions. 3-D and 2-D and 3-D. Depth cues. Cues weighting and combination. The relationship between physical and visual space. Nature vs. nurture. Animal depth perception. (5) Object perception: Perceptual organization. Principles of Gestalt psychology. Object recognition. Theories of object recognition (structural description vs. image-based). Visual agnosia. Face perception. Scene perception. (6) Motion perception: Discrimination thresholds. Eye movements. Perception of apparent motion (stroboscopic, induced, autokinetic, motion aftereffect). Event perception. Perception and action. (7) Participation in the experiment.
Literature
    required literature
  • Eysenck, M.W & Keane, M.T. (2008). Kognitivní psychologie. Praha, Academia.
  • Sekuler, R. & Blake, R. (2006). Perception (5th Ed.). New York, McGraw Hill.
  • Goldstein, E. B. (2007). Sensation and Perception (7th Ed.), Thomson Wadsworth.
  • Goldstein, E.B., ed. (2009). The Encyclopedia of Perception, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage publications, Inc.
    recommended literature
  • Plháková, A. (2007). Učebnice obecné psychologie. Praha, Academia.
  • Sternberg, R.J. (2002). Kognitivní psychologie. Praha, Portál.
  • Cumminsová, D.D. (1998). Záhady experimentální psychologie. Praha, Portál.
  • Woodworth, R.S., Schlosberg, H. (1959). Experimentálna psychológia. Bratislava, Slovenská akadémia vied.
  • Levine, M.W. (2000). Fundamentals of sensation and perception (3rd Edition). Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Mather, G. (2009). Foundations of Perception. East Sussex, Psychology Press.
  • Snowden, R., Thompson, P. & Troscianko, T. (2006). Basic Vision. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
    not specified
  • Blažek, V. & Trnka, R, Eds. (2009). Lidský obličej Praha, Karolinum.
  • Démuth, A. (2005). Čo je to farba? Bratislava, IRIS.
  • Sacks, O. (1993). Muž, který si pletl manželku s kloboukem a jiné klinické povídky. Praha, Mladá fronta.
  • Sacks, O. (1997). Antropoložka na Marsu. Praha, Mladá fronta.
  • Vybrané příspěvky z každoroční konference Kognice a z časopisu Československá psychologie.
Teaching methods
Interactive seminar education - based on multimedial materials.
Assessment methods
Type of the finalization will be specified by teacher at the begining of the semester.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
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