PSY4205 PERCEPTUAL ILLUSIONS
| Course Code: |
2334205 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
7.0 |
| Department: |
Psychology |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
This course aims to discuss advanced concepts in perception while introducing students with visual, auditory, tactile, vestibular, and multisensory illusions.The course provides a broad survey of illusions studied in behavioural and neurological scientific research and in art while focusing on mechanisms of human perception.The core concepts such as the visual system, sensory cortices, Bayesian framework in vision and neuronal organization will be covered, and perception will be reviewed as a sophisticated process that requires inference.
