Making sense of sensory information /

Because seeing is so important to human functioning, efforts to understand how perceptions are generated have most often focused on vision. Based on research in cognitive neuroscience, this program explores the challenge of explaining visual perception. The video includes an overview of the human vi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Davidson, Frances (Producer), Davidson, John (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: San Luis Obispo, CA : Davidson Films, 2008.
Series:Education in video, volume 1
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Because seeing is so important to human functioning, efforts to understand how perceptions are generated have most often focused on vision. Based on research in cognitive neuroscience, this program explores the challenge of explaining visual perception. The video includes an overview of the human visual system, illustrated with animated graphics and live action footage, and describes, using a series of engaging optical demonstrations, the profound technical and philosophical challenges scientists face in attempting to explain perception. The program ends with a thought-provoking discussion of the essential role of human experience in determining what we perceive.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed May 9, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (37 min.).
Playing Time:00:37:23
ISBN:9781503400610
1503400611