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Johns Hopkins University | AS.050.319

Visual Cognition

3.0

credits

Average Course Rating

(4.2)

Vision is central to our daily interactions with the world: we can effortlessly navigate through a city, comprehend fast movie trailers, and find a friend in a crowd. While we take the visual experience for granted, visual perception Involves a series of complicated cognitive processes beyond just opening our eyes. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the field of visual cognition, including existing theoretical frameworks and recent research findings. We will explore questions such as: How do we see the visual world? Do we see and remember correctly what's in the physical world? How many items can we keep track of and remember at a time? How is the visual system structured and what are the neural mechanisms underlying visual perception? Meets with AS.050.619.

Fall 2012

(4.04)

Fall 2013

(4.35)

Fall 2012

Professor: Soojin Park

(4.04)

The best aspect of this course was the intellectually stimulating topics covered in the class. The worst aspects of this course were the dense PowerPoint slides and hard to follow lectures. The notes rarely assisted students with tests and assignments because they were often lacking in substance. The course would be improved if there were more detailed slides and if the lectures were taught at a slower pace. Prospective students should know that this is a very interesting, upper-level course in cognitive science that requires a lot of hard work.

Fall 2013

Professor: COGNITIVE SCIENCE

(4.35)

Students found the subject matter and the professor to be the best aspects of this course. They appreciated the professor’s extensive expertise in the field, as well as her willingness to help students succeed by answering questions and clarifying confusing topics. Students especially loved the small class size, which made it more comfortable to ask questions and discuss the materials. However, students often found the information on the slides chal enging and difficult to interpret, and felt that some of the quizzes and exams were very difficult. Suggestions for improvement included narrowing down the topics discussed in the class to al ow deeper analysis. Other students wanted more detailed PowerPoint slides and more guidance for the final paper. They advised prospective students to have some familiarity with cognitive science, and that the reading assignments needed to be completed for each class.