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Course Description
Diversity of StudentS
In this course we consider the ways in which the study of art can inform a neurobiological understanding of how the human visual system handles visual information and vice versa. For this reason, the course benefits tremendously from a diversity of opinions and backgrounds represented by the students in the class. In the past, the course has included students with majors ranging from physics, to neuroscience, psychology, economics, film studies, art history and studio art.
IN THE NEWS
Download the article "Outside the Box" by Lisa Scanlon '99, from the Summer 2008 issue of Wellesley magazine and read about the Vision & Art course and Bevil's research.
FROM THE REGISTRAR
NEUR 320: Vision and Art: Physics, Physiology, Perception, and PracticeThis course will investigate the form and function of the human visual system by considering a unique product of this system: visual art. The course will examine the nature of the physical stimulus to which the visual system is responsive, the physiological mechanisms that capture this signal and convert it into perception, and how this process is revealed in the practice of art. As part of in-class laboratory exercises investigating the resolution and sensitivity of your own visual system, a discipline called psychophysics, students will engage in making their own art and will learn to articulate the mechanisms by which they do so. The interdisciplinary nature of the course will require an advanced level of student participation, commitment, and self-directed learning.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Distribution: Epistemology and Cognition or Natural and Physical Science
Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0
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Created by : Kate Ciurej ‘08 and Donna Yee ’11
Created: July 9, 2008
Maintained By: Bevil Conway
Last Modified:July 21, 2013
Expires: July 21, 2013 |
