Review: Visual Perception

Visual Perception

1. Define visual perception. 2. Describe the typical development of visual-perceptual skills. 3. Identify factors that contribute to typical or atypical development of visual perception. 4. Explain the effects of visual-perceptual problems on occupations and life activities such as activities of daily living, education, work, play, leisure, and social participation. 5. Describe models and theor...

[Visual perception].

Language Guided Visual Perception

People typically learn through exposure to visual stimuli associated with linguistic descriptions. For instance, teaching visual concepts to children is often accompanied by descriptions in text or speech. This motivates the question of how this learning process could be computationally modeled. In this dissertation we explored three settings, where we showed that combining language and vision ...

Constructing Visual Perception

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Attention and visual perception.

Somewhere between the retina and our conscious visual experience, the majority of the information impinging on the eye is lost. We are typically aware of only either the most salient parts of a visual scene or the parts that we are actively paying attention to. Recent research on visual neurons in monkeys is beginning to show how the brain both selects and discards incoming visual information. ...