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Study Materials

These are the questions that are focused on in every lecture to help students gain a better understanding of vision science, specifically around illusions and perceptual cues.
Study Questions
Themes to be discussed:

1. How do we experience materials?

2. Through what properties? For example:

  • Color
  • Texture
  • Rigidity
  • Strength
  • Wetness
  • Warmth

 3. Through what modalities?

  • Vision
  • Audition
  • Touch
  • Taste
  • Smell

4. Toward what ends?

  • Indentification
  • Manipulation
  • Navigation
  • Ingestion

 

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