Vision: perception of images and colour (the eye and vision), cognitive approach

OBJECTIVES

• To understand how the eye works and how images are formed.
• To understand the role of the brain and the methods of analysis, perception, representation and sorting used by a viewer perceiving an image.
• Understand the sensory and cognitive mechanisms used by humans to perceive images in time and space.

CONTENT

• Physics of colour and light: biophysical characteristics of light
• Physics of optical lenses
• Anatomy of the eye - Functioning of the eye, a light-sensitive sensory organ
• Function of the retina, retinal pigments, rods and cones....
• Problems associated with accommodation of the eye, focusing (roles of the cornea and crystalline lens)
• The eye and its visual system / visual acuity
• Role of the pupil, iris, pupillary reflex, optic nerve
• Image formation and focusing on the retina
• Comparison with image sensors
• Physiology of vision / Visual perception: what do we perceive?
• The eye and time
• Perception of space, perception of movement: stereoscopic vision
• The different visual cortices
• Changes to vision
• The perception process
• The role and function of the brain
• Cognitive approach

Written assessment of knowledge / continuous assessment