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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Visual Perception and the Brain by Duke University

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    About the Course

    Learners will be introduced to the problems that vision faces, using perception as a guide. The course will consider how what we see is
    generated by the visual system, what the central problem for vision is, and what visual perception indicates about how the brain works. The
    evidence will be drawn from neuroscience, psychology, the history of vision science and what philosophy has contributed. Although the
    discussions will be informed by visual system anatomy and physiology, the focus is on perception. We see the physical world in a strange way,
    and goal is to understand why.
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    Top reviews

    DB

    Jun 12, 2020

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    This is a great course dealt meticulously. The carefully crafted audiovisual study material and quizzes together with very inspiring video lectures helped understand and learn with great enthusiasm.

    PC

    Feb 29, 2020

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    I am currently undertaking a PhD in visual inspection techniques for aircraft maintenance tasks and i found this course excellent. Dale is a wealth of knowledge and delivered an excellent course.

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    Aug 3, 2020

    was very difficult to achieve....

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    Oct 6, 2016

    this course is very interesting

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    Aug 22, 2020

    Very intriguing and logical.

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    Aug 14, 2023

    Good, I learned a lot.

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    Oct 23, 2020

    It is a great course.

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    Oct 26, 2016

    Really great course!

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    Feb 8, 2023

    Exeptional course

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    Nov 18, 2017

    Excellent course!

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    May 25, 2017

    A revelation...

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    By Rubidha.G

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    Jul 7, 2020

    It's good

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    Nov 7, 2024

    Brillant

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    Jul 9, 2020

    My long term curiosity of the question, 'why do we perceive the world - the way we do?' - has been either answered or shown a path for deeper understanding. Being a Mechanical Engineering student, I had almost none prior knowledge regarding human brain and its anatomy - but that wasn't an issue either! - everything has been explained very well with examples and wonderful illustrations.

    Thank You Duke University and Coursera, for such an amazing course!

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    By Pramit B

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    Dec 18, 2016

    Course was amazing. It deals with how to correctly understand visual illusions through empirical data collection. It does not delve into the anatomical aspects, or the cellular aspects, of vision. Some drawbacks would be the lack of explanation on how to model or collect the data, which is probably too complicated to state in a online course anyway.

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    Jan 23, 2017

    great layout and well presented. concepts were stimulating and I felt I learnt a lot. I would have liked some discussion around topics such as amblyopia and development, effects of observer movement, and the links between visual perception and the vestibular system. Having said that, I think the content was plenty for a 5 week course.

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    Mar 29, 2022

    I really liked Dr. Purves as a lecturer, and I really got a lot out of this course, including some really good illustrations and explanations. However, it was a very difficult course, and I felt the final assignment was very difficult to complete.

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    By Alessandro R

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    Jan 27, 2018

    The course is very interesting, it explains the basic features of the human visual system in a nice and understandable way, providing many interesting example of how our perceptron is affected by the external world and our own experience.

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    By Shreya T

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    Jan 26, 2017

    It is a must for all those who would love to explore vision at the perspective of neuroscience and evolution.

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    By Himanshu A

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    Jun 17, 2018

    Although the course material is absolutely fantastic. Some concepts should be elucidated further.

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    By Sharon R

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    Sep 5, 2016

    Very well researched and articulate professor, incredibly knowledgeable.

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    By David B

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    Apr 20, 2017

    Great Job!

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    Sep 11, 2024

    The course is interesting and fairly entertaining. It enters scientific details to a certain degree, keeping entry-level enough to be understood by not-science students/experts. It gives a lot of examples of the "weird way" humans see, and it tries to explain each of them, from shapes to colours, from movements to depth. Professor Purves’s explanations are all empirical, following his theory, and leaving the "why do we see how we see?" question actually unanswered. Some of the questions and answers of the quizzes are confusing/wrong and need review. The peer-to-peer review system is kind of pointless.

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