Perception and attention

Recommended Prerequisites

Passive command of English; statistical analysis.

Teaching Methods

Expository classes. Demonstration of perceptual effects. Practical experiments and data analysis. Group work assignments on specific topics.

Learning Outcomes

Perception is often looked upon in cognitive psychology as the first step in information processing. Attention is seen in turn less as a unitary process than as a general resource for the functioning of the whole  perceptual-cogntive-motor system This curricular unit purposes to:

At THE THEORETICAL LEVEL

Present and critically evaluate core theories of perception and attention.

Identify the main research trends and paradigms in both areas, highlighting their close interface with other so-called basic processes, namelly at the applied level.

AT THE PRACTICAL LEVEL

Exercise experimental paradigms in both domains, illustrating and operationalizing chief notions covered in expository classes.

Provide students with sufficient tools for the autonomous placement of perception and attention problems from the standpoint of experimental cognitive psychology.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Perception is often looked upon in cognitive psychology as the first step in information processing. Attention is seen in turn less as a unitary process than as a general resource for the functioning of the whole  perceptual-cogntive-motor system This curricular unit purposes to:

At THE THEORETICAL LEVEL

Present and critically evaluate core theories of perception and attention.

Identify the main research trends and paradigms in both areas, highlighting their close interface with other so-called basic processes, namelly at the applied level.

AT THE PRACTICAL LEVEL

Exercise experimental paradigms in both domains, illustrating and operationalizing chief notions covered in expository classes.

Provide students with sufficient tools for the autonomous placement of perception and attention problems from the standpoint of experimental cognitive psychology.

Head Lecturer(s)

Armando Luís Diniz Mónica de Oliveira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Other: 20.0%
Frequency: 80.0%

Bibliography

GORDON, I. (1989). Theories of visual perception. Chichester : John Wiley & Sons.

MATHER, G. (2009). Foundations of sensation and perception. Hove; Psychology Press.

SEKULER, R. & BLAKE, R. (2002). Perception. Boston: McGraw-Hill.

PALMER, S. (1999) Vision science : Photons to phenomenology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

BRUCE, V. & GREEN, P. (1993). La Perception Visuelle. Physiologie,

WADE, N, & SWANSTON, M. (2013). Visual perception: An introduction.

PASHLER, H. (1998). Attention. Hove: Psychology Press

PARASURAMAN, R. (Ed.) (2000). The attentive Brain. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

BADDELEY, A. & WEISKRANTZ, L. (Eds.) (1993). Attention: selection, awareness, and control. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Wickens, C. & McCarly, J. (2008). Applied attention theory. Boca Ration: CRC Press.