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The experience of human vision is devoid of all sorts of efforts and gives the deceptive impression that visual information processing is an extremely simple process. However, our illusion immediately dissipates when we take into consideration the fact that the visual system has to establish a unified and continuous, three-dimensional visual experience from a character string of two dimensions, fragmented in time and space. What could attest better to what an enormous accomplishment this is, than the surprisingly modest results achieved through intense work during the past few decades in the sphere of artificial vision and image processing.
The aim of the lectures is to acquaint the audience interested in visual perception and cognition with the newest results in connection with the central nervous system processing of vision. Following the description of the fundamental nervous system structures and mechanisms of vision, they introduce us to data acquired through the newest analytical methods, with a special view on the explanation for certain “curiosities” (perceptual phenomena, illusions, perceptional disturbances). In our lectures, we also touch upon what these latest accomplishments contribute to the understanding of nervous system functions of a higher order, such as memory, decision-making, emotions and consciousness, as well as the visual art visual mode.
