Psychology Program Presents

The Richness of Perception: Dynamic Visual Representations From Static Images

What is the purpose of visual perception? The most common explanations suggest that seeing is for answering the question "What's out there?," giving us information about the features and objects in the current local environment.  This talk, in contrast, suggests a different approach: seeing is also for answering the question "What's happening?" and the related questions "What just happened?" and "What's about to happen?" The critical difference is that while the more common answer seems implicitly static, these newer answers are intrinsically dynamic. Collectively, this work demonstrates that perception forms rich dynamic representations even of static scenes: we see what matters: visual representations of a scene's deep underlying structure, its inferred past, and its likely future.

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Time: 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Preston Theater

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