Visual Cognition: The case of social perception

jon ICS Le ture 3 O tober 16, 2001 1 Introdu tion The omputational exploration of human visual pro essing is often held to be one of ognitive s ien e's great su ess stories. Vision helps us in many tasks: 1. Some involve survival in the physi al world. 2. Others involve survival in the so ial world. The latter tasks bring vision loser to the key theme of this ourse: The relation between ognition and ommuni ation We therefore fo us here on: Vision's role in so ial per eption. jon ICS Le ture 3 O tober 16, 2001 Introdu tion 2 What this le ture is not about Neurophysiology of vision. Marr's omputational approa h to low and intermediate vision. Obje t re ognition. Computer vision. Disputes between omputational and \e ologi al" vision resear hers.