The Thinking Eye, the Seeing Brain

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Date/Time:Thursday, 15 Sep 2011 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location:Christian Petersen Art Museum, 1017 Morrill Hall
Cost:Free and open to the public.
URL:www.museums.iastate.edu
Contact:University Museums
Phone:515-294-3342
Channel:University Museums
Categories:Arts, performances Lectures
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What can research tell us about how we design and interpret our visual world? Research in cognitive psychology is unlocking the mysteries of what many call the last frontier of science: the human mind and brain. Join Eric Cooper, associate professor in Psychology, as he shares his research on visual cognition.

Some of the questions that cognitive psychologists are addressing include: How do our sensory and perceptual systems acquire information about the world, and how does the mind attend to some aspects of the world and ignore other aspects? This talk is part of University Museums' See, Think, Know program series.