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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)

Seminar

The Unexpected Units of Vision

Ennio 
Mingolla
Department 
of 
Cognitive
 and
 Neural 
Systems 
at
 Boston University 
and 
Director 
of 
CELEST 
(Center 
of 
Excellence
 for Learning 
in
 Education,

Koffka’s (1886–1941) question “Why do things look as they do?” comprises a deeper question: “What makes a visual ‘thing’ a thing in the first place?” Are visual objects made up of universal elements or features that can be enumerated and described? I will present examples demonstrating that visual points, lines and planes have unexpected complexity, and thereby answer the question that the late Bela Julesz, inventor of the random dot stereogram(“magic eye”, etc. ) expressed in a 1995 talk, titled “Why is the early visual system more interesting than the kidney?”

Host: Information Science and Technology Center (ISTC), Garrett Kenyon, gkenyon@lanl.gov, 667-1900