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Class Preliminaries. Lecture 1: Introduction to Visual Pattern Recognition. Why is vision difficult? Slides (Class Preliminaries) | Slides (Introduction to Visual Pattern Recognition) | Notes 1

Lecture 2: Natural image statistics and the retina. Slides | Notes 2 | Discussion: Reading Assignment 1

Lecture 3: Lesions and neurological examination of extrastriate visual cortex. Slides | Notes 3 | Discussion: Reading Assignment 2

Lecture 4: Psychophysical studies of visual object recognition. Slides | Notes 4 | Discussion: Reading Assignment 3

Lecture 5: Primary visual cortex. Slides | Notes | Discussion: Reading Assigment 4

Lecture 6: Adventures into terra incognita: probing the neurophysiological responses along the ventral visual stream. Slides | Notes | Discussion: Reading Assignment 5

Lecture 7: First steps into inferior temporal cortex. Slides | Notes | Discussion: Reading Assignment 6

Lecture 8: From correlation to causation: electrical stimulation of visual cortex. Slides | Notes | Discussion: Reading Assignment 8

Lecture 9: Visual consciousness. Slides | Notes | Discussion: Reading Assignment 7

Lecture 10: First steps towards in silico vision. Computational models of the ventral visual stream. Slides | Notes | Discussion: Reading Assignment 9

Lecture 11: Computer Vision. Slides | Notes | Discussion: Reading Assignment 10

Lecture 12: The operating system for vision. Slides | Notes | Discussion: Reading Assignment 11