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SUMMARY:Perception of Visual Space - Professor Sir Colin Blakemore\, Schoo
 l of Advanced Study
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:The image in your eye\, like a photograph or a precise figurat
 ive painting\, is a two-dimensional projection of the world. But detecting
  the third dimension of that world is important for understanding the shap
 es of objects\, as well as the distances of everything around us. Our forw
 ard-pointing eyes give us the luxury of binocular stereoscopic vision\, bu
 t if you close one eye\, you can still perceive distance on the basis of i
 nformation in a single image\, particularly from linear perspective. How d
 o our brains interpret perspective and integrate it with stereo vision? In
  this lecture\, as in the history of this field\, science is interwoven wi
 th the story of art and architecture.\n\nSir Colin Blakemore is Professor 
 of Neuroscience & Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study\, University 
 of London\, and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford. From 2003-7 
 he was Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council. His research has f
 ocused on many aspects of vision\, development and plasticity of the brain
 . He has been President of the British Science Association\, the British N
 euroscience Association\, the Physiological Society and the Royal Society 
 of Biology. He is strongly committed to engagement between science and the
  public. He is a frequent broadcaster and he writes for the national and i
 nternational press. \n
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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