Workshop: Perceptual Learning and Expertise

Perceptual Learning and Expertise

 

Date: Friday, February 24th from 1-4:30 and Saturday,

February 25th, from 11-5:15

 

Location: University of Pennsylvania, Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 402. 

 

Organizers: Kevin Connolly (University of Pennsylvania) and Adrienne Prettyman (Bryn Mawr College)

 

Contact Person: Kevin Connolly connok@sas.upenn.edu

 

Schedule:

 

Friday, February 24th

 

General Introduction and Welcome:

1:00-1:10: Kevin Connolly  

 

1:10—2:45: Rebecca Copenhaver (Philosophy, Lewis and Clark College)

“Thomas Reid on Acquired Perception: Cognitive Permeation or Perceptual Learning?”

  

3:00—4:30 Mohan Matthen (Philosophy, University of Toronto)

“Learning to Perceive is Why We Have Art”

 

 

Saturday, February 25th

 

11:00-12:30--Robert Goldstone (Psychology, Indiana University)

“Fitting Perception in/to Cognition”

 

2:00—3:30 Charles Gilbert (Neuroscience, The Rockefeller University)

“Visual Cortical Dynamics and Perceptual Learning”

 

3:45—5:15 David Chalmers (Philosophy, New York University)

“Perception and Illusion in Virtual Reality”