Cognitive characteristics of human vision: A tutorial

Human vision is composed of numerous functions at multiple levels and complex interactions among them. In this tutorial talk, I will introduce several perspectives to characterize human vision. In particular, distinctions and interactions are discussed between bottom-up versus top-down processes, between perception versus action, between conscious and unconscious processes, all of which lead to variety of “seeing”. Through these examples, I would like to emphasize how the richness of our visual perception depends on many automatic, unconscious processes.