[visionlist] MSc Programme in Visual Cognition, University of Edinburgh

[John M. Henderson]

Taught MSc Programme in Visual Cognition
The University of Edinburgh

A new MSc Programme in Visual Cognition based in Psychology at the 
University of Edinburgh is now accepting applicants for 2008-2009. This 
full-time one-year taught programme provides intensive, advanced 
graduate-level study in the field of visual cognition and psychological 
research methods, and forms a strong basis for further (typically PhD) 
study. The programme is intended for post-graduate students in 
psychology or related cognitive science disciplines who wish to pursue a 
research-oriented career, or for students who need to retrain in 
experimental psychology prior to applying to a related PhD programme.

The Visual Cognition MSc Programme draws on many disciplines within the 
University, including Psychology, Philosophy, Computer Science and 
Neuroscience. A central focus of the programme is a treatment of human 
vision as an active process engaging sensory, cognitive, and 
motor/action systems. The MSc programme at Edinburgh has special 
strengths in real-world scene perception, vision and action, vision and 
language, and the role and eye movements and attention in human vision.

Teaching in the Visual Cognition MSc Programme includes core courses in 
Visual Attention, Visual Memory, Perception and Action, Research Design 
and Methods, and Statistics. In addition students are given the 
opportunity to specialise via optional courses such as Language and the 
Visual World, Visual Word Recognition, and Working Memory in the Healthy 
& Damaged Brain; and from a range of courses in computational vision and 
visual neuroscience. The programme culminates in a supervised MSc 
research project.

For more information about the MSc Programme in Visual Cognition, 
including contact information, please see: 
http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/postgrad/msc/vc

For general information about Visual Cognition research at Edinburgh 
University please see: http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/research/vc/

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