Visuals vs. Brains | Dr. Surya Gayet

WYSIWYG? Seeing is believing. If there is one sense most people value most, it is sight. Images arrive in superior HD quality and are processed by our brain at lightning speed. We don’t think about it; it’s a matter of course to us. In this lecture you’ll find out there is a lot more to being able to see and interpret what you see than you would expect.

Experimental psychologist Dr. Surya Gayet (Utrecht University) is fascinated by how our brains interpret visual stimuli. How does this lead to a conscious experience of the world around us?

His general research interest revolves around elucidating how the human brain interprets the plethora of visual input impinging on our retinae on a moment-to-moment basis, ultimately leading to a conscious visual experience.

In his ongoing NWO Veni-funded project, he investigates how visual perception in naturalistic scenes is modulated by expectations and by the behavioral goals of the observer. To this end, he makes use of a combination of psychophysical, modeling, and neuro-imaging methods. In this lecture, he will touch upon subjects such as visual perception, visual working memory, consciousness, and attentional selection.

Surya Gayet is affiliated with the Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (Donders Institute, Nijmegen), and the Attention Lab (Utrecht University).

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
"𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 10/10 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥".
"𝘓𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦."
"𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥".