1/28/2004   slide 3
Vision Science
•“…scientists in neurology, neurophysiology, the cognitive psychology of vision, artificial vision, machine-assisted imaging, image analysis, and the comparative study of animal vision generate more papers and monograph per year than all of visual studies [i.e., visual theory, as in last lecture] combined (by far…I would estimate the ratio is fifty to one. Statistically, science is where vision is studied, not the humanities.”
[Elkins 2003] p87. (Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction)
Interesting factoid, from a book by James Elkins called
Visual Studies, a Skeptical Introduction.
This is where the money is and most of the manpower.

this and the technical CG section is where this course is probably most different from courses you will find on modern culture, culture studies, or visual culture.