Learner Reviews & Feedback for Visual Perception and the Brain by Duke University

Carefully listen to "About the Course" video, so your expectations won't be deceived

Very professional and easy to follow lecture side by side with a presentation.

It's a good course but I find it so hard to understand the professor's words.

simply GREAT course. The lecturer explained everything well. Thanks to him!!!

An awesome course to get familiar with the mechanism of visual perception.

Excellent course. Did a lot to change my views of perception and reality.

Really intresting course, simple but educational lectures! Very helpful.

Great course for all, easy to understand with bite-sized videos.

awesome course ..very helpful and full of knowledge

Hard topics but easy explained or illustrated.

It was a good course and very helpful

Interesting and thought provocative

I have enjoyed every bit of it !!!

was very difficult to achieve....

this course is very interesting

Very intriguing and logical.

It is a great course.

Really great course!

Excellent course!

A revelation...

It's good

My long term curiosity of the question, 'why do we perceive the world - the way we do?' - has been either answered or shown a path for deeper understanding. Being a Mechanical Engineering student, I had almost none prior knowledge regarding human brain and its anatomy - but that wasn't an issue either! - everything has been explained very well with examples and wonderful illustrations.

Thank You Duke University and Coursera, for such an amazing course!

Course was amazing. It deals with how to correctly understand visual illusions through empirical data collection. It does not delve into the anatomical aspects, or the cellular aspects, of vision. Some drawbacks would be the lack of explanation on how to model or collect the data, which is probably too complicated to state in a online course anyway.

great layout and well presented. concepts were stimulating and I felt I learnt a lot. I would have liked some discussion around topics such as amblyopia and development, effects of observer movement, and the links between visual perception and the vestibular system. Having said that, I think the content was plenty for a 5 week course.

This course gave me another view at the problem of visual perception. The course relates more to psychology than to medicine. Essay writing is mandatory for the completion of the course. Thanks to Professor Purves and his team from the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.