1/28/2004   slide 23
OK, But We Already
Know How to See…
•Why study vision system (or teach visual thinking) when we (mostly) all see fine?
•…And we learned without any apparent effort
–Parents didn’t coach us or correct us (as they probably did with language)
–No courses in “seeing” as there are in reading, writing and even speaking
–Music, foreign languages after age of 12 usually require instruction (and some of us never “get it”)
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