Paul Linton

Presidential Scholar in Neuroscience and Society, Columbia University
Fellow of the Italian Academy, Columbia University

Dr. Paul Linton is a Presidential Scholar in Neuroscience and Society, and a Fellow of the Italian Academy, at Columbia University, specializing in human 3D vision. He is the author of The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and the lead editor of the Royal Society volume New Approaches to 3D Vision (2023). He has made significant contributions to our understanding of stereo vision (how we see in 3D with two eyes) and is developing new approaches to Visual Scale (the perceived size and distance of objects) and Visual Shape (the perceived 3D shape of objects). He has worked on Virtual Reality as part of the DeepFocus team at Meta Reality Labs, and taught philosophy at both Oxford and UCL.

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This roundtable explores the intricate relationship between vision and attention, the role of vision in our perception of truth and falsehood, and the implications of these concepts on our understanding of animal consciousness, sensory perception, and cultural evolution.

May 11th, 2024 at 2:30PM

Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing

This roundtable explores the intricate relationship between vision and attention, the role of vision in our perception of truth and falsehood, and the implications of these concepts on our understanding of animal consciousness, sensory perception, and cultural evolution.
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