Abstract: Introducing the structure, function,and phenomenon (including puzzles and illusions) of vision, particularly binocularvision. Also briefly introduce some theoretical works on understanding vision --- how we see.

李兆平简历：

B.S. in Physics， 1984 from Fudan University, Shanghai。
Ph.D. in Physics， 1989 from California Institute of Technology.
Postdoctoral researcher in Fermi NationalLaboratory in Batavia, Illinois USA；also in Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey, USA, and Rockefeller University in New York USA.
Faculty member
in Computer Science in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Visiting scientist at various academic institutions.
In 1998, she helped to found the Gatsby ComputationalNeuroscience Unit in University College London.
Now she is a Professor of computational neuroscience in the Department of Computer Science in University College London.
Her research experience throughout the years ranges from areas in high energy physics to neurophysiology andmarine biology, with most experience in understanding the brain functions
in vision.
In late 90s and early 2000s, she proposed a theory (which is being extensively tested) that the primary visual cortex in the primate brain creates a saliency map, to automatically attract visual attention to salient visual locations.Please refer to <http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/Zhaoping.Li/V1Saliency.html>
Also  to
<http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/Zhaoping.Li/papers.html>
For olfaction, see
<http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/Zhaoping.Li/olfaction.html>
and in nonlinear neural dynamics.
<http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/Zhaoping.Li/dynamics.html>