Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Psychology: Sensation and Perception
See also: This category in other languages: - A multimedia museum of optical and sensory illusions, with on-line demonstrations and explanations. - Affective epistemology is based on the idea that there is a way of knowing which transcends, specific perceptual frames. This idea is predicated on affective components as indicating the quality of a given perception, thought form, or way of being in the consciousness of human beings and other sentient life. - A family-friendly collection of tactile illusions, mental deceptions, optical tricks, brain puzzlers, and feeling games to play on the self. - Neuroscience and psychology tricks discussed and perhaps explained. Companion site to the "Mind Hacks" book by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb. - Electronic reprints of relevant publications on pitch, loudness, localization, and auditory display. (College of Wooster, USA) - Mainly algorithms (up-to-date; compiled by Laurenz Wiskott at The Salk Institute). - We think we perceive objective reality, but perception is always altered by invisible biases. We are never free of the state-dependent bias, and so we are continually taken in by an illusion. - A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception. - An improvement of Weber's and Fechner's Laws on sensations and stimuli. A paradoxical complex, an optical illusion, and a test of intelligence. - This site shows a range of common visual illusions along with a brief explanation of why they occur. It was originally prepared to show at a children's primary school as part of their study of sensory processing. - J J McAnany and M W Levine of the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago provides information on this visual illusion. [PDF] - A survey of the discourse regarding emotions, sensations, and an attempt at producing an integrative approach to sensation and perception. - A relatively new theory is offered for the classic illusion that the moon's constant subtended visual angle of half a degree appears larger for the horizon moon than for the zenith moon. - Demonstrates illusory facial expression perception with Japanese Noh masks. Links to publications about the effect. - A study attributing the illusion to summed effects of cardinal axes in the observer's field of view and of salient axes in the figures. - Contains information about current research into human visual perception. Features material from some of the courses run by the psychology department and information about staff and students.s - Matthew Luckiesh's book of this title, published in 1922, was the first scientific explanation of optical illusions to be published. - Research at the Department of Psychology, is focused on human visual processing using psychophysical methods.
