Science Social Sciences Psychology Sensation and Perception

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• Games: Puzzles: Brain Teasers: Optical Illusions  (27)

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• IllusionWorks   - A multimedia museum of optical and sensory illusions, with on-line demonstrations and explanations.

• Affective Epistemology - 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.
• Auditory Perception Cognition and Action Meeting: APCAM - The goal of APCAM is to bring together researchers from various theoretical perspectives to present focused research on auditory cognition, perception, and action.
• Chronological History of Vision Research - Useful chronology by Jack Yellott.
• The Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis - Logtime is the psychochronometric hypothesis that our age is our basis for estimating long time intervals, resulting in a perceived logarithmic shrinkage of our years as we grow older.
• The Manifold of Sense - A survey of the discourse regarding emotions, sensations, and an attempt at producing an integrative approach to sensation and perception.
• Mind Bluff - A family-friendly collection of tactile illusions, mental deceptions, optical tricks, brain puzzlers, and feeling games to play on the self.
• Mind Hacks - Neuroscience and psychology tricks discussed and perhaps explained. Companion site to the "Mind Hacks" book by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb.
• The Moon Illusion Explained - 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.
• Neuhoff, John - Auditory Perception Research - Electronic reprints of relevant publications on pitch, loudness, localization, and auditory display. (College of Wooster, USA)
• The Noh Mask Effect - Demonstrates illusory facial expression perception with Japanese Noh masks. Links to publications about the effect.
• Optical Flow Estimation Bibliography - Mainly algorithms (up-to-date; compiled by Laurenz Wiskott at The Salk Institute).
• Optical Illusions by Psych ARTS - 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.
• The Poggendorff Illusion - 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.
• Sensation and Perception Tutorials - A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception.
• Smarandache's Law - An improvement of Weber's and Fechner's Laws on sensations and stimuli. A paradoxical complex, an optical illusion, and a test of intelligence.
• Some Visual Illusions - 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.
• Vision Laboratory Macquarie University - 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