Directory of Sensation and Perception Resources

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Resources in This Category

• IllusionWorks

  http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/
  A multimedia museum of optical and sensory illusions, with on-line demonstrations and explanations.

• Mind Bluff

  http://mindbluff.com/
  A family-friendly collection of tactile illusions, mental deceptions, optical tricks, brain puzzlers, and feeling games to play on the self.

• Mind Hacks

  http://www.mindhacks.com/
  Neuroscience and psychology tricks discussed and perhaps explained. Companion site to the "Mind Hacks" book by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb.

• Neuhoff, John - Auditory Perception Research

  http://jneuhoff.com/
  Electronic reprints of relevant publications on pitch, loudness, localization, and auditory display. (College of Wooster, USA)

• Optical Illusions by Psych ARTS

  http://www.psycharts.com/illusions.htm
  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.

• Sensation and Perception Tutorials

  http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/sen_tut.html
  A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception.

• Some Visual Illusions

  http://wisebytes.net/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.

• The Blanking Phenomenon and its Psychoanatomical Implications

  http://tigger.uic.edu/~mikel/VSS/VSS2003.pdf
  J J McAnany and M W Levine of the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago provides information on this visual illusion.

• The Manifold of Sense

  http://samvak.tripod.com/sense.html
  A survey of the discourse regarding emotions, sensations, and an attempt at producing an integrative approach to sensation and perception.

• The Moon Illusion Explained

  http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/
  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.

• The Noh Mask Effect

  http://www.kasrl.org/noh_mask.html
  Demonstrates illusory facial expression perception with Japanese Noh masks. Links to publications about the effect.

• The Poggendorff Illusion

  http://www.soapsheet.com/
  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.

• Visual Science Group: University of Helsinki

  http://www.helsinki.fi/science/visci/
  Research at the Department of Psychology, is focused on human visual processing using psychophysical methods.

• VisualIllusion.net

  http://www.visualillusion.net/
  Matthew Luckiesh's book of this title, published in 1922, was the first scientific explanation of optical illusions to be published.

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