Knowledge: sensation and perception
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- Affective Epistemology
http://neoscience.org/affectiv.htm - 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.
- MindJava
http://mindjava.com - Providing insight into memory formation, cognition, and learning.
- Vision Laboratory Macquarie University
http://vision.psy.mq.edu.au/ - 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
- Chronological History of Vision Research
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/cogsci/vision/yellott_dates.html - Useful chronology by Jack Yellott.
- The Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jmkenney - 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.
- Optical Illusions by Psych ARTS
http://www.psycharts.com/opt_illus.html - 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 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.
- Smarandache's Law
http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/psychology.htm - An improvement of Weber's and Fechner's Laws on sensations and stimuli. A paradoxical complex, an optical illusion, and a test of intelligence.
- 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.
- Sensation and Perception Tutorials
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/sen_tut.html - A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception.
- Auditory Perception Cognition and Action Meeting: APCAM
http://www.wooster.edu/apcam/ - The goal of APCAM is to bring together researchers from various theoretical perspectives to present focused research on auditory cognition, perception, and action.
- 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 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.
- 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 Flow Estimation Bibliography
http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~wiskott/ - Mainly algorithms (up-to-date; compiled by Laurenz Wiskott at The Salk Institute).
- 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.
- 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 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.
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