Chapter 6: Sensation and Perception
Sensing the World: Some Basic Principles
The Physiology of the Senses: Transformations for Perception and Action
A collection of flash tutorials by Tutis Vilis at the University of Western Ontario.
Neuroscience Animations
A collection of java animations for biopsychology and neuroscience phenomena geared toward an undergraduate audience interested in sensory physiology.
Change Blindness and Inattentional Blindness
A collection of videos that illustrate how a change in sensory information falls below our normal perceptual thresholds (University of Illinois’ Visual Cognition Lab).
Vision
Color Vision
Here you will find a set of links leading to pages explaining color and color vision. One page explains the opponent process theory, while another explains the trichromatic theory. Included are some demonstrations and further explanations. Follow the links in the explanations. Color mixing is explained here.
Color Constancy Example
For those interested in color constancy, there is a nice illustration in the text. This site offers another simple example.
Color Vision Demonstrations
These color vision demonstrations are from Hans Irtel's home page at the University of Mannheim.
Vision Science
An Internet resource for research in human and animal vision
Hearing
Deaf-Related Resources
This site from the Gallaudet University Library is an excellent resource for anyone looking for information about research news, health care issues, support groups, government services, related publications, upcoming conferences and exhibits, and links for further information on deafness. Gallaudet University is a school for the deaf and hard of hearing.
ASHA
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for over 110,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.
Other Important Senses
Chronic Pain
This HealthTouch site provides reliable and extensive information on controlling chronic pain, headaches and migraines, and back pain.
Vestibular Disorders
This article explains that individuals with vestibular disorders have a variety of symptoms. The complaint of dizziness can be caused by a variety of disorders including presyncopal faintness, loss of balance, light-headedness, or psychological disorders and must be differentiated from vertigo or dysequilibrium of vestibular origin. It addresses effective diagnosis and treatment.
Perceptual Organization
The Joy of Visual Perception: A Web Book
Peter Kaiser's The Joy of Visual Perception: A Web Book includes animated demonstrations of the following visual illusions found in your text:
Phi Phenomenon
Shape Constancy
Distance Perception
Kosmic Eluzions
Encyclozine's Eluzions site offers thorough explanations and a wonderful links section. The site’s illusion examples include: ambiguous figures, distortions, and impossible objects.
Perceptual Organization
Ambiguous Figures
Tutorials, examples, and other related materials related to ambiguous figures, or figures with multiple interpretations.
Visual Perception
Comprehensive notes with illuminating illustrations from a course on visual perception given by Professor Daniel Chandler at Aberystwyth University in the UK.
Perception and Culture
An informative website about the influence of culture on the psychology of perception.
Is There Extrasensory Perception?
ESP, Science, and the Roots of Consciousness
A descriptive history of research testing claims of ESP over the last century.
A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors
An article from the New York Times on a laboratory at Princeton University that conducted studies on ESP for almost 30 years
James Randi Foundation Video Library
A collection of videos promoting a skeptical point of view on paranormal activity