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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.
MindJava
Providing insight into memory formation, cognition, and learning.
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
Chronological History of Vision Research
Useful chronology by Jack Yellott.
The Fascinating Concept of Subliminal Messages
Commentary by petitecute (Little Miss Soapbox). Leave your feedback.
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.
Fechner Day 2001
International Society for Psychophysics conference celebrating 200th birthday of Fechner, held in Liepzig. Program and full text of proceedings, in PDF.
Godric's World - Sound
A tutorial about sound that has many graphics that can be incorporated into a presentation or lecture on the topic.
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 Manifold of Sense
A survey of the discourse regarding emotions, sensations, and an attempt at producing an integrative approach to 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.
IllusionWorks
A multimedia museum of optical and sensory illusions, with on-line demonstrations and explanations.
Shilling, Russell - Spatial Audio and Human Factors Research
Contains links laboratory research as well as links to the Navy Aerospace Experimental Psychology website, which Dr. Shilling edits.
The Noh Mask Effect
Demonstrates illusory facial expression perception with Japanese Noh masks. Links to publications about the effect.
The Blanking Phenomenon
Contains information on a visual illusion.
J. Jason McAnany
This site contains information pertaining to ongoing vision research.
Mind Bluff
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
A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception.
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.
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.
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.
Neuhoff, John - Auditory Perception Research
Electronic reprints of relevant publications on pitch, loudness, localization, and auditory display. (College of Wooster, USA)
Optical Flow Estimation Bibliography
Mainly algorithms (up-to-date; compiled by Laurenz Wiskott at The Salk Institute).

sub categories in Sensation and Perception

Color Color
Synaesthesia Synaesthesia
Experiments and Labs Experiments and Labs

cross references

Games : Puzzles : Brain Teasers : Optical Illusions Games : Puzzles : Brain Teasers : Optical Illusions

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