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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.
http://wisebytes.net/illusions/
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.
http://www.soapsheet.com
Fechner Day 2001
International Society for Psychophysics conference celebrating 200th birthday of Fechner, held in Liepzig. Program and full text of proceedings, in PDF.
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/fechnerday/
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.
http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/psy...
Mind Bluff
A family-friendly collection of tactile illusions, mental deceptions, optical tricks, brain puzzlers, and feeling games to play on the self.
http://mindbluff.com
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.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/j...
Optical Flow Estimation Bibliography
Mainly algorithms (up-to-date; compiled by Laurenz Wiskott at The Salk Institute).
http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~wiskott/
The Blanking Phenomenon
Contains information on a visual illusion.
http://www2.uic.edu/~jmcana1/Blanking.html
Mind Hacks
Neuroscience and psychology blog that highlights various research findings of the day and week.
http://www.mindhacks.com/
Godric's World - Sound
A tutorial about sound that has many graphics that can be incorporated into a presentation or lecture on the topic.
http://www.gozen.demon.co.uk/godric/godric...
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.
http://neoscience.org/affectiv.htm
Neuhoff, John - Auditory Perception Research
Electronic reprints of relevant publications on pitch, loudness, localization, and auditory display. (College of Wooster, USA)
http://jneuhoff.com/
Noh Masks & Facial Expression Perception
Demonstrates illusory facial expression perception in Noh masks, with link to a research article on the effect.
http://www.mis.atr.co.jp/~mlyons/Noh/noh_m...
Sensation and Perception Tutorials
A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception.
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/sen_tut.ht...
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.
http://www.psycharts.com/opt_illus.html
Dates in Vision Science
Chronological history of vision research.
http://www.socsci.uci.edu/cogsci/vision/ye...
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.
http://www.wooster.edu/apcam/
MindJava
Providing insight into memory formation, cognition, and learning.
http://mindjava.com
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
http://vision.psy.mq.edu.au/
J. Jason McAnany
This site contains information pertaining to ongoing vision research.
http://www2.uic.edu/~jmcana1/
The Manifold of Sense
A survey of the discourse regarding emotions, sensations, and an attempt at producing an integrative approach to sensation and perception.
http://samvak.tripod.com/sense.html
The Moon Illusion Explained
Why our satellite looks big at the horizon and smaller when higher up.
http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/
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