This site contains a collection of tutorials on the basic principles of sensation and perception, including depth cues and processing in visual perception.
A research institute dedicated to developing a comprehensive understanding of responses to airborne chemicals. Includes study of animal olfaction, environmental, health, nasal stimulation, and more.
This is the Webvision home page. It presents a detailed discussion of the organization of the vertebrate retina. It discusses everything you want to know and understand about vision and the role of the retina in vision, including retinal circuits, the photoreceptors, the fovea and color vision, and facts and figures about the human retina.
A site sponsored by the John Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah. Includes everything you want to know about the retina and vision, including--anatomy of the retina, degenerative diseases, photoreceptor cells, visual responses, circuitry, color vision, and more.
The first clinical facility in North America to offer listening training programs, based on the Tomatis method of sound stimulation. The Center helps people with problems ranging from music and singing skills, foreign language acquisition, learning disabilities, ADD, PDD, and more.
Includes an illusions gallery with many interesting concepts. Also contains perceptual demonstrations at the Exploratorium, along with postcard exhibits and vision and art.
Illusionworks Inc., is the most comprehensive collection of optical and sensory illusions on the WWW. View the video by Al Seckel and also explore illusions and photography. This site contains numerous interactive demonstrations, up-to-date and reliable scientific explanations, school projects, illusion artwork, interactive puzzles, 3D graphics, suggested reading lists, bibliographies, perception links, etc. Provides information in introductory and advanced levels. Go to the advanced level.
The site include topics and examples of: impossible figures and objects, ambiguous illusions, motion ambiguity, size constancy illusions, camouflage, stereograms, poggendorf illusions, 3D images and more.
There also is an extensive collection of art, illustrating various artists depictions of perceptual principles in art.
The site is sponsored by the Shimojo Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and Illusion Works, LLC.
Includes an illusions gallery with many interesting concepts. Also contains perceptual demonstrations at the Exploratorium, along with postcard exhibits and vision and art.
Provides a detailed discussion and illustrations of all types of illusions. Includes a presentation of impossible figures and objects; ambiguous illusions; ambiguous images; motion ambiguity; distortion illusions; camouflage illusions; funny places; afterimages; motion aftereffects and lateral inhibition; color and shadow illusions; facial illusions; and, auditory illusions.
The artist was born in Milan where he started his career by working on designs for windows for the city’s cathedral. He worked in his hometown, specialising mainly in religious paintings, before being called to Vienna in 1562 by Maximilian, the eldest son of the Emperor Ferdinand I. For the next twenty-five years he served as court painter to the Emperor Maximilian II and his son, the Emperor Rudolf II, both in Vienna and in Prague, before returning to Milan in 1587.
Learn about the life and work of M.C.Escher, an amazing artist who captured perceptual principles in his art. This site was developed in celebration of 100 years of Escher. Includes explanations, a biography, links, and more.
OK Go is known for creative videos, but this is the band’s richest musical collage of optical illusions so far. The most amazing part is that it was done … in one take!
How do we visually perceive artistic representations of reality? Travel with Neuroscience Professor Marge Livingstone to the Fogg, one of Harvard University's art museums, to learn more about how our visual system allows us to create and perceive art.
How do we visually perceive artistic representations of reality? Travel with Neuroscience Professor Marge Livingstone to the Fogg, one of Harvard University's art museums, to learn more about how our visual system allows us to create and perceive art.