Web Directory

» 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
   http://neoscience.org/affectiv.htm

» Chronological History of Vision Research
   Useful chronology by Jack Yellott.
   http://www.socsci.uci.edu/cogsci/vision/yellott_dates.html

» 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

» Mind Hacks
   Neuroscience and psychology tricks discussed and perhaps explained. Companion site to the "Mind Hacks" book by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb.
   http://www.mindhacks.com/

» Neuhoff, John - Auditory Perception Research
   Electronic reprints of relevant publications on pitch, loudness, localization, and auditory display. (College of Wooster, USA)
   http://jneuhoff.com/

» Optical Flow Estimation Bibliography
   Mainly algorithms (up-to-date; compiled by Laurenz Wiskott at The Salk Institute).
   http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~wiskott/

» 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/illusions.htm

» Sensation and Perception Tutorials
   A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception.
   http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/sen_tut.html

» 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/psychology.htm

» 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 Blanking Phenomenon and its Psychoanatomical Implications
   J J McAnany and M W Levine of the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago provides information on this visual illusion.
   http://tigger.uic.edu/~mikel/VSS/VSS2003.pdf

» 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
   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.
   http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/

» The Noh Mask Effect
   Demonstrates illusory facial expression perception with Japanese Noh masks. Links to publications about the effect.
   http://www.kasrl.org/noh_mask.html

» 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

» 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/

» Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications
   Matthew Luckiesh's book of this title, published in 1922, was the first scientific explanation of optical illusions to be published.
   http://www.visualillusion.net/

» Visual Science Group: University of Helsinki
   Research at the Department of Psychology, is focused on human visual processing using psychophysical methods.
   http://www.helsinki.fi/science/visci/