Psychology 348: Sensation and Perception

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Spring Semester 2002 Class Syllabus Announcements: Download Readings and Course Materials You must have Adobe acrobat reader to view most of these files. Click here to download it for free. Some of these may be password protected. See Wally to get the passwords. Download class readings from Penrose Library eReserve. Psychology 348 Links Note: Presence on this list does not necessarily indicate quality, psychological legitimacy, or even approval of the instructor. Whitman Academic Resource Center. Websurfers click here to send me a relevant link, or to report a dead link. General sensation / perception: Seeing hearing and smelling. A very nice looking multi-sensory page. Neuroscience. Not perception, but still relevant. Some neat stuff about Synaesthesia. Vision: Physiology of The Eye. The Joy of Visual Perception. A web book. A neurological eye simulator. Actually, not all that relevant... But still cool. The blind spot and top-down processing. Retinal Prosthetics. The future is here! More on artificial vision. Perception of depth and movement: Biological Motion. Motion Perception Demonstrations. Magic eye stereograms. Even make your own! Color vision: Color matters. Definitely worth a click. Examples of Pseudo-Isochromatic plates for testing color vision. A very interesting color demonstration. Lotsa information on colorblindness. Audition: The Soundry. All about hearing. A page about Auditory Perception. Information about Cochlear implants. Somatosensation: Pain relief. Gustation: A wine tasting glossary. Tasting beer. Finally, something useful! Olfaction: A basic olfaction summary. 10 smelly myths. The vomeronasal organ. Human Pheromones? Anosmia. A disorder you may never have heard of. Perceptual Illusions: Illusionworks.com. Many fun illusions. An animated Necker cube. Apparently from another guy who likes dogs. More illusions at The Exploratorium. Sandlot science has illusions too. Even more at grand Illusions. Some auditory illusions. The world of Escher.