Demos of Perception

An excellent site for illusions and demos by Michael Bach (Freiburg U.)

A very nice talk on face perception (parts vs. whole) by Stuart Anstis (UCSD) (10 mins)

Another set of illusions and demos collected by Steve Yantis (Johns Hopkins)

Project LITE (Boston University's online demonstrations of visual phenomena)

Spatial frequency gratings at different frequencies and contrasts (USD) -- scroll down to "Exploratory Demonstration"

 Change Blindness (Author: Dan Simons, U. Illinois @ Champaign-Urbana)

Motion Illusions (Author: David Whitney, UC Davis): Motion after effect, flashlag, and others

The Venus effect: people's understanding of mirror reflections in paintings (Author: Marco Bertamini, U. of Liverpool)

Some visual illusions (author: Nova, PBS)

An interactive set of visual illusions (author: BBC)

Ilusiones visuales en castellano (autor: Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)

- How does the world looks like if you are color blind? If you have cataracts? Miopia? For other tutorials click here (Don Kline, U. Calgary). Color map for deuteranomaly and other types of color blindness. Another similar site

Videos: Discovering Psychology  (click here to view chapter 7 online, 30 mins). Sensation & Perception Hosted by Phil Zimbardo, this program examines the scientific method and the ways in which data are collected and analyzed — in the lab and in the field — with an emphasis on sharpening critical thinking in the interpretation of research findings. With Dr. Christina Maslach of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Daryl Bem of Cornell University. Updated.

tactile recognition (instructor's copy ToP)