Chapter 2

Quiz

Flashcards

Weblinks

Best Illusion of the Year Contest: Includes a large gallery of very clever optical illusions:
http://illusionoftheyear.com/

Visual phenomena and optical illusions:
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

‘Sound moves Light’ demonstration:
http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~sbbf269/Elliot_Freemans_Home/My_Research/Entries/2009/3/25_Sound_moves_Light.html

Examples of many different visual illusions and Gestalt principles:
http://www.skidmore.edu/~hfoley/Perc5.htm

Dr. Itiel Dror on forensic decision making, bias, and fingerprint identification:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo_AtXdSFfE

A video clip of an associative agnostic attempting to recognize objects:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1qnPxwalhw

A video of HJA, an apperceptive agnostic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNt9hEmHe00

Oliver Sacks talking about face blindness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5bvnXYIQG8&feature=related

Oliver Sacks talking about Charles Bonnet syndrome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEgTNLAAngY&feature=related

A video of the hollow mask illusion and some insight into how it works:
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2009/07/14/some-insight-into-how-the-holl/

Another demonstration of the hollow mask illusion:
http://www.richardgregory.org/experiments/

SimonsLab: The website for the Visual Cognition Laboratory headed by Professor Daniel Simons:
http://www.simonslab.com/

The original video of the Simons and Chabris (1999) “invisible gorilla” and the Simons and Levin (1998) door study:
http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/videos.html

Movie Goofs: Thousands of bloopers, flubs, flaws, and mistakes in movies:
https://www.moviemistakes.com/best/continuity)

Videos showing examples of change blindness, including person swap:
http://uxmag.com/design/change-blindness

Information about subliminal messages, with many examples:
http://www.umich.edu/~onebook/pages/tablepages/uses.html

A series of demonstrations of auditory phenomena:
http://www4.uwm.edu/APL/demonstrations.html

A video of the McGurk effect (with explanation):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtsfidRq2tw&NR=1

Examples of the phonemic restoration effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k74KCfSDCn8

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