Sensation and Perception, Psych 235 

(Semester I, 2002)

Instructor:  Bonnie Sherman       sherman@stolaf.edu        Holland 331 
phone: 646-3146
 

I.   Supplementary Materials
II.   Articles of Interest

     Review of logarithms and exponentials



 
 


Links to Supplementary Materials
 

Chapter 1

    Plato'sCave Analogy
        http://www.geocities.com/jasonpell/documents/cave.html

     "What is it like to be a bat?"
         http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/Nagel_Bat.html

     Rewired Brains
       http://web.mit.edu/msur/www/nytimes.html
         infinitesensation
 

Chapter 2

   Physical Properties of Light
    http://www.yorku.ca/eye/physics.htm

   The Human Eye
     http://members.aol.com/MonT714/tutorial/the_eye/
        http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Psych289/Biotutorials/13/intro.shtml

     Optics/ Image formation
      http://www.cquest.utoronto.ca/psych/psy280f/ch2/optics.html
        http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/refrn/u14l6a.html  (go to Lesson5)
 

Chapter 3

     The Receptive field
      http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/receptive/ 

   Center-Surround Antagonism
      http://www.blackwellscience.com/matthews/retina.html 
         (Select  Cell in upper left, then select Light in lower right)

     Light constancy
       http://www-bcs.mit.edu/persci/high/gallery/checkershadow_illusion.html

 

Chapter 4

    Visual Pathways, Anatomy
        http://ahsmail.uwaterloo.ca/kin356/ventral/anatomy.htm

    fMRI demo of visual cortex activity
        http://white.stanford.edu:80/~heeger/fmri-demos/V1MTmovie.html

   More on Vision, the eye, demonstrations and more
         http://www.yorku.ca/eye
         http://members.aol.com/MonT714/tutorial/the_eye/ 
        http://cns-web.bu.edu/pub/laliden/WWW/Visionary/Visionary.html
         http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/index.html
         http://www.exploratorium.edu//imap-expl/dl/maps/dl.gbw.conf?136,97
         http://www-bcs.mit.edu/persci/high/gallery/checkershadow_illusion.html
         http://psy.ucsd.edu/~sanstis/SASlides.html
       http://ahsmail.uwaterloo.ca/kin356/ventral/anatomy.htm
 

Chapter 5

   Contrast Sensitivity Function
        http://www.bpe.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/ohzawa-lab/izumi/CSF/A_What_is_CSF.html

     Spatial frequency adaptation
        http://www.yorku.ca/eye/spafreq.htm 

    Pixelized Picture of famous person
          http://www.yorku.ca/eye/popepix2.htm
 

Chapter 6

   Face Perception demos
       http://www.learning-systems.ch/multimedia/vis_e01.htm
         http://www.illusionworks.com/html/presidential_illusion.html

     Visual Imagery
         http://www.slc.edu/~ebj/minds/student_pages/sally-jane/visual.html

Chapter 7

   Rainbows
       http://www.greatestplaces.org/book_pages/iguazu/rainbows.html

    Purkinje Shift 
       http://www.yorku.ca/eye/purkink1.htm

  How the world lools to the color blind
       http://www.vischeck.com/showme.shtml

     Fun demos involving color
         http://www.yorku.ca/eye/ouchi.htm
         http://neuro.caltech.edu/~kamitani/fillingInAfterimage/
         http://www.yorku.ca/eye/assim.htm

Chapter 8

   Depth perception
       http://www.vision3d.com/stereo.html

    For those of you who actually get the stereograms...
        http://cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/rid/riddle.html

Chapter 9

   Motion demos
    http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/home/George_Mather/Motion/ 
      http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~matteo/demo/DizzySpiral/motion_aftereffect.html
 

 

Smell, taste, hearing, psychophysics

Sensory Processes
     http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course
        http://kahuna.psych.uiuc.edu/ipl/index.html

Chemical senses
       http://www.monell.org
        http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/research/vomer.htm
 

Hearing and Sound
       http://asa.aip.org
        http://www.earaces.com/anatomy.htm
       http://oto.wustl.edu/cochlea
       http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Haskins/TIEDE/database.html
       http://www.exploratorium.edu/imap-expl/interf.conf?70,205
        http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/h&b/index.html
       http://www.music.salford.ac.uk/music2/ceosaudio/project/applet/moreSnd.html

Psychophysics
       http://kahuna.psych.uiuc.edu/ipl/vis/level_2_vis.html


  Synesthesia
       http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/synesthesia.html

Articles of interest
 
 
Visual system
    Overview of visual system
    Photoreceptors for circadian rhythm
    Blindsight
    What color is an elephant?
    VanGogh's colors
    Sound of light
    Out of sight out of mind
Audition and Language
    Tone-deafness
    Musical mind
    Sign Language
    Stuttering
    Tinnitus
    Word Storage
    Dyslexia
    Oops...I did it again
    Hearing Hands
Smell and Taste
    Sniffing out a partner
    Taste/Smell
    Stench Warfare
    Pheromones