Sensation and Perception Tutorials

Use of Visual Information in Art
A brief review of some of the ways
artists can create particular experiences.

Size Constancy
Or why do we see things the size we do?

A Pictorial Introduction to
Fourier Analysis/Synthesis
This turoial illustrates a mathematical
procedure, using only pictures, to
illustrate how many complex images
can be converted into a set of simple images.

Benham's Top and Fechner Colors
This tutorial is a demonstration
where you can see
colors with a black and
white stimulus.

Receptive Fields
This tutorial covers some basic issues
about how the brain processes visual,
and other sensory, information.

Too Follow up try these:
Receptive Field Description
A collection of effects related to edges
Lateral Inhibition and Receptive Fields as Edge Detectors

Signal Detection Theory

DRAFT

Aftereffects

Blakemore-Sutton Effect

Figural Aftereffect (Kohler and Wallach)

Color Aftereffect

Emmert's Law

Gestalt Laws of Organization

Motion and Depth

Induced Motion

The Effects of Shadows

Vergence Eye Movements