PSYC 310
Fall 1999: Lecture - Tuesday, 1 - 3;
Laboratory sections - Thursday 1 - 3, Friday 1 - 3.
Instructor: John P. McLaughlin. Office - 213
Wolf; hours - T,Th 11-12; W 2-3; email: johnmcl@udel.edu;
telephone: 302-831-2752; McLaughlin's Syllabus
McLaughlin's grades
McLaughlin's Midterm study guide
McLaughlin's Final study guide
Reading
for aesthetics lecture
How many straight lines, interrupted or uninterrupted, do we have here
?
Web Sites with perceptual demonstrations:
Visual Phenomena:
York Univ site.
This site has a lot of definitions
and diagrams and some demonstrations.
IllusionWorks site.
This site has some very
sophisticated demonstrations.
A tutorial that includes interesting demonstrations, including size constancy and Benham's Top .These were provided by Dr. John Krantz at Hanover College.
A large set of color demonstrations. These were provided by Dr. Hans Irtel at the University of Mannheim.
Purdue University site, CogLab This site has good on-line experiments such as Apparent Motion and Visual Search. They were created by Dr. Greg Francis.
Another Purdue
site, VisLab. This has more on-line experiments for vision.
What parts are in front in these designs ? How long does that impression
last ?
Auditory Phenomena:
Miscellany
Some color/space interactions:
Neon colors. Notice that
the hues "spread" into the space surrounding the colored lines.
Here is a related phenomenon, called assimilation. How are they related
? Hint: the red field is physically uniform.
Another demonstration of neon colors. This comes from Hans Irtel's web site.
Color contrast. The gray patches below are physically identical to each other.
Color and acuity - divisionist artists
COLOR ABNORMALITIES - Some disturbances of color vision are caused by problems at the retinal or cortical levels. Others can be caused by abnormalities in the lens, i.e., cataracts. Here is what the world looked like to Monet, who developed cataracts as he aged, and then had one removed. Here is the Japanese bridge before and after he developed the cataracts. The next picture contrasts his view of his garden using an eye with a cataract with the view using the eye from which the cataract was surgically removed.
Visual System
The pattern of retinal-geniculate-cortical connections.
Recent
work on the separate analyses of color and motion in the visual pathways
Text and original graphics copyrighted by John P. McLaughlin, 1999, all rights reserved. Last updated, November 16, 1999.
