Science Education - Psychology
Sensation and Perception
09:20Color Afterimages
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Human color vision is impressive. People with normal color vision can tell apart ...
10:45Finding Your Blind Spot and Perceptual Filling-in
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University In the back of everyone's eye is a small piece of neural tissue called the retina. ...
11:32Perspectives on Sensation and Perception
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University The study of sensation—how signals are transduced from sensory organs, like ...
06:03Motion-induced Blindness
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University One thing becomes very salient after basic exposure to the science of visual ...
08:09The Rubber Hand Illusion
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Reaching for objects, walking without hitting obstacles, landing on a chair as you ...
06:36The Ames Room
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University The most difficult challenge of visual perception is often described as one of ...
14:51Inattentional Blindness
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University We generally think that we see things pretty well if they are close by and right in ...
07:51Spatial Cueing
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Attention refers to the limited human ability to select some information for ...
08:52The Attentional Blink
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University In order for recognition of a certain stimulus to take place, visual attention ...
10:23Crowding
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Human vision depends on light-sensitive neurons that are arranged in the back of ...
06:13The Inverted-face Effect
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University In perception, it is often the case that the ability to recognize and interpret ...
08:13The McGurk Effect
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Spoken language, a singular human achievement, relies heavily on specialized ...
07:30Just-noticeable Differences
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Psychophysics is a branch of psychology and neuroscience that tries to explain how ...
06:48The Staircase Procedure for Finding a Perceptual Threshold
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Psychophysics is the name for a set of methods in perceptual psychology designed in ...
10:14Object Substitution Masking
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Visual masking is a term used by perceptual scientists to refer to a wide range of ...
