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• - We think we perceive objective reality, but perception is always altered by invisible biases. We are never free of the state-dependent bias, and so we are continually taken in by an illusion.
  
• - International Society for Psychophysics conference celebrating 200th birthday of Fechner, held in Liepzig. Program and full text of proceedings, in PDF.
  
• - An improvement of Weber's and Fechner's Laws on sensations and stimuli. A paradoxical complex, an optical illusion, and a test of intelligence.
  
• - A relatively new theory is offered for the classic illusion that the moon's constant subtended visual angle of half a degree appears larger for the horizon moon than for the zenith moon.
  
• - A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception.
  
• - Affective epistemology is based on the idea that there is a way of knowing which transcends, specific perceptual frames. This idea is predicated on affective components as indicating the quality of a given perception, thought form, or way of being in the
  
• - A family-friendly collection of tactile illusions, mental deceptions, optical tricks, brain puzzlers, and feeling games to play on the self.
  
• - Useful chronology by Jack Yellott.
  
• - The goal of APCAM is to bring together researchers from various theoretical perspectives to present focused research on auditory cognition, perception, and action.
  
• - Providing insight into memory formation, cognition, and learning.
  
• - Logtime is the psychochronometric hypothesis that our age is our basis for estimating long time intervals, resulting in a perceived logarithmic shrinkage of our years as we grow older.
  
• - Contains information about current research into human visual perception. Features material from some of the courses run by the psychology department and information about staff and students.s
  
• - Demonstrates illusory facial expression perception with Japanese Noh masks. Links to publications about the effect.
  
• - A study attributing the illusion to summed effects of cardinal axes in the observer's field of view and of salient axes in the figures.
  
• - Contains information on a visual illusion.
  
• - This site contains information pertaining to ongoing vision research.
  
• - Contains links laboratory research as well as links to the Navy Aerospace Experimental Psychology website, which Dr. Shilling edits.
  
• - A tutorial about sound that has many graphics that can be incorporated into a presentation or lecture on the topic.
  
• - Mainly algorithms (up-to-date; compiled by Laurenz Wiskott at The Salk Institute).
  
• - A survey of the discourse regarding emotions, sensations, and an attempt at producing an integrative approach to sensation and perception.
  
• - Electronic reprints of relevant publications on pitch, loudness, localization, and auditory display. (College of Wooster, USA)