Illustrations from: Basic Vision: An Introduction to Visual Perception, by Robert Snowden, Peter Thompson & Tom Troscianko, Oxford University Press (2006)
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Vection
An illusion where the brain perceives movement in large areas of peripheral vision and mistakes it for movement of your head
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Emmet's Law
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Muller-Lyre Illusion
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Habituation
.png "Inverting Goggles - Placing prisms over an animal's eyes turns their vision upside-down. After a time the visual system compensates for the change, and must compensate again when the goggles are removed")
Inverting Goggles
Placing prisms over an animal's eyes turns their vision upside-down. After a time the visual system compensates for the change, and must compensate again when the goggles are removed
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Spotlight of Attention
.png "Needle in a Haystack - Finding a needle in a haystack")
Needle in a Haystack
Finding a needle in a haystack
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Skinnydipping Dons
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Same Race Effect
.png "WW1 Neural Injuries - Explosions with shrapnel in the first world war left many people with brain injuries, some received injuries to specific areas and suffered very specific loss of function, indicating the role of that section of the brain")
WW1 Neural Injuries
Explosions with shrapnel in the first world war left many people with brain injuries, some received injuries to specific areas and suffered very specific loss of function, indicating the role of that section of the brain
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Eye Movements and Cricket
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fMRI Probing
.jpg "Vection - An illusion where the brain perceives movement in large areas of peripheral vision and mistakes it for movement of your head")
.jpg "Emmet's Law -")
.jpg "Muller-Lyre Illusion -")
.jpg "Habituation -")
.jpg "Inverting Goggles - Placing prisms over an animal's eyes turns their vision upside-down. After a time the visual system compensates for the change, and must compensate again when the goggles are removed")
.jpg "Spotlight of Attention -")
.jpg "Needle in a Haystack - Finding a needle in a haystack")
.jpg "Skinnydipping Dons -")
.jpg "Same Race Effect -")
.jpg "WW1 Neural Injuries - Explosions with shrapnel in the first world war left many people with brain injuries, some received injuries to specific areas and suffered very specific loss of function, indicating the role of that section of the brain")
.jpg "Eye Movements and Cricket -")
.jpg "fMRI Probing -")