Video and Multimedia

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Video Clips

In this video from the National Geographic Society, experimental neuroscientist Beau Lotto explores the world of optical illusions.
 
A discussion of perception and the brain, our lived experience of the world, and how it relates to being human.
 
A review of our ability to break down an image into its components (feature detection).
 
Dr. Irving Biederman, Harold W. Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, discusses the neural basis of object recognition.
 
A TED talk on how to relate illusions to happiness. How your visual expectations can be violated by perceptual illusions.
 
What is perception? What is the difference between sensing and perceiving? All this and more from Crash Course Psychology.
 
Neuroscientist and artist Beau Lotto demonstrates the secrets of the brain's visual system with his color games.
 
From Michael Britt's Psych Files, an examination of the  principles of proximity, closure, similarith and more.
 
Prof. Michael Turvey at the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, discusses nonrepresentational perception and action.
 
Harry Heft, Professor of Psychology at Denison University, discusses the ecological approach to perception and action.
 
Researchers at Stanford University compare motion perception from a fly's and a human's perspective.
 
What a magician’s tricks can tell you about how the perception works. How the brain controls what we focus on and what we don’t.
 
How magicians channel research on deception to trick audiences into falling for illusions, and brain researchers’ parallel interest in how magicians manipulate people’s mind.

 

Audio Clips

A report on research that whether or not we are fooled by visual illusions may depend on our visual cortex size.
 
Curveballs     
A report on research suggesting that curveballs are an optical illusion.