Cognitive Psychology: Theory, Process, and Methodology
Video and Audio
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Video Clips
Teller Talks: The Science Behind Magic Tricks
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.
Being Human: Perception and the Brain
A discussion of perception and the brain, our lived experience of the world, and how it relates to being human.
Visual Illusions That Show How We (Mis)think
A TED talk on how to relate illusions to happiness. How your visual expectations can be violated by perceptual illusions.
Vision: Feature Detection and Parallel Processing
A review of our ability to break down an image into its components (feature detection).
Do We Experience the World as It Really Is?
The role of evolution in developing sensory and perceptual systems that support reproductive fitness versus accurate representations of reality.
Short clip that vividly describes embodied visual perception.
Audio Clips
V.S. Ramachandran’s Tales of the “Tell-Tale Brain”
An overview of studies that illustrate how people see, speak, conceive beauty and perceive themselves and their bodies in 3D space. An example emphasized through is the phenomenon known as “Phantom Limb.”
A report on research that whether or not we are fooled by visual illusions may depend on our visual cortex size.
A report on research suggesting that curveballs are an optical illusion.
Color perception is not just simply the detection of light waves, but rather a constructive process of the mind.