Sensation and Perception Illusions and Demonstations

Steven Yantis

Visual illusions and Demonstrations:

ViberLib (free but requires registration)

Illusions Gallery

Storkey Illusions Page

George Mather Motion Demos

Stewart Anstis Demo page

Bach illusions page

Akiyoshi's Illusions

Color aftereffect
Visual Perception Links
The Joy of Visual Perception: A web book

3D Demos, anaglyphs

Hypercube
Blake Demos
Anaglyph Gallary
Mars Anaglyphs

Speech Demonstrations

McGurk Effect
Birdsong demos
Phonemic restoration effect

Motion Demonstrations

Anomolous Motion Illusion (click on "Rotating Snakes" icon, then "Explanation")
Reverse Spoke
Waterfall
Counter-rotating spirals
Reichardt demo
Biological Motion
Aperture demo (and several other nice demos)
Barberpole Illusion
George Mather Motion Demos
Stewart Anstis Demo page

Attention Demonstrations

Change Blindness (flicker)
Real World Change Blindness
Movie continuity error site

General vision science links:

Classic Readings in Visual Perception
Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World
VisionScience
Useful numbers in vision science

Brain maps:

last revised 8/3/2009