January 30, 2005
Category: Color perception • Perception • Research
How do we see things in color? How do we know objects stay the same color when the color of the light they reflect changes as the lighting changes? We see this effect most dramatically in the theater, where the...
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January 26, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Today's reading delves deep into the visual system, so hold your breath and get ready to dive in. It's "Sound-aided Recover from and Persistence Against Visual Filling-in" by Bhavin Sheth and Shinsuke Shimojo of Caltech (Vision Research, 2004). I even...
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January 24, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Today's reading is "The Influence of Head Contour and Nose Angle on the Perception of Eye-Gaze Direction" by Stephen Langton, Helen Honeyman, and Emma Tessler, of University of Stirling (Perception and Psychophysics, 2004). We're exceptionally good at telling where someone...
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January 20, 2005
Category: Film • Memory • Music • Research
Today's reading is "Musical Soundtracks as a Schematic Influence on the Cognitive Processing of Filmed Events," by Marilyn G. Boltz of Haverford College (Music Perception, Summer 2001). All film is illusion. The illusion of motion is created by a sequence...
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