Vision
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Note: updated files for Fall '07, updated on Nov 3, 2007 @ 5 pm
Vision (part ) 12MB
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Hearing Colors by Ramachandran & Hubbard, Scientific American
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watch video: "Stress, trauma, and the brain" (part 2) | ||
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| Multiple choice questions |
eye dissection (web) eye dissection (handout) |
Face perception (Stuart Anstis, UCSD) 10' talk | ||
| why do 3-D movies hurt your eyes? (Engber, Slate magazine) | Discovering psychology Ch. 7, Sensation & Perception | |||
| Perception (part 1) Old Lecture (sp06) | Going binocular (NPR-whyy Robert Krulwich June 26, 2006). Plasticity in visual system (very good) | |||
| evolution of the eye (4 mins) |
USEFUL LINKS
Check out this visual illusion (giraffe)
- Label the human eye! requires shockwave (it's downloadable and free)
- Test your knowledge on the anatomy of the eye and nervous system (U Minessota, click here)
-Play around on this site to better understand center-surround receptive fields (on-center, off-center)
-Confused about opponent-process theory of vision? Here's a good description of it and tri-chromatic theory.
-look through the eyes of a newborn (secret life of the brain, pbs)
- Check out this visual illusion after studying color vision
- Cow eye dissection for kids
- Neurological Eye Simulator (UC Davis): Simulates eye movement and allows you to run a neurological examination
- How does the world looks like if you are color blind? If you have cataracts? Miopia? For other tutorials click here (Don Kline, U. Calgary)
- another website illustrating color blindness
- Color map for deuteranomaly and other types of color blindness. Another similar site