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Psychology · Perception
Illusion Lab
Find your blind spot, make colours that are not there, shrink a person in an Ames room and find out how much your brain guesses.
Psychology · Perception
Illusion Lab
Find your blind spot, make colours that are not there, shrink a person in an Ames room and find out how much your brain guesses.
The course
7 worlds · 28 lessons
World 1 · Your Brain Builds the World
FREESensation, perception, the blind spot and the tricks of brightness
World 2 · Colours That Are Not There
PROThree cones, opposing colours, the dress and colour-vision differences- 01Three cones, millions of coloursWhy a screen can make yellow from red and green · 10 minPRO
- 02Afterimages and opponent coloursColours that appear after you look away · 10 minPRO
- 03Colour constancy and the dressThe brain subtracts the lighting · 9 minPRO
- 04When colour vision differsMany ways to see colour · 9 minPRO
World 3 · Two Eyes, One Depth
PROStereo vision, one-eye cues, parallax and 3D screens
World 4 · The Room That Shrinks People
PROSize constancy, the Ames room, context illusions and expectation
World 5 · Impossible Objects and Ambiguous Pictures
PROGestalt grouping, two-way pictures, the Penrose triangle and edges that are not there
World 6 · Time, Motion and Attention
PROReaction time, apparent motion, the invisible gorilla and the cost of multitasking