Wednesday,+February+4,+2009

=**Wednesday February 4, 2009**=

-Notes/Examples of Sensation Concepts -Video Clips on Vision

Next Time:

Read Chapter 5--Read 209-225 Blog Response from my Google Reader Archive: View/Read/Answer the questions for 5 (although all 10 are pretty cool).
 * 1) http://www.davidoreilly.com/2008/07/rotating-grid-illusion What did you see? Why is it happening?
 * 2) http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/11/ganzfeld_hallucinati.html What is the Ganzfeld procedure? What is the outcome? Would you participate in this?
 * 3) http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/11/chromadepth_stereo_viewer.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 How does this post related to the txt reading on depth perception? Use vocab in your post. Be specific.
 * 4) Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4 then go here and watch the video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/michael_shermer_on_believing_strange_things.html How did you do on the awareness test? What does Michael Shermer say about the demonic lyrics in Stairway to Heaven?
 * 5) http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/10/synaesthesia_induced.html What did hypnosis allow subjects to do?
 * 6) http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html View 10 of the 80 illusions...identify the 2 "strongest" illusions. By "strongest," I mean that the deception or illusion really works.
 * 7) http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=seeing-is-believing-aug-08 What are the basic principles of shading in order to get 2-D to look 3-D?
 * 8) http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/psychology-of-magic-3-critical.php Read the txt and watch the 4 video clips then answer: How is psychology used to perform magic tricks?
 * 9) http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/03/50-of-college-students-think-we-see.php Are you smarter than a college student (when it comes to vision)?
 * 10) http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-neuroscience-of-illusion Explain the neuroscience of 3 illusions....be sure to embed or link to the illusion you are talking about.

http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm <--backmasking site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backmasking <--wikipedia entry on backmasking