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PsyCog: Explorations in Perception and Cognition
Robert A. Wyttenbach, Cornell University
2006
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PsyCog is a CD-ROM of over 40 interactive demonstrations and 18 data-generating experiments in sensory and cognitive psychology. The demonstrations include interactive explanatory figures, demonstrations of phenomena, and common visual illusions for which the student can vary many parameters. The experiments generate quantitative data, including data files and graphs that can be saved and printed.
The demonstrations and experiments are listed in detail below (see Topics Covered). Many of these are standard visual illusions illustrated in textbooks, but with a difference. Because PsyCog’s presentation is interactive, students can run experiments with themselves and their friends as subjects. Even for those illusions for which this approach does not work, students can adjust many parameters to determine which result in the strongest effect.
Topics Covered
* generate quantitative data that students could use in a lab or project ** generate data files and graphs that could be handed in as part of a lab report)
Size and the Retina
- Visual angle (interactive explanation; examples)
- Sinusoidal gratings
- Color Vision
- Color aftereffect (demo and experiment*)
- Opponent process simulation
Brightness and Contrast
- Brightness contrast (demo and experiment*)
- Hering grid illusion and variant – adjust parameters
- Concentric bands illusion and explanation
- Color contrast (two demos)
- Wertheimer-Benary illusion
- Munker-White illusion
- Cornsweet effect
- Bezold effect
Visual Motion
- Motion aftereffect (demo and experiment*)
- Kitaoka illusory motion illusion
- Leviant illusory motion illusion
- Pinna illusory motion illusion
Depth Perception
- Ocular cues to depth perception (interactive explanation)
- Binocular disparity (interactive demo; vary disparity and see depth change)
- Stereo viewer types (interactive demo)
Size Illusions
- Muller-Lyer*
- Poggendorf*
- Ponzo*
- Vertical-Horizontal*
- Vertical Bisection*
- Ebbinghaus-Delboeuf*
- Lipps*
Vision, Miscellaneous
- McCollough effect
- Troxler effect
Sound Localization
- Interaural time and intensity difference (interactive demo and explanation)
- Jeffress model (interactive explanation)
- Cues beyond ITD and IID (examples of stereo sounds)
Pitch Perception
- Tritone paradox**
- Tritone player (interactive demo)
- Infinite and illusory scales (interactive demo)
Language
- Categorical Perception, Labeling curve **
- Categorical Perception, Discrimination test**
- Ba/Pa continuum (auditory demo)
- Voice-onset time (explanation)
- Stroop effect (reaction time experiment** and demo)
Visual Search
- Disjunct features**
- Conjunction of features**
- Hemispheric Interference**
Attention
- Card trick demo
Iconic Memory
- Whole report demo
- Partial report demo
- Whole versus Partial report**
- Effect of array size**
- Decay of icon**
- Effect of masking**
- Estimate from cyclic visual noise*
Echoic Memory
- Estimate from cyclic noise*
Scanning of Working Memory
- Sternberg Memory Search**
Implicit Learning
- Experiment**
- Control**
- Retention Tests**
- Explanation of artificial grammar used above
- Eyewitness Testimony
- Loftus' experiment condition A**
- Loftus experiment condition B**
- Police Lineup photo spread**
- Police Lineup sequential test**
- Police Lineup demo (for lectures)
Mental Imagery
- Mental Rotation** (with 6 possible variations for extended projects)
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PsyCog: Explorations in Perception and Cognition | 0-87893-950-4 | $26.95 | Purchase | Request Exam Copy |
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Sensation and Perception, Second Edition Interactive eBook with PsyCog Bundle available in US and Canada only. This bundle includes: Sensation & Perception, Second Edition PsyCog: Explorations in Perception and Cognition | 978-0-87893-958-9 | $91.20 | Purchase | Request Exam Copy |
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Sensation and Perception, Second Edition bundled with PsyCog Bundle available in US and Canada only. This bundle includes: Sensation & Perception, Second Edition PsyCog: Explorations in Perception and Cognition | 978-0-87893-956-5 | $124.10 | Purchase | Request Exam Copy |
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