Psych 319: Sensation and Perception Research and Theoretical Systems (RATS)

Intro and Overview

• IRB form

APA style and paper guidelines

• Template paper
• APA style “catching mistakes” exercise
• Deciphering journal articles handout
• Jordan and Zanna (1999). How to read an article in social psychology.

Data Visualization

• Cudmore, B. (Nov 2014). Five ways to lie with charts. Nautilus Magazine.
• Interactive federal budget for 2015
• Healy, K. (February 3, 2015) Another look at the California vaccination data. kieranhealy.org [Blog post]
• Schmidt, B. (2015). Gendered language in student evaluations.
• Kurilla, B (Feb 5, 2015). A day in the life of a college student. Geek Psychologist. [Blog Post]

Inferential Approach

• Vanderbilt, T. (Nov, 2014). How your brain decides without you. Nautilus Magazine.
• von Hemlholtz, H. (1894). The origin and correct interpretation of our sense impressions.
• Demonstrations – enter your data using this link
  • Online Stroop Effect – demo
  • Muller Lyer Illusion – demo
  • Horizontal-vertical illusion – demo
  • Face Perception – sign up for an account login,
    • Then click on “Experiments” in the right bar
    • Do two experiments: “What emotion? (male faces)” and “What emotion? (female faces)”
  • Moving ring silences color changes – demo
    • Start at 90%, watch for a few seconds, then move down by 5% until you notice something
    • Record the % at which you noticed

 Transactionalism

•  Behrens, R. (1987). The life and unusual ideas of Adelbert Ames. Leonardo, v20. 3. pp 273-279
• Ittleson, W. (1952). The Ames demonstrations in perception. (selections)
  • ittelson – 1 – intro rooms glasses
  • ittelson – 2 – chair demo
  • ittelson – 3 – bouncing ball
  • ittelson – 4 – conclusion

Construction

• Rock, I. (1983). The logic of perception. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (selections)

Psychophysics activities

• Freiburg vision test

The Dress Readings

• Collection of popular articles about the dress
• Disrobing the dress – NYU advanced illusion class
• Motoyoshi, Nishida, Sharan & Adelson (2007 ) Image statistics and the perception of surface qualities

Gestalt Approach

•  Köhler, W. (1969). The task of Gestalt Psychology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Fun lab/demo activities
  • Shift game for figure/ground
  • Audio puzzler game
  • Floppy music
    • Eye of the Tiger
    • Billie Jean
    • James Bond theme
  • Contact ring juggling for grouping by common fate
  • More contact ring juggling
  • Illusion songs

Two Visual Systems

• Goodale.M.A. and Milner, A.D. (2011) Sight unseen: An exploration of conscious and unconscious vision. Oxford University Press.
  • Goodale Milner pt 1
  • Goodale Milner pt 2

Computational Approach

• Ng, A (2015) Google Brain’s co-inventor tells why he’s building Chinese neural networks.
• Marr, D. (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information,  San Francisco: Freeman

Ecological Approach

• Proffitt, D. R. (1999)  Inferential vs ecological approaches to perception

Embodied

Proffitt, D.R. (2006) Embodied perception. Perspectives on Psychological Science