Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Sensation and Perception: Psychology
Complete learning unit on sensation and perception. Comprehensive multi-media learning materials with activities, assignments, text and assesment.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Perception
Try one of these 33 perception activities in your classroom.
Other
All Psych: Chapter 5: Section 3: Perception
Through studying the sensory system this article will help learners evaluate the power of perception through visual sensation.
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Alley Dog: Psychology Class Notes: Sensation and Perception
The study of psychophysics is the psychological perception of the physical experiences of sensations humans encounter. These notes detail the science behind the two sciences and dives into the way they work together.
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Simply Psychology: Visual Perception Theories
Bottom-Up Processing and Top-Down Processing are two schools of thought when scientists discuss how humans perceive the senses which they experience. This article explores the two theories of visual perception and cites evidence and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Sensory Perception Questions
This is a ten-question quiz pertaining to sensory perception.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Different Ways of Knowing
Daniel Tammet has linguistic, numerical and visual synesthesia- meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are woven together into a new way of perceiving and understanding the world. The author of "Born on a Blue Day,"...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: An Exercise in Time Perception
Why is that some experiences feel like they last forever, while others fly by? We tend to miscalculate the time it takes to engage in novel activities due to the influence of memories. Matt Danzico explains why your childhood feels like...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Proect Ideas: Investigating Inattentional Blindness
The goal of this human behavior science fair project is to investigate inattentional blindness and visual perception and see what percentage of a test population notices an unexplained object in a video. The Science Buddies project ideas...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: I See a Full Moon Rising, and Shrinking, or Do I?
The moon appears bigger at the horizon just as it is rising over the treetops, than it does later in the evening when it is overhead. This is because our perception of its size changes based on where it is in the sky. In this human...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Life's Little Questions: Tickling in the Lab
Investigate whether it is possible to tickle yourself, and explain how spoken and tactile directions may interfere with the tickle sensation.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Thread the Needle
Learn about depth perception in this needle-threading activity.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Size and Distance
An experiment in depth perception where you investigate how you perceive the size and distance of objects with one eye closed.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Mirrorly a Window
Understand that what you see is often affected by your expectations of what you think you should see. This activity will explore the sensation you feel when your brain expects to see something.
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Monell Chemical Senses Center: Areas of Research: Sensation and Perception
Overview of how chemical signals from animals mark territories, identify individuals, signify social rank, and indicate reproductive and health status.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Now You See It, Now You Don't: A Chromatic Adaptation Project
This project shows that our perceptions can change, even with the stimulus remains the same. A clear color difference in an image disappears after just 20 seconds of looking at another (special) image.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Are Your Eyes Playing Tricks on You?
Yogi Berra said "You can observe a lot by just watching." In this human biology science fair project, you will observe how your eyes perceive color by watching afterimages. Afterimages are what you see after staring at an object for...
Boston University
Boston University: Project Lite: Motion
A large collection of online activities for exploring how our eyes perceive real and apparent motion.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: The Brains Behind 'Where's Waldo?'
What makes you notice someone in a crowd? Why do some things stand out, while others melt into the background? In this experiment you can investigate the psychology of how things get noticed, by studying how our brains perform a visual...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Psychology: Biological Foundations
Virtual learning course on human biology and brain function and how it affects our behaviors. Extensive collection of engaging materials, assignments, and activities for review.
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: Brain Machine Interfaces: Your Brain in Action
Brain-machine interfaces (BMI), or brain-computer interfaces (BCI), is an exciting multidisciplinary field that has grown tremendously during the last decade. In a nutshell, BMI is about transforming thought into action and sensation...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Color Is Tuesday? Exploring Synesthesia
How does one experience synesthesia- the neurological trait that combines two or more senses? Synesthetes may taste the number 9 or attach a color to each day of the week. Richard E. Cytowic explains the fascinating world of entangled...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Whirling Watcher
Make a stroboscope and investigate how to make it seem like the image you look at appears to move.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Ideasthesia: How Do Ideas Feel?
The traditional model of our mental function is that first our senses provide data to our brain, which then translates those senses into the appropriate mental phenomena: light into visual images, air vibrations into auditory...