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	Mind Hacks - http://www.mindhacks.com/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks discussed and perhaps explained. Companion site to the "Mind Hacks" book by Tom Stafford and Matt Webb.
	The Moon Illusion Explained - http://facstaff.uww.edu/mccreadd/ A relatively new theory is offered for the classic illusion that the moon's constant subtended visual angle of half a degree appears larger for the horizon moon than for the zenith moon.
	Chronological History of Vision Research - http://www.socsci.uci.edu/cogsci/vision/yellott_dates.html Useful chronology by Jack Yellott.
	IllusionWorks - http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/ A multimedia museum of optical and sensory illusions, with on-line demonstrations and explanations.
	Sensation and Perception Tutorials - http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/sen_tut.html A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception.

	Optical Flow Estimation Bibliography - http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~wiskott/ Mainly algorithms (up-to-date; compiled by Laurenz Wiskott at The Salk Institute).
	Neuhoff, John - Auditory Perception Research - http://jneuhoff.com/ Electronic reprints of relevant publications on pitch, loudness, localization, and auditory display. (College of Wooster, USA)
	Visual Science Group: University of Helsinki - http://www.helsinki.fi/science/visci/ Research at the Department of Psychology, is focused on human visual processing using psychophysical methods.
	The Noh Mask Effect - http://www.kasrl.org/noh_mask.html Demonstrates illusory facial expression perception with Japanese Noh masks. Links to publications about the effect.
	Smarandache's Law - http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/psychology.htm An improvement of Weber's and Fechner's Laws on sensations and stimuli. A paradoxical complex, an optical illusion, and a test of intelligence.

	Mind Bluff - http://mindbluff.com A family-friendly collection of tactile illusions, mental deceptions, optical tricks, brain puzzlers, and feeling games to play on the self.
	Optical Illusions by Psych ARTS - http://www.psycharts.com/illusions.htm We think we perceive objective reality, but perception is always altered by invisible biases. We are never free of the state-dependent bias, and so we are continually taken in by an illusion.
	Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications - http://www.visualillusion.net/ Matthew Luckiesh's book of this title, published in 1922, was the first scientific explanation of optical illusions to be published.
	The Blanking Phenomenon and its Psychoanatomical Implications - http://tigger.uic.edu/~mikel/VSS/VSS2003.pdf J J McAnany and M W Levine of the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago provides information on this visual illusion.
	Some Visual Illusions - http://wisebytes.net/illusions/ This site shows a range of common visual illusions along with a brief explanation of why they occur. It was originally prepared to show at a children's primary school as part of their study of sensory processing.

	The Poggendorff Illusion - http://www.soapsheet.com A study attributing the illusion to summed effects of cardinal axes in the observer's field of view and of salient axes in the figures.
	The Manifold of Sense - http://samvak.tripod.com/sense.html A survey of the discourse regarding emotions, sensations, and an attempt at producing an integrative approach to sensation and perception.
	Vision Laboratory Macquarie University - http://vision.psy.mq.edu.au/ Contains information about current research into human visual perception. Features material from some of the courses run by the psychology department and information about staff and students.s
	Affective Epistemology - http://neoscience.org/affectiv.htm Affective epistemology is based on the idea that there is a way of knowing which transcends, specific perceptual frames. This idea is predicated on affective components as indicating the quality of a given perception, thought form, or way of being in the consciousness of human beings and other sentient life.
	HuWI.org: The Purple Perils of James Gibson - http://huwi.org/gibson/index.php A collection of notes compiled by James J. Gibson, 1904 - 1979, for his perception seminars.

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