Eye of Horus

Psyc/Biol 240 - Psychology and Biology of Perception
Section 3 - Material from Lectures


. Outline of Topics Covered in Class Lectures
. Things to look at:
Sinusoidal Gratings
Square Wave Synthesis
Simple Cells as Spatial-Frequency Analyzers
Orientation Adaptation - The Tilt Aftereffect
Feature Integration Theory (Treisman)
The Color Circle
Laws of Additive Color Mixture - scanned image of handout from class.
Mixing Complementary vs. Non-Complementary Colors
Color Afterimages
Color Contrast
Color-Opponent Mechanisms
The Response of Color-Opponent Mechanisms to Different Wavelengths

Links to other Web sites with specific information covered in this section of the course:
Visual Search - This is the demonstration of a typical Visual Search experiment that I show you in class, by Dr. Greg Francis at Purdue University.
How do we see colors? - Recent color research, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Colorblindness Test - Ishihara Plates, a popular test for colorblindness, provided by Applied Inspection, Ltd.
. Go to Review Terms for Exam 3.

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Updated August 15, 2004.