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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.

Auditory Perception Cognition and Action Meeting: APCAM - http://www.wooster.edu/apcam/
The goal of APCAM is to bring together researchers from various theoretical perspectives to present focused research on auditory cognition, perception, and action.

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.

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.

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.

MindJava - http://mindjava.com
Providing insight into memory formation, cognition, and learning.

Neuhoff, John - Auditory Perception Research - http://jneuhoff.com/
Electronic reprints of relevant publications on pitch, loudness, localization, and auditory display. (College of Wooster, USA)

Optical Flow Estimation Bibliography - http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~wiskott/
Mainly algorithms (up-to-date; compiled by Laurenz Wiskott at The Salk Institute).

Optical Illusions by Psych ARTS - http://www.psycharts.com/opt_illus.html
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.

Sensation and Perception Tutorials - http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/sen_tut.html
A small collection of tutorials and demonstrations in sensation and perception.

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.

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 Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis - http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jmkenney
Logtime is the psychochronometric hypothesis that our age is our basis for estimating long time intervals, resulting in a perceived logarithmic shrinkage of our years as we grow older.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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