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Restless Curiosity!!

Date: 24 Nov 2008

The links below will open up a PDF copy of John Simonetts presentation from the branch AGM held on the 17th November 2008.  Unfortunately due to the size of the original file it has been necessary to split it into 5 sections.

WMHealthcareNov08s1.pdf

WMHealthcareNov08s2.pdf

WMHealthcareNov08s3.pdf

WMHealthcareNov08s4.pdf

WMHealthcareNov08s5.pdf

 

The gorilla video which was used during the presentation is copyrighted and has therefore been removed from the files above.  However, it is available to view on the following website:

http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html (please note that this file is quite large - 6mb)

There are several other "selective attention" type tasks.....featuring
"inattentional blindness" -  e.g. some where you have to "spot the
difference" between similar photographs etc 
http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/djs_lab/demos.html  Have a browse!  


 also some amazing optical illusions at
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/index.html

this one has some colour perception illusions that you won't believe!
http://www.echalk.co.uk/amusements/OpticalIllusions/illusions.htm
(it has a nice demo of the upside down face illusion if you click on "Mona
Lisa")

And here's some of those clever upside down cartoons by Gustave Verbeek:
http://www.planetperplex.com/en/gustave_verbeek.html

 

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