Sensation & Perception

Top-Down & Bottom-Up Processing

Summary: This video compares and contrasts two different models of sensation and perception, and explains how both models might be utilized by us.

 

Inattentive Blindness

Summary: Using a ball passing activity video to demonstrate inattentive blindness

 

Manipulation of Sound Waves to Generate Two Different Sounds

Summary: A computer-generated voice is capable of generating two different words at the same time. Depending on the individual, you might hear one or another.

 

Basics of the Gestalt Principles

Summary: The Gestalt Principles are a series of hypotheses defined by German Psychologists in the 1920's. They stated that "the whole is something else than the sum of its parts" and break down how relationships between design elements are formed and interpreted by the human mind.