Computerized Tutorials: Animation vs. Modeling

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1. Introduction
   • Experiment 1.x: Muller-Lyer Illusion
   • Interactive Illustration 1.x: Size Constancy
   • Interactive Illustration 1.x: What is this Figure?
   • Interactive Illustration 1.x: Motion Aftereffect
   • Interactive Illustration 1.x: Phi Phenomenon
     • 1.x a: Hyper Phi
   • Interactive Illustration 1.x: Visual Search
     • 1.x a: Find the Y.
     • 1.x b: Find the Y.
2. Psychophysics
   • Interactive Illustration 2.x: Basic Ideas
   • Experiment 2.x: Absolute Threshold
   • Experiment 2.x: Discrimination Threshold or JND
   • Interactive Illustration 2.x: Asking Questions
   • Interactive Illustration 2.x: Effect of Distance
   • Experiment 2.x: Method of Limits
   • Experiment 2.x: Method of Constant Stimuli
   • Experiment 2.x: Method of Adjustment
   • Experiment 2.x: Forced Choice
   • Experiment 2.x: A Signal Detection Experiment
   • Interactive Model 2.x: Signal Detection Theory
   • Interactive Model 2.x: Decisions In SDT
   • Interactive Model 2.x: Receiver Operating Characteristic
   • Interactive Illustration 2.x: Weber's Law
   • Experiment 2.x: Weber's Law Experiment
   • Interactive Illustration 2.x: Logarithms
   • Interactive Illustration 2.x: Fechner's Law and JND
   • Experiment 2.x: Magnitude Estimation
   • Experiment 2.x: Magnitude Estimation 2
   • Interactive Illustration 2.x: Data from Both Magnitude Estimation Experiments (not developed - need a replacement if data not available).
   • Interactive Illustration 2.x: Fechner's Law vs. Steven's Law
   • Linear Interpolator
3. The Stimulus and Anatomy of the Visual System
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x:  The Basics of Waves
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x:  Light Measures
   • Interactive Figure 3.x: The Eye
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: Basic Focusing
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: Accommodation
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: Visual Corrections
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: Presbyopia
   • Animation 3.x: Astigmatism
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: Comparing Eyes
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: Eye Placement and Optic Axes
   • Interactive Figure 3.x: The Retina
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: Blind Spot
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: Responses of Retinal Cells
   • Experiment 3.x: Ganglion Cell Receptive Fields
   • Experiment 3.x: Ganglion Cell Types
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: From Eye to LGN
   • Experiment 3.x: Simple and Complex Cells
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x: From Center Surround to Simple Cells
   • Interactive Illustration 3.x, Simple Hypercolumns
4. Fundamental Limits of Vision

   • Experiment 4.x: Spatial Summation

   • Experiment 4.x: Spectral Sensitivity

   • Animation 4.x: Simulation of Going from Photopic to Scotopic Vision

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Purkinje Shift

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Flicker Motion

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Temporal Summation

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Sense of Scale

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Dark/Light Adaptation

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Dark Adaptation Curve

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Acuity and Stimuli

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Visual Angle

   • Experiment 4.x: Acuity and Retinal Location

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Vernier Acuity

   • Experiment 4.x: Measuring Vernier Acuity

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Vernier Acuity and Lines

   • Interactive Illustration 4.x: Saccadic Eye Movements

   • Experiment 4.x: Backward Masking

5. Form and Contour
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Landolt C
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Basics of Contours
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Contrast and Form
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Contour and Form
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Filling-in
   • Experiment 5.x, Lateral Inhibition {temporary PowerPoint version}
   • Experiment 5.x: Mach Bands
     • Mach Bands Try 2
   • Experiment 5.x: Lateral Inhibition in Receptive Fields
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x, Mach Bands and Receptive Fields
   • Experiment 5.x Lateral Inhibition Effects
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Simultaneous Contrast
   • Experiment 5.x: Measuring Simultaneous Contrast
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Sharp and Blurred Edges
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Brightness Assimilation
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x : Types of Gratings
   • Experiment 5.x: Contrast Thresholds and Sensitivity
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Waveforms in Objects
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Addition of Waves and Gratings
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Fourier Analysis
   • Experiment 5.x: Blakemore-Sutton Effect
     • Spatial Frequency Calculator
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Blakemore-Sutton Effect Explained
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Illusory Contours
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Laws of Proximity and Similarity
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Law of Good Continuation
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Law of Closure
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Law of Symmetry
   • Interactive Illustration 5.x: Law of Common Fate
6. Color
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Dimensions of Color
   • Experiment 6 x: Newton's Prism Experiment 
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Effect of the Illuminant
   • Experiment 6.x: Color Matching Experiment
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Color Matching in a Monochromat
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Color Matching in a Dichromat
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x Trichromatic Theory
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Color Matching in a Trichromat
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: 1931 CIE Diagram
   • Experiment 6.x: Color Naming
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Complementary Colors
   • Experiment 6.x: Color Aftereffects
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Simultaneous Color Contrast
     • Advanced Version
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Simultaneous Color Contrast Example
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Early Color Vision
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Early Color Vision Explanation of Color Aftereffects
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Anomalous Trichromacy
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Dichromacy
   • Simulations of Dichromacy
     • Protanopia
     • Deuteranopia
     • Tritanopia
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Color Confusions in Dichromacy
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Early Color Vision and Dichromacy
   • Experiment 6.x: Color Camouflage
   • Experiment 6.x: McCollough Effect
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Behnam's Top and Fechner Colors
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Color Assimilation
   • Interactive Illustration 6.x: Color Filling-in
7. Motion
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Frame of Reference
   • Experiment 7.x: Motion Sensitivity and Retinal Location
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Flicker Motion
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Apparent Motion
     • Interactive Figure 7.x a: Phi Phenomenon
   • Experiment 7.x: Motion Aftereffect
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Induced Motion
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Motion Recruitment
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Local Motion
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Contour Motion
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Law of Common Fate
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Structure from Motion
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Form from Moving Contours
   • Interactive Illustration 7.x: Biological Motion
8. The Third Dimension
   • Interactive Illustration 8.x Pictorial Cues to Depth

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Contradictory Depth Cues

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Accommodation

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Motion Parallax Illustrated

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Motion Parallax

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Optic Flow

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Vergence

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Disparity

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Binocular Disparity and the Horopter

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Types of Binocular Disparity

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Stereopsis

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x Random Dot Stereograms
   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Panum's Fusional Area

   • Interactive Illustration 8.x: Binocular Suppression and Rivalry

9. Constancy and Illusions
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Size, Distance, and Retinal Image Size
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Size Constancy
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Emmert's Law vs. Size Constancy
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Emmert's Law and Stereoscopic Depth
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Emmert's Law and Monocular Depth Cues
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Shape Constancy
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Shape Constancy and Depth Cues
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Brightness Constancy
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Simultaneous Contrast
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Lateral Inhibition and Simultaneous Contrast
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Light and Color
   • Experiment 9.x: Color Aftereffect
   • Experiment 9.x: Land's Mondrian Experiment
   • Media Figure 9.x: Color Constancy
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: The Ponzo Illusion
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: Mueller-Lyer Illustion
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: The Necker Cube
   • Interactive Illustration 9.x: The Brick Illusion
10. Fundamentals of Audition
    • Interactive Illustration 10.x: Sound Basics
    • Interactive Illustration 10.x: Phase and Cancellation
    • Interactive Illustration 10.x : Timbre
    • Experiment 10.x: Ohm's Acoustical Law
    • Interactive Illustration 10.x: Spectrum Analyzer
    • Interactive Illustration 10.x: Fourier Analysis in Audition
    • Interactive Illustration 10.x: Steven's Law Review
    • Interactive Illustration 10.x: The Decibel Scale
    • Experiment 10.x: Find a Sound Half as Loud
    • Experiment 10.x: Frequency Response of the Ear
    • Experiment 10.x: Equal Loudness Contours
    • Experiment 10.x: Frequency Discrimination
    • Interactive Illustration 10.x: Volley Principle
11. Complex Auditory Phenomena
    • Interactive Illustration 11.x: Duration and Tone Quality
    • Interactive Illustration 11.x: Missing Fundamental
    • Experiment 11.x: Masking and Critical Bands
    • Interactive Illustration 11.x: The Musical Scale
    • Interactive Illustration 11.x: Stereo Basics
    • Interactive Illustration 11.x: Binaural Cues for Direction
12. Skin Senses
13. Chemical Senses
14. Sensory Interaction
15. Perceptual Development