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Teaching

Demonstrations, tutorials, and other pedagogical resources for students, instructors, or enthusiasts of perception

MATLAB

Introductory MATLAB Exercises for Psychology of Perception Classes Colour Vision

This tutorial presents and explains three introductory MATLAB exercises suitable for course content related to vision and colour perception within a Psychology of Perception module.

Simulating colour blindness using MATLAB Colour Vision

This tutorial explains and presents, step by step, MATLAB commands that allow for a qualitative, albeit simplified, simulation of the perceptual results of dichromacies.

How to create anaglyphs in MATLAB Spatial Perception

Brief tutorial describing and explaining, step by step, how to create red-cyan anaglyphs using MATLAB.

The Marr & Poggio Cooperative Algorithm – Flatland version Spatial Perception

A step-by-step implementation of Marr and Poggio’s (1976) cooperative algorithm for binocular disparities in MATLAB, adapted to Flatland to facilitate an understanding of its underlying logic for teaching purposes.

PsychoPy

Introducing PsychoPy and its basic elements Introduction

This text provides a brief introduction to PsychoPy, explains its interface, and describes some of the most common elements involved in preparing an Experimental Psychology task.

Demonstrations and Tutorials

A real-life demonstration of the Checker-Shadow Illusion Colour Perception

This demonstration offers instructions to recreate the Checker-Shadow Illusion with real objects.

An interactive demonstration of the Müller-Lyer illusion Optical-Geometric Illusions

Instructions for constructing, out of card, an interactive demonstration of the Müller-Lyer illusion.

Creating Random-Dot Stereograms with PowerPoint Spatial Perception

Tutorial on a simple way of creating Random-Dot Stereograms using only PowerPoint.

How to See 3D Images Without Any Equipment (Apart from Your Eyes) – From Simple Stereograms to Autostereograms Spatial Perception

A complete guide with exercises of increasing difficulty for viewing 3D images without any equipment – from simple stereograms to autostereograms.

Psychophysics

Fitting Psychometric Functions with Excel Data Analysis

This tutorial explains how to fit psychometric functions using the Least Squares Method in Microsoft Excel, enabling the estimation of the Point of Subjective Equality and the Difference Threshold from empirical data.