PsyCog: Explorations in Perception and Cognition

Wyttenbach, Robert A.

ISBN 10: 0878939504 ISBN 13: 9780878939503

Publisher: Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press, 2006

PsyCog is a CD-ROM of over 40 interactive demonstrations and 18 data-generating experiments in sensory and cognitive psychology. The demonstrations include interactive explanatory figures, demonstrations of phenomena, and common visual illusions for which the student can vary many parameters. The experiments generate quantitative data, including data files and graphs that can be saved and printed.

The demonstrations and experiments are standard visual illusions illustrated in textbooks but with one important difference. Because PsyCog's presentation is interactive, students can run experiments with themselves and their friends as subjects. Even for those illusions for which this approach does not work, students can adjust many parameters to determine which result in the strongest effect.

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About the Author:

Robert A. Wyttenbach joined the Emory Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology program in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University in 1995, and stayed on to continue his research in insect hearing and to develop teaching materials with support from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Wyttenbach has given many faculty neurophysiology teaching workshops with others on the Cornell team. He is currently developing a neurophysiology lab course at Emory and also teaches freshman and senior seminars.

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