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  1. Visual Input and Orientation in the Octopus (1973 Film)

    aka: Optomotor Responses in a Cephalopod2

    Director
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Andrew Packard, of the Zoological Gardens in Naples, gives a series of demonstrations of the effects on the baby octopus of rotating visual fields.

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  2. Inverting Spectacles and Erect Vision (1953 Film)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Subject wears mirror spectacles which have the effect of inverting his visual field; subject’s adaptation during the experiment.*

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  3. Optomotor Responses in a Cephalopod (1964 Film)

    Director
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Two series of experiments on the visual system of the octopus.

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  4. Adventures in Perception (1970 Film)

    Director
    Hans van Gelder
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The work of Ducth graphic artist Maurits Escher is a play of perspectives and illusions of forms and spaces in which he draws the impossible. Boundaries expand to infinity, and floors becomes ceilings and...

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  5. On Reflection: Jonathan Miller (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

    Four short programmes in which Jonathan Miller draws on geometry and perception to look at how artists use reflections and mirrors in their paintings. He explores not only how artists have found the...

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  6. Peripheral Agnosia: Early Disorders of Visual Object Recognition (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 38 min., 1996 sale: £50.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) - Erlbaum 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) - Uniview

    Case study showing a subject who has problems recognising objects and colours. He makes visual errors based upon piecemeal analyses of the objects. He cannot match objects for function, nor can he...

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  7. Black Sun (2007)

    Director
    Gary Tarn
    Producer
    Alfonso Cuarón; John Battsek
    Subject
    Philosophy; Psychology; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £12.99

    Painter Hugues de Montalembert was blinded in an attack in New York City in 1978. Without a shred of self-pity, he relates his extraordinary story of how he adapted his approach to the world after blindness,...

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  8. Video on Neglect (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 64 min., 1996 sale: £50.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Many patients who suffer stroke have to overcome a variety of behavioural problems which affect the quality of their daily lives. Helping such patients to cope successfully with the effects of their stroke...

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  9. Vision, Movement and Balance (1974 Film)

    Producer
    Eric Lucey
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Demonstrates that the detection of body movement, normally considered to be a function of proprioceptors, is in fact mediated to a very significant extent by visual feedback. The concept to the ‘optic flow...

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  10. Gombrich on Shadows (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

    Sir Ernst Gombrich presented an exhibition at the National Gallery in 1995 on the representation of cast shadows in painting - a subject combining the psychology of perception with the history of art. While...

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