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Series on animal perception, showing the world from the animal’s angle. 1: Examines and experiences the senses animals posess but people do not. A shark, for example, has an electronic sense, that enables...
Looks at theories of colour perception. The tradition theory holds that humans see colour because there are cones in the eye which analyse the red, green and blue components of objects. Dr Edwin Land, who...
A humorous animation film about a therapist who invents spectacles to cure a patient’s inferiority complex. It shows the psychology of how defences are built up through stages of human development from...
Because animals’ eyes have evolved and adapted to meet their own special needs, their view of the world is often very different from humans’. Shows visualisations of the natural world through the eyes of...
Looks at how a particular combination of visible wavelengths reaching the eye is interpreted as a particular colour. Trichromacy is shown to be the basis of colour vision from Young’s overlapping colour...
Series looking at the human brain, in particular, its role in controlling the mind, memory, language, sight, fear and movement. 1: What part, if any, does the brain play in understanding or controlling...
Tom Bower, Professor of Child Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, has been engaged in research on the intellectual abilities of very young children for over 20 years. He now believes that babies can...
Demonstrates what visual illusions tell us about the normal processes of perception by presenting a selection of illusions in the context of various theoretical frameworks. The two main approaches are...
Prey-catching behaviour. Analysis of the visual-key-stimulus ‘prey’ through experiments with dummies (worm/anti-worm configuration). Behaviour with changing stimulation-background contrast. Direction,...
Self-conditioning of the common toad to prey smell and modification of the innate releasing mechanism for prey capture behaviour. ‘Hand conditioning’. Fine differentiation of prey dummies by...
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