Exploritorium Sensation and Perception Exhibits

If you have never had the opportunity to check out the Exploratorium Page, block off the next three months and go to http://www.exploratorium.edu/ For those not having that kind of time, go to http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/nf_exhibits.html to view a number of exhibits (activities) specific to sensation and perception.

The exhibits for Seeing include:

• Mix-n-Match - You can mix just three colors of light to make over 16 million different colors!
• Depth Spinner - Does it feel like the walls are closing in?
• Changing Illusions - Tease your brain with five interactive illusions.
  
• Fading Dot - If you stare at this dot, for few moments it disappears
• Cafe Wall Illusion - Interact with the Cafe Wall Illusion.
• Postcard Exhibits - Four exhibits small enough to fit on postcards.
• Sliding Gray Step - Is it light gray or dark gray? It depends on the surroundings.
• Shimmer - Your eye movements make this design seem to shimmer.
• Trapezoidal Window - Sometimes things are not as they appear.
• Bird In A Cage - When your color vision tires, you can see colors that aren't really there.
• Squirming Palm - Can you make your palm squirm?
• Mona - Leonardo's famous model is used in an interesting perceptual experiment.
• The Temple Illusion - This ancient temple holds a secret...can you reveal the mystery?

The exhibits for Hearing include:

• Can You Find the Highest Note? - Three auditory illusions created by students from the Center for Electronic Art.
• Ladle Rat Rotten Hut - Listen to the story of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.
• Vocal Vowels - Hollow plastic models of the human vocal tract turn the squawk of a duck call into vowel sounds.

Please be aware many of the above activities require a specific program (Shockwave, QuickTime VR, or Real Audio). As you have time, explore the other exhibits on the page especially those in the Mind section.

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