1. Perception and Sensation

2. Mom is calling…

3. Like trying to identify a person with upside down face…top down processing
According to neuropsychologist Richard Gregory, "The strong visual bias of favoring seeing a hollow mask as a normal convex face is evidence for the power of top-down knowledge for vision". This bias of seeing faces as convex is so strong it counters competing monocular depth cues, such as shading and shadows, and also very considerable unambiguous information from the two eyes signaling stereoscopically that the object is hollow. 

5. Read, really quick… Ready?

7. What did you read?

9. More top down…but it is not true
This text circulated on the internet in September I first became aware of it when a journalist contacted a my colleague Sian Miller on 16th September, trying to track down the original source. It's been passed on many times, and in the way of most internet memes has mutated along the way. It struck me as interesting - especially when I received a version that mentioned Cambridge University! I work at Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, in Cambridge, UK, a Medical Research Council unit that includes a large group investigating how the brain processes language. If there's a new piece of research on reading that's been conducted in Cambridge, I thought I should have heard of it before...

10. A Necker cube is at left. What do you see
A Necker cube is at left. What do you see? Gestalt is an organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes

11. An experiment in selective attention
An experiment in selective attention. If you have seen this, don’t be a spoiler!

12. Watching a movie. Listening to a debate. Eavesdropping
Watching a movie. Listening to a debate. Eavesdropping. Whatever the situation, when we pay close attention to spoken words, we can become “deaf” to other sounds—even ones that come from a guy in a goofy gorilla suit, new research suggests.
Psychologists have long known that selective attention (concentrating closely on one particular thing) affects the way you perceive the surrounding world.
This was demonstrated in dramatic fashion in the celebrated “invisible gorilla“ experiment. For the research, psychologists Dr. Daniel Simons and Dr. Christopher Chabris asked study participants to watch a fast-paced video in which a group of people pass a basketball and to count how many times certain people tossed the ball. Actually, you try it (watch the video above).
Did you notice the gorilla in the room? In the middle of the video, a person in a gorilla suit walks into the frame—a seemingly obvious intrusion that was noticed by only about half of the participants in Dr. Simons’ study. It wasn’t that the participants weren’t paying attention but their selective attention had caused inattentional blindness.
Now a new study shows that this same phenomenon occurs with hearing. For her “silent gorilla“ study, psychologist Dr. Polly Dalton of the Royal Holloway-University of London asked study participants to listen to two recorded conversations—one between two men and another between two women. In the midst of the conversations, a male voice repeated the phrase “I’m a gorilla” for 19 seconds (you can listen to a demo on Dr. Dalton’s website).
The “gorilla man” didn’t go completely unnoticed. About 90 percent of study participants said they heard it when listening to the men’s conversation—but only 30 percent noticed the intrusive voice when listening to the women’s conversation, Dr. Dalton told The Huffington Post in an .
“This is nothing to do with women’s conversations being inherently different from men’s,” Dr. Dalton said. “In fact, the men and women were all talking about preparing for a party, so there was no difference in the subject matter. Instead, we think that people noticed the gorilla when attending to the men’s conversation because the gorilla himself was male, so he was relevant to the task that those participants were carrying out.”
The bottom line, Dr. Dalton said, is that even seemingly obvious distractions can be missed when attention is focused elsewhere—and that this is true whether the distraction is visual or aural in nature.
“The most interesting finding from this research is just how strong these effects of attention can be,” she said. “Most of our participants found it hard to believe that they could have missed such a surprising and distinctive sound.”
Dr. Dalton’s study, conducted with research associate Nick Fraenkel, is slated for publication in the journal Cognition.

14. Teen Driver Cell Phone Statistics 11 teens die every day as a result of texting while driving. According to a AAA poll, 94% of teen drivers acknowledge the dangers of texting and driving, but 35% admitted to doing it anyway. 21% of teen drivers involved in fatal accidents were distracted by their cell phones.

15. Change Blindness is failing to notice change(s) in the environment

16. What are reasons for change blindness?

20. Signal detection theory: predicting how and when we detect the presence of faint stimuli amid background noise

21. Sensory adaptation: diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation.

24. Look left or right, but not middle…

27. ESP or Extrasensory perception, aka sixth sense, includes reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind. 
Do you believe in:
Telepathy (mind-to-mind communication
Clairvoyance (perceiving remote events)
Precognition (predicting the future)
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28. ESP: is it real? Real controversy!

29. James Randi…what a crock!