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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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See how many times it takes people to get better at making a perfect score of zero on the Poggendorff Illusion.
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Explore what factors influence human ability to detect image forgeries manipulated by Adobe Photoshop.
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The Impact of Eye Dominance on the Interpretation of Optical Illusions
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Will girls perceive optical illusions with a higher percentage of accuracy than the boys?
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The Eye and Optical Illusions
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Determine if people perceive unstable optical illusions differently based on hand-dominance, eye-dominance, age and gender.
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Determine whether varying the size and color of inducing circles will affect the perception of the size relation between the standard and comparison (variable) circles.
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Do Left Brained People Perceive Optical Illusions Differently from Right Brained People?
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Do gifted students see optical illusions differently from average students?
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Visual Perception Science Fair Projects and Experiments
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High School - Grades 10-12
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Investigate Emmert's law, which is the basis for the full moon illusion.
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Research magic tricks and illusions and explain how and why they work.
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Contingent Color/Edge Adaptation: McCollough Effect
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See if there is a difference in the number of hidden 3-D pictures ('Magic Eye" pictures) right and left handed persons are able to see.
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Determine if gender affects visual selective attention.
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Evidence for gender differences in visual selective attention; P Merritt, E Hirshman, W Wharton, B Stangl, J Devlin, a Lenz; Personality and Individual Differences (2007); Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 597-609
Visual Perception Science Fair Projects and Experiments
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Useful Links
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R=Resource
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Psychology and Human Behavior Resources
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Psychology Biography: Psychologists and Psychiatrists
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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