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    McCollough Effect Experiments and Resources

      Definition

      The McCollough effect is a phenomenon in which a black and white densely stripped picture appears colored after looking, for a few seconds or more, at a rotated colored stripped picture.

      See demonstration: http://www.wyrmcorp.com/galleries/illusions/mccollough.shtml

      Background Information

    • McCollough effect - Wikipedia [View Resource]
    • The McCollough Effect - An On-line Science Exhibit [View Resource]
    • McCollough effect [View Resource]
    • McCollough Effect Demonstration [View Resource]
    • Celeste McCollough: life and work [View Resource]

      K-12 Experiments and Science Fair Projects

    • Colors in Psychology Science Fair Projects and Experiments [View Experiment]
    • Contingent Color/Edge Adaptation: McCollough Effect - Science Fair Project [View Experiment]
    • The McCollough Effect Demonstration: After Effects [View Experiment]
    • The McCollough Effect Experiment Instructions [View Experiment]

      College Experiments, Studies and Articles

    • The McCollough effect reflects permanent and transient adaptation in early visual cortex [View Experiment]
    • How the rate of colour alternation influences (a) the effective chromatic contrast available to induce a McCollough effect and (b) visual awareness mechanisms. [View Experiment]
    • The McCollough effect reveals orientation discrimination in a case of cortical blindness [View Experiment]
    • The McCollough effect with plaids and gratings: Evidence for a plaid-selective visual mechanism [View Experiment]
    • McCollough Effect to “Form”: A Local Phenomenon [View Experiment]
    • Thalamocortical dynamics of the McCullough effect: boundary-surface alignment through perceptual learning [View Experiment]

      Theses and Dissertations

    • Simulating the McCollough Effect in a Self–Organizing Model of the Primary Visual Cortex [View Thesis]
    • Neural network model of thalamocortical dynamics, adaptive boundary-surface alignment, and the McCullough effect [View Thesis]
    • The qualitative character of spatial perception [View Thesis]
    • Hand-eye correlation: an arbitrary sensorimotor contingency can alter visual sensitivity [View Thesis]



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