This page allows you to access web-based demonstrations of some phenomena being studied in Robert Sekuler's laboratory in the Volen Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University.
These demonstrations will enhance your appreciation of human vision. You'll see for yourself how challenging vision's tasks are, and how fragile visual memory --including memory of what you have just seen-- can be. To view the demonstrations, your computer must have Adobe's Flash player installed. This player is a free download.
Currently available demonstrations:
- Visual memory --test your ability to recognize things that you've only just seen.
- Audio-visual interaction --explore sound's ability to alter what you see.
- NEW! Test your ability to imitate series of simple hand gestures.
- Visuomotor imitation --test your ability to reproduce abstract movement patterns you've just seen.
- Imitate Masha's gestures --test your ability to reproduce complex gestures made by a realistic animated human.
- Sample results from a study of visuomotor imitation. See how others have done.
For more information on the lab's research or to send comments about the demonstrations, e-mail the Lab Director.