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Further information Resources

Recommended Reading:

• Psychology the Science of Behaviour by Carlson (1993).
• Principles of Neural Science by Kandel et al (1991).
• Can you Believe Your Eyes? by J. Richard Block and Harold E. Yuke. Published by Gardner Press. A fantastic collection of illusions, ideal for beginners.
• The Human Brain: A Guided Tour by Susan Greenfield. Published by Harper Collins as part of the Science Masters series. An interesting book about what we do and don't know about our own brains.
• How Brains Think by William H Calvin. Published by Harper Collins as part of the Science Masters series. This book takes an evolutionary biology approach to examining why our brains are the way they are and how they work.
• The Eye Beguiled by Bruno Ernst. Published by Benedikt Taschen. This book concentrates on impossible figures and is very thorough, and a little technical.

Hints on how to find even more information

In the library, the approximate shelf numbers to look for are:

• 150 for Psychology (152 for Illusions)
• 612 for Human Biology (including the brain)
• 500-509 for History of Science

Recommended Listening:

Musical Illusions and Paradoxes by Diana Deutsch, Philomel Records. http://www.philomel.com/ .  An amazing collection of auditory illusions very reasonably priced. Well worth buying for school resources, if not home use. Also has a very useful explanatory booklet.

Web Sites to Visit:

Questacon's interactive Incredible Illusions.

Excellent collection of online illusions with thorough explanations provided at two levels of complexity. http://www.illusionworks.com/index.html .

An impressive list of online brain resources, mostly non-technical. http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/ ~ggay/brain.htm .

Online Illusions at the Exploratorium in San Francisco .

Check this out for memory games to play with your students, also from the Exploratorium. They are great ways to learn about the brain, pick up some very useful memory skills and have fun at the sometime. http://www.exploratorium.edu/ memory/dont_forget/ playing_games.html .

Recommended Viewing:

The Human Body series as seen on BBC & ABC television.