Photo credit: Anson Vogt / phong.com.Harvard's Visual Cognition Laboratory wants you... as a guinea pig! Head on over and participate in their inaugural visual cognition experiment. The test is short and shouldn't take more than 10 minutes of your time. While online experiments are nothing new, research into visual cognition has previously thought to be untenable on the web:

Vision research tends to require very tight controls over the timing of the display, the size of the display, etc. New technology has made it increasingly reasonable to try doing vision research on the Internet. At the same time, care needs to be taken to pick experiments that can tolerate somewhat lax control over timing, etc.

I've signed up for e-mail notices from their Google Group so hopefully when the results are in I'll be able to tell you more about the experiment and what conclusions were drawn.

Hat tip: Omni Brain.

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