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Sensation & Perception, Sixth Edition, introduces students to their own senses, emphasizing human sensory and perceptual experience and the basic neuroscientific underpinnings of that experience. The authors, specialists in their respective domains, strive to spread their enthusiasm for fundamental questions about the human senses and the impact that answers to those questions can have on medical and societal issues.
List of contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. The First Steps in Vision: From Light to Neural Signals
- Chapter 3. Spatial Vision: From Spots to Stripes
- Chapter 4. Perceiving and Recognizing Objects
- Chapter 5. The Perception of Color
- Chapter 6. Space Perception and Binocular Vision
- Chapter 7. Attention and Scene Perception
- Chapter 8. Visual Motion Perception
- Chapter 9. Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics
- Chapter 10. Hearing in the Environment
- Chapter 11. Music and Speech Perception
- Chapter 12. Vestibular Sensation
- Chapter 13. Touch
- Chapter 14. Taste
- Chapter 15. Olfaction
About the author
Jeremy M. Wolfe is Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School.
Keith R. Kluender is Professor and Head of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University.
Dennis M. Levi is Professor in the School of Optometry and Professor at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.
Linda M. Bartoshuk is Bushnell Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida.
Rachel S. Herz is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and Part-time Faculty in the Psychology and Neuroscience Department at Boston College.
Roberta L. Klatzky is the Charles J. Queenan Jr. Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also holds faculty appointments in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Daniel M. Merfeld is Professor of Otolaryngology at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Senior Vestibular Scientist at the Naval Medical Research Unit in Dayton.
Summary
Sensation & Perception, Sixth Edition, introduces students to their own senses, emphasizing human sensory and perceptual experience and the basic neuroscientific underpinnings of that experience. The authors, specialists in their respective domains, strive to spread their enthusiasm for fundamental questions about the human senses and the impact that answers to those questions can have on medical and societal issues.
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Sensation & Perception is clearly-written, with well-placed examples and graphics to effectively demonstrate the components and the significance of perception. Students will like the succinctness and simplicity of the author's writing style.
