Comparative Perception: Basic Mechanisms v. 1
Published on 16. January 1990
Book
Hardback
544 pages
978-0-471-63167-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume features sections on discrimination, localization and development, with chapters on several sensory modalities including vision, hearing, taste and touch. It covers a variety of problems related to such sensory and perceptual phenomena as contrast sensitivity, sound localization, movement discrimination and development. The section on development focuses on animal studies but also includes related studies on preverbal human children. The text has been aimed at biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, graduate students in sensory biology and psychology, and researchers in related fields.
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Edition
Volume 1 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Ill.
Dimensions
Height: 62 mm
Width: 44 mm
Weight
964 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-63167-5 (9780471631675)
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Content
Perception in Animal Behavior (W. Stebbins); DISCRIMINATION; Epicritic Sensations of Primates (C. Vierck & B. Cooper); Auditory Frequency Selectivity (D. Smith, et al.); Visual Aftereffects in the Cat (M. Berkley); Perception of Drug Effects (R. Balster); Olfactory Perception (B. Slotnick); The Sense of Flutter--Vibration in Monkeys and Humans (R. LaMotte); LOCALIZATION; Sound Localization and Binaural Processes (C. Brown & B. May); Sound Localization in Mammals: Brain-Stem Mechanisms (R. Heffner & R. Masterson); Echolocation in Dolphins (W. Au); Localization of Auditory and Visual Targets for the Initiation of Saccadic Eye Movements (M. Jay & D. Sparks); Eye-Hand Coordination and Visual Control of Movement: Studies in Behaving Animals (A. Georgopoulos); DEVELOPMENT; Vision Following Loss of Cortical Directional Selectivity (T. Pasternak); The Perception of Musical Patterns by Human Infants: The Provision of Similar Patterns by Their Parents (S. Trehub); Experimentally Induced and Naturally Occurring Monkey Models of Human Amblyopia (R. Boothe); Behavioral Assessment of Visual Acuity in Human Infants (V. Dobson); Index.