Sensation and Perception
Published on 1. January 2006
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-0-87893-938-1 (ISBN)
Description
Co-authored by experts in each of the five senses, "Sensation and Perception" is an introductory text that gives students the most up-to-date and accurate descriptions of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting. The text is student-friendly with useful anecdotes and full-colour illustrations throughout. A companion website provides activities and demonstrations as well as additional reading topics for added depth. The book supplements: Instructor's Resource CD-ROM.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sunderland
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 220 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-87893-938-1 (9780878939381)
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Richard A. Abrams | Steven Yantis
Sensation and Perception
Book
08/2016
2nd Edition
Worth Publishers Inc.,U.S.
€67.40
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Jeremy M. Wolfe
Sensation and Perception
Book
01/2009
2nd Edition
Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
€76.94
Article is exhausted; no reprint
Content
Introduction - The First Steps in Vision: Seeing Stars - Spatial Vision: From Stars to Stripes - Object Recognition - Color Vision - Binocular Vision and Space Perception - Motion Perception - Attention and Scene Perception - Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics - Hearing in the Environment - Music and Speech - Cutaneous Senses - Olfaction - Taste