
Sensation and Perception
Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 17. December 2014
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Hardback
800 pages
978-1-60535-211-4 (ISBN)
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Why does the sky look blue? Why does sugar taste sweet? Fully revised and updated, this introductory, full-colour text is written by experts in each of the five senses who convey the excitement of the field to students, providing comprehensive descriptions of the science behind vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
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4th ed. 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
Sunderland
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Revised edition
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800 p.
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978-1-60535-211-4 (9781605352114)
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Persons
Jeremy M. Wolfe is Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School, USA.
Keith R. Kluender is Professor and Head of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, USA.
Dennis M. Levi is Professor of Vision Science and Optometry at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
linda m. bartoshuk is Bushnell Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida, USA.
Rachel S. Herz is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour at Brown University Medical School, USA.
Roberta L. Klatzky is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, where she also holds faculty appointments in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Susan J. Lederman is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Queen's University, Canada.
Daniel M. Merfeld is Professor of Otology and Laryngology at the Harvard University Medical School, USA.
Keith R. Kluender is Professor and Head of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, USA.
Dennis M. Levi is Professor of Vision Science and Optometry at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
linda m. bartoshuk is Bushnell Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida, USA.
Rachel S. Herz is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour at Brown University Medical School, USA.
Roberta L. Klatzky is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, USA, where she also holds faculty appointments in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Susan J. Lederman is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Queen's University, Canada.
Daniel M. Merfeld is Professor of Otology and Laryngology at the Harvard University Medical School, USA.
Content
1. Introduction.- 2. The First Steps in Vision: From Light to Neural Signals.- 3. Spatial Vision: From Spots to Stripes.- 4. Perceiving and Recognizing Objects.- 5. The Perception of Color.- 6. Space Perception and Binocular Vision.- 7. Attention and Scene Perception.- 8. Motion Perception.- 9. Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics.- 10. Hearing in the Environment.- 11. Music and Speech Perception.- 12. Spatial Orientation and the Vestibular System.- 13. Touch.- 14. Olfaction.- 15. Taste.