Sensation & Perception
(Sprache: Englisch)
Why does the sky look blue? Why does sugar taste sweet? Fully revised and updated, this introductory, full-colour text provides comprehensive descriptions of the science behind vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
The authors, specialists in their...
The authors, specialists in their...
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Why does the sky look blue? Why does sugar taste sweet? Fully revised and updated, this introductory, full-colour text provides comprehensive descriptions of the science behind vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste.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. The book is appropriate for courses in Sensation and Perception taught in the Psychology Department, and for courses in Perception, Sensory Systems, and Psychology of Perception.
New to This Edition:
The "Scientists at Work" feature looks at an important discovery and explains the process of experimentation and hypothesis testing.
"Questions to Contemplate" are a series of questions that appear at the beginning of each chapter that the student should be able to answer after reading the chapter.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Sensation & Perception “
Preface.- 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. The Vestibular System and Our Sense of Equilibrium.- Chapter 13. Touch.- Chapter 14. Olfaction.- Chapter 15. Taste.
Autoren-Porträt von Jeremy Wolfe, Keith Kluender, Dennis M. Levi, Linda Bartoshuk, Rachel S. Herz, Roberta Klatzky, Daniel Merfeld
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.Daniel M. Merfeld is Professor of Otology and Laryngology at the Harvard University Medical School, USA.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Jeremy Wolfe , Keith Kluender , Dennis M. Levi , Linda Bartoshuk , Rachel S. Herz , Roberta Klatzky , Daniel Merfeld
- 624 Seiten, Maße: 22,1 x 27,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 1605356417
- ISBN-13: 9781605356419
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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