Sensation & perception

Wolfe, Jeremy M. (author.). Kluender, Keith R. (author.). Levi, Dennis M. (author.).

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781605359724 (hardcover)
Physical Description: xxiii, 522 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Edition: Sixth edition.
Publisher: New York : Sinauer Associates: Oxford University Press, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	Revised edition of Sensation & perception, 2017.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- The first steps in vision: from light to neural signals -- Spatial vision: from spots to stripes -- Perceiving and recognizing objects -- The perception of color -- Space perception and binocular vision -- Attention and scene perception -- Visual motion perception -- Hearing: physiology and psychoacoustics -- Hearing in the environment -- Music and speech perception -- Vestibular sensation -- Touch -- Olfaction -- Taste.