Main description:

Sensation & Perception, Sixth Edition, 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.

Contents:

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. Vestibular Sensation
Chapter 13. Touch
Chapter 14. Taste
Chapter 15. Olfaction