"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"--
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Sensation and Perception
This book combines sensation and perception with all biological-sensory aspects of perception with all biological-sensory aspects of perception covered from an evolutionary point of view. It raises the key question:...
Examines how the human brain receives, processes, and comprehends information through the five senses.
Sensation & Perception introduces students to their own senses, emphasizing human sensory and perceptual experience and the basic neuroscientific underpinnings of that experience.
E. Bruce Goldstein's SENSATION AND PERCEPTION, the best-seller which has helped over 150,000 students understand the ties between how we sense the world and how the body interprets these senses,...
This cutting edge text presents both a cognitive and neurocognitive perspective of modern sensation and perception, connecting concepts to real-world applications to provide the reader with a deeper theoretical understanding.
Now updated and revised with more than 600 new research citations, new chapters, and effective new pedagogy, Sensation and Perception, Sixth Edition provides broad, theoretically balanced coverage, along with late-breaking...
That question was of great interest to Eleanor J. Gibson (1910–2002), who was married to James J. Gibson (remember his direct perception approach). In classic studies, Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk (1960) studied depth perception with ...
The new edition of this successful book provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the sensory systems--vision, audition, touch, taste, and smell. In each case the neural machinery relating sensation...