Synopsis
A thorough revision of the field's most comprehensive and respected text, this book provides unusually lucid coverage of all senses plus unique treatments of the perception of music and time. This third edition: includes the latest research; includes some historical perspectives; has updated information on psychophysics; includes expanded treatment of colour vision defects, spatial frequency analysis, motion pictures, visual illusions, pain and subjected-psychological factors in pain perception, motion sickness, and auditory localization and speech perception; includes a section on the motion of the receptor field on skin, lemniscal and spinothalmic tracts; has a new chapter on taste preferences; and has numerous pedagogical features to help make the material more accessible to the student.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
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: How do the senses gather and secure information about the outside world? This basic question is addressed by explaining how the physical world interacts with and stimulates the senses, and, in turn, how the sense and the nervous system transform, integrate, and process the stimulation.
Présentation de l'éditeur
How do the senses gather and secure information about the outside world? This book addresses this basic question by explaining how the physical world interacts with, and stimulates the senses, in turn, how the senses and the nervous system transform, integrate, and process the stimulation.
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