| Description |
| Written
by experts in each of the five senses who convey the excitement of the
field to students, this introductory, full-colour text provides
comprehensive descriptions of vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
The second edition has been revised to include the most up-to-date
research and theories, and new coverage of key topics. |
| Key Features |
| Author(s) | Jeremy M. Wolfe |
| Publisher | Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. |
| Date of Publication | 25/02/2009 |
| Language | English |
| Format | Hardback |
| ISBN-10 | 0878939539 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780878939534 |
| Subject | Medicine: Textbooks & Study Guides |
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| Publication Data |
| Place of Publication | Sunderland |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Imprint | Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. |
| Out-of-print date | 20/12/2011 |
| Content Note | 368 |
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| Dimensions |
| Weight | 1547 g |
| Width | 222 mm |
| Height | 282 mm |
| Spine | 26 mm |
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| Editorial Details |
| Edition Statement | 2nd Revised edition |
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| Description |
| Table Of Contents | Introduction
The First Steps in Vision: Seeing Stars Spatial Vision: From Stars to
Stripes Perceiving and Recognizing Objects The Perception of Color
Space Perception and Binocular Vision Motion Perception Attention and
Scene Perception Hearing: Physiology and Psychoacoustics Hearing in the
Environment Music and Speech Perception Touch Olfaction Taste Spatial
Orientation and the Vestibular System |
| Author Biography | JEREMY
M. WOLFE is Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, USA.
His early work includes papers on binocular vision, adaptation, and
accommodation. Dr. Wolfe was trained as a vision researcher/experimental
psychologist and remains one today. The bulk of his recent work has
dealt with visual search and visual attention. He has taught
Introductory Psychology for over twenty years, first at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, where he won the Baker
Memorial Prize for undergraduate teaching in 1989, and now, also, at
Harvard. KEITH R. KLUENDER is Professor of Psychology at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. His research encompasses how
people hear complex sounds such as speech, how experience shapes the way
we hear, how what we hear guides our actions and communication,
clinical problems of hearing impairment or language delay, and practical
concerns about computer speech recognition and hearing aid design. Dr.
Kluender is deeply committed to teaching, and has taught a wide array of
courses, philosophical, psychological, and physiological. DENNIS M.
LEVI has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, USA since
2001. He is Dean/Professor in the School of Optometry and Professor at
the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. In the lab, Dr. Levi and
colleagues use psychophysics, computational modelling, and brain imaging
(fMRI) to study the neural mechanisms of normal pattern vision in
humans, and to learn how they are degraded by abnormal visual experience
(amblyopia). LINDA M. BARTOSHUK is Professor of Otolaryngology and
Psychology at Yale University, USA. Her research on taste has opened up
broad new avenues for further study, establishing the importance of the
genetic basis of taste preferences (and their impact on health) and
demonstrating the significant anatomical differences underlying these
preferences. Her work has also improved the treatment of oral pain in
cancer patients and people with neurological damage resulting in a loss
of taste. RACHEL S. HERZ is currently Visiting Assistant Professor in
the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour at Brown University
Medical School, USA. Her research focuses on olfactory cognition and
perception and the roles and features of emotion, memory, and language.
Using an experimental approach grounded in evolutionary theory and
incorporating both cognitive-behavioural and psychological techniques,
Dr. Herz aims to understand how biological mechanisms and cognitive
processes interact to influence perception, cognition, and behaviour
ROBERTA L. KLATZY is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon
University, USA, where she also holds faculty appointments in the Center
for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human--Computer Interaction
Institute. She has done extensive research on haptic and visual object
recognition, human navigation under visual and nonvisual guidance, and
motor planning. Her work has application to haptic interfaces,
navigation aids for the blind, exploratory robotics, teleoperation, and
virtual environments. SUSAN J. LEDERMAN is Professor of Psychology at
Queen's University, USA, with cross-appointments in the School of
Computing and in the Centre for Neuroscience. Her research interests
span both perception and cognition, with particular emphases on
psychophysics, haptic perception and recognition of objects and their
underlying neural processes and representations, multisensory
perception, and sensory-guided motor control. She has applied the
results of her research to a number of real-world problems, including
the design of haptic and multisensory interfaces for virtual
environments and teleoperation. |
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