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1 online resource (480 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Statement -- Copyright -- Dedication -- About the Authors -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Demonstrations -- Methods -- Preface -- Ch 1: Introduction to Perception -- Ch 1: Chapter Contents -- Ch 1: Some Questions We Will Consider -- Ch 1: Introduction -- Why Read This Book? -- The Perceptual Process -- Studying the Perceptual Process -- Measuring Perception -- Ch 1: Think About It -- Ch 1: Key Terms -- Ch 2: The Beginning of the Perceptual Process -- Ch 2: Chapter Contents -- Ch 2: Some Questions We Will Consider: -- Ch 2: Introduction -- Starting at the Beginning |
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Light, the Eye, and the Visual Receptors -- Focusing Light Onto the Receptors -- Receptors and Perception -- Electrical Signals in Neurons -- Neural Convergence and Perception -- Ch 2: Think About It -- Ch 2: Key Terms -- Ch 3: Neural Processing -- Ch 3: Chapter Contents -- Ch 3: Some Questions We Will Consider -- Ch 3: Introduction -- Inhibitory Processes in the Retina -- Processing From Retina to Visual Cortex and Beyond -- Do Feature Detectors Play a Role in Perception? -- Higher-Level Neurons -- Sensory Coding -- Ch 3: Think About It -- Ch 3: Key Terms -- Ch 4: Cortical Organization |
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Ch 4: Chapter Contents -- Ch 4: Some Questions We Will Consider -- Ch 4: Introduction -- Spatial Organization in the Visual Cortex -- Pathways for What, Where, and How -- Modularity -- Distributed Representation -- Where Perception Meets Memory -- Ch 4: Think About It -- Ch 4: Key Terms -- Ch 5: Perceiving Objects and Scenes -- Ch 5: Chapter Contents -- Ch 5: Some Questions We Will Consider -- Ch 5: Introduction -- Why Is It So Difficult to Design a Perceiving Machine? -- Perceptual Organization -- Perceiving Scenes and Objects in Scenes -- Connecting Neural Activity and Object/Scene Perception |
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Ch 5: Think About It -- Ch 5: Key Terms -- Ch 6: Visual Attention -- Ch 6: Chapter Contents -- Ch 6: Some Questions We Will Consider -- Ch 6: Introduction -- Scanning a Scene -- What Directs Our Attention? -- What Are the Benefits of Attention? -- Attention and Experiencing a Coherent World -- What Happens When We Don't Attend? -- Distraction -- Ch 6: Think About It -- Ch 6: Key Terms -- Ch 7: Taking Action -- Ch 7: Chapter Contents -- Ch 7: Some Questions We Will Consider -- Ch 7: Introduction -- The Ecological Approach to Perception -- Staying on Course: Walking and Driving -- Wayfinding |
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Acting on Objects -- Observing Other People's Actions -- Ch 7: Think About It -- Ch 7: Key Terms -- Ch 8: Perceiving Motion -- Ch 8: Chapter Contents -- Ch 8: Some Questions We Will Consider -- Ch 8: Introduction -- Functions of Motion Perception -- Studying Motion Perception -- Motion Perception: Information in the Environment -- Motion Perception: Retina/Eye Information -- Motion Perception and the Brain -- Motion and the Human Body -- Ch 8: Think About It -- Ch 8: Key Terms -- Ch 9: Perceiving Color -- Ch 9: Chapter Contents -- Ch 9: Some Questions We Will Consider -- Ch 9: Introduction |
| Summary |
This book tells the amazing story of perception -- how experiences are created by your senses and how you use these experiences to interact with the environment. You might be surprised to know that although perception is easy -- we see, hear, feel touch, and experience taste and smell without much effort -- the mechanisms that create perceptions are both extremely complex and hidden from our view. Sensation and perception unravels these complexities by taking you on a journey that describes perceptual research in a clear easy-to-understand way, and by linking the results of this research to your everyday experience |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-437) and indexes |
| Subject |
Senses and sensation -- Textbooks
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Perception -- Textbooks
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Senses and sensation.
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Perception.
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Sensation
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Perception
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Perception
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Senses and sensation
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Wahrnehmungspsychologie
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks
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Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brockmole, James R
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| ISBN |
9781305888326 |
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1305888324 |
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