Sensation and Perception

E. Goldstein, James Brockmole

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781305580299
• eBook ISBN: 9781305888326
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

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. The text is supported by beautiful color illustrations, a media program that makes perception come alive (in the MindTap digital learning solution), and learning aids to help you understand and remember what you have read.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Statement
• Copyright
• Dedication
• About the Authors
• Brief Contents
• Contents
• Demonstrations
• Methods
• Preface
• Ch 1: Introduction to Perception
• Ch 2: The Beginning of the Perceptual Process
• Ch 3: Neural Processing
• Ch 4: Cortical Organization
• Ch 5: Perceiving Objects and Scenes
• Ch 6: Visual Attention
• Ch 7: Taking Action
• Ch 8: Perceiving Motion
• Ch 9: Perceiving Color
• Ch 10: Perceiving Depth and Size
• Ch 11: Hearing
• Ch 12: Hearing II: Location and Organization
• Ch 13: Speech Perception
• Ch 14: The Cutaneous Senses
• Ch 15: The Chemical Senses
• Appendix A: Methods of Adjustment and Constant Stimuli
• Appendix B: The Difference Threshold
• Appendix C: Magnitude Estimation and the Power Function
• Appendix D: The Signal Detection Approach
• Glossary
• References
• Name Index
• Subject Index