Introduction to the Senses
eBook - PDF

Introduction to the Senses

From Biology to Computer Science

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Introduction to the Senses

From Biology to Computer Science

About this book

An understanding of the senses - vision, hearing, touch, chemical and other non-human senses - is important not only for many fields of biology but also in applied areas such as human-computer interaction, robotics and computer games. Using information theory as a unifying framework, this is a wide-ranging survey of sensory systems, covering all known senses. The book draws on three unifying principles to examine senses: the Nyquist sampling theorem, Shannon's information theory, and the creation of different streams of information to subserve different tasks. This framework is used to discuss the fascinating role of sensory adaptation in the context of environment and lifestyle. Providing a fundamental grounding in sensory perception, the book then demonstrates how this knowledge can be applied to the design of human-computer interfaces and virtual environments. It is an ideal resource for both graduate and undergraduate students of biology, engineering (robotics) and computer science.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Introduction to the Senses: From Biology to Computer Science
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1: Introduction and overview
  9. 2: Understanding sensory systems
  10. 3: Introduction to Fourier theory
  11. 4 Introduction to information theory
  12. 5 Hearing
  13. 6 Basic strategies of vision
  14. 7 The correspondence problem: stereoscopic vision, binaural hearing and movement
  15. 8: The properties of surfaces: colour and texture
  16. 9: The chemical senses
  17. 10: The somatosensory system
  18. 11: Non-human sensory systems
  19. 12: Sensory integration
  20. References
  21. Subject index