Sensation and Perception
eBook - ePub

Sensation and Perception

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sensation and Perception

About this book

Maintaining the strong pedagogy, abundant student-friendly examples, and engaging conversational style of the previous editions, the seventh edition of this introductory textbook introduces sensation and perception in an accessible and reader-friendly way.

Covering a wide range of core topics, the book explores skin senses such as touch, chemical senses like taste and smell, and our complex visual and auditory systems. Behavioral, physiological, and neuroscience studies are also used to emphasize a holistic approach to the field. This edition includes additional up-to-date material on facial recognition and prosopagnosia, tinnitus, and pain perception. Each chapter also features content on changes in perception across the lifespan, as well as medical disorders that disrupt perception. The book is packed with real-world examples and practical applications of psychological phenomena, and is also accompanied by downloadable resources to test and extend student learning.

Written in an engaging conversational style, the seventh edition of Sensation and Perception is ideal reading for undergraduate students of psychology and any students who are beginning to specialize in cognitive psychology and biological psychology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Chapter 1 Introduction
  9. Chapter 2 Research Methods
  10. Chapter 3 The Visual System
  11. Chapter 4 Early Visual Processing
  12. Chapter 5 Shape and Pattern Perception
  13. Chapter 6 Color
  14. Chapter 7 Depth and Size Perception
  15. Chapter 8 Motion
  16. Chapter 9 The Auditory System
  17. Chapter 10 Basic Auditory Functions
  18. Chapter 11 Auditory Pattern Perception
  19. Chapter 12 The Skin Senses
  20. Chapter 13 The Chemical Senses: Taste and Smell
  21. Glossary
  22. References
  23. Index