Sensation & PerceptionHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989 - 612 pages Now updated and revised with more than 600 new research citations, new chapters, and effective new pedagogy, Sensation and Perception, Sixth Edition provides broad, theoretically balanced coverage, along with late-breaking discoveries and new thinking on how we see, hear, taste, smell, touch, and make sense of our world. Featuring do-it-yourself demonstrations of actual perceptual phenomena, Coren, Ward, and Enns's interactive approach to sensation and perception enables you to use your own senses to understand this fascinating and dynamic field. Book jacket. |
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ability activity actually acuity adaptation amount appear attention auditory blue brain brightness called cause cells changes Chapter color complex cones contains cortex cues curve dark DEMONSTRATION DEMONSTRATION BOX depth detection direction discrimination distance effect example experience fact fibers field Figure frequency function green hair hear human important increase indicates individual intensity involves lateral less light longer look loudness means measure membrane move movement nerve neural neurons Notice object observer occur organization orientation pain particular pattern perceived perception physical pitch presented processing produce range receptors region relative represents response retina scale seems seen sense sensitivity sensory shape shown shows signal similar simple sound space spatial speech stimulus suggested task taste theory threshold tion tone types units usually varies vision visual wave wavelengths