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ISBN 10: 1317723015
ISBN 13: 9781317723011
Author: George Mather
The study of sensation and perception looks at how we acquire, process, and interpret information about the outside world. By describing key ideas from first principles, this straightforward introduction provides easy access to the basic concepts in the subject, and incorporates the most recent advances with useful historical background. The text takes a uniquely integrative approach, highlighting fundamental findings that apply across all the senses – including vision, hearing, touch, pain, balance, smell and taste – rather than considering each sense in isolation. Several pedagogical features help students to engage with the material. ‘Key Term’ and ‘Key Concept’ boxes describe technical terms and concepts whilst ‘Question’ boxes relate the material to everyday questions about perception. Each chapter ends with suggestions for further reading, and the final chapter draws together the material from the previous chapters, summarizing the broad principles described, and outlining some major unresolved issues. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book is an accessible and up-to-date overview of the processes of human sensation and perception. Presented in full color, it is an ideal introduction for pre-undergraduate and first year undergraduate students on courses in psychology, as well as neuroscience and biology.
Essentials of Sensation and Perception 1st Table of contents:
1 Sensory receptors
Introduction
Transduction
Classes of sensory receptor
Evaluation
2 Sensory pathways and cortical processing
Introduction
Sensory pathways
Cortical processing
Parallel pathways
Evaluation
3 The senses and the brain
Introduction
Clinical case studies
Brain stimulation studies
Neuroimaging
Single-unit recordings
Evaluation
4 Psychophysics
Introduction
Weber and Fechner
Thresholds
Limits of sensory detection
Adaptation
Evaluation
5 Perception as information processing
Introduction
Mathematical foundations of cognitive science
Representation in perception
Computation in perception
Evaluation
6 Population codes in perception
Introduction
The principle of univariance
Population codes
Sparse codes and inhibition
Illusions
Evaluation
7 Perceptual inference
Introduction
Bottom-up and top-down processing in perception
The perception of ambiguous stimuli
Bayesian theories of ambiguity resolution
Evaluation
8 Multi-sensory processing
Introduction
Psychophysical studies of multi-sensory processing
Bayesian approaches to multi-sensory interaction
Physiological and anatomical evidence for multi-sensory processing
Synesthesia
Evaluation
9 Consciousness and perception
Introduction
Mind and brain
Neural correlates of consciousness
Theories of causation in consciousness
Consciousness as a spandrel
Evaluation
10 Summary and future directions
Introduction
Major themes
Future directions
Future applications of perceptual science
Evaluation
Glossary
References
Author index
Subject index
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