Sensation and Perception

Sensation and Perception is a cutting-edge, easy-to-understand account of the modern sensation and perception field presented from both a cognitive and neurocognitive perspective. The book’s rich examples and applications to everyday life emphasize such high-interest topics as music, clinical applications, neuropsychology, and animal perception systems. Clear, illustrative diagrams and figures along with an extensive collection of online activities allow readers to interact with the phenomena covered in the text, perform experiments, and gain a deeper understanding of key course concepts. 

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: What is Perception? Introduction: Why is the Study of Sensation and Perception Important? Why Is This Psychology? The Myth of Five Senses The Basics of Perception The History of Sensation and Perception Applications of Sensation and Perception and Avoiding Collisions Chapter 2: Research Methodology The Measures and Methods of Psychophysics In Depth: Psychophysics In Assessment: Hearing Tests and Vision Tests Chapter 3: Visual System: The Eye Light The Eye Anatomy of the Retina The Duplex Theory of Vision Retinal Ganglion Cells and Receptive Fields Refractive Errors and Diseases of the Eye and Perception Chapter 4: Visual System: The Brain The Optic Nerve and Chiasm The Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (LGN) The Superior Colliculus Primary Visual Cortex The Organization of V1 V2 and Beyond Functional Pathways in Visual Cortex Where does Vision Come Together? Development of the Visual System In Depth: Blindsight Chapter 5: Object Perception What is Object Perception? Top-down Processing and Bottom-up Processing Perceptual Organization Recognition by Components The Neuroanatomy and Physiology of Object Perception In Depth: Vision and Animacy Chapter 6: Color Perception Wavelengths of Light and Color Hue, Saturation, Lightness, and Brightness Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing The Retina and Color The Trichromatic Theory of Color Vision The Opponent theory of Color Perception Color Deficiency Constancy: Lightness and Color Constancy Chapter 7: Depth and Size Perception Oculomotor Cues Monocular Depth Cues Motion Cues Binocular Cues to Depth Size Perception In Depth: Stereopsis and Sports Chapter 8: Movement and Action How Do We Perceive Motion? The Neuroscience of Vision and Motion Form Perception and Biological Motion Action In Depth: Motion Illusions Chapter 9: Visual Attention Selective Attention: Covert Attention Features of Attention The Anatomy and Physiology of Attention Developmental Aspects of Visual Attention In Depth: Awareness and Visual Consciousness Chapter 10: The Auditory System Sound as Stimulus Anatomy of the Ear Central Pathway and Brain Anatomy of Hearing Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants In Depth: Biosonar in Bats and Dolphins Chapter 11: The Auditory Brain and Sound Localization Central Pathway and Brain Anatomy of Hearing Auditory Localization Auditory Scene Analysis In Depth: Biosonar in Bats and Dolphins Chapter 12: Speech Perception The Human Voice as Stimulus Speech Phonemes Variability in the Acoustics of Phonemes The Development of Phoneme Perception Speech Perception and the Brain In Depth: Hearing Loss and Speech Perception Chapter 13: Music Perception The Acoustics of Music The Neuroscience of Music Learning, Culture, and Music Perception In Depth: Musical Illusions Chapter 14: Touch and Pain The Skin and Its Receptors Proprioception: Perceiving Limb Position Thermoreception Nociception and the Perception of Pain Neural Pathways The Neurochemistry of Pain: Endogenous Opioids The Perception of Itch Haptic Perception Vestibular System Application: Braille Reading in the Blind In Depth: Electroreception in Fish Chapter 15: Olfaction and Taste The Olfactory System Olfactory Perception Taste In Depth: Acquired Tastes

About the Author :
Bennett L. Schwartz received his PhD in 1993 from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Since then he has been at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, where he is currently professor of psychology. He is author or editor of 10 published books as well as over 70 journal articles and chapters. His textbook Memory: Foundations and Applications, fourth edition (SAGE), was published in 2020. He has won several teaching awards at FIU and currently teaches courses in memory, cognition, and sensation and perception. His main research area is metacognition and memory, but he has also conducted research in diverse areas that range from visual perception to evolutionary psychology, to the language of thought, and to memory in nonhuman primates. Schwartz currently serves as the editor in chief of New Ideas in Psychology. John H. Krantz received his psychology PhD from the University of Florida. After graduate school, he worked in industry at Honeywell on visual factors related to cockpit displays. In 1990, he returned to academia, taking a position at Hanover College. John has done extensive research in vision, human factors, computers in psychology, and the use of the Web as a medium for psychological research. He has been program chair and president of the Society for Computers in Psychology and editor of the journal Behavior Research Methods. John was the first to develop Web experiments in psychological science and led the way on techniques for sending multimedia via the Web. He has served as a faculty associate for The Psychology Place, developing interactive learning activities, and created psychology’s first global website for the Association for Psychological Science (APS). In addition, he is an author for both the Cognitive Toolkit and PsychSim 6. John is well known for his widely used online psychological experiments related to sensation, perception, and cognition. His current research is focused on using the Web for psychological research and modeling the visual system.